1 00:00:11,520 --> 00:00:15,240 Hallelujah, Daniel chapter 2 verse 27 to 45. 2 00:00:15,240 --> 00:00:17,480 So if you know where I'm going, you ought to have a great shout 3 00:00:17,480 --> 00:00:18,200 with you. OK? 4 00:00:18,200 --> 00:00:23,280 Daniel answered before the king and said As for the mystery 5 00:00:23,440 --> 00:00:27,520 about which the king has acquired, neither wise men, 6 00:00:28,240 --> 00:00:33,720 right conjurors, magicians or diviners are able to declare it 7 00:00:33,720 --> 00:00:37,840 to the king. However, there is a God in 8 00:00:37,840 --> 00:00:42,360 heaven who reveals mysteries and he has made known to King 9 00:00:42,360 --> 00:00:46,880 Nebuchadnezzar what will take place in the latter days. 10 00:00:47,240 --> 00:00:52,080 This was your dream and the visions in your mind while on 11 00:00:52,080 --> 00:00:54,120 your bed. Before I read verse 29 to bring 12 00:00:54,160 --> 00:00:57,280 you up to speed, I don't want to assume everyone knows these are 13 00:00:57,280 --> 00:00:59,880 not Bible stories. These are historical accounts 14 00:00:59,880 --> 00:01:02,080 that actually happened. These people actually lived on 15 00:01:02,080 --> 00:01:04,160 the planet. There's nothing within the 16 00:01:04,160 --> 00:01:06,240 context of scripture that are actual stories. 17 00:01:06,240 --> 00:01:08,480 They are not fairy tales. These are real people who lived 18 00:01:08,480 --> 00:01:12,000 on the planet. These are actual bibliographies 19 00:01:12,000 --> 00:01:15,800 of individual lives that Natural History can prove they existed 20 00:01:15,800 --> 00:01:19,000 in the planet. So we are taking a history 21 00:01:19,000 --> 00:01:23,680 lesson concerning a king that was over an empire called the 22 00:01:23,680 --> 00:01:27,680 Babylonian Empire. And this Babylonian Empire was 23 00:01:27,680 --> 00:01:31,120 literally just outside of modern day Baghdad. 24 00:01:32,120 --> 00:01:35,920 Yet the Babylonian Empire went through all of our modern day 25 00:01:35,920 --> 00:01:40,600 Iraq and into Iran. And there's things going on in 26 00:01:40,600 --> 00:01:42,920 Iran today. Are you hearing me? 27 00:01:43,480 --> 00:01:46,080 And so as a result of that, there's things that are 28 00:01:46,080 --> 00:01:49,080 happening here that are being prophesied about things 29 00:01:49,080 --> 00:01:53,120 happening later. And so Daniel's letting them 30 00:01:53,120 --> 00:01:56,960 know that the there's a God in heaven that has revealed some 31 00:01:56,960 --> 00:01:58,880 things. Now Nebuchadnezzar has a dream. 32 00:01:59,160 --> 00:02:03,480 And because he's a liar, he's a manipulator, and he's disturbed 33 00:02:03,480 --> 00:02:06,560 by this dream. He goes to his wise men and he 34 00:02:06,560 --> 00:02:08,520 says, I've had a dream, I need you to interpret it. 35 00:02:08,600 --> 00:02:13,520 And he wants accuracy, but he does not want people to lie to 36 00:02:13,520 --> 00:02:15,720 him. And because he won't know, he 37 00:02:15,720 --> 00:02:19,840 makes it very difficult. Or in in essence, he said, I 38 00:02:19,840 --> 00:02:23,440 have a foolproof plan to make sure I get an accurate 39 00:02:23,440 --> 00:02:26,240 interpretation. So he says, I need you to tell 40 00:02:26,240 --> 00:02:28,720 me the dream. And the interpretation of which 41 00:02:28,720 --> 00:02:34,240 his wise men said no king has ever asked this of a wise man. 42 00:02:34,640 --> 00:02:38,840 You need to tell us the dream, and after you tell us the dream, 43 00:02:38,840 --> 00:02:41,440 then we will give you the interpretation, he says. 44 00:02:41,720 --> 00:02:45,800 I know you're stolen, he says. You'll get together, you'll come 45 00:02:45,800 --> 00:02:48,240 up with a story, you'll collaborate. 46 00:02:48,400 --> 00:02:50,800 All of you are going to agree on it, and I'm not going to know if 47 00:02:50,800 --> 00:02:56,080 it's right or not. So you are either going to tell 48 00:02:56,080 --> 00:02:57,720 me the dream and the interpretation. 49 00:02:57,720 --> 00:03:03,200 If you do not every wise man will die in my Kingdom. 50 00:03:04,760 --> 00:03:07,320 Once the king decrees it, it's done. 51 00:03:07,320 --> 00:03:10,480 So he decreed. Well Daniel gets a knock on the 52 00:03:10,480 --> 00:03:15,360 door from the executioner and cause Daniel was one of his wise 53 00:03:15,360 --> 00:03:19,520 men along with his friends and he said I've come to arrest you, 54 00:03:20,000 --> 00:03:23,160 you're going to be executed. He said what for? 55 00:03:23,160 --> 00:03:25,960 Well the king had a dream. None of the wise men can 56 00:03:25,960 --> 00:03:29,480 interpret it and so they have to know the dream and interpret a 57 00:03:29,480 --> 00:03:31,120 dream that way. He knows it's accurate. 58 00:03:31,120 --> 00:03:33,520 No one's doing it. So we're taking you to jail to 59 00:03:33,520 --> 00:03:36,360 have you killed. He said tell the king I got it. 60 00:03:36,560 --> 00:03:39,680 Now that's faith. Now what was he building his 61 00:03:39,680 --> 00:03:42,840 faith on? Not on the king, but on his God 62 00:03:43,360 --> 00:03:46,600 because he knew that my God is going to deliver us. 63 00:03:46,680 --> 00:03:50,600 I have a delivering God. I may be in Babylon, I may be in 64 00:03:50,600 --> 00:03:54,520 captivity, but we are going to get out of this place and I'm 65 00:03:54,520 --> 00:03:58,000 not going to stay here forever. And I believe God will keep a 66 00:03:58,000 --> 00:04:00,320 remnant and I'm in covenant with that God. 67 00:04:00,440 --> 00:04:03,640 So we going to pray and ask God to give us this dream. 68 00:04:04,640 --> 00:04:07,720 He said you let him know I got it and that's before he got it. 69 00:04:07,720 --> 00:04:10,320 So he's goes to, as God says, we have to pray. 70 00:04:10,960 --> 00:04:14,480 So they're praying and the Lord reveals to Daniel the dream and 71 00:04:14,480 --> 00:04:17,079 the interpretation. And this is where we pick up in 72 00:04:17,079 --> 00:04:19,839 Daniel chapter 2. Because if Daniel does not 73 00:04:19,839 --> 00:04:24,960 fulfill it this way, he, his friends and everyone else will 74 00:04:24,960 --> 00:04:27,360 be executed. The only thing that saves the 75 00:04:27,360 --> 00:04:32,480 wise men from death is if you can tell him the dream and 76 00:04:32,480 --> 00:04:35,480 interpret it. So verse 29, it says, As for 77 00:04:35,480 --> 00:04:39,600 you, O King, wow, on your bed your thoughts turn to what would 78 00:04:39,600 --> 00:04:44,720 take place in the future, safe future, and he who reveals 79 00:04:44,720 --> 00:04:47,720 mysteries has made known to you what will take place. 80 00:04:47,720 --> 00:04:51,280 But As for me, this mystery has not been revealed to me by any 81 00:04:51,280 --> 00:04:55,320 wisdom residing in me more than any other living man, but for 82 00:04:55,320 --> 00:04:59,080 the purpose of making the interpretation known to the King 83 00:04:59,280 --> 00:05:02,400 and that you may understand the thoughts of your mind. 84 00:05:02,640 --> 00:05:07,080 You, O King, were looking, and behold, there was a single great 85 00:05:07,200 --> 00:05:10,080 statue. That statue was large, of 86 00:05:10,080 --> 00:05:13,280 extraordinary splendor, and was standing in front of you, and 87 00:05:13,280 --> 00:05:16,560 its appearance was awesome. The head of that statue was made 88 00:05:16,560 --> 00:05:20,920 of gold, fine gold, its breast and its arms of silver, its 89 00:05:20,920 --> 00:05:25,160 belly, its thighs of bronze, its legs of iron, its feet partly of 90 00:05:25,160 --> 00:05:29,800 iron and partly of clay. You continue looking on looking 91 00:05:29,800 --> 00:05:33,840 until a stone was cut without hands, and it struck the statue 92 00:05:34,040 --> 00:05:36,720 on its feet of iron and clay and crushed them. 93 00:05:37,720 --> 00:05:41,040 Then the iron and the clay and the bronze and the silver and 94 00:05:41,040 --> 00:05:45,360 the gold were crushed all at the same time, and became like 95 00:05:45,360 --> 00:05:48,840 chaffed from the summer threshing floor, and the wind 96 00:05:48,840 --> 00:05:53,600 carried them away, Glory to God, so that not a trace, not a 97 00:05:53,600 --> 00:05:59,160 trace, not a trace of them was found, but the stone, say the 98 00:05:59,160 --> 00:06:03,320 stone, but the stone that struck the statue became a great 99 00:06:03,320 --> 00:06:08,800 mountain and filled the whole earth. 