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Thanks for checking out the 
Anchor Faith Message podcast 

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from St. 
Augustine, FL. 

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Now enjoy this message. 
So I believe I've got a powerful

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word here. 
Do ministers really ever get up 

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and say, I believe I have a not 
powerful word? 

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You know, it's like, it drives 
me crazy when somebody's like, 

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you know, if I were to title my 
message, I would title it. 

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And you're like. 
This is a title. 

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This is you're titling it. 
What do you mean if you? 

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Were to title it, but if I were 
to title my message, it would be

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to the crown. 
So we're going to put up that 

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slide. 
I appreciate everything that we 

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do here at Anchor Faith Church. 
But the one of the main things 

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that changed my whole life about
this ministry was when I 

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received the message of the 
Kingdom. 

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If many of you all if you don't 
know me, my name is Joshua Clay.

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I was basically born and raised 
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I think I say this every time 
that I get up to minister, but 

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it's it's worth worth repeating 
that I was born on a Sunday and 

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my mom, you know, when I 
remember, is my first memory 

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actually as a baby, I look up at
my mom and she was crying, not 

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because she loved me so much, 
but because she had to miss 

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service that morning. 
So that's the house that I grew 

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up in and. 
We had a great we, we had a 

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great family environment. 
We had a great church that we 

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went to. 
But I didn't realize how much 

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religion I was steeped in until 
I first heard the Kingdom 

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message and thought I thought I 
had it all together. 

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I thought I had a handle on the 
Bible. 

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I thought I had a handle on my 
own walk with God and realized I

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didn't really even. 
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I knew about God, so that put me
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the planet and the rest of the 
spirit realm, but I didn't 

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really know who he was. 
I knew things about him, but I 

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didn't know him. 
So whenever we, anytime that 

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somebody takes the platform 
here, we always are talking 

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about the Kingdom. 
But I don't want it to ever get 

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missed by you. 
How strategic it is that we say 

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the Kingdom of God because the 
Bible has nothing to do with 

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religion. 
And, and, and again, I'm at 

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home, right? 
This is this is we get such good

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teaching all the time. 
This is for the people out 

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there. 
We're recording it. 

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They're going to hear this for 
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You're just going to Amen 
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but the first Scripture I have 
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Go to anytime we minister to lay
a foundation of what we're going

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to even be talking about. 
It's going to be Genesis chapter

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one, verse 26, because it's 
going to be the first message, 

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the first scripture in this 
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And it was also the first verse.
In God's message when the Bible 

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was canonized and written down 
by unction of the Holy Ghost and

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put into that order. 
So if we go to Genesis 126, it 

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says and God said. 
Let us make man in our image 

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according to our likeness and 
let them what see we could. 

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The whole message could just be 
right here because too many 

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people that call themselves 
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We can stay right here because 
even in this house, sometimes 

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when you all talk, it doesn't 
sound like a ruler or a king 

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that's reigning over their life 
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So we can spend the rest of the 
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for Charlie right in this one 
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That God's original plan for you
was not that you would be born, 

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fumble your way around in the 
earth, try to be a good person 

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and do good things until one day
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That is a gross, cheap version 
of the gospel that Jesus never 

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put His endorsement on. 
He never approved that message. 

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He never preached that message, 
But it says, let us make man in 

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our image according to our 
likeness, and let them rule over

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the fish of the sea, over the 
birds of the sky, over all the 

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cattle, over all the earth, and 
over every creeping thing that 

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moves on the earth. 
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setting encounter, God gives 
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say ultimate not his first 
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He gives him his ultimate 
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When we read through the Bible 
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think God had a first plan, then
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had to have a second plan, and 
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we've just got to do our best to
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When God never changed His plan,
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the earth, He never moved from 
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Everything he did from Genesis 
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every prophet, every patriarch, 
when Jesus showed up, everything

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in the middle of the Bible was 
God getting man back to the 

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original place that he fell 
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the planet. 
Pastor Earl on the on Sunday 

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made this statement. 
I'm going to quote him. 

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Here, this was incredible, he 
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Our inheritance was meant, not 
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It was meant for us to get when 
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The work Jesus did on the cross 
wasn't to get you somewhere else

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after you died. 
The work that he did was to 

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empower you right now. 
You understand we were living in

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death right now. 
We know people, we know loved 

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ones, we know Co workers that 
they live, they're living in 

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death. 
They're living a version of hell

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on earth. 
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well, one day there's somewhere 
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then. 
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Real good they're. 
Delivering it now, that's not an

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empowering gospel, that's an 
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One day you'll be free of this. 
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Then pastor ended that quote by 
saying his dominion was meant 

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for you right now. 
So whenever we come into this 

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Bible and we begin to to explore
the things that are that are 

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being spoken from the word of 
God, always know they're coming 

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from a government lens. 
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look at is Isaiah Chapter 9, 
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Isaiah Chapter 9, verses 6 and 
seven and some of y'all that 

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have been here for a while, 
you're thinking, yeah, we know 

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this one. 
Open your Bible and you're going

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to read it with me. 
You're going to highlight it 

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because there's a word we're 
going to look at in there in a 

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different way because we read it
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I've read the Bible multiple 
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I've seen this passage. 
I know what it's talking about, 

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but we're going to have. 
To go back to what the original 

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See it says, For unto us a child
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This is the prophet speaking by 
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Here's the message I want for. 
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My people, he says, for unto us 
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given to us, he says, and the 
government will rest on his 

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shoulders. 
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Isaiah spoke these words, they 
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We're reading. 
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Luke. 
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like unto us, a child is born 
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And Bethlehem were like, we know
who that is, but they didn't 

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know. 
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this passage they recognized and
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And the child being born is not 
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The word government is the word 
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When they read it, they saw, oh,
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We read it. 
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that means there's something 
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my allegiance or my rebellion. 
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Miss the real message being 
given because we're too 

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religious in our mindset and we 
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figure that Jesus is instead of 
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He's the king that carries a 
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See Jesus, the problem is he's 
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that's ever walked on the face 
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Nobody has been more 
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Christ. 
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identified with him through 
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They've identified with him 
through what other people have 

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said and they've really not just
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asked the Lord through the 
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Jesus? 
I mean, even when he stood 

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before Pilate and Pilate asked 
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He didn't say, you know, I'm 
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You know, I'm, I'm more of a. 
Deity, he said. 

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You said it right. 
I'm a king, and for that reason 

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I was born to come to the earth 
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So he testified of his own self 
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Do we know what a king is? 
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Law and power. 
So if a king speaks and his word

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is law, that means every time a 
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is an opportunity that is to 
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Another misconception people 
have is that I want to make this

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clear. 
The Kingdom of God is not planet

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earth. 
Planet Earth is not the Kingdom 

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of God. 
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it is US carrying out His 
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The Kingdom of God is 
represented in a people, not a 

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specific place. 
If it was just about the 

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specific location where the 
garden originally was, why am I 

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here? 
I'd rather put on a tan shirt 

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and A and a brown hat and go 
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OK, but that's that's not what 
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It's not looking to a place. 
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question. 
The disciple said where? 

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Can we look and see your Kingdom
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And he said, you can't say look 
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for the Kingdom of God is within
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It's actually more of a culture 
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it is just a physical 
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That's why it's important to 
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Heaven's not the goal. 
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only read a small sliver of this
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Some of you all heard this 
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But some of you have not 
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So whenever we're talking about 
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about God's rule and reign 
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man's obedience. 
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Jesus comes in and brings his 
obedience, but what he brought 

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with him was more than just a 
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How your life can be good. 
He game and showed an example of

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how the Kingdom operates. 
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Found is too many believers and 
people that say I'm a Christian.

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I'm a believer you know I I love
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them how? 
Where is the proof though? 

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Why do you say you love God? 
But you, you, you. 

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Still are depressed. 
Why do you say you love God but 

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financially you just can't never
seem to make it? 

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Why do you say you love God but 
then I see your instagrams? 

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You know, I had this thought 
today while I was. 

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Driving, obviously. 
I've been kind of praying in the

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Holy Ghost and driving and 
thinking about tonight and had 

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this thought. 
There's a lot of people that 

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come into the Kingdom and they 
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They want to be like undercover 
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And you know, we're only 
referenced as a city set on a 

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hill. 
Ambassadors, Have you ever heard

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of an undercover ambassador in a
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Have you ever driven by an 
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It's pretty obvious who the 
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And whenever an ambassador walks
in the room or walks through an 

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airport, you ever been in an 
airport and an ambassador walks 

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through with that little 
diplomat, you know thing and 

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gets in that line and goes all 
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You're like, this person stands 
out. 

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Yet for some reason, we. 
Think, oh, well, I want to be 

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undercover in the Kingdom. 
I want to come in and I want to,

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I want to still associate and 
hang out with these people and 

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then not really know until I 
tell them, hey, hey, I'm a 

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secret agent. 
Let me tell you about my Jesus. 

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Let my Jesus change your life. 
Thanks, Chris. 

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But the only time I can find 
somebody being an undercover 

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agent in the Bible really is a 
wolf dressed in sheep's 

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clothing. 
He doesn't ever say I want you 

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to be a sheep and go amongst 
wolves and dressed in wolves 

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clothing. 
He doesn't say I've called you 

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to be something. 
But why don't you look? 

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Like something else. 
And the problem is religion 

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allows you to do that. 
Religion happens on Sundays and 

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Wednesdays. 
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Sunday morning and then you can 
put religion down whenever the 

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closure is flicking the lights 
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hey, you're fellowship enough, 
let's go and walk out and not 

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carry it anymore. 
But you understand your 

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citizenship. 
Goes with you. 

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Everywhere. 
That's why Jesus didn't come to 

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give you a religion and give you
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dogmas and and traditions. 
What He came to do is empower 

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you with a citizenship that came
with a culture and you can't 

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leave that behind. 
The reason I titled this to the 

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crown is because everything that
God does requires your 

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allegiance or forces your 
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In fact, everything in the Bible
will come down to where is your 

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allegiance? 
Every principle spoken, every 

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command of God, every command of
Jesus, every parable he told, 

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all is trying to probe and find 
where does your allegiance lie? 

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Is it with the crown? 
Do I have an allegiance to the 

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Crown? 
Or do I have an allegiance to 

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something else? 
That's more because I'm just 

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going to tell you right now in 
God's Kingdom there is no room 

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for two allegiances. 
We hear that in Matthew chapter 

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6, right? 
He says no man cannot serve 2 

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masters. 
And I get that he says God and 

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wealth, but you understand it 
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I say in place of wealth, he 
can't serve God and wealth. 

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He can't serve God in 
relationships. 

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He can't serve God in his own 
opinion about politics. 

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You have one master, one 
allegiance, and you have to 

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choose it wisely. 
You would think it's an easy 

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choice, but I don't know. 
We'll keep looking. 

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I want to list this real quick. 
There's something that all 

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kingdoms have. 
There's this list. 

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This isn't like the definitive 
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need to be said. 
Every Kingdom has a king, has a 

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sovereign, a ruler whose word is
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nation and territory. 
With that, every king, every 

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Kingdom has a constitution, 
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the ruler. 
It has a written word. 

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You understand why the Bible had
to be written? 

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Well, I know we've heard it said
before that the Bible had to be,

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you know, it was spoken so it 
could be written, and then it 

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was written so it could be 
spoken again. 