100 00:06:09,520 --> 00:06:16,120 Wow, glory to God, filled the hole, filled the hole, filled 101 00:06:16,120 --> 00:06:19,000 the hole, filled the whole earth, glory to God. 102 00:06:19,000 --> 00:06:24,160 This was the dream, right? And now we will tell us 103 00:06:24,160 --> 00:06:27,920 interpretation before the king. Well, can you see King 104 00:06:27,920 --> 00:06:29,400 Nebuchadnezzar right now on his throne? 105 00:06:29,400 --> 00:06:32,080 He just leaned to the front of his seat. 106 00:06:33,640 --> 00:06:35,680 It's like he was there. He knows it. 107 00:06:35,920 --> 00:06:38,640 And now he's hanging on every word he says. 108 00:06:38,640 --> 00:06:43,000 You, O king, he said, are the king of kings. 109 00:06:43,200 --> 00:06:46,160 Now notice that's little K of little K's. 110 00:06:46,840 --> 00:06:51,160 It's not big K, not capital K, not the king, just a king. 111 00:06:51,800 --> 00:06:55,560 He's the king of kings, to whom the God of heaven has given the 112 00:06:55,560 --> 00:06:58,480 Kingdom the power and strength and glory. 113 00:06:58,720 --> 00:07:01,400 And whatever the sons of men, and wherever the sons of men 114 00:07:01,400 --> 00:07:04,080 dwell, or of the beasts of the field or of the birds of the 115 00:07:04,080 --> 00:07:07,480 sky, He has given them into your hands and calls you to rule over 116 00:07:07,480 --> 00:07:10,280 them. You are the head of gold. 117 00:07:10,560 --> 00:07:12,360 After you there will rise another. 118 00:07:12,360 --> 00:07:14,120 What? Another what? 119 00:07:14,560 --> 00:07:15,560 Come on. Another what? 120 00:07:15,960 --> 00:07:18,960 Another Kingdom inferior to you. Then another. 121 00:07:18,960 --> 00:07:23,000 Then, then another third Kingdom of bronze, which will rule over 122 00:07:23,000 --> 00:07:25,560 all the earth. Then there will be a fourth 123 00:07:25,560 --> 00:07:28,960 Kingdom as strong as iron in so much as iron crushes and 124 00:07:28,960 --> 00:07:35,360 shatters all things. So like iron that breaks in 125 00:07:35,360 --> 00:07:38,400 pieces, it will crush and break all these in pieces. 126 00:07:38,920 --> 00:07:44,440 In that you saw the feet and toes partly of pottery, clay, 127 00:07:44,720 --> 00:07:46,720 and partly of iron. It will be divided. 128 00:07:46,760 --> 00:07:51,240 It will be a divided Kingdom, but it will have in it the 129 00:07:51,240 --> 00:07:54,280 toughness of iron, in so much as you saw the iron mixed with 130 00:07:54,280 --> 00:07:57,840 common clay. As the toes of the feet are 131 00:07:57,840 --> 00:08:02,160 partly of iron and partly of pottery, so some of the Kingdom 132 00:08:02,160 --> 00:08:05,720 will be strong and part of it will be brittle. 133 00:08:06,760 --> 00:08:09,520 And in that you saw the iron mix with common clay. 134 00:08:09,640 --> 00:08:13,520 They will combine with one another in the seed of men, but 135 00:08:13,520 --> 00:08:18,520 they will not adhere to one another, even as iron does not 136 00:08:18,520 --> 00:08:23,400 combine with pottery. In the days of those kings, the 137 00:08:23,400 --> 00:08:27,520 king of heaven or the God of heaven will set up a what? 138 00:08:28,160 --> 00:08:31,480 What will he do? He'll set up a Kingdom which 139 00:08:31,480 --> 00:08:39,320 will never be destroyed, which will never be destroyed, and 140 00:08:39,320 --> 00:08:42,720 that Kingdom will not be left for another people. 141 00:08:43,320 --> 00:08:49,000 It will crush and put an end to all these kingdoms, but it will 142 00:08:49,000 --> 00:08:51,400 itself endure. How long? 143 00:08:51,920 --> 00:08:56,200 Come on how long come on how long in so much as you saw that 144 00:08:56,200 --> 00:09:00,040 a stone was cut out of a mountain without hands and it 145 00:09:00,040 --> 00:09:04,520 crushed the iron, the bronze, the clay, the silver and the 146 00:09:04,520 --> 00:09:06,920 gold. The great God has made known to 147 00:09:06,920 --> 00:09:11,640 the king what will take place in the what in the what in the 148 00:09:11,640 --> 00:09:13,960 future. So the dream is true and its 149 00:09:13,960 --> 00:09:18,560 interpretation is trustworthy. Jesus said this in Matthew 150 00:09:18,560 --> 00:09:22,800 chapter 15 verse three. He says, why do you transgress 151 00:09:22,800 --> 00:09:25,920 the commandments of God for the sake of your traditions? 152 00:09:27,400 --> 00:09:32,240 Why do you transgress the commandment of God for the sake 153 00:09:32,640 --> 00:09:34,760 of your tradition? Do you know? 154 00:09:35,200 --> 00:09:37,600 Transgress is not the same as sin. 155 00:09:40,520 --> 00:09:44,280 Transgress means you know and you don't do. 156 00:09:44,760 --> 00:09:47,640 Sin means you're ignorant and you do wrong. 157 00:09:48,240 --> 00:09:54,240 But a transgressor is someone who knows and chooses to rebel. 158 00:09:55,200 --> 00:10:02,120 So he says why do you yourself choose to rebel knowingly the 159 00:10:02,120 --> 00:10:08,080 command of God and yet live life governed by traditions. 160 00:10:09,120 --> 00:10:13,160 This is very important because in our modern day Christianity, 161 00:10:13,160 --> 00:10:18,760 especially in the West, we have developed some traditions and so 162 00:10:18,760 --> 00:10:23,920 we have to be passionate to determine what is truth or 163 00:10:23,920 --> 00:10:27,400 command of God and what has become just a religious 164 00:10:27,960 --> 00:10:31,160 tradition. Are you hearing me now? 165 00:10:31,160 --> 00:10:33,160 When I was young, I had 2020 vision. 166 00:10:33,160 --> 00:10:35,000 I've kept that for a very long time. 167 00:10:36,800 --> 00:10:39,360 Then iPads came out, you know, electronics. 168 00:10:39,360 --> 00:10:42,080 And then I found that I could read everything from my iPad. 169 00:10:42,560 --> 00:10:46,480 I cannot prove this, but you know, I speculate that because I 170 00:10:46,480 --> 00:10:49,800 went to the digital device to read everything, it started to 171 00:10:49,800 --> 00:10:54,520 affect my eyes a little bit. It could be H, you know, you 172 00:10:54,520 --> 00:10:58,400 might want to blame it on H and maybe that's partly part of the 173 00:10:58,560 --> 00:11:02,680 challenge as well. But I do think the light, you 174 00:11:02,680 --> 00:11:05,360 know, why would we have the blue light on the glasses now? 175 00:11:05,360 --> 00:11:08,120 The something must have been seen that was affecting the 176 00:11:08,120 --> 00:11:09,480 eyesight. It's kind of hard to go away 177 00:11:09,480 --> 00:11:12,920 from it now because you can keep so much resource on one thing. 178 00:11:13,160 --> 00:11:16,560 I have so many Bible translations on this one device. 179 00:11:16,880 --> 00:11:20,520 I, I could go run so many sermons right now that are right 180 00:11:20,520 --> 00:11:24,080 here. I mean, from 2005, I have 181 00:11:24,080 --> 00:11:29,720 messages on this device. I can go back 20 years from 182 00:11:29,720 --> 00:11:33,120 today and say, what did I preach at Anchor Faith Church on this 183 00:11:33,160 --> 00:11:35,120 day 20 years ago? I can do that. 184 00:11:35,640 --> 00:11:41,720 OK, that's pretty powerful. But what happens is, is that I 185 00:11:41,720 --> 00:11:46,280 can see just as you can see and I can see my iPad. 186 00:11:46,280 --> 00:11:48,880 It's just that my font has grown since I have. 187 00:11:50,360 --> 00:11:54,720 You know, if I went back in 2005, my font size was 8. 188 00:11:56,920 --> 00:11:59,280 So all my sermons were always on one page. 189 00:11:59,760 --> 00:12:04,040 I do it landscape, 2 columns. I don't know why I do that. 190 00:12:04,080 --> 00:12:07,040 I just do that. Two columns, one page, right? 