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That's great. 
But it had to be written because

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God doesn't miss a step and 
knows if I've got a Kingdom, I 

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need a written constitution so 
that it there is no mistake of 

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what my will is. 
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manifests, it manifests with His
constitution and His will, which

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is to either be accepted as your
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Or rejected and rebelled 
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Every Kingdom has a citizenry. 
Every Kingdom has a realm of 

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citizens that live and operate 
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that. 
That means every Kingdom has a 

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Commonwealth of citizens that 
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resources. 
Of the king together. 

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That's why it's no problem for 
me to sit in service and every 

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service like. 
Well, why does that church, you 

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know, take up an offering every 
service? 

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Well, clearly you don't 
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Why do you pay your property 
taxes? 

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Well, 'cause I live in the 
United States and I have to, OK?

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It's a government, and the 
government shall rest on his 

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shoulders. 
Why are we surprised by these 

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facts? 
I'm supposed to tithe I. 

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Don't know about tithing. 
I don't want to share my money. 

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Who? 
OK, maybe we should go back and 

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look at the Lord Principle. 
The king in a Kingdom owns 

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everything in his Kingdom. 
So there's no such thing. 

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As I'm going to give something 
of mine to him. 

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I don't own anything. 
If the king owns everything, I'm

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just honoring him with what's 
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OK? 
Every Kingdom has law. 

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Don't come at me and be like, oh
man, you know, Christians can be

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so legalistic, OK? 
Citizens have to. 

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Live by a law, and if you're 
ignorant of the law, that's not 

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an excuse you're going to stand.
Before God. 

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One day in a courtroom, it's 
going to feel real legal when 

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you stand before the Great White
Throne Judgment. 

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Don't judge me, brother. 
You want your brother to judge 

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you because if your brother 
judges you and you change, then 

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you don't have to get judged 
later. 

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And also, no one's ever told me 
don't judge me without already 

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judging that I was judging. 
So this is weird. 

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Now you're judging me that I'm a
judgy person. 

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Don't judge me being a judgy 
person. 

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I've also never had somebody 
tell me that that wasn't wrong. 

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You can search your own, you 
know, databank of information. 

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When somebody's like, don't 
judge me, you know, they were 

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wrong actually, and they just 
didn't want me to point out 

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where they were wrong. 
Anyway, going on, every Kingdom 

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has benefits. 
We can preach hundreds and 

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thousands of messages on the 
benefits of the Kingdom. 

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It should go without saying our 
king is faithful. 

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He's never failed. 
He's undefeated in every battle.

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He's with you. 
If you're with him, that means 

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there's nothing you could ever 
face that would be impossible, 

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Nothing you could ever face with
your king that you would ever 

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fail at. 
People, I'm just. 

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Human by yourself? 
Who said you came into the 

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Kingdom to be by yourself? 
You mean that Jesus died and on 

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the cross was buried, 
resurrected? 

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And we've documented this just 
so you could stay the same. 

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You've missed something. 
We've missed something Benefits 

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healthcare. 
Come on. 

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OK, we'll move along. 
Every Kingdom has a social 

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culture, has a culture that 
means there's a way of living 

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that's right in the specific 
government that you have 

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assigned yourself to or been 
born into. 

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There's a language we speak, 
there's a way of talking that we

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have in the Kingdom of God, just
like when you come to the United

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States a lot of the times. 
You know, depending on what city

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you're in, right, we're going to
speak English. 

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But when I went over to 
Barcelona, Spain, they spoke 

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Spanish. 
I wasn't like, what's wrong with

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these people? 
Don't they know what the right 

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language is? 
I understood I'm in a different 

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place. 
Yeah. 

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We want to make everybody 
comfortable at work. 

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When I'm like, well, I am the 
Kingdom. 

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I bring the Kingdom with me 
everywhere I go. 

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And all of a sudden I want you 
to know I'm bilingual. 

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So I'm going to say cuss words. 
Oh, I'm going to say that joke. 

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Oh, I'm going to talk. 
About my boss and talk about my 

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coworkers. 
There's a way of talking in our 

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culture we don't have and we 
take the Kingdom everywhere we 

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go. 
So why are we surprised when 

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culture. 
Manifests and I say, Hey, I'm 

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not going to participate in 
that. 

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Well, why? 
You don't have to say because 

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Jesus died for your sins and 
then get HR called on you. 

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You can say because I'm part of 
a different culture and we don't

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do that where I'm from. 
Then they're going to say, where

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are you from? 
The Kingdom you don't have to 

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say anchor faith Church. 
I know Joe's looking at me. 

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Like Anchor Faith? 
Church No, it's not that. 

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We don't just do that at Anchor 
Faith Church, but we don't do 

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that because we're in the. 
Kingdom. 

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Hey, man, so every Kingdom has 
this outline set of, of, of 

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structure that it has. 
And that's the way God's Kingdom

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operates as well. 
He has a structure, He's got a 

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whole entire system that we are 
to participate in. 

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So whenever we look in the 
Bible, let's look here at the 

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Genesis chapter 3, Genesis 
chapter 3, we'll start in verse 

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one. 
The question that God always has

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is not do you want to be in my 
Kingdom? 

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It's will you give your 
allegiance to my crown? 

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Will you assign and ascribe your
allegiance to my Kingdom and 

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it's culture and it's laws and 
it's constitution and it's 

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benefits and it's way of living.
That's the question that he's 

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looking for. 
In fact, the very first sin that

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ever took place, I'm going to 
show you, was a matter of 

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allegiance. 
We know in the, in the, you 

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know, in Genesis chapter 2, 
God's given them, outlined them 

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what things to do, not to do. 
And in the end, the whole list 

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was you can do pretty much 
everything. 

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Just don't eat from this one 
tree. 

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So all of the entire Bible 
starts on a list of. 

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Do's and don'ts. 
I'm saying that I'm waiting. 

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I'm going to let it soak in 
because the next time someone 

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looks and goes, it's not about 
do's and don'ts. 

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I'm like. 
It's in the first page. 

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The very first page has a do and
don't. 

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In fact, everything we do in 
life is do's and don'ts, because

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if you say it's not about do's 
and don'ts, you either do 

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believe that or you don't. 
I think we try to make. 

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Things a grey area and say well 
it's not all just black and 

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white brother. 
You're right, sometimes it's red

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and I side with it. 
We're trying to muddy the water,

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OK? 
Says now the serpent was more 

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crafty than he beats in the 
field. 

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So God tells him, don't eat from
the tree. 

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He's pretty clear. 
Do all of this. 

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Don't eat from the tree. 
God the King just gave a 

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command, and then he says, and 
he said to the woman indeed has 

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got the serpent says indeed, as 
God said, shall you not? 

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Eat from any tree of the garden.
And the woman looks at the 

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serpent and says, From the fruit
of the trees of the garden we 

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may eat, but from the fruit of 
the tree which is in the middle 

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of the garden, God has said, You
shall not eat it or touch it, or

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you will die. 
Then the serpent said to the 

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woman, You will surely not die, 
for God knows that in the day 

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that you eat from it, your eyes 
will be opened, and you'll be 

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like him, knowing good and evil.
And it says When the woman saw 

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that the tree was good for food 
and that it was a delight to the

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eyes, and that the tree was 
desirable to make one wise, she 

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took from the fruit and ate and 
also gave to her husband who was

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with her and he ate. 
The pivot point of this moment 

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for Eve was not What do I 
believe? 

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The issue is not an argument of 
do we believe that God said it 

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was true or do we believe what 
the devil said was true? 

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The pivot point was whose word 
will we align with? 

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Whose word will we obey? 
The the serpent wasn't trying to

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speak a lie just to get her to 
believe different. 

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The end goal was always that she
would behave different. 

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So in this moment, she proved my
allegiance isn't to the word of 

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my king. 
My allegiance is to who? 

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Oh see, I knew it was going to 
be a little. 

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It was going to be quiet because
who was her allegiance to in 

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that moment? 
I knew this would be the answer 

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half of you are saying. 
For the sake of the recording, 

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her allegiance was to herself. 
The other half are saying her 

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allegiance was to the serpent in
his words. 

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And I would say every time those
are interchangeable. 

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Every time. 
There will never come a time 

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when you side with the flesh, 
and that was God's will. 

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See, a lot of times people think
we have three options. 

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I could do what God's saying. 
I could do what the devil's 

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saying. 
I would never do that. 

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Or I could just kind of do my 
own thing. 

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No, it's always either or, 
never, either either or, and 

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never either or or. 
Write that down. 

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You don't have three options. 
Otherwise Jesus would have said 

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man cannot serve 3 masters. 
We're just adding masters onto 

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this list that aren't ever 
there. 

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So when Eve acted selfishly, she
aligned and assigned her 

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thinking and actions with the 
enemy. 

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So we're like, where does this 
come from? 

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Well, Isaiah chapter 14. 
Let's look at Isaiah chapter 14,

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verses 12 through 14. 
This takes us back to a story 

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that takes place before the 
garden. 

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This is talking about Lucifer. 
And he says how you have fallen 

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from heaven. 
O star of the morning, son of 

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the dawn, you've been cut down 
to the earth, you have weakened 

453
00:24:20,680 --> 00:24:22,880
the nations. 
But it you said in your heart, 

454
00:24:22,920 --> 00:24:26,920
you said in your heart, I will 
ascend to heaven. 

455
00:24:27,960 --> 00:24:32,360
I will raise my throne above the
stars of God, and I will sit in 

456
00:24:32,360 --> 00:24:34,960
the mount of the Assembly in the
recesses of the north. 

457
00:24:35,200 --> 00:24:37,960
I will ascend above the heights 
of the clouds and I will make 

458
00:24:37,960 --> 00:24:45,960
myself like the Most High. 
In this moment we see his 

459
00:24:46,040 --> 00:24:50,360
problem was his selfishness led 
to a different allegiance. 

460
00:24:51,880 --> 00:24:54,480
No longer did he wanted to be 
submitted and have his heart 

461
00:24:54,480 --> 00:24:55,960
submitted to the king. 
But he said. 

462
00:24:55,960 --> 00:25:01,040
I want what I want, which became
the mantra of sin forever. 

463
00:25:02,600 --> 00:25:05,280
This happened before the garden.
So you understand, in his 

464
00:25:05,280 --> 00:25:07,920
rebellion, he actually got a 
third of the angels to go with 

465
00:25:07,920 --> 00:25:10,120
him. 
So this was not an issue of 

466
00:25:10,120 --> 00:25:11,720
religion. 
And who prayed harder and who 

467
00:25:11,720 --> 00:25:13,320
prayed better and who was better
at fasting? 

468
00:25:13,320 --> 00:25:15,880
This is an issue of whose 
allegiance are you going to 

469
00:25:15,880 --> 00:25:16,720
have? 
Are you going to give your 

470
00:25:16,720 --> 00:25:19,080
allegiance to the crown and the 
rightful throne, or are you 

471
00:25:19,080 --> 00:25:20,880
going to give your allegiance to
the usurper? 

472
00:25:22,120 --> 00:25:23,920
The coup that took place in 
heaven was an issue of 

473
00:25:23,920 --> 00:25:26,360
allegiance to either the king or
the usurper. 

474
00:25:28,960 --> 00:25:30,880
And you think now that we're on 
planet Earth, things are 

475
00:25:30,880 --> 00:25:31,840
different? 
They're not. 

476
00:25:32,400 --> 00:25:33,920
We're in a Kingdom. 
We're in a government. 

477
00:25:33,920 --> 00:25:36,520
Everything you do is either an 
act of patriotism for the 

478
00:25:36,520 --> 00:25:41,200
Kingdom or treason against it. 
There's nothing against whatever

479
00:25:41,200 --> 00:25:42,960
decisions you make in your daily
life. 

480
00:25:43,080 --> 00:25:45,240
They are Either you are a 
patriot for the Kingdom and you 

481
00:25:45,240 --> 00:25:47,400
honor the king, or you are 
saying I'm going to be a 

482
00:25:47,400 --> 00:25:52,840
treasonous offender and there's 
not a third option. 

483
00:25:59,100 --> 00:26:01,180
That's why we can pick up in 
Matthew chapter 4. 

484
00:26:01,820 --> 00:26:05,060
Jesus shows up to restore order.
In the Kingdom. 

485
00:26:06,880 --> 00:26:10,200
Everybody was lost, everybody 
was dying, everybody was living 

486
00:26:10,200 --> 00:26:12,080
in death. 
But Jesus didn't just come and 

487
00:26:12,080 --> 00:26:13,840
say, well, I'm going to come 
here and comfort them. 

488
00:26:14,120 --> 00:26:18,400
Jesus was not God's Hospice, but
that's what we treat his gospel 

489
00:26:18,400 --> 00:26:23,000
like, the gospel of Hospice. 
It's here to ease your life 

490
00:26:23,000 --> 00:26:25,880
until you pass, then it'll all 
be better. 

491
00:26:28,160 --> 00:26:34,280
Thank you, nurse Jesus. 
I think he's better at healing 

492
00:26:34,280 --> 00:26:36,520
than that. 
If he can heal your physical 

493
00:26:36,520 --> 00:26:40,000
body, how much more can he heal 
your entire soul and being and 

494
00:26:40,000 --> 00:26:43,920
set you right? 
Right now people are like, oh, 

495
00:26:43,920 --> 00:26:45,160
you know, healing's not for 
today. 

496
00:26:45,360 --> 00:26:49,360
Well, when is it for the Holy 
Ghost's empowerment? 

497
00:26:49,360 --> 00:26:51,040
You know, that's not for today. 
That was for what? 

498
00:26:52,040 --> 00:26:55,840
What, what, where did we, Where 
did it go away? 

499
00:26:57,800 --> 00:27:00,120
How did I get into this nasty 
little Kingdom Then? 

500
00:27:00,560 --> 00:27:03,120
If there's no benefit and 
there's no power, why am I here?

501
00:27:03,120 --> 00:27:10,960
Why are we preaching? 
OK, Matthew chapter 4 says, and 

502
00:27:11,080 --> 00:27:13,160
Jesus was led up by the Spirit 
until the wilderness to be 

503
00:27:13,160 --> 00:27:16,440
tempted of the devil. 
He was led by the Spirit to be 

504
00:27:16,440 --> 00:27:18,240
tempted of the devil. 
I'm going to say it again. 

505
00:27:18,240 --> 00:27:22,280
He was led by the Spirit to be 
tempted of the devil, which 

506
00:27:22,280 --> 00:27:24,480
means the Spirit's not afraid of
you being tempted. 

507
00:27:24,640 --> 00:27:26,440
He's not concerned about it 
because he knows what you can 

508
00:27:26,440 --> 00:27:29,120
do, and that's only if you 
believe Jesus is your example. 

509
00:27:29,160 --> 00:27:30,000
Anyway, we're going to keep 
going. 

510
00:27:30,280 --> 00:27:33,280
OK, After he had fasted for 40 
days and 40 nights, then he 

511
00:27:33,280 --> 00:27:34,840
became hungry. 
And the tempter came and said to

512
00:27:34,840 --> 00:27:38,080
him, If you are the Son of God, 
command that these stones become

513
00:27:38,080 --> 00:27:40,680
bread. 
But he answered and said, it is 

514
00:27:40,680 --> 00:27:42,600
written. 
Man shall not live by bread 

515
00:27:42,600 --> 00:27:47,160
alone, but by every word that 
proceeds out of the mouth of 

516
00:27:47,160 --> 00:27:48,560
God. 
And then the devil took him into

517
00:27:48,560 --> 00:27:51,200
a holy city, and he stood him on
the high pinnacle, And he said, 

518
00:27:51,360 --> 00:27:53,320
If you are the Son of God, throw
yourself down. 

519
00:27:53,320 --> 00:27:56,880
For it is written that he will 
command his angels concerning 

520
00:27:56,880 --> 00:27:59,640
you, and on their heads they 
will bear you up, and you will 

521
00:27:59,640 --> 00:28:01,000
not strike your foot against the
stone. 

522
00:28:01,000 --> 00:28:02,680
But Jesus said to him, What did 
he say? 

523
00:28:03,440 --> 00:28:05,720
On the other hand, it is 
written, you shall not put the 

524
00:28:05,720 --> 00:28:07,320
Lord your God to the test. 
Again. 

525
00:28:07,320 --> 00:28:09,360
The devil took him to a very 
high mountain and showed him all

526
00:28:09,360 --> 00:28:11,640
the kingdoms of the world and 
all their glory. 

527
00:28:11,800 --> 00:28:15,400
And he said to him, All these 
things I will give you if you 

528
00:28:15,400 --> 00:28:22,360
fall down and worship me. 
Every single temptation was not 

529
00:28:22,360 --> 00:28:29,080
just to get Jesus to sin, it was
to get Jesus to change his 

530
00:28:29,080 --> 00:28:31,680
allegiance to something other 
than the Word. 

531
00:28:32,600 --> 00:28:35,440
How do we know he passed? 
Because every time he said it is

532
00:28:35,440 --> 00:28:39,600
written, he was saying my 
allegiance stands firm to the 

533
00:28:39,600 --> 00:28:42,400
Crown. 
I'm immovable in where my 

534
00:28:42,400 --> 00:28:44,880
allegiance lies because the 
first temptation was, if you're 

535
00:28:44,880 --> 00:28:46,520
hungry, turn this into bread. 
That wasn't. 

536
00:28:46,760 --> 00:28:49,280
He's not trying to get Jesus to 
do some gross sin that we would 

537
00:28:49,280 --> 00:28:50,280
think. 
He's not trying to get him to 

538
00:28:50,280 --> 00:28:52,920
rob or murder or rape or steal 
or something like that. 

539
00:28:53,080 --> 00:28:56,240
It was all he was trying to get 
Jesus to do is say, do you have 

540
00:28:56,240 --> 00:29:01,640
an allegiance to your own desire
for Jesus to act in that way and

541
00:29:01,640 --> 00:29:03,480
use the power in the anointing 
that he had? 

542
00:29:03,480 --> 00:29:07,000
Selfishly, he would have. 
Proven my allegiances to myself 

543
00:29:08,840 --> 00:29:12,800
to my own cravings, but he said 
it's written showing my 

544
00:29:12,800 --> 00:29:17,400
allegiances to the King's word 
every other temptation the devil

545
00:29:17,400 --> 00:29:20,000
brought to him. 
He said it is written because he

546
00:29:20,000 --> 00:29:22,480
was trying to see will you give 
an allegiance to somebody that 

547
00:29:22,480 --> 00:29:25,920
can give you your destiny. 
I find it interesting the last 

548
00:29:25,920 --> 00:29:29,160
the last temptation he says he 
showed him all the kingdoms of 

549
00:29:29,160 --> 00:29:31,680
the world and their glory and 
then the devil he little HI 

550
00:29:31,680 --> 00:29:34,280
don't know if anybody's you know
understands how the Bible works.

551
00:29:34,280 --> 00:29:37,080
If it's a big H that's that's 
God or. 

552
00:29:37,160 --> 00:29:39,160
Jesus. 
If it's a little H, it's 

553
00:29:39,160 --> 00:29:41,400
somebody else. 
So in this case the devil says 

554
00:29:41,400 --> 00:29:44,040
to him, all these things I will 
give to you if you fall down and

555
00:29:44,040 --> 00:29:48,160
worship me. 
Note that Jesus didn't go liar, 

556
00:29:50,320 --> 00:29:53,560
because Jesus knew they were 
actually in his power to give. 

557
00:29:54,960 --> 00:29:59,000
You see, when man fell from 
dominion through disobeying and 

558
00:29:59,160 --> 00:30:02,880
pledging his allegiance to 
himself and to what the serpent 

559
00:30:02,880 --> 00:30:05,680
had said by eating the fruit, he
lost the Kingdom. 

560
00:30:06,560 --> 00:30:08,280
But he didn't lose it out into 
oblivion. 

561
00:30:08,280 --> 00:30:11,120
He lost it from his hands into 
the hands of the enemy. 

562
00:30:13,080 --> 00:30:15,880
What a shame for you to give 
your dominion into the hands of 

563
00:30:15,880 --> 00:30:20,040
somebody that you've submitted 
to, to have them misuse it. 

564
00:30:20,040 --> 00:30:21,760
But that's what happened with 
Adam. 

565
00:30:22,320 --> 00:30:27,920
So from that point on, the enemy
Satan has the Kingdom of God and

566
00:30:27,920 --> 00:30:30,640
the power. 
Over the earth, we can see that 

567
00:30:30,640 --> 00:30:33,400
in Job. 
And Joe, people got a lot of 

568
00:30:33,400 --> 00:30:35,080
opinions about Job. 
People are preaching Job all the

569
00:30:35,080 --> 00:30:36,120
time. 
And honestly, for a long time, 

570
00:30:36,120 --> 00:30:38,200
Job messed me up because I'm 
like, I'm just counting down the

571
00:30:38,200 --> 00:30:39,800
days and tell him I have to 
scrape my boils. 

572
00:30:41,080 --> 00:30:43,200
I love God, I love him, but 
when's he going to kill him? 

573
00:30:43,200 --> 00:30:44,280
Kill him? 
All my livestock. 

574
00:30:44,280 --> 00:30:48,400
I don't have livestock. 
But until one day, Pastor Earl 

575
00:30:48,400 --> 00:30:50,280
preached a message. 
It's called It's in Your Power 

576
00:30:50,280 --> 00:30:51,320
Again. 
And it was about the book of 

577
00:30:51,320 --> 00:30:53,080
Job. 
And as he brought brought out 

578
00:30:53,240 --> 00:30:55,160
the depth of this message, he 
said. 

579
00:30:55,800 --> 00:30:59,840
When the devil went to God and 
said, hey, I've been looking at 

580
00:30:59,840 --> 00:31:02,040
Job and God's like, yeah, Job, 
he's the one, you should take 

581
00:31:02,040 --> 00:31:03,680
him. 
It translated. 

582
00:31:03,680 --> 00:31:07,960
He was saying, God said, I know 
that you've been looking at Job,

583
00:31:07,960 --> 00:31:09,840
not. 
Hey, I'm selling him out. 

584
00:31:09,840 --> 00:31:11,640
You should go find this guy and 
tear up his life. 

585
00:31:12,120 --> 00:31:14,560
God didn't sell him out. 
Then from there, every encounter

586
00:31:14,560 --> 00:31:17,320
that the enemy was having was 
him trying to find out what is 

587
00:31:17,320 --> 00:31:22,920
the limit of my dominion. 
Now God couldn't deny Satan the 

588
00:31:22,920 --> 00:31:25,280
right to touch Job's physical 
body. 