191 00:12:07,320 --> 00:12:10,680 And they're eight. If I go to those, cannot see 192 00:12:10,680 --> 00:12:13,400 them. It's just a blurb. 193 00:12:14,200 --> 00:12:21,400 So I progressed to A10, to a 12. Now I'm at 14 today and I blow 194 00:12:21,400 --> 00:12:26,640 it up as big as it can. It's still a little blurry but I 195 00:12:26,640 --> 00:12:29,400 don't wear glasses while I preach because of the glare. 196 00:12:29,600 --> 00:12:32,720 So that's why you don't see me in these cause oh that's clear I 197 00:12:32,720 --> 00:12:36,240 can see that. Now what we need to do is we 198 00:12:36,240 --> 00:12:39,880 need to get our lens set correctly with the Word of God, 199 00:12:40,520 --> 00:12:46,560 because tradition will give you a blurred vision of God's Word. 200 00:12:47,520 --> 00:12:52,000 However, knowing what the Word is actually about will give you 201 00:12:52,000 --> 00:12:54,560 clarity. And when you get clarity, then 202 00:12:54,560 --> 00:13:00,480 all the truths come alive off the pages and you'll realize 203 00:13:00,520 --> 00:13:07,480 that there's a reason why God used people to pin an old 204 00:13:07,480 --> 00:13:13,480 covenant. Tradition has us kind of 205 00:13:13,480 --> 00:13:16,880 disdaining the old covenant as if it has no relevance. 206 00:13:17,440 --> 00:13:20,560 Yet when you understand the Bible, you understand why it was 207 00:13:20,560 --> 00:13:24,720 pinned. It is a natural progression 208 00:13:25,120 --> 00:13:28,200 because it's God revealing himself to man. 209 00:13:28,520 --> 00:13:31,400 You know, there are people out there that will say this. 210 00:13:31,480 --> 00:13:35,040 The Bible's about Jesus, it's all about God. 211 00:13:35,280 --> 00:13:37,560 And you know what? The Bible is about Jesus and 212 00:13:37,560 --> 00:13:39,800 about God. But it's not all about that. 213 00:13:40,480 --> 00:13:49,080 Actually, there is another one created that God is revealing in 214 00:13:49,080 --> 00:13:52,960 Scripture besides Himself, and it is man. 215 00:13:55,120 --> 00:13:58,840 It is man. The Bible's not about man or 216 00:13:58,840 --> 00:14:02,480 it's not exclusively about man, but it includes man. 217 00:14:03,200 --> 00:14:09,560 So God is allowing us to see Him and see what He meant for man. 218 00:14:10,240 --> 00:14:13,400 Because you understand God has created other beings besides 219 00:14:13,400 --> 00:14:16,520 man. He's created an angelic being. 220 00:14:17,240 --> 00:14:21,240 He's created a heavenly host. And we know one anointed cherub 221 00:14:21,440 --> 00:14:27,480 fell from heaven, but we don't have a whole lot of detail about 222 00:14:27,480 --> 00:14:30,840 the existence of them. We have some things, you know, 223 00:14:30,840 --> 00:14:34,600 that are out there, but not enough that we could accurately 224 00:14:34,800 --> 00:14:39,960 understand that species of being that God has created. 225 00:14:40,840 --> 00:14:46,080 But yet when it comes to man, he's given us a lot of detail, a 226 00:14:46,080 --> 00:14:49,560 lot of detail, but he's also given us a lot of detail of 227 00:14:49,560 --> 00:14:53,000 himself. So it's very important that we 228 00:14:53,000 --> 00:14:58,000 understand why God has written scripture, what it's about, 229 00:14:58,600 --> 00:15:03,960 Daniel tells Nebuchadnezzar. This is a future event and his 230 00:15:03,960 --> 00:15:10,280 idol is only about kingdoms and he's telling him that the God of 231 00:15:10,280 --> 00:15:13,880 heaven is talking to you, Nebuchadnezzar, about kingdoms. 232 00:15:14,160 --> 00:15:18,920 Notice God is not revealing to Nebuchadnezzar who did not 233 00:15:18,920 --> 00:15:23,520 worship God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. 234 00:15:26,640 --> 00:15:33,040 He worshiped idols. Are you hearing me? 235 00:15:33,560 --> 00:15:42,200 I mean, why would the Father not reveal to Nebuchadnezzar the 236 00:15:42,200 --> 00:15:51,870 religion of Judaism if he wanted his heart changed? 237 00:15:53,070 --> 00:15:55,310 Why does he reveal to him kingdoms? 238 00:15:57,350 --> 00:16:00,550 And why does he say in the end that the God of heaven is 239 00:16:00,550 --> 00:16:05,870 setting up a Kingdom? Notice what he did not say. 240 00:16:05,870 --> 00:16:12,400 Nebuchadnezzar. There is a stone that is made 241 00:16:12,400 --> 00:16:15,320 without hands. Anybody know who that is? 242 00:16:15,920 --> 00:16:18,280 What's his name? He's called the chief 243 00:16:18,280 --> 00:16:22,600 cornerstone. He is a stone made without 244 00:16:22,600 --> 00:16:23,480 hands. Why? 245 00:16:23,480 --> 00:16:29,600 Because man did not participate in causing Jesus to be born. 246 00:16:29,680 --> 00:16:33,680 But it was the Holy Spirit who came upon on a virgin and 247 00:16:33,680 --> 00:16:36,280 impregnated her with the Son of God. 248 00:16:37,240 --> 00:16:40,520 Are you hearing me? So there was a stone made 249 00:16:40,520 --> 00:16:43,280 without hands. He's the chief cornerstone. 250 00:16:43,400 --> 00:16:45,400 And you know what it says about the chief cornerstone? 251 00:16:45,600 --> 00:16:50,360 That he will fall on people and crush them to obliteration, or 252 00:16:50,360 --> 00:16:53,840 you'll fall on him and he'll break you so that you can become 253 00:16:53,840 --> 00:16:56,080 what God ordained you to be in the 1st place. 254 00:16:57,240 --> 00:17:01,600 And notice there's this stone that is cut without hands, yet 255 00:17:01,720 --> 00:17:04,400 once it crushes all the kingdoms. 256 00:17:04,640 --> 00:17:06,880 You know what? That stone's really not even 257 00:17:06,880 --> 00:17:13,119 concerned about religion. The stone doesn't even care 258 00:17:13,119 --> 00:17:18,480 about Islam, doesn't care about Hinduism, didn't care about 259 00:17:18,480 --> 00:17:23,960 Buddhists. But yet that stone will deal 260 00:17:23,960 --> 00:17:32,360 with kingdoms same in any way, Hallelujah. 261 00:17:32,720 --> 00:17:37,040 And so that stone crushes and it will cause every one of these 262 00:17:37,040 --> 00:17:42,560 kingdoms to disappear, and they'll be no remembrance of 263 00:17:42,560 --> 00:17:45,680 them. However, the stone, it says, 264 00:17:45,680 --> 00:17:51,960 will grow into a large mountain and be all over the earth. 265 00:17:55,560 --> 00:17:59,040 Hallelujah, Hallelujah. Now, this is in your Bible. 266 00:18:00,080 --> 00:18:02,480 We're just probably in some places that most of the time 267 00:18:02,480 --> 00:18:04,960 people aren't always covering right? 268 00:18:05,120 --> 00:18:09,480 But this is a consistent theme, and what we want to see is that 269 00:18:09,480 --> 00:18:12,720 if we're going to set the lens right to understand about the 270 00:18:12,720 --> 00:18:16,840 death, burial, resurrection of Jesus and the reason why he's 271 00:18:16,840 --> 00:18:21,000 doing something, then we need to understand what God's doing with 272 00:18:21,000 --> 00:18:24,200 the Word of God. Because this Bible is not just 273 00:18:24,200 --> 00:18:29,280 about redemption. If all you do is start at 274 00:18:29,280 --> 00:18:33,680 Genesis 3 and go to Revelations 20, then the story of redemption 275 00:18:33,680 --> 00:18:37,160 is really clear. But what was going on in planet 276 00:18:37,160 --> 00:18:42,520 Earth prior to Adam falling is there? 277 00:18:42,520 --> 00:18:45,440 And anyone, if you would talk to them as a believer, say, was 278 00:18:45,440 --> 00:18:49,040 there a time on this planet that sin was not here? 279 00:18:50,120 --> 00:18:53,600 And we would all have to say, well, sure, Adam and Eve in the 280 00:18:53,600 --> 00:18:57,400 garden. Yet our conversation is only 281 00:18:57,920 --> 00:19:02,000 about redemption and not about the time prior. 282 00:19:02,960 --> 00:19:07,440 Nor do we take the time to read Revelation 21 and 22. 283 00:19:07,720 --> 00:19:10,920 Because Daniel says this mountain's going to show up or 284 00:19:10,920 --> 00:19:13,760 this rock's going to show up. It's going to crush all these 285 00:19:13,760 --> 00:19:18,400 kingdoms and it's going to stay and then grow as a mountain and 286 00:19:18,400 --> 00:19:26,440 feel the earth and through the story of redemption because we 287 00:19:26,440 --> 00:19:31,680 haven't set the correct lens. We are all waiting to go to 288 00:19:31,680 --> 00:19:38,080 heaven when we die. Yet the Lord says, but there's 289 00:19:38,080 --> 00:19:39,640 something happening in the earth. 290 00:19:40,600 --> 00:19:42,640 Now, does heaven exist? You bet it does. 291 00:19:43,040 --> 00:19:45,840 But if you read the last two chapters again, don't take my 292 00:19:45,840 --> 00:19:47,200 word for it 'cause I'm saying it. 293 00:19:47,400 --> 00:19:52,040 Read the Scripture yourself. After the catching away of the 294 00:19:52,040 --> 00:19:57,400 church, after the tribulation period, after the return of 295 00:19:57,560 --> 00:20:02,280 Jesus who comes back to planet earth and reigns on the earth 296 00:20:02,280 --> 00:20:05,720 for 1000 years, we call it the millennial reign of Christ. 297 00:20:07,880 --> 00:20:12,200 Then he will release the devil After that time period, for a 298 00:20:12,200 --> 00:20:17,560 time there will be a battle that won't last long, and after that 299 00:20:17,560 --> 00:20:22,280 battle he will take the devil. And they throw him into the lake 300 00:20:22,280 --> 00:20:23,800 of fire, which is the second death. 301 00:20:24,520 --> 00:20:32,200 Then the courtroom of heaven will open up, and the dead who 302 00:20:32,200 --> 00:20:36,440 never confessed Christ as Lord will be resurrected. 303 00:20:38,960 --> 00:20:42,760 He'll resurrect the dead, bring them to heaven. 304 00:20:44,280 --> 00:20:48,480 They'll stand before the courtroom of God and he will 305 00:20:48,480 --> 00:20:51,560 say, depart from me, for I never knew you. 306 00:20:52,040 --> 00:20:56,080 I'm giving you what you wanted. This is not what I wanted, but 307 00:20:56,400 --> 00:20:59,200 in this book called the Lamb's Book of life cannot find your 308 00:20:59,200 --> 00:21:02,240 name. So I'm shutting this one and I'm 309 00:21:02,240 --> 00:21:07,240 opening up the other books, every book that has everything 310 00:21:07,240 --> 00:21:10,840 that you've done against my word. 311 00:21:12,280 --> 00:21:20,080 Now, let me help you because I said, Lord, it's a tough sell 312 00:21:20,080 --> 00:21:24,680 sometimes, Dad, to talk about. We need to follow you at your 313 00:21:24,680 --> 00:21:28,720 word because we in the US, we are stubborn people. 314 00:21:29,920 --> 00:21:33,680 Now, why do I say that? Because our nation has ingrained 315 00:21:33,680 --> 00:21:35,960 in us the spirit of independence. 316 00:21:39,520 --> 00:21:44,560 I can do what I want to do, live like I want to live, excel like 317 00:21:44,560 --> 00:21:46,920 I want to excel. Well, you can do that in the 318 00:21:46,920 --> 00:21:49,320 United States, but you cannot do that in the Kingdom of God. 319 00:21:51,160 --> 00:21:53,760 And so I'm like, how do you, how do I say it, Lord? 320 00:21:54,200 --> 00:21:57,880 Because your life, he said, OK, he said just do it like this, 321 00:21:57,880 --> 00:22:03,600 son. So today take a deep breath in, 322 00:22:04,720 --> 00:22:08,000 let it out. Deep breath in. 323 00:22:08,880 --> 00:22:11,200 Hold it. Let it out. 324 00:22:12,560 --> 00:22:16,920 Now, I do not know the chemical makeup of the oxygen we have, 325 00:22:17,400 --> 00:22:18,720 but there's a lot of oxygen going on. 326 00:22:18,720 --> 00:22:24,440 There's a few other things, but this mixture is perfect for us 327 00:22:24,520 --> 00:22:26,480 to live. Correct. 328 00:22:27,400 --> 00:22:28,280 Let's do it again. Ready. 329 00:22:30,480 --> 00:22:31,960 Breathe out. Now. 330 00:22:31,960 --> 00:22:34,040 What happens if we lose this oxygen? 331 00:22:36,280 --> 00:22:37,920 What happens if we lose this oxygen? 332 00:22:39,160 --> 00:22:43,640 You what? OK, so your body is telling you 333 00:22:44,240 --> 00:22:47,560 if you want to live, you need oxygen. 334 00:22:48,240 --> 00:22:52,360 Now it's not saying it, but it's saying it by the fact you're 335 00:22:52,360 --> 00:22:56,680 breathing. Now could you say body don't 336 00:22:56,680 --> 00:22:58,640 tell me I have to breathe oxygen. 337 00:23:01,560 --> 00:23:05,600 I can breathe whatever I want to breathe, you know, So I'm going 338 00:23:05,600 --> 00:23:10,960 to go get some, you know, nitrous oxide. 339 00:23:10,960 --> 00:23:12,800 I'm going to get some whatever other gas. 340 00:23:12,800 --> 00:23:14,400 You know, we get all kind of got helium. 341 00:23:14,600 --> 00:23:18,280 I'm going to suck some helium. I'm just going to put a helium 342 00:23:18,280 --> 00:23:22,360 tank and just, and then you'll talk real high for a little 343 00:23:22,360 --> 00:23:25,160 while and you just keep breathing and never go back to 344 00:23:25,160 --> 00:23:26,320 oxygen. What's going to happen? 345 00:23:26,880 --> 00:23:28,600 Are you putting gas in your lungs? 346 00:23:29,840 --> 00:23:34,640 But what's going to happen if all you do is breathe helium or 347 00:23:34,640 --> 00:23:39,320 any other form of gas? Like how about natural gas, 348 00:23:40,600 --> 00:23:43,480 propane, hook up a little propane tank, right? 349 00:23:43,480 --> 00:23:45,120 You got your little propane tank you carry around. 350 00:23:45,240 --> 00:23:49,600 I'm rebelling against oxygen. My body. 351 00:23:49,600 --> 00:23:51,600 Don't tell me I'll breathe what I want to breathe. 352 00:23:52,560 --> 00:23:55,760 And so I'm a hook up my little propane tank and put it on my 353 00:23:55,760 --> 00:23:57,800 face and start breathing. How long you think you're going 354 00:23:57,800 --> 00:24:01,480 to survive sucking down propane gas? 355 00:24:03,880 --> 00:24:11,720 Right, 'cause you can. So the Lord's saying you can do 356 00:24:11,720 --> 00:24:15,960 whatever you want to do, you can. 357 00:24:17,200 --> 00:24:21,520 But anything that I'm not saying isn't life. 358 00:24:23,240 --> 00:24:26,720 The greatest deception in planet Earth is breathing. 359 00:24:28,120 --> 00:24:30,160 Because you're breathing, you think you're alive. 360 00:24:33,160 --> 00:24:38,600 The reality is life comes in the spirit and life only comes in 361 00:24:38,600 --> 00:24:44,560 the spirit obedient to what the Lord says because he is life. 362 00:24:45,160 --> 00:24:48,560 So when he says he's not giving you restrictions, he's saying 363 00:24:48,800 --> 00:24:54,560 suck on some oxygen. When he defines terms, he's 364 00:24:54,560 --> 00:24:58,480 communicating here is oxygen to your spirit. 365 00:24:58,480 --> 00:25:02,440 This is why you live. These things are why you live. 366 00:25:02,640 --> 00:25:08,720 If you obey this is he said I set before you life and choose 367 00:25:09,040 --> 00:25:14,280 he shouldn't have to tell us. So when you're arguing, well, 368 00:25:14,280 --> 00:25:16,560 I'm not going to do what the Lord says then you choose to 369 00:25:16,560 --> 00:25:24,800 hook up propane to your mouth and you can suck propane because 370 00:25:25,360 --> 00:25:27,600 every one of us and he think about it. 371 00:25:27,600 --> 00:25:30,160 Let's just break it down to its rudimentary thought. 372 00:25:31,400 --> 00:25:35,040 Do you want me to believe you at your word concerning how to 373 00:25:35,040 --> 00:25:37,960 live? Or am I going to believe God at 374 00:25:37,960 --> 00:25:40,200 His word? Because at the end of the day, 375 00:25:40,200 --> 00:25:43,400 it's really just about believing people at their word. 376 00:25:44,800 --> 00:25:47,800 Well, I just think, OK, so you want me to bow down to that 377 00:25:47,800 --> 00:25:50,760 word? Your whole life is about 378 00:25:50,760 --> 00:25:56,800 following some word. You're submitting to something. 