589
00:31:26,120 --> 00:31:28,160
Because if you remember, in 
Genesis, we were formed out of 

590
00:31:28,160 --> 00:31:31,640
the dust of the earth. 
So if mankind was destined to 

591
00:31:31,640 --> 00:31:35,120
have dominion over the earth, 
then man gave that dominion over

592
00:31:35,120 --> 00:31:37,160
to Satan, who now had dominion 
over the earth. 

593
00:31:38,960 --> 00:31:42,120
So God didn't grant him 
dominion, he just said. 

594
00:31:42,840 --> 00:31:45,720
That's in your jurisdiction. 
So by the time Jesus shows up in

595
00:31:45,720 --> 00:31:48,600
Matthew chapter four, he shows 
up and Satan says I'll give you 

596
00:31:48,600 --> 00:31:52,720
all the kingdoms of the world, 
which is why Jesus came to get 

597
00:31:52,720 --> 00:31:56,320
back the Kingdom of God, to get 
back the rightful authority and 

598
00:31:56,320 --> 00:31:59,760
dominion over the planet, and 
then to give it back to man and 

599
00:31:59,760 --> 00:32:01,440
say all authority I give unto 
you. 

600
00:32:02,360 --> 00:32:05,080
He could have done all of that 
without being separated from the

601
00:32:05,080 --> 00:32:08,880
Father and without dying on the 
cross, had he just pledged his 

602
00:32:08,880 --> 00:32:11,920
allegiance to a different. 
Crown. 

603
00:32:16,080 --> 00:32:17,800
It was all a question of 
allegiance. 

604
00:32:22,160 --> 00:32:24,360
I'm thankful that Jesus proved 
his allegiance and proved that 

605
00:32:24,360 --> 00:32:28,400
by responding with the Word. 
A human being can choose and do 

606
00:32:28,400 --> 00:32:33,120
right and not fail. 
Yet we've got a whole brand of 

607
00:32:33,120 --> 00:32:35,360
Christianity that's like, oh, 
we're all just sorry people. 

608
00:32:36,200 --> 00:32:39,400
We're all sorry sinners. 
We've been saved by Grace Biden.

609
00:32:39,400 --> 00:32:41,360
Our time until we get to the 
sweet by and by. 

610
00:32:41,920 --> 00:32:46,800
And that's gross. 
Why would I waste my time 

611
00:32:47,640 --> 00:32:49,880
reading a Bible that told me 
that I that I couldn't do 

612
00:32:49,880 --> 00:32:53,760
anything to be better? 
Why do I waste my time serving 

613
00:32:53,760 --> 00:32:57,200
in a church and doing some kind 
of religious practice if it 

614
00:32:57,200 --> 00:33:00,400
never got better until I died? 
Why is God still considered a 

615
00:33:00,400 --> 00:33:04,480
good God if I pray the sinner's 
prayer and then don't die right 

616
00:33:04,480 --> 00:33:08,800
away? 
You got a whole bunch of 

617
00:33:09,080 --> 00:33:11,640
Christians. 
Walking around thinking that God

618
00:33:11,640 --> 00:33:16,560
wants him to suffer. 
I'm born again, brother. 

619
00:33:16,560 --> 00:33:20,880
Man, it's Hard Out Here. 
It's a rough life we're living. 

620
00:33:21,400 --> 00:33:24,760
But he's faithful is he? 
Cuz not for you. 

621
00:33:24,760 --> 00:33:28,640
Clearly you've missed some 
connection with his faithfulness

622
00:33:28,640 --> 00:33:30,360
and your whatever mess you're 
in. 

623
00:33:31,640 --> 00:33:33,160
I'm struggling with this 
addiction brother. 

624
00:33:33,160 --> 00:33:35,440
I'm, you know, hey. 
But that's how we are, right? 

625
00:33:35,440 --> 00:33:38,640
We're humans. 
Jesus was a human. 

626
00:33:39,480 --> 00:33:42,040
Nobody's perfect. 
Yes, he was. 

627
00:33:42,040 --> 00:33:44,320
What do you mean nobody? 
That's a definitive statement. 

628
00:33:44,320 --> 00:33:46,680
That's incorrect. 
Somebody was perfect and 

629
00:33:46,680 --> 00:33:48,840
everybody would agree. 
Is Jesus our example? 

630
00:33:52,320 --> 00:33:55,600
You understand what an example 
is This is. 

631
00:33:55,680 --> 00:33:58,520
How you live you look to an 
example and say this is what I 

632
00:33:58,520 --> 00:34:04,840
should be see religion tells you
not obtainable. 

633
00:34:04,840 --> 00:34:07,520
But Jesus, everything he said 
was this is obtainable. 

634
00:34:11,760 --> 00:34:17,320
Hallelujah. 
OK, here's some things that we 

635
00:34:17,320 --> 00:34:19,520
can have some allegiance to. 
This again, is not a definitive 

636
00:34:19,520 --> 00:34:21,440
full list, but here's some 
things that just came up in my 

637
00:34:21,440 --> 00:34:24,320
spirit that we want to look at. 
You can give your allegiance to 

638
00:34:24,320 --> 00:34:27,760
whoever you want. 
It's your free will, it's your 

639
00:34:27,760 --> 00:34:30,480
choice, and God will never force
you to give your allegiance to 

640
00:34:30,480 --> 00:34:32,920
something. 
He'll only give you an option. 

641
00:34:34,400 --> 00:34:38,000
Same with Adam. 
If God was a controlling God and

642
00:34:38,000 --> 00:34:41,080
had control over everything and 
was was sovereign to the point 

643
00:34:41,080 --> 00:34:45,360
that he could do anything he 
wanted, he must not be athletic 

644
00:34:46,560 --> 00:34:50,120
because when Adam was like God 
could have swatted that thing 

645
00:34:50,120 --> 00:34:56,280
away. 
Like an NBA player and he would 

646
00:34:56,280 --> 00:34:57,640
have saved us a whole lot of 
heartache. 

647
00:34:59,360 --> 00:35:02,760
But he's not in control of that.
God's in control. 

648
00:35:03,240 --> 00:35:06,480
We, we're, we're putting a 
blanket statement here at Anchor

649
00:35:06,480 --> 00:35:08,360
Vey Church. 
We understand God's in control 

650
00:35:08,600 --> 00:35:12,440
of his Word. 
God is in control of his 

651
00:35:12,440 --> 00:35:14,840
Kingdom. 
He's in control of the word that

652
00:35:14,840 --> 00:35:17,360
he speaks and his allegiance. 
You understand God's pledged his

653
00:35:17,360 --> 00:35:21,200
allegiance somewhere. 
He doesn't require you to pledge

654
00:35:21,200 --> 00:35:23,160
your allegiance to something he 
hasn't already pledged his 

655
00:35:23,160 --> 00:35:28,400
allegiance to. 
He's pledged his allegiance to 

656
00:35:28,400 --> 00:35:35,640
his Word. 
Jesus pledged His allegiance to 

657
00:35:35,640 --> 00:35:37,240
the same. 
We see that, but understand God 

658
00:35:37,240 --> 00:35:41,160
lives by His own word. 
He's never failed to keep His 

659
00:35:41,160 --> 00:35:43,040
word. 
That's the most endearing 

660
00:35:43,040 --> 00:35:47,120
quality of God, not his, not His
healing, not the fact that He 

661
00:35:47,120 --> 00:35:48,560
can save you or forgive your 
sins. 

662
00:35:48,560 --> 00:35:50,440
Those are not the most endearing
qualities of God. 

663
00:35:50,440 --> 00:35:54,560
The most endearing vital quality
of Him is that He is faithful to

664
00:35:54,560 --> 00:36:01,000
never fail in keeping His word. 
Heaven and earth will pass away,

665
00:36:01,000 --> 00:36:05,360
but what remains forever? 
That his name is the name above 

666
00:36:05,360 --> 00:36:07,520
all names, but he exalts 
something above his own name. 

667
00:36:07,520 --> 00:36:10,400
What is that? 
So he's sworn an allegiance to 

668
00:36:10,400 --> 00:36:13,200
his own word. 
Yet let me submit this thought 

669
00:36:13,200 --> 00:36:16,080
to you too many. 
People want him to actually 

670
00:36:16,080 --> 00:36:21,000
swear an allegiance to them. 
They want God to divide his 

671
00:36:21,000 --> 00:36:23,040
allegiance too. 
He's a God that keeps his word. 

672
00:36:23,040 --> 00:36:28,120
But I just, you know, he's just,
if he could do a special thing 

673
00:36:28,120 --> 00:36:31,760
for me, you know? 
I know that I did wrong, but I 

674
00:36:31,760 --> 00:36:34,160
just, you know, I, I don't God 
understands. 

675
00:36:35,840 --> 00:36:39,760
He knows my heart. 
That's a great statement and we 

676
00:36:39,760 --> 00:36:43,960
love it here because Pastor Earl
always says, you bet he does. 

677
00:36:44,680 --> 00:36:47,240
You bet he knows your heart, but
you know what he's looking for 

678
00:36:47,680 --> 00:36:51,920
when he's looking in your heart.
That's what we're talking about 

679
00:36:51,920 --> 00:36:53,840
tonight. 
Every time that God knows your 

680
00:36:53,840 --> 00:36:55,560
heart, every time that God looks
to your heart and. 

681
00:36:55,560 --> 00:36:58,360
Sees your heart and wants to see
who you are from the depths of 

682
00:36:58,360 --> 00:37:00,280
your heart. 
He's just looking for one thing.

683
00:37:01,040 --> 00:37:04,720
Where's the allegiance in their 
heart when David was out there 

684
00:37:04,720 --> 00:37:07,360
in the field and he's out there,
you know, tending his sheep and 

685
00:37:07,360 --> 00:37:10,160
killing lions and killing bears 
and obeying his dad, And it says

686
00:37:10,160 --> 00:37:12,480
that God, he was a man after 
God's own heart. 

687
00:37:14,240 --> 00:37:18,400
What was God looking for? 
Where is David's allegiance? 

688
00:37:20,080 --> 00:37:21,920
When push comes. 
To shove, who will David side 

689
00:37:21,920 --> 00:37:25,040
with? 
David's most grievous sin that 

690
00:37:25,040 --> 00:37:27,680
we always bring up was because 
his allegiance shifted from 

691
00:37:27,680 --> 00:37:30,280
having an allegiance to the word
to an allegiance to himself that

692
00:37:30,280 --> 00:37:33,000
God allowed him to repent from, 
and he never did it again. 

693
00:37:33,000 --> 00:37:35,880
But people won't act like 
they're David because they go to

694
00:37:35,880 --> 00:37:37,600
their sin and then they go to 
their sin and they ask God to 

695
00:37:37,600 --> 00:37:38,680
forgive. 
Then they go back to their sin. 

696
00:37:38,680 --> 00:37:40,040
They ask God to forgive, they go
back to their sin. 

697
00:37:40,040 --> 00:37:45,720
That's not a David pattern. 
David had an instance, not a 

698
00:37:45,720 --> 00:37:50,320
pattern, but God's always 
looking to our heart to say, 

699
00:37:50,320 --> 00:37:52,600
where is your allegiance? 
Where does your allegiance lie? 

700
00:37:52,800 --> 00:37:55,320
Because if your allegiance is 
somewhere other than His word or

701
00:37:55,320 --> 00:37:57,720
somewhere other than the crown, 
then your allegiance is 

702
00:37:57,720 --> 00:38:00,000
misplaced. 
And that's why you struggle. 

703
00:38:00,560 --> 00:38:02,520
And that's why we sing I have 
joy. 

704
00:38:02,520 --> 00:38:07,680
And you're sitting back there 
thinking I don't because my 

705
00:38:07,680 --> 00:38:10,880
allegiance is to my scenario 
that I'm in. 

706
00:38:10,880 --> 00:38:17,680
That brings me depression. 
But attention, man. 

707
00:38:18,960 --> 00:38:20,840
How often do people hold on to 
things that's. 

708
00:38:24,040 --> 00:38:26,120
True, the God saying just be 
free and they're saying, but I 

709
00:38:26,120 --> 00:38:35,640
just this is who I want to be. 
OK, In Luke chapter 18 verse 18,

710
00:38:35,640 --> 00:38:37,120
we got the story of the rich 
young ruler. 

711
00:38:38,320 --> 00:38:39,920
Got to bring out the story of 
the rich young ruler because 

712
00:38:39,920 --> 00:38:43,680
this guy, he, he, he had 
everything going for him. 

713
00:38:45,120 --> 00:38:47,200
He's rich, he was young, he 
doesn't say rich, young, 

714
00:38:47,200 --> 00:38:48,240
handsome ruler. 
We don't know. 

715
00:38:49,160 --> 00:38:51,720
All we know is that he was a man
in finance. 

716
00:38:52,280 --> 00:38:53,880
Whether or not he was tall or 
not, we don't know. 

717
00:38:56,320 --> 00:39:00,760
But he he comes to Jesus and he 
asks the question. 

718
00:39:00,760 --> 00:39:04,800
He says good teacher, which when
we read it, we, we honestly can 

719
00:39:04,800 --> 00:39:09,720
see Jesus is not excited about 
this encounter, this first 

720
00:39:09,720 --> 00:39:11,080
interaction here. 
Good teacher. 

721
00:39:12,120 --> 00:39:15,960
This tells me right away he 
missed who Jesus actually was, 

722
00:39:16,520 --> 00:39:18,800
because when you come to a 
teacher, a teacher can give you 

723
00:39:18,800 --> 00:39:23,040
advice, But this man, I guess 
unbeknowingly, came to the king.

724
00:39:23,720 --> 00:39:26,680
The king can't give you advice. 
The king can only give decrees. 

725
00:39:27,920 --> 00:39:30,800
So he comes and says, good 
teacher, what shall I do to 

726
00:39:30,800 --> 00:39:34,120
inherit eternal life? 
And Jesus says, well, why do you

727
00:39:34,120 --> 00:39:36,320
call me good? 
Jesus could have just jumped to 

728
00:39:36,320 --> 00:39:39,760
the answer, given an answer, but
he's like, only God is good. 

729
00:39:40,880 --> 00:39:44,760
You missed who I was because if 
you think I'm good, but you also

730
00:39:44,760 --> 00:39:47,480
think I'm just a teacher, you're
not receiving me for who I am 

731
00:39:47,960 --> 00:39:51,360
because what I'm about to say is
to be either obeyed or rebelled 

732
00:39:51,360 --> 00:39:55,360
against. 
He says, you know, the 

733
00:39:55,360 --> 00:39:57,760
commandments do not steal, do 
not commit adultery, do not 

734
00:39:57,760 --> 00:40:00,640
murder, do not bear false 
witness, honor your father and 

735
00:40:00,640 --> 00:40:01,920
mother. 
And he said all these things I 

736
00:40:01,920 --> 00:40:04,920
have done for my youth. 
But when Jesus heard this, he 

737
00:40:04,920 --> 00:40:07,720
said to him, one thing you lack,
sell all that you possess, 

738
00:40:07,840 --> 00:40:10,360
distribute it to the poor, and 
you shall have treasure in 

739
00:40:10,360 --> 00:40:15,120
heaven to come follow me. 
But when he heard these things, 

740
00:40:15,120 --> 00:40:18,480
he became very sad, for he was 
extremely rich. 

741
00:40:18,800 --> 00:40:24,000
Leave this up on the screen. 
Know that Jesus tells him, just 

742
00:40:24,000 --> 00:40:25,320
do what? 
Just do what the Bible says. 

743
00:40:25,320 --> 00:40:29,120
Just do what everybody else in 
this is doing. 

744
00:40:29,120 --> 00:40:31,520
Just keep the commandments. 
That's what you want. 

745
00:40:31,520 --> 00:40:33,200
That's what you want to hear 
from a good rabbi. 

746
00:40:34,080 --> 00:40:36,320
Every rabbi he asked that 
question to, I promised would 

747
00:40:36,320 --> 00:40:39,840
give the same answer. 
Keep the commandments. 

748
00:40:40,440 --> 00:40:43,840
So Jesus thought, you don't know
who I am, keep the commandments.

749
00:40:44,840 --> 00:40:47,920
But then he presses and he says,
OK, well, I've done that, what 

750
00:40:47,920 --> 00:40:51,640
am I missing? 
So when Jesus says, here's what 

751
00:40:51,640 --> 00:40:55,720
you like, sell all you have, 
distribute it to the poor, then 

752
00:40:55,720 --> 00:40:58,600
you'll have treasure in heaven. 
Then come follow me. 

753
00:40:59,760 --> 00:41:06,120
He didn't suggest that to him. 
He said come follow me. 

754
00:41:07,240 --> 00:41:12,160
The king gave a decree that now 
created a whole scenario that 

755
00:41:12,160 --> 00:41:16,760
required you to pledge an 
allegiance to or to turn your 

756
00:41:16,760 --> 00:41:19,680
back on. 
In fact, it's the same decree he

757
00:41:19,680 --> 00:41:21,920
gave to the disciples. 
If we look at that whole story 

758
00:41:21,920 --> 00:41:23,800
of Jesus being tempted, then all
of a sudden later in that 

759
00:41:23,800 --> 00:41:27,000
chapter Jesus shows up and he 
begins to preach and says repent

760
00:41:27,000 --> 00:41:29,680
for the Kingdom has shown up. 
So we know the Kingdom is all 

761
00:41:29,680 --> 00:41:31,120
up. 
In this this scenario of him 

762
00:41:31,120 --> 00:41:33,840
being tempted pledging his 
allegiance to the word, he shows

763
00:41:33,840 --> 00:41:36,280
up and says the Kingdom is here 
the way it manifests. 

764
00:41:36,280 --> 00:41:39,640
Is we we give our allegiance to 
the king and and we manifest his

765
00:41:39,640 --> 00:41:41,920
Kingdom on this earth. 
Then he goes out right after 

766
00:41:41,920 --> 00:41:44,560
that same passage goes and finds
some guys fishing. 

767
00:41:45,760 --> 00:41:50,040
He looks at him and he says hey.
Come, follow me, I'll make you 

768
00:41:50,040 --> 00:41:54,080
fishers of men. 
And we call this the the call of

769
00:41:54,080 --> 00:41:59,280
the disciples. 
Jesus called the disciples when 

770
00:42:01,080 --> 00:42:06,240
he commanded the disciples. 
We think there's a lot of 

771
00:42:06,240 --> 00:42:08,680
options. 
I can do what God wants. 

772
00:42:08,680 --> 00:42:11,280
I can do what I want for a time.
I can, you know, everything will

773
00:42:11,280 --> 00:42:13,520
be OK. 
But when the king calls. 

774
00:42:15,280 --> 00:42:21,360
There's only two alternatives. 
It is to obey and align my 

775
00:42:21,360 --> 00:42:27,000
allegiance with him and follow 
him wholeheartedly or rebel and 

776
00:42:27,000 --> 00:42:30,440
turn against it. 
I'm thankful those first 

777
00:42:30,440 --> 00:42:33,920
disciples, they said OK and they
dropped everything they had. 

778
00:42:34,080 --> 00:42:36,000
They dropped their whole 
identity, they dropped their 

779
00:42:36,000 --> 00:42:38,600
whole family structure, they 
dropped all of their their 

780
00:42:38,600 --> 00:42:41,040
welfare and livelihood. 
And they said we're going to 

781
00:42:41,040 --> 00:42:43,520
come side with you. 
And they followed him. 

782
00:42:43,520 --> 00:42:46,320
Then he, in the same passage, 
turns and finds some other guys 

783
00:42:46,320 --> 00:42:51,640
mending Nets, looks at them and 
says, hey, I got something going

784
00:42:51,640 --> 00:42:52,760
on. 
It's pretty cool. 

785
00:42:52,920 --> 00:42:55,880
And if you feel like it, you can
tag along. 

786
00:42:55,880 --> 00:43:03,600
It's not what he says he says. 
Come follow me, I can't find him

787
00:43:04,560 --> 00:43:07,680
in the Bible. 
Where Jesus makes a suggestion 

788
00:43:11,720 --> 00:43:17,160
every word the. 
King speaks is law and it is 

789
00:43:18,200 --> 00:43:21,600
bound into the Constitution and 
it is to be obeyed. 

790
00:43:25,760 --> 00:43:28,640
I've pledged my allegiance to 
the Crown, which means anything 

791
00:43:28,640 --> 00:43:31,200
that offers itself as an 
alternative to what God has 

792
00:43:31,200 --> 00:43:34,760
said. 
I now have to determine that 

793
00:43:34,760 --> 00:43:38,200
choice again. 
Will I stay with the Crown or 

794
00:43:38,200 --> 00:43:41,880
will I follow someone else? 
I've been restored back to the 

795
00:43:41,880 --> 00:43:49,600
position Adam was in. 
Every one of us has been 

796
00:43:49,600 --> 00:43:51,320
restored back. 
To the Dominion. 

797
00:43:51,320 --> 00:43:56,000
Adam had. 
So that means daily we have the 

798
00:43:56,000 --> 00:43:58,680
same free will to choose like 
Adam chose. 

799
00:44:00,760 --> 00:44:02,760
It just so. 
Happens we have more trees to 

800
00:44:02,760 --> 00:44:06,800
pick from. 
God had to give us a. 

801
00:44:06,800 --> 00:44:11,080
Few more and say you know what? 
Don't eat this tree or of these 

802
00:44:11,080 --> 00:44:14,120
other trees. 
He's like, you know what, I'm 

803
00:44:14,120 --> 00:44:15,480
going to have to. 
I'm going to write it down. 

804
00:44:16,360 --> 00:44:19,120
He's like, OK, I get it. 
It's more than one. 

805
00:44:19,120 --> 00:44:21,960
Tree so he gave us his word then
we have the epistles from the 

806
00:44:21,960 --> 00:44:25,480
apostle Paul and from Peter and 
all these early disciples and 

807
00:44:25,480 --> 00:44:27,920
apostles that wrote the epistles
for us that were showing us 

808
00:44:28,080 --> 00:44:30,080
here's how to live and how not 
to live. 

809
00:44:30,800 --> 00:44:32,160
Why? 
Because you're going to be faced

810
00:44:32,160 --> 00:44:34,560
daily with decisions of where 
your allegiance will go. 

811
00:44:36,800 --> 00:44:38,200
Who will you give your 
allegiance to? 

812
00:44:38,200 --> 00:44:39,960
That's always the question at. 
Hand. 