379 00:25:56,800 --> 00:26:01,320 Anyway, when we get into sexual relationships, our body says all 380 00:26:01,320 --> 00:26:04,480 this feels good. So then we submit to that. 381 00:26:05,240 --> 00:26:09,560 Yet God says if you want a particular feeling physically 382 00:26:09,640 --> 00:26:14,360 through sexuality, this is life and you can do it this way and 383 00:26:14,360 --> 00:26:19,600 it's oxygen to you, but if you do it any other way, it's death. 384 00:26:21,760 --> 00:26:24,680 And here's the thing, God is such a merciful God and 385 00:26:24,680 --> 00:26:30,480 long-suffering because if sin paid out quickly, lest would do 386 00:26:30,480 --> 00:26:34,080 it. But God's merciful. 387 00:26:34,120 --> 00:26:37,320 And why is God merciful? Because he's already paid the 388 00:26:37,320 --> 00:26:38,800 price for everything you're doing. 389 00:26:38,800 --> 00:26:42,920 Contrary to His word, the blood's already been applied, so 390 00:26:42,920 --> 00:26:44,280 it doesn't matter how much you're doing. 391 00:26:44,280 --> 00:26:47,200 He's like, I've already paid for this, I've already paid for 392 00:26:47,200 --> 00:26:50,080 that, and he can be long summer and say, are you going to do 393 00:26:50,080 --> 00:26:52,000 something else wrong? You want to do something else 394 00:26:52,200 --> 00:26:55,000 contrary to my word, You want to make another decision that's 395 00:26:55,000 --> 00:26:57,960 against the Kingdom of God. You want to do another thing and 396 00:26:57,960 --> 00:26:59,280 choose death. You can. 397 00:26:59,600 --> 00:27:03,280 But all the while, every time you do, I've already paid that 398 00:27:03,280 --> 00:27:08,160 price and I'll forgive you if you want it, and then I'll give 399 00:27:08,160 --> 00:27:10,920 you life and I'll give it to you more abundantly. 400 00:27:12,320 --> 00:27:15,400 So the Lord speaks to Nebuchadnezzar and says a 401 00:27:15,400 --> 00:27:21,120 Kingdom, it's coming forever. He did not speak to Him about 402 00:27:21,120 --> 00:27:24,320 religion at all. Let's turn over to Isaiah 403 00:27:24,320 --> 00:27:29,840 Chapter 9 and verse 6. Isaiah Chapter 9, verse 6, I'll 404 00:27:29,840 --> 00:27:32,920 say this and then we'll kind of get to a speed round real quick. 405 00:27:33,120 --> 00:27:36,080 Isaiah Chapter 9 verse six and seven says it this way. 406 00:27:36,760 --> 00:27:39,520 Because there's a stone made without hands. 407 00:27:39,520 --> 00:27:42,840 We know His name's Jesus. He is the chief cornerstone. 408 00:27:43,000 --> 00:27:45,160 Isaiah Chapter 9 verse 6 says this. 409 00:27:45,400 --> 00:27:51,040 A child will be born, right? I said a child will be born to 410 00:27:51,040 --> 00:27:52,720 us. A son will be given to us. 411 00:27:52,720 --> 00:27:55,600 Notice a child's born, but a son is not born. 412 00:27:55,600 --> 00:27:57,960 And the reason the son is not born is because the Son always 413 00:27:57,960 --> 00:28:00,400 existed because God left His glory. 414 00:28:00,400 --> 00:28:02,160 Man, you want to be here. Resurrection Sunday. 415 00:28:02,400 --> 00:28:08,400 God left His glory and came and became a man and he has to be a 416 00:28:08,400 --> 00:28:10,800 man. He has to come and be a man 417 00:28:10,840 --> 00:28:14,080 because what God has spoken in Genesis chapter one, it says 418 00:28:14,080 --> 00:28:17,480 then a child will be born to us, a son will be given and the what 419 00:28:18,680 --> 00:28:20,080 and the what? Go ahead. 420 00:28:20,080 --> 00:28:22,480 Look at your own Bible. Look at your own translation, 421 00:28:24,560 --> 00:28:31,160 because it doesn't say and Christianity it doesn't say and 422 00:28:31,160 --> 00:28:34,760 a new religion. No, it says the government. 423 00:28:35,360 --> 00:28:37,240 Why? Because the Bible is actually 424 00:28:37,240 --> 00:28:42,480 about a king, his Kingdom and his royal offspring, and the 425 00:28:42,480 --> 00:28:45,080 government will rest on his shoulders and his name will be 426 00:28:45,080 --> 00:28:47,000 called wonderful counselor, mighty God, eternal Father, 427 00:28:47,000 --> 00:28:48,840 Prince of Peace. There'll be no end to the 428 00:28:48,840 --> 00:28:52,240 increase of his government or peace on the throne of David are 429 00:28:52,240 --> 00:28:55,480 over his what? To establish it, to uphold it 430 00:28:55,480 --> 00:28:57,920 with justice and righteous from then on and forever more. 431 00:28:57,920 --> 00:29:01,240 Do you understand God is a just God and he is a righteous God. 432 00:29:02,880 --> 00:29:09,640 He's life and he upholds life period says the zeal of the Lord 433 00:29:09,640 --> 00:29:12,680 of hosts will accomplish this. So the government will rest on 434 00:29:12,680 --> 00:29:17,080 his shoulders. Jesus Christ is the head of the 435 00:29:17,080 --> 00:29:19,800 church. The Bible tells us the shoulders 436 00:29:19,800 --> 00:29:23,040 are located in the body. We are considered the body of 437 00:29:23,040 --> 00:29:26,040 Christ. So God's Kingdom is being 438 00:29:26,040 --> 00:29:29,920 demonstrated through his church in the earth today. 439 00:29:30,400 --> 00:29:36,120 We are actually more in what would be considered an embassy 440 00:29:38,680 --> 00:29:40,400 because what did we, what do we know? 441 00:29:40,400 --> 00:29:44,320 The scripture says Jesus says you're not of this world as I'm 442 00:29:44,320 --> 00:29:47,360 not of this world. In essence, he said this in 443 00:29:47,360 --> 00:29:49,960 Colossians, that he transferred you out of the domain of 444 00:29:50,240 --> 00:29:52,440 darkness into the Kingdom of his beloved Son. 445 00:29:52,520 --> 00:29:55,600 He said He would make you a holy nation. 446 00:29:55,760 --> 00:29:58,760 In essence, you are of a different Kingdom now and the 447 00:29:58,760 --> 00:30:00,960 kingdoms of this world we are not a part of. 448 00:30:01,080 --> 00:30:04,280 So when we come together in the church, we are ambassadors, oh 449 00:30:04,480 --> 00:30:09,480 get this, we are ambassadors for Christ, hearing from the home 450 00:30:09,480 --> 00:30:14,240 country called heaven, where our King sits on the throne at the 451 00:30:14,240 --> 00:30:17,640 right hand of the Father, and He gives us instruction through His 452 00:30:17,640 --> 00:30:21,480 Spirit how we are to navigate and represent His Kingdom right 453 00:30:21,480 --> 00:30:24,000 here on the earth. Hallelujah. 454 00:30:24,480 --> 00:30:28,160 So there'll be no end to the increase of his government. 455 00:30:28,400 --> 00:30:32,120 Who is the child born? What's his name? 456 00:30:32,520 --> 00:30:35,960 Come on, shout it out. His name's Jesus. 457 00:30:36,280 --> 00:30:40,080 And when Jesus came, Jesus preached one thing. 458 00:30:41,560 --> 00:30:46,160 Repent, for the Kingdom of heaven is at hand. 459 00:30:47,800 --> 00:30:52,080 Jesus never preached publicly. Be born again. 460 00:30:54,640 --> 00:30:57,480 Do you have to be born again? Absolutely. 461 00:30:57,880 --> 00:31:01,720 Jesus told a religious man by the name of Nicodemus at 2:00 or 462 00:31:01,720 --> 00:31:05,800 3:00 in the morning because he was afraid of the religious, 463 00:31:06,160 --> 00:31:13,880 although he was in awe of Jesus. And he says man, Teacher, John, 464 00:31:13,880 --> 00:31:20,240 Chapter 3. Teacher, teacher, teacher, the 465 00:31:20,240 --> 00:31:22,600 things you're doing, you have to be from God, He said. 466 00:31:22,600 --> 00:31:25,880 Unless a man's born again, he shall not see the Kingdom of 467 00:31:25,880 --> 00:31:28,640 God, He shall not enter the Kingdom of God. 468 00:31:28,880 --> 00:31:34,000 Because This is why nobody can be a citizen of the Kingdom 469 00:31:34,280 --> 00:31:39,280 illegally. They cannot buy their 470 00:31:39,280 --> 00:31:43,920 citizenship of their own merit. They must be born of the Kingdom 471 00:31:43,920 --> 00:31:48,440 of God and Jesus through his death, burial, resurrection 472 00:31:48,440 --> 00:31:52,880 gives us the entitlement, the ability to call on His name and 473 00:31:52,880 --> 00:31:56,360 be born. Literal translation from above, 474 00:31:56,720 --> 00:31:59,440 which then gets our name logged in a book. 475 00:31:59,560 --> 00:32:03,560 Much like you have your name logged in a book from the nation 476 00:32:03,560 --> 00:32:06,280 you were born from. If you were born in the United 477 00:32:06,280 --> 00:32:11,720 States, your name was recorded on a birth certificate and later 478 00:32:11,720 --> 00:32:15,360 on they'll and they give you what they call a Social Security 479 00:32:15,560 --> 00:32:18,720 number. That's your identification that 480 00:32:18,720 --> 00:32:22,440 allows us to know that you were born of this particular nation. 