813
00:44:41,680 --> 00:44:43,760
Whether it's being determined in
your heart or whether it's being

814
00:44:43,760 --> 00:44:45,360
determined by your actions, 
because I'm going to tell you, 

815
00:44:45,360 --> 00:44:47,720
we always talk about the Bible 
and belief and faith and that's 

816
00:44:47,720 --> 00:44:49,360
great. 
But in the end, your belief, 

817
00:44:49,360 --> 00:44:51,480
what you believe is proven 
through what you do. 

818
00:44:54,040 --> 00:44:56,560
It does you no good to believe 
the word of God. 

819
00:44:57,800 --> 00:45:02,080
Every everybody in the spirit 
realm believes that God exists 

820
00:45:02,080 --> 00:45:04,240
and they really believe that 
what God is saying is true. 

821
00:45:06,200 --> 00:45:10,920
But those who are acting on it. 
Those are the ones who reap the 

822
00:45:10,920 --> 00:45:12,800
benefits of this Kingdom. 
Those are the ones who reap the 

823
00:45:12,800 --> 00:45:17,440
benefits of the relationship 
with the king because there's 

824
00:45:17,440 --> 00:45:19,720
very few things that have been 
spoken on this platform that 

825
00:45:19,720 --> 00:45:21,360
everybody in the room wouldn't 
go we. 

826
00:45:21,360 --> 00:45:22,160
Agree. 
That's true. 

827
00:45:22,160 --> 00:45:25,120
I believe that. 
Yet we go out and our behavior 

828
00:45:25,120 --> 00:45:27,360
and our choices say something 
different. 

829
00:45:29,280 --> 00:45:31,600
That your allegiance isn't 
proven through what you believe.

830
00:45:31,600 --> 00:45:33,640
Your allegiance is proven 
through what you obey. 

831
00:45:38,440 --> 00:45:40,960
So this rich young ruler, he had
an allegiance to something other

832
00:45:40,960 --> 00:45:42,960
than the crown. 
He had an allegiance to finance.

833
00:45:45,320 --> 00:45:46,920
We could say he had allegiance 
to a lot of other things. 

834
00:45:46,920 --> 00:45:48,280
But the whole thing wraps up at 
the very end. 

835
00:45:48,280 --> 00:45:50,040
And he says, but when he had 
heard these things, he became 

836
00:45:50,040 --> 00:45:57,520
very sad because he was rich. 
And in the end he made a choice.

837
00:45:58,280 --> 00:46:03,040
I'd rather have my riches. 
I'd rather keep the life I have 

838
00:46:03,040 --> 00:46:09,960
instead of having the life that 
he's calling me to and note when

839
00:46:09,960 --> 00:46:10,800
he went. 
Walks away. 

840
00:46:10,800 --> 00:46:12,800
Jesus goes, hey, hey, hey. 
But if you were to die today, 

841
00:46:15,880 --> 00:46:18,720
Jesus didn't say that. 
Jesus let him walk away. 

842
00:46:22,000 --> 00:46:23,960
Yeah, we want to preach the 
gospel of Jesus Christ and then 

843
00:46:23,960 --> 00:46:26,920
chase everybody down and try to 
explain to him and try, oh, man,

844
00:46:26,920 --> 00:46:28,120
you're really missing out. 
Come on. 

845
00:46:28,560 --> 00:46:30,560
Present to him what it is. 
I mean, there's a whole passage 

846
00:46:30,560 --> 00:46:33,120
where Jesus explains to them a 
king doesn't go out into the 

847
00:46:33,120 --> 00:46:35,280
battle and not count the cost 
and see what it would take for 

848
00:46:35,280 --> 00:46:36,400
his warriors to go out into 
battle. 

849
00:46:36,560 --> 00:46:39,360
A wise master builder doesn't 
build a house without first 

850
00:46:39,360 --> 00:46:41,800
tallying up and counting the 
cost of what it'll cost him to 

851
00:46:41,800 --> 00:46:43,920
build it. 
Yet we think as believers, to 

852
00:46:43,920 --> 00:46:45,640
get somebody born again, we 
don't have to tell them what it 

853
00:46:45,640 --> 00:46:47,640
costs. 
All we got to do is just tell 

854
00:46:47,640 --> 00:46:51,080
them it's nice, it's free, it's 
good only to realize it actually

855
00:46:51,080 --> 00:46:55,680
has a payment plan. 
You're a terrible door to door 

856
00:46:55,680 --> 00:46:57,320
salesman. 
You might as well show up on 

857
00:46:57,320 --> 00:46:59,080
somebody's porch and tell them 
that you can give them water 

858
00:46:59,080 --> 00:47:02,480
filtration. 
I can, I can filter this whole 

859
00:47:02,480 --> 00:47:06,360
house and it's free to you. 
Sign up, sign this paper, it's 

860
00:47:06,360 --> 00:47:07,280
free. 
And all of a sudden you're like,

861
00:47:07,280 --> 00:47:08,120
what? 
Is this bill? 

862
00:47:09,160 --> 00:47:10,640
And that's what we do with 
Christianity. 

863
00:47:12,360 --> 00:47:14,560
We tell them, hey, we've got 
this nice vacuum here, It's a 

864
00:47:14,560 --> 00:47:16,760
solid metal construction. 
It'll last you forever. 

865
00:47:17,040 --> 00:47:19,280
And all you got to do is give me
$20 and let me do this 

866
00:47:19,280 --> 00:47:21,600
presentation. 
I get to go back to my boss and 

867
00:47:21,600 --> 00:47:23,560
I get to tell them I got. 
Somebody to sign up? 

868
00:47:25,240 --> 00:47:27,320
And then you get hit with the 
hefty bill. 

869
00:47:28,760 --> 00:47:30,360
When in Christianity, just tell 
him listen. 

870
00:47:30,760 --> 00:47:32,000
It's going to cost you your 
life. 

871
00:47:33,480 --> 00:47:35,600
I'm not going to pull punches. 
It's not a sign up free. 

872
00:47:35,800 --> 00:47:38,440
It was paid for for you to be 
able to sign up. 

873
00:47:42,880 --> 00:47:47,400
But there's a price you'll pay. 
You're like, well, how much? 

874
00:47:48,280 --> 00:47:53,240
Well, how much did Jesus pay? 
How much do you pay? 

875
00:47:53,240 --> 00:47:57,800
I'm asking the question. 
So why would it not be fair to 

876
00:47:57,800 --> 00:47:59,440
give him back the same 
investment? 

877
00:48:03,240 --> 00:48:05,720
It cost him his life and you 
want it to cost you nothing? 

878
00:48:06,040 --> 00:48:09,160
You want to make no change. 
Not you, I understand, you know.

879
00:48:10,560 --> 00:48:14,280
The people, right, Right. 
Another thing that people don't 

880
00:48:14,280 --> 00:48:16,200
want to let go of. 
If we look at Matthew chapter 6,

881
00:48:16,200 --> 00:48:18,440
I love Matthew chapter 6 
incredible Kingdom chapter. 

882
00:48:18,720 --> 00:48:21,520
He's explaining how the the 
economy of the Kingdom works. 

883
00:48:21,520 --> 00:48:23,640
He's explaining how the culture 
of the Kingdom works and Jesus 

884
00:48:23,640 --> 00:48:26,480
shows up. 
He says, listen, no one can 

885
00:48:26,480 --> 00:48:28,840
serve 2 masters for the he will 
hate the one and he will love 

886
00:48:28,840 --> 00:48:30,920
the other or he'll be devoted to
one and despise the other. 

887
00:48:30,920 --> 00:48:34,080
You cannot serve God and wealth.
Then in verse 25, he starts 

888
00:48:34,080 --> 00:48:36,560
giving us this story. 
He says, for this reason I say 

889
00:48:36,560 --> 00:48:39,240
to you, do not be. 
Worried about your life? 

890
00:48:39,240 --> 00:48:43,560
Say worried. 
Worried as to what you will eat,

891
00:48:43,560 --> 00:48:46,160
what you will drink, nor for 
your body, body as to what you 

892
00:48:46,160 --> 00:48:49,080
will put on for clothing. 
For is life not more than food 

893
00:48:49,080 --> 00:48:51,720
in the body, more than clothing?
Then he says, look at the birds 

894
00:48:51,720 --> 00:48:54,480
of the air, for they do not sow 
or reap, nor gather into barns, 

895
00:48:54,480 --> 00:48:56,320
and yet your heavenly Father 
feeds them. 

896
00:48:56,680 --> 00:48:58,840
Are you not much more worthy 
than they are? 

897
00:48:59,880 --> 00:49:04,160
And who of you by being worried,
say worried can add a single 

898
00:49:04,160 --> 00:49:07,280
hour to his life? 
And why are you? 

899
00:49:07,280 --> 00:49:09,320
Worried about clothing? 
Observe how the lilies of the 

900
00:49:09,320 --> 00:49:11,560
field grow. 
They do not toil or the spin. 

901
00:49:11,560 --> 00:49:14,120
Yet I say to you that even 
Solomon and all his glory 

902
00:49:14,120 --> 00:49:15,680
clothed himself like one of 
these. 

903
00:49:15,920 --> 00:49:18,800
But if God so clothes the grass 
of the field, which is alive 

904
00:49:18,800 --> 00:49:21,560
today, and tomorrow is thrown 
into the furnace, will he not 

905
00:49:21,560 --> 00:49:24,800
much more clothe you? 
O you of little faith, do not 

906
00:49:24,800 --> 00:49:28,880
worry then saying say worry, Do 
not worry, saying, What will we 

907
00:49:28,880 --> 00:49:31,840
eat, what will we drink, or what
will we wear for clothing? 

908
00:49:32,680 --> 00:49:35,320
Keep going. 
For the Gentiles eagerly seek 

909
00:49:35,320 --> 00:49:36,760
these things. 
There's another translation that

910
00:49:36,760 --> 00:49:38,640
says the pagans are seeking all 
these things. 

911
00:49:38,880 --> 00:49:41,240
Those who aren't believers are 
seeking the same things. 

912
00:49:41,240 --> 00:49:43,200
Those who aren't believers are 
working the same job. 

913
00:49:43,200 --> 00:49:45,800
You're working for the same 
reason, to pay bills. 

914
00:49:46,440 --> 00:49:47,960
So if the only. 
Reason you're at your job is to 

915
00:49:47,960 --> 00:49:50,280
pay your bills. 
You're doing a Pagan exercise. 

916
00:49:50,280 --> 00:49:51,520
So don't talk to me about a 
little Christmas. 

917
00:49:51,520 --> 00:49:56,440
Tree you worker says, but seek 
first his Kingdom and his 

918
00:49:56,440 --> 00:49:59,680
righteousness, and all these 
things are added to you says 

919
00:49:59,680 --> 00:50:03,920
don't worry, say worry, don't 
worry about tomorrow, for 

920
00:50:03,920 --> 00:50:07,200
tomorrow will care for itself. 
Each day has enough trouble of 

921
00:50:07,200 --> 00:50:12,320
its own. 
This poses a strict either or 

922
00:50:12,320 --> 00:50:17,200
question for you. 
Will you align and give your 

923
00:50:17,200 --> 00:50:18,560
allegiance to the? 
Crown. 

924
00:50:20,120 --> 00:50:22,080
Or to your own emotions and 
personality. 

925
00:50:25,360 --> 00:50:28,200
Because three times here, he 
says do not worry. 

926
00:50:28,400 --> 00:50:31,120
Who's saying? 
This of the good rabbi. 