481 00:32:23,720 --> 00:32:28,160 Well, the Lord's like I need you born in my nation and the only 482 00:32:28,160 --> 00:32:32,320 way you can be born in my nation is to acknowledge my son as 483 00:32:32,760 --> 00:32:34,920 Lord. Lord is not a religious word. 484 00:32:34,920 --> 00:32:40,000 It means supreme in authority. And The thing is, is in the 485 00:32:40,000 --> 00:32:44,560 United States, we have been so brainwashed with separation of 486 00:32:44,560 --> 00:32:48,600 church and state that we cannot see the church as a government. 487 00:32:48,800 --> 00:32:52,200 We only see it as a religion. And that's what the devil wants. 488 00:32:53,520 --> 00:32:56,080 The devil never wants you empowered in his Kingdom. 489 00:32:56,200 --> 00:32:58,280 He wants you always seeking after God. 490 00:32:58,280 --> 00:33:00,520 In fact, let me read a few things that Doctor Miles Monroe 491 00:33:00,520 --> 00:33:03,040 said concerning religion and Kingdom. 492 00:33:03,200 --> 00:33:06,800 He said this religion preoccupies man until he finds 493 00:33:06,800 --> 00:33:09,280 the Kingdom. Religion prepares man to leave 494 00:33:09,280 --> 00:33:12,240 Earth, but the Kingdom empowers man to dominate Earth. 495 00:33:12,640 --> 00:33:15,600 Religion focuses on heaven. The Kingdom focuses on earth. 496 00:33:15,920 --> 00:33:18,960 Religion is reaching up to God. The Kingdom is God coming down 497 00:33:18,960 --> 00:33:20,920 to man. Religion wants to escape the 498 00:33:20,960 --> 00:33:22,840 earth. The Kingdom impacts, influences, 499 00:33:22,840 --> 00:33:26,240 and changes the earth. Religion seeks to take earth to 500 00:33:26,240 --> 00:33:28,920 heaven, but the Kingdom seeks to bring heaven to earth. 501 00:33:28,920 --> 00:33:32,640 What did Jesus say? He said, now when you pray, pray 502 00:33:32,640 --> 00:33:35,960 this way. Our Whose Father? 503 00:33:36,760 --> 00:33:41,280 Our our Father, not his Father. Our Father who art in heaven, 504 00:33:41,400 --> 00:33:47,200 hallowed be your name, your Kingdom, your will be on as it 505 00:33:47,200 --> 00:33:48,960 is. Now listen. 506 00:33:48,960 --> 00:33:51,120 I know what you're thinking because I can hear it in your 507 00:33:51,120 --> 00:33:56,120 mind. You're telling us we don't need 508 00:33:56,120 --> 00:33:57,840 to go to heaven. No one's saying that. 509 00:33:57,840 --> 00:34:00,000 The Bible says this to be absent from the body. 510 00:34:00,000 --> 00:34:03,520 You'll be present. Where is the Lord presently? 511 00:34:04,080 --> 00:34:07,200 At the right hand. The Father question is he 512 00:34:07,200 --> 00:34:12,560 staying there though? We have been so traditionally 513 00:34:12,560 --> 00:34:19,639 taught about the blood of Jesus in our nation so much that our 514 00:34:19,920 --> 00:34:25,400 only accepted truth is that we have accepted the tagline of 515 00:34:25,400 --> 00:34:28,920 every other religion and every other religion. 516 00:34:28,920 --> 00:34:31,639 Is this what happens after you die? 517 00:34:33,679 --> 00:34:40,840 What would propel a man to suit himself up with a bomb, go into 518 00:34:40,840 --> 00:34:50,159 a public place and blow himself up based upon a religion because 519 00:34:50,159 --> 00:34:54,159 of what's being promised to him after he dies? 520 00:34:56,280 --> 00:34:59,960 What would cause a person to separate from society and go up 521 00:34:59,960 --> 00:35:05,960 on a hill and pray to a point that they ostracize themselves 522 00:35:05,960 --> 00:35:12,440 from society in order to reach a state of enlightenment somewhere 523 00:35:12,520 --> 00:35:15,320 other than when they? What would call someone to live 524 00:35:15,320 --> 00:35:18,960 in such a way so that when they are when they die, they do not 525 00:35:18,960 --> 00:35:22,560 get re carnated into something back into the planet, but they 526 00:35:22,560 --> 00:35:25,960 get to go on into that place of enlightenment so they do not 527 00:35:25,960 --> 00:35:29,680 have to repeat this process. It's all the same question. 528 00:35:30,240 --> 00:35:33,000 Where are you going to go when you die? 529 00:35:34,000 --> 00:35:39,120 And we have picked up that religious statement where you 530 00:35:39,240 --> 00:35:44,040 going to go when you die? And Jesus is like, why are you 531 00:35:44,040 --> 00:35:50,360 centering my gospel on death, my gospel's life? 532 00:35:51,240 --> 00:35:55,280 Jesus never preached. Did he preach on the the Sermon 533 00:35:55,280 --> 00:35:57,080 on the Mount? Where are you going to go when 534 00:35:57,080 --> 00:36:00,160 you die? He did not do this. 535 00:36:00,440 --> 00:36:04,320 He said the Kingdom of heaven and when he went around public, 536 00:36:04,320 --> 00:36:06,360 he said the Kingdom of heaven was like this and the Kingdom of 537 00:36:06,360 --> 00:36:08,880 God is like that and the Kingdom of heaven is like this and the 538 00:36:08,880 --> 00:36:11,240 Kingdom of God is like that. He said the Kingdom of heaven is 539 00:36:11,240 --> 00:36:16,840 like and unto you know what? The devil knows this about a 540 00:36:16,840 --> 00:36:18,960 Kingdom. Turn over to Luke chapter 4. 541 00:36:19,480 --> 00:36:21,920 In Luke chapter 4, this is the temptation of Christ. 542 00:36:21,920 --> 00:36:24,360 We typically read Matthew because it's the first of the 543 00:36:24,360 --> 00:36:27,240 four gospels, but the Luke account gives us way more detail 544 00:36:27,760 --> 00:36:30,440 and it says in Luke chapter 4 verse one and two, it says Jesus 545 00:36:30,440 --> 00:36:32,200 full of the Holy Spirit. What was he full of? 546 00:36:32,800 --> 00:36:35,520 What was he full of man? He's full of the Holy Spirit, 547 00:36:35,600 --> 00:36:37,960 full of the Holy Spirit return. He's full of the Holy Spirit 548 00:36:37,960 --> 00:36:41,920 because he was just baptized in the Jordan River where God, when 549 00:36:41,920 --> 00:36:45,560 he came up out of that because he said John do permit this, do 550 00:36:45,560 --> 00:36:47,840 this so that all righteousness can be fulfilled. 551 00:36:48,040 --> 00:36:51,720 I read about this in the old covenant, that this would happen 552 00:36:51,720 --> 00:36:54,840 to me, and I do everything Dad says about me. 553 00:36:56,240 --> 00:36:58,600 And so I'm going to obey my father. 554 00:36:58,600 --> 00:37:01,680 I'm not going to be like my older brother when he say older. 555 00:37:01,680 --> 00:37:05,320 That's older in the flesh, not older in eternity. 556 00:37:05,320 --> 00:37:11,520 You understand, my older, the first Adam who did not obey 557 00:37:11,520 --> 00:37:14,160 that. I'm going to obey that. 558 00:37:14,840 --> 00:37:17,480 I'm going to do what he says. And when he came up by that 559 00:37:17,480 --> 00:37:21,280 water, heaven opened up, and the voice from heaven, Father God 560 00:37:21,280 --> 00:37:25,000 him said, this is my beloved Son in whom I'm well pleased. 561 00:37:25,240 --> 00:37:27,400 Now he's full of the Holy Ghost, and he has the Holy Ghost 562 00:37:27,400 --> 00:37:30,000 without measure. He returned from Jordan, was led 563 00:37:30,000 --> 00:37:32,720 by that spirit into the wilderness for 40 days, being 564 00:37:32,720 --> 00:37:34,840 tempted by the devil. You know what the devil says to 565 00:37:34,840 --> 00:37:38,640 him first, if you are the Son of God, my daddy just told me I 566 00:37:38,640 --> 00:37:40,560 was. Now how many times you come to 567 00:37:40,560 --> 00:37:43,520 church and you hear you're healed, you're blessed, God will 568 00:37:43,520 --> 00:37:44,960 deliver you out all your trouble. 