927
00:50:32,240 --> 00:50:34,200
The good teacher is the good 
teacher saying this to you 

928
00:50:34,200 --> 00:50:35,960
because that's how a lot of 
people are acting. 

929
00:50:36,880 --> 00:50:38,000
Oh, the good teacher said. 
Don't worry. 

930
00:50:38,760 --> 00:50:42,560
He gave a good suggestion. 
No, the king of this Kingdom 

931
00:50:42,560 --> 00:50:51,000
said do not worry. 
So what does that make worry for

932
00:50:51,000 --> 00:50:57,160
you to worry against the command
You're rebelling against the 

933
00:50:57,160 --> 00:51:01,880
decree of the king? 
There's a whole other list of 

934
00:51:01,880 --> 00:51:03,560
emotions we could list, you 
understand, There's a lot of. 

935
00:51:03,560 --> 00:51:05,120
People that say, well, it's just
my personality, you know, I'm 

936
00:51:05,120 --> 00:51:06,080
just a worry. 
I'm just a worried. 

937
00:51:06,080 --> 00:51:08,720
It's what I am. 
Well, sounds like you need to 

938
00:51:08,720 --> 00:51:13,720
die and get born again and start
over because that's no way to 

939
00:51:13,720 --> 00:51:16,600
live. 
That's why we can be born again.

940
00:51:16,600 --> 00:51:18,680
It doesn't. 
Jesus didn't come in and fix 

941
00:51:18,840 --> 00:51:21,640
you. 
He came in and said you die and 

942
00:51:22,040 --> 00:51:26,360
I'm going to have a new you. 
That's free of worry because 

943
00:51:26,360 --> 00:51:28,640
he's not unfair. 
He never gave a command. 

944
00:51:29,320 --> 00:51:33,720
That we couldn't attain to. 
Just like when he said be holy 

945
00:51:33,720 --> 00:51:36,520
like I'm holy. 
He wasn't dangling a carrot out 

946
00:51:36,520 --> 00:51:38,680
in front of us that we could 
never reach and never grab. 

947
00:51:39,360 --> 00:51:41,920
If he gives a command, he 
empowers you to do the command. 

948
00:51:42,200 --> 00:51:44,000
That's the whole reason Jesus 
came. 

949
00:51:44,120 --> 00:51:46,240
Not just so that when you die 
you go to heaven. 

950
00:51:46,400 --> 00:51:49,480
That he didn't even mention if 
that was important. 

951
00:51:49,480 --> 00:51:53,360
To Jesus, he would have talked 
about it, I promise, if that was

952
00:51:53,360 --> 00:51:56,480
a big bullet point on his 
message that he skimmed over. 

953
00:51:56,720 --> 00:51:58,640
He messed it up for thousands of
years. 

954
00:51:59,120 --> 00:52:02,680
Worst preacher ever. 
He said the title of my sermon 

955
00:52:02,680 --> 00:52:04,560
is Where do you go when you die?
Then all he talked about was the

956
00:52:04,560 --> 00:52:05,760
Kingdom and how you live right 
now. 

957
00:52:08,720 --> 00:52:10,680
No, that was the whole point. 
He would have said it. 

958
00:52:10,680 --> 00:52:12,240
He didn't. 
He just came and empowered 

959
00:52:12,240 --> 00:52:14,320
things like this. 
Every day you wake up and you 

960
00:52:14,320 --> 00:52:15,720
have a choice, should I worry or
not? 

961
00:52:16,600 --> 00:52:18,640
Then you have to rely. 
What's the remedy for worry? 

962
00:52:18,760 --> 00:52:21,800
He gave it to you. 
He said don't worry, but seek 

963
00:52:23,080 --> 00:52:27,680
Christianity, Christianity and 
all of it's all of that it 

964
00:52:27,680 --> 00:52:30,280
entails and you wear that cross 
necklace, you're going to be 

965
00:52:30,280 --> 00:52:34,040
fine as long as you've got a 
gold cross more expensive the 

966
00:52:34,040 --> 00:52:37,280
better. 
You'll be free of worry because 

967
00:52:37,280 --> 00:52:37,920
we're. 
Christians. 

968
00:52:37,920 --> 00:52:45,120
That's what we do. 
Christians. 

969
00:52:45,640 --> 00:52:51,240
He never called us Christians. 
Jesus never said that. 

970
00:52:51,240 --> 00:52:55,400
He never said be Christians 
because he knows that was weird.

971
00:52:55,400 --> 00:52:57,240
It'd be like me saying you guys 
should be Joshians. 

972
00:52:59,480 --> 00:53:01,120
That's weird. 
That comes across weird, right? 

973
00:53:02,520 --> 00:53:04,200
No, he called us many other 
things. 

974
00:53:04,200 --> 00:53:06,960
He called us sons. 
He called us in heirs of a 

975
00:53:06,960 --> 00:53:09,440
promise. 
The the then to his disciples 

976
00:53:09,440 --> 00:53:11,320
who were taught by him. 
You understand, they called us 

977
00:53:11,560 --> 00:53:13,760
ambassadors. 
They called U.S. citizens of a 

978
00:53:13,760 --> 00:53:15,480
holy Kingdom. 
They called us a holy nation, 

979
00:53:15,480 --> 00:53:18,120
priests, all of these things. 
We were called not just 

980
00:53:18,120 --> 00:53:20,120
Christians. 
So if you've reduced everything 

981
00:53:20,120 --> 00:53:21,880
that you believe about God and 
everything you read in this 

982
00:53:21,880 --> 00:53:28,080
Bible to just Christianity. 
Go live at the Vatican like. 

983
00:53:32,280 --> 00:53:35,640
Anyway, too many people have an 
allegiance to their own emotions

984
00:53:35,640 --> 00:53:37,160
and their own personalities 
where they say, well, it's just 

985
00:53:37,160 --> 00:53:37,920
the way I am. 
I get angry. 

986
00:53:37,920 --> 00:53:40,560
You know, I just my, my, my 
great grandfather, he was Irish.

987
00:53:40,680 --> 00:53:42,640
And you know, you know, the 
Irish, they get angry, they fly 

988
00:53:42,640 --> 00:53:44,160
off the handle, man, they got a 
problem. 

989
00:53:44,560 --> 00:53:45,720
And you know, it's just in my 
blood. 

990
00:53:47,080 --> 00:53:49,440
This is how I am. 
So when a moment arises when it 

991
00:53:49,440 --> 00:53:53,080
says be slow to anger, the king 
decreed be slow to anger. 

992
00:53:53,080 --> 00:53:55,280
But if in that moment I say my 
allegiance is to the crown, then

993
00:53:55,280 --> 00:53:56,880
I'll be slow to anger. 
But if I say my allegiance is to

994
00:53:56,880 --> 00:54:02,960
my Irish great granddaddy, I'm 
going to punch a hole in this 

995
00:54:02,960 --> 00:54:06,080
wall. 
So big, I'm going to call 

996
00:54:06,080 --> 00:54:11,800
Angelo, make him patch it up. 
I don't want to have an 

997
00:54:11,800 --> 00:54:13,600
allegiance to a personality. 
In fact, there's a lot of 

998
00:54:13,600 --> 00:54:15,560
people, and I'll say this, 
there's a lot of people that 

999
00:54:15,560 --> 00:54:17,360
come into the Kingdom and then 
they're like, oh, I can't get 

1000
00:54:17,360 --> 00:54:18,720
along with that person because, 
you know, it's just a 

1001
00:54:18,720 --> 00:54:23,600
personality conflict. 
I get that there's different 

1002
00:54:23,600 --> 00:54:25,120
personalities. 
I've taken the personality test,

1003
00:54:25,120 --> 00:54:26,680
I've taken one of the animals. 
I'm like a little golden 

1004
00:54:26,680 --> 00:54:28,000
retriever. 
I've taken the one with the 

1005
00:54:28,000 --> 00:54:31,480
other thing, and I get that. 
But in the Kingdom, you don't 

1006
00:54:31,480 --> 00:54:33,320
have a right to have a. 
Conflict with a different 

1007
00:54:33,320 --> 00:54:36,400
personality. 
I'm thankful that Jesus doesn't 

1008
00:54:36,400 --> 00:54:38,160
have the conflict with my 
personality. 

1009
00:54:38,160 --> 00:54:40,440
He. 
Didn't come in and go, you know,

1010
00:54:40,440 --> 00:54:42,800
I can deal with everybody, but. 
Josh just drives me off the 

1011
00:54:42,800 --> 00:54:45,240
wall. 
I'm thankful that Jesus didn't 

1012
00:54:45,240 --> 00:54:46,880
do that to me. 
So you know what? 

1013
00:54:46,880 --> 00:54:49,440
If I'm going to be like him, I'm
not going to do that to somebody

1014
00:54:49,440 --> 00:54:53,280
else. 
I'm not going to let myself slip

1015
00:54:53,280 --> 00:54:54,640
back. 
Into the flesh and be like man. 

1016
00:54:54,880 --> 00:54:59,200
Ted drives me crazy. 
Ted's personality is just so 

1017
00:54:59,200 --> 00:55:00,160
off. 
Putting how am I supposed to 

1018
00:55:00,160 --> 00:55:04,840
have a conversation? 
I don't have the right to that 

1019
00:55:04,840 --> 00:55:08,040
if my allegiance is to the crown
and I have a right to my own 

1020
00:55:08,040 --> 00:55:09,400
feeling. 
Just as a disclaimer, Ted's 

1021
00:55:09,400 --> 00:55:12,440
personality is not off putting. 
I like Ted. 

1022
00:55:14,840 --> 00:55:16,960
Another thing that people have 
an allegiance to, and this one's

1023
00:55:16,960 --> 00:55:18,720
going to be tough and I know 
this one's probably going to be 

1024
00:55:18,720 --> 00:55:19,960
the most silent. 
You don't have to shout Amen, 

1025
00:55:19,960 --> 00:55:25,200
but you're just going to listen.
Matthew chapter 12, Jesus is 

1026
00:55:25,200 --> 00:55:28,720
looking and God is looking for 
you to have an allegiance to him

1027
00:55:28,720 --> 00:55:32,160
alone. 
So much that Jesus gave an 

1028
00:55:32,160 --> 00:55:35,280
example of where your allegiance
should be in any given 

1029
00:55:35,280 --> 00:55:37,480
situation. 
The disciples all came to him 

1030
00:55:37,480 --> 00:55:38,880
when he was doing his 
assignment. 

1031
00:55:39,080 --> 00:55:41,240
He was speaking, He was 
proclaiming the Kingdom of God. 

1032
00:55:41,240 --> 00:55:43,600
He was doing what he was born to
do in his role. 

1033
00:55:43,600 --> 00:55:45,640
And they came to him and they 
said, listen, while you were 

1034
00:55:45,640 --> 00:55:48,760
speaking to the crowds, behold, 
his mother and brothers were 

1035
00:55:48,760 --> 00:55:50,880
standing outside seeking to 
speak to him. 

1036
00:55:51,040 --> 00:55:56,000
So someone said to Jesus, hey, 
behold, that's sorry. 

1037
00:55:56,000 --> 00:55:59,600
Behold is like ancient Greek for
hey, I said behold. 

1038
00:55:59,800 --> 00:56:01,400
Your mother and your brothers 
are standing. 

1039
00:56:01,400 --> 00:56:03,960
Outside seeking to speak to you 
and Jesus said. 