569 00:37:45,040 --> 00:37:47,000 And then you get out and the devil says you're not going to 570 00:37:47,000 --> 00:37:48,720 get out of trouble, you're not blessed. 571 00:37:48,800 --> 00:37:50,720 And you know what? You got a cold and you're going 572 00:37:50,720 --> 00:37:51,840 to keep it. It's probably going to get 573 00:37:51,840 --> 00:37:53,920 worse. Well, you got to decide who's 574 00:37:53,920 --> 00:37:56,960 reporting you going to believe. Jesus chose to believe his 575 00:37:56,960 --> 00:37:59,080 father's voice over the devil's voice. 576 00:37:59,400 --> 00:38:03,040 And unlike his brother Adam who listened to the voice of the 577 00:38:03,040 --> 00:38:07,200 devil and fell from dominion, Jesus said I'll stay with daddy. 578 00:38:08,560 --> 00:38:11,800 So we jump down into verse 5, I believe it is, and it says the 579 00:38:11,800 --> 00:38:18,480 devil LED Jesus up and showed him all the what not religions. 580 00:38:18,840 --> 00:38:24,200 The devil never once tried to convince Jesus to worship the 581 00:38:24,200 --> 00:38:27,520 gods of Rome, of the Roman Empire. 582 00:38:28,440 --> 00:38:32,160 He never once tried to get him to worship the gods of the 583 00:38:32,160 --> 00:38:37,840 former Greek Empire. He never once tried to bring up 584 00:38:37,840 --> 00:38:50,200 some old statue or idol. He said he showed him all the 585 00:38:50,200 --> 00:38:52,560 kingdoms in the world in the moment of time. 586 00:38:52,800 --> 00:38:58,360 And he said, and the devil said to him, I will give you all this 587 00:38:58,360 --> 00:39:04,480 domain and its glory. Who's going to give it? 588 00:39:05,800 --> 00:39:08,880 Now the first question of the unlearned in Scripture will say, 589 00:39:09,040 --> 00:39:11,280 well, he didn't own it. God's in control. 590 00:39:11,560 --> 00:39:16,400 God was not in control there. God is in control of his word. 591 00:39:16,520 --> 00:39:20,800 He's not controlling everything because if God controlled 592 00:39:20,800 --> 00:39:25,600 everything, all of you would be saved because God's desires that 593 00:39:25,600 --> 00:39:29,480 none would perish, yet people will be cast into the lake of 594 00:39:29,480 --> 00:39:31,400 fire. So when we make these 595 00:39:31,400 --> 00:39:34,920 traditional statement, well, God's in control, there are some 596 00:39:34,920 --> 00:39:40,240 things God is not controlling so that therefore then he is not in 597 00:39:40,240 --> 00:39:45,840 control of those things. That is a traditional statement, 598 00:39:46,160 --> 00:39:49,760 not a biblical one. We had, let me smile when I say 599 00:39:49,920 --> 00:39:56,560 that is a traditional statement, not a biblical one, Amen. 600 00:39:56,640 --> 00:39:59,720 And we tear down tradition and live according to the word of 601 00:39:59,720 --> 00:40:03,920 God, Amen. Because if God was in control, 602 00:40:03,920 --> 00:40:06,320 Lucifer never would have been cast out. 603 00:40:10,920 --> 00:40:13,040 I mean, I could just continue that list. 604 00:40:13,040 --> 00:40:16,960 It's pretty simple, but he people will say, well, you know, 605 00:40:16,960 --> 00:40:19,200 he couldn't really give it away. Yes, he could. 606 00:40:19,200 --> 00:40:22,440 He had it and he didn't qualifies why he has it. 607 00:40:22,440 --> 00:40:27,400 Look what it says next for it has been handed over to me. 608 00:40:28,520 --> 00:40:33,560 So the devil is letting Jesus know all this domain, all the 609 00:40:33,560 --> 00:40:36,000 authority and power over all these kingdoms. 610 00:40:36,280 --> 00:40:40,880 They're mine, you know they're mine, and you know I control it 611 00:40:42,360 --> 00:40:47,920 because they were handed to me. I didn't steal them. 612 00:40:48,520 --> 00:40:54,800 They were given to me, and I can give it to whomever I will. 613 00:40:54,800 --> 00:40:58,520 What's he saying? They were given to me and now 614 00:40:58,520 --> 00:41:00,720 they're mine and I can give it to you. 615 00:41:00,720 --> 00:41:06,680 Now here's the requirement. All you have to do is worship me 616 00:41:07,320 --> 00:41:12,240 and I'll give them because Lucifer's only had one thought. 617 00:41:12,800 --> 00:41:17,960 I won't God the Creator to bow down and worship the created. 618 00:41:17,960 --> 00:41:20,960 And you remember what Jesus said about this? 619 00:41:21,440 --> 00:41:23,880 He said I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven. 620 00:41:24,520 --> 00:41:27,960 When that rebellion, because in a Kingdom the most dangerous 621 00:41:27,960 --> 00:41:33,640 word is independence. The second most dangerous word 622 00:41:33,640 --> 00:41:35,920 is rebellion. Now this is the problem in the 623 00:41:35,920 --> 00:41:36,720 United States. Why? 624 00:41:36,720 --> 00:41:38,560 Because what day do what do we celebrate? 625 00:41:38,560 --> 00:41:42,080 January, July 4th, Independence Day? 626 00:41:42,760 --> 00:41:45,400 I'm worship God anyway. I want to how I want to. 627 00:41:45,600 --> 00:41:48,360 Well, that makes great sense in our nation, but it doesn't make 628 00:41:48,360 --> 00:41:51,240 sense in the Bible because the Bible says, well, if you're 629 00:41:51,240 --> 00:41:53,440 going to worship the creator of heaven and earth, this is how 630 00:41:53,440 --> 00:41:56,520 you worship him. This is how that works. 631 00:41:56,800 --> 00:41:59,240 This is how you do it because remember, I just want to give 632 00:41:59,240 --> 00:42:06,040 you oxygen. Get off the propane, get off the 633 00:42:06,040 --> 00:42:09,240 propane, cause the propane does not sustain life. 634 00:42:10,160 --> 00:42:13,120 But his he's is the sustainer of life. 635 00:42:13,880 --> 00:42:17,480 So he says, I can give you all this domain, these kingdoms, 636 00:42:17,480 --> 00:42:19,480 this glory, for they've been handed over me. 637 00:42:19,480 --> 00:42:22,400 Where did he get it from? Come on, you know where He got 638 00:42:22,400 --> 00:42:27,560 it from? Genesis 126, before sin ever 639 00:42:27,560 --> 00:42:30,640 came into the planet. God creates the heavens and the 640 00:42:30,680 --> 00:42:32,880 earth. He owns the planet by right of 641 00:42:32,880 --> 00:42:35,120 creation, not by right of conquest. 642 00:42:35,520 --> 00:42:40,800 God didn't come out of the some future universe or some, you 643 00:42:40,800 --> 00:42:46,400 know, distant universe, some Galaxy far, far, far away and 644 00:42:46,400 --> 00:42:49,680 showed up into the Milky Way and says, ah, I'm going to conquer 645 00:42:49,680 --> 00:42:55,400 this place. No, when there was none, he 646 00:42:55,400 --> 00:42:57,360 spoke. Whoa. 647 00:42:58,560 --> 00:43:03,080 I mean, he set the stars and the galaxies and the planets and a 648 00:43:03,080 --> 00:43:08,160 word. He's a sustainer of life. 649 00:43:10,040 --> 00:43:13,720 And he created this place called Earth with somebody in mind, 650 00:43:13,720 --> 00:43:17,360 someone in his image. Look at this Genesis 126, You 651 00:43:17,360 --> 00:43:22,560 know, then God said let us make man in our image according to 652 00:43:22,560 --> 00:43:27,640 our likeness, and let them have dominion over the fish of the 653 00:43:27,640 --> 00:43:29,680 sea, over the birds of the sky, over the cattle, over all the 654 00:43:29,680 --> 00:43:31,560 earth, over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth. 655 00:43:31,840 --> 00:43:34,320 So God created man, his own image in the image of God. 656 00:43:34,320 --> 00:43:39,960 He created him male and He created him and he never gets 657 00:43:39,960 --> 00:43:45,640 that wrong. Never, never gets that wrong. 658 00:43:46,360 --> 00:43:50,560 OK, so God created both male and female would have dominion. 659 00:43:50,560 --> 00:43:52,600 You understand, You don't have to be a female trying to act 660 00:43:52,600 --> 00:43:54,840 like a man to have dominion because female have dominion. 661 00:43:55,280 --> 00:43:57,080 And you don't have to be a man trying to act like a female to 662 00:43:57,080 --> 00:43:58,600 have dominion because men have dominion. 663 00:43:58,960 --> 00:44:05,320 Both were given dominion, power, authority, and it comes from 664 00:44:05,320 --> 00:44:08,960 God, by God. God is so secure in his 665 00:44:08,960 --> 00:44:11,680 rulership that he says I'll let you rule. 666 00:44:13,120 --> 00:44:17,640 And so the Lord makes heaven and earth, earth. 667 00:44:17,840 --> 00:44:22,560 He says, I'm giving to man. I'm going to let man who's in my 668 00:44:22,560 --> 00:44:27,760 image, in my likeness, I'm going to let him rule. 669 00:44:27,760 --> 00:44:31,520 That and I, he came down in the cool of the day. 670 00:44:31,640 --> 00:44:32,920 He spent time with him. Why? 671 00:44:33,080 --> 00:44:39,520 Because God and Adam and Eve are the same in nature, no sin. 672 00:44:40,560 --> 00:44:42,280 But man was given the right to rule. 673 00:44:42,280 --> 00:44:45,200 Notice he did not give Adam a religion. 674 00:44:48,400 --> 00:44:54,280 He gave him governing power. Now you know why we struggle 675 00:44:54,280 --> 00:44:57,360 with voting for people. Put that back up there. 676 00:44:57,360 --> 00:45:00,480 OK, you already got it. Notice what we have dominion 677 00:45:00,480 --> 00:45:05,920 over. Fish, birds, cattle, Earth, 678 00:45:05,920 --> 00:45:08,360 which is the created earth, right? 679 00:45:08,720 --> 00:45:10,280 Creeping things that creep on the earth. 680 00:45:10,280 --> 00:45:12,880 Nowhere does it say we have dominion over man. 681 00:45:14,760 --> 00:45:18,440 This is why we struggle in voting, because we were never 682 00:45:18,560 --> 00:45:20,640 supposed to be submitted to another human. 683 00:45:20,880 --> 00:45:22,520 We were only supposed to be submitted to God. 684 00:45:23,720 --> 00:45:28,840 However, because man has sinned, God had to institute a form of 685 00:45:28,840 --> 00:45:33,040 government through man still for the sake of man. 686 00:45:34,080 --> 00:45:37,680 That's why there were laws put in place things because God had 687 00:45:37,680 --> 00:45:40,680 a time on planet Earth when he just let man make his own 688 00:45:40,680 --> 00:45:44,520 decision. Oh, it went crazy all right. 689 00:45:44,520 --> 00:45:49,160 So crazy that he flooded the planet, right? 690 00:45:49,840 --> 00:45:56,440 So crazy that he said, I regret I even made them because none of 691 00:45:56,440 --> 00:46:00,240 them are doing right. No one's trying to come except 692 00:46:00,240 --> 00:46:06,960 for one guy with a family. And so he went to that family to 693 00:46:06,960 --> 00:46:09,680 help the process. And why does he have to do this? 694 00:46:10,120 --> 00:46:14,800 Because we know that God in Genesis 2 tells Adam, Hey, Adam, 695 00:46:14,800 --> 00:46:17,240 I'm going to shut down with a few thoughts here, and then 696 00:46:17,240 --> 00:46:22,840 we'll come back to it next week. Adam, all the trees you can eat. 697 00:46:22,840 --> 00:46:24,720 But if the tree, the knowledge of goodness, you shall not eat, 698 00:46:24,720 --> 00:46:27,600 for the day you eat you will, surely you're going to die. 699 00:46:29,080 --> 00:46:34,600 Does God want Adam to die? If Adam never eats the fruit, 700 00:46:34,600 --> 00:46:41,040 where would he be today? He'd be right here now. 701 00:46:41,040 --> 00:46:43,280 I've heard people say. So why did he put the tree 702 00:46:43,280 --> 00:46:49,960 there? Free will is 1 #2 though he 703 00:46:49,960 --> 00:46:58,240 needs to know Adam loves him. Love is always expressed and 704 00:46:58,240 --> 00:47:06,400 demonstrated through obedience. Jesus said if you love me, 705 00:47:08,480 --> 00:47:13,640 you'll keep my word. So Adam is in the nature of God, 706 00:47:14,760 --> 00:47:18,320 Eve is in the nature of God. How would he not love him? 707 00:47:19,120 --> 00:47:23,640 It requires him to obey. And every day he passed that 708 00:47:23,640 --> 00:47:26,080 garden. God is not intimidated that it's 709 00:47:26,080 --> 00:47:28,000 in the middle. He didn't hide it off into 710 00:47:28,000 --> 00:47:31,120 obscurity somewhere where he had to go find it. 711 00:47:31,200 --> 00:47:34,120 He let him pass it every day. He had no problem because all 712 00:47:34,120 --> 00:47:36,680 you got to do is keep my word. It's really no threat to you. 713 00:47:39,600 --> 00:47:41,560 Just keep the words. No threat to you. 714 00:47:44,360 --> 00:47:49,400 But someone entered a garden, Anointed cherub that fell when 715 00:47:49,400 --> 00:47:52,600 he came into the garden. He says who those people look a 716 00:47:52,600 --> 00:47:56,760 lot like God. And so he began to speak to 1 717 00:47:57,280 --> 00:48:06,000 and he convinced her and him that this God that walks with 718 00:48:06,000 --> 00:48:11,520 you in the cool of the day, you really don't know him like I do. 719 00:48:12,720 --> 00:48:16,360 And although there's no evidence to suggest the lies he is 720 00:48:16,360 --> 00:48:22,000 saying, they listened to his word instead of the Father. 721 00:48:22,960 --> 00:48:25,640 And the Bible says that she ate and gave to her husband, and he 722 00:48:25,640 --> 00:48:30,560 ate, and when he ate, he transferred that dominion to the 723 00:48:30,560 --> 00:48:34,840 devil, of which Second Corinthians full force says he 724 00:48:34,840 --> 00:48:41,200 became the God of this world. And even the devil knows this. 725 00:48:41,200 --> 00:48:42,960 The Bible's about a king, his Kingdom, and his royal 726 00:48:42,960 --> 00:48:45,440 offspring. If he can keep you in religion, 727 00:48:46,120 --> 00:48:49,680 then you'll never challenge his dominion. 728 00:48:51,360 --> 00:48:54,640 You'll never challenge him. Because when you know you're a 729 00:48:54,640 --> 00:48:59,000 child of the king, and that your king has stripped him of his 730 00:48:59,000 --> 00:49:05,320 power and has restored back to you the dominion Adam lost, then 731 00:49:05,320 --> 00:49:08,760 the devil will never be a problem to you ever again. 732 00:49:11,280 --> 00:49:14,240 Because when he brings his weapons, they won't prosper. 733 00:49:14,960 --> 00:49:18,200 When he brings his tactics, you'll be aware of them and 734 00:49:18,200 --> 00:49:22,480 you'll just stay with the Word and overcome because Christ has 735 00:49:22,480 --> 00:49:27,720 defeated him. The Bible's about a king, his 736 00:49:27,720 --> 00:49:29,760 Kingdom, and his royal offspring. 737 00:49:30,560 --> 00:49:35,160 It's not a religion and this Kingdom will have no end. 738 00:49:36,000 --> 00:49:38,800 I said I have no end. I said it, I have no end. 739 00:49:39,200 --> 00:49:41,560 I said it, I have no end, It have no end. 740 00:49:43,360 --> 00:49:46,200 I'm not offering you a religion, and neither was Jesus. 741 00:49:47,240 --> 00:49:53,400 I'm offering you a nation, and I'll just be as bold to tell you 742 00:49:53,400 --> 00:49:55,480 like it is. It's a global takeover. 743 00:49:56,680 --> 00:49:59,240 Can I tell you the United States will not be here forever? 744 00:50:00,880 --> 00:50:04,160 Canada will not be here forever. Russia will not be here forever. 745 00:50:04,160 --> 00:50:09,400 China will not be here forever. They will all pass away. 746 00:50:10,000 --> 00:50:16,360 But his Kingdom, there is a nation that will remain forever. 747 00:50:17,120 --> 00:50:22,000 It's called Israel, and the new Jerusalem will come down out of 748 00:50:22,000 --> 00:50:28,040 heaven to the earth, and we will reign with Him forever because 749 00:50:28,040 --> 00:50:31,560 we are His children. We've called on His name, we 750 00:50:31,560 --> 00:50:35,640 have submitted to His Lordship. We have hooked our spirit up to 751 00:50:35,640 --> 00:50:43,960 life. We are off the propane and we're 752 00:50:43,960 --> 00:50:46,520 like Lord, like Peter. Where are we going to go? 753 00:50:48,400 --> 00:50:49,760 You have the words of life.