1040
00:56:03,960 --> 00:56:07,120
Oh, let me drop what I'm doing. 
I'm going to go talk to them 

1041
00:56:07,120 --> 00:56:11,720
because family first. 
OK, we'll go back over here. 

1042
00:56:12,240 --> 00:56:15,920
But Jesus answered the one who 
was telling him and said. 

1043
00:56:16,840 --> 00:56:21,480
Who is my brother, who is my 
mother, and who are my brothers?

1044
00:56:25,000 --> 00:56:29,400
He wasn't confused. 
He wasn't lost in an anointing 

1045
00:56:29,400 --> 00:56:31,200
trance and wasn't sure where he 
was. 

1046
00:56:32,680 --> 00:56:35,520
He was very cognizant and very 
present in the moment. 

1047
00:56:36,280 --> 00:56:40,480
He answered this specifically 
because too often he knows that 

1048
00:56:40,480 --> 00:56:43,960
his people will try to make 
priorities other than his 

1049
00:56:43,960 --> 00:56:45,760
priorities and needed to warn 
against it. 

1050
00:56:46,280 --> 00:56:48,480
So he said who is my mother? 
Who are my brothers? 

1051
00:56:49,360 --> 00:56:53,240
Then he goes on to say, Those 
who do the will of my father, 

1052
00:56:53,520 --> 00:57:00,800
they are my mother, they are my 
brothers, but too often in the 

1053
00:57:00,800 --> 00:57:02,400
Kingdom of God. 
Where we're supposed to have an.

1054
00:57:02,400 --> 00:57:05,040
Allegiance to those who have 
pledged their allegiance to the 

1055
00:57:05,040 --> 00:57:08,560
Crown with us. 
We want to divide our allegiance

1056
00:57:09,480 --> 00:57:14,880
to Crown and kin, and Jesus 
never gave us that example or 

1057
00:57:14,880 --> 00:57:18,240
command. 
And this is a. 

1058
00:57:18,240 --> 00:57:20,760
Problem for people that are 
like, well, but they're my 

1059
00:57:20,760 --> 00:57:22,920
family, they're my blood 
relatives, then we want to start

1060
00:57:22,920 --> 00:57:24,920
talking about how blood is 
thicker than water. 

1061
00:57:26,680 --> 00:57:28,720
But the problem is we only get 
half of that statement. 

1062
00:57:28,720 --> 00:57:32,560
If you remember Pastor's message
on Fortress Friends, the actual 

1063
00:57:32,560 --> 00:57:34,200
quote is not blood is thicker 
than water. 

1064
00:57:34,200 --> 00:57:36,920
It is the blood of the covenant 
is thicker than the water of the

1065
00:57:36,920 --> 00:57:40,920
womb. 
See, my family are those who are

1066
00:57:40,920 --> 00:57:42,920
doing God's will. 
So that means if my blood 

1067
00:57:42,920 --> 00:57:46,920
relatives have assigned and are 
given their allegiance to 

1068
00:57:46,920 --> 00:57:50,240
something other than the crown, 
my allegiance doesn't go with 

1069
00:57:50,240 --> 00:57:52,800
them. 
Same thing with Jesus. 

1070
00:57:52,800 --> 00:57:55,200
You understand we want Jesus to 
have an allegiance to us and we 

1071
00:57:55,200 --> 00:57:57,200
want when we stand before the 
great White Throne judgment, we 

1072
00:57:57,200 --> 00:58:02,760
want Him to be on our side. 
But were you on His side through

1073
00:58:02,760 --> 00:58:07,760
your daily life? 
See, we want Jesus allegiance to

1074
00:58:07,760 --> 00:58:11,280
us, to be faithful to us without
realizing His allegiance is only

1075
00:58:11,280 --> 00:58:13,120
ever to the Word. 
So the only way you and Jesus 

1076
00:58:13,120 --> 00:58:14,840
get together is if you both have
the allegiance. 

1077
00:58:14,840 --> 00:58:19,040
To the word and that's the way 
it works with natural family. 

1078
00:58:19,880 --> 00:58:22,360
You want unity with me? 
You want peace in every 

1079
00:58:22,360 --> 00:58:24,080
encounter? 
You want Thanksgivings not to be

1080
00:58:24,080 --> 00:58:25,520
weird? 
Then you're going to have to 

1081
00:58:25,520 --> 00:58:30,000
align your allegiance with the 
crown like I have. 

1082
00:58:30,560 --> 00:58:33,360
I'm not saying agree with me. 
I don't care about me. 

1083
00:58:33,360 --> 00:58:35,000
I'm not saying you need to be 
nice to me. 

1084
00:58:35,120 --> 00:58:39,000
I died. 
I'm not saying I'm you're I'm 

1085
00:58:39,000 --> 00:58:41,280
mad at you. 
I How can you offend a dead 

1086
00:58:41,280 --> 00:58:43,160
person? 
I'm not offended. 

1087
00:58:43,160 --> 00:58:45,520
It's you. 
I've just aligned myself with 

1088
00:58:45,520 --> 00:58:48,360
the crown and I want you to do 
the same so we can function 

1089
00:58:48,360 --> 00:58:50,440
together and operate in joint 
citizenship. 

1090
00:58:52,840 --> 00:58:54,440
But too often. 
People have an allegiance to 

1091
00:58:54,440 --> 00:58:57,000
blood family and they'll well, 
you know, my great grandma, 

1092
00:58:57,000 --> 00:58:59,120
she's, you know, about to die. 
So we're going to move away. 

1093
00:58:59,120 --> 00:59:01,240
Even though God placed us in the
body where it pleased him at 

1094
00:59:01,240 --> 00:59:03,560
Anchor Faith Church and gave us 
an assignment and let our gifts 

1095
00:59:03,560 --> 00:59:04,720
and talents be used in the 
ministry. 

1096
00:59:04,720 --> 00:59:06,120
But you know, great granddad's 
going. 

1097
00:59:06,120 --> 00:59:10,760
So his family, family first. 
You think Jesus is going? 

1098
00:59:11,240 --> 00:59:13,520
Yes. 
I placed you there, but I knew 

1099
00:59:13,520 --> 00:59:17,280
it was only going to be until 
one of your older family members

1100
00:59:17,280 --> 00:59:21,760
was about to pass away. 
Think on these things. 

1101
00:59:23,640 --> 00:59:25,960
Then we're going to look at the 
next verse, Luke chapter 14. 

1102
00:59:32,710 --> 00:59:34,750
Jesus looked at the crowds and 
he said he turned toward them 

1103
00:59:34,750 --> 00:59:37,910
and said, if anyone comes to me 
and he does not hate. 

1104
00:59:38,790 --> 00:59:40,070
Now let me just give this 
disclaimer. 

1105
00:59:40,590 --> 00:59:43,350
The guys upstairs are like, just
read it. 

1106
00:59:43,350 --> 00:59:47,240
Hold on, hate does not mean that
you despise them. 

1107
00:59:47,240 --> 00:59:48,280
You want nothing to do with 
them. 

1108
00:59:48,280 --> 00:59:49,560
You wish ill willed towards 
them. 

1109
00:59:49,560 --> 00:59:54,160
That is not what hate means. 
Another version says deny. 

1110
00:59:54,160 --> 00:59:56,880
So when he says this, he's not 
saying I want you to have an 

1111
00:59:56,880 --> 01:00:00,800
animosity towards your family. 
What he's saying is if you love 

1112
01:00:00,800 --> 01:00:03,720
your father, mother and wife and
children and brothers and 

1113
01:00:03,720 --> 01:00:10,160
sisters more than your 
allegiance to the crown, he says

1114
01:00:10,160 --> 01:00:12,640
even your own life, you cannot 
be my disciple. 

1115
01:00:12,640 --> 01:00:16,800
You discipleship is hinging on. 
How much of your allegiance are 

1116
01:00:16,800 --> 01:00:20,760
you giving? 
So he's not telling them go home

1117
01:00:20,760 --> 01:00:22,280
and murder your family. 
That's stupid. 

1118
01:00:22,280 --> 01:00:29,120
But what he is saying is if you 
love them or choose them over 

1119
01:00:29,120 --> 01:00:31,360
me, you don't have a place with 
me. 

1120
01:00:32,040 --> 01:00:37,400
And that's a tough saying. 
You understand That's why Jesus 

1121
01:00:37,400 --> 01:00:43,000
only had 12 disciples. 
Then at another time, he added a

1122
01:00:43,000 --> 01:00:46,200
few dozen more than they went 
away, and he ended the whole 

1123
01:00:46,200 --> 01:00:52,760
thing with a solid 11. 
Because the call to the 

1124
01:00:53,400 --> 01:00:56,720
citizenship of the Kingdom of 
God comes at a cost to you 

1125
01:00:56,720 --> 01:01:00,440
personally. 
It's a free gift. 

1126
01:01:00,440 --> 01:01:03,720
You could have never ever come 
into the Kingdom of your own 

1127
01:01:03,720 --> 01:01:05,560
accord. 
You could have never by works. 

1128
01:01:05,800 --> 01:01:09,840
Earned a way in. 
He died, was buried and 

1129
01:01:09,840 --> 01:01:13,120
resurrected and poured out his 
own blood so that you could have

1130
01:01:13,120 --> 01:01:15,880
the ability to go through the 
citizenship program. 

1131
01:01:19,480 --> 01:01:22,040
But from there, you have to 
participate. 

1132
01:01:26,160 --> 01:01:30,360
You understand, there's American
citizens that have been charged 

1133
01:01:30,360 --> 01:01:31,640
with treason against their 
country. 

1134
01:01:31,640 --> 01:01:33,400
And you're like, well, once a 
citizen, always a citizen, 

1135
01:01:33,400 --> 01:01:37,440
what's the problem? 
Yeah, we do that with God's 

1136
01:01:37,440 --> 01:01:41,600
Kingdom, 'cause you would say, 
well, they, they acted against 

1137
01:01:42,000 --> 01:01:43,560
the government. 
They, they had treasonous 

1138
01:01:43,560 --> 01:01:45,320
behavior that betrayed the 
government. 

1139
01:01:46,200 --> 01:01:47,480
They didn't. 
Abide by the laws of the 

1140
01:01:47,480 --> 01:01:49,160
government. 
Then we get into God's Kingdom. 

1141
01:01:49,160 --> 01:01:52,200
You're like, well, once saved, 
always saved. 

1142
01:01:53,400 --> 01:01:55,960
Well, that doesn't make sense. 
Adam wasn't once saved, always 

1143
01:01:55,960 --> 01:01:59,120
saved. 
In fact, to alleviate the state 

1144
01:01:59,200 --> 01:02:01,400
to to to hold on to the 
statement once saved, always 

1145
01:02:01,400 --> 01:02:03,640
saved says I have forfeited. 
My own free will? 

1146
01:02:04,880 --> 01:02:07,120
God never. 
He never gave you the option to 

1147
01:02:07,120 --> 01:02:09,720
forfeit free will. 
Everything that God does, in 

1148
01:02:09,720 --> 01:02:13,440
fact everything the enemy is 
also doing, all hinges on your 

1149
01:02:13,440 --> 01:02:15,800
free will. 
That's why you can't say the 

1150
01:02:15,800 --> 01:02:19,240
devil made me do it. 
Devil made me do it, He made me 

1151
01:02:19,240 --> 01:02:20,520
do it. 
He can't force you to do 

1152
01:02:20,520 --> 01:02:22,480
anything. 
All he can do is give you an 

1153
01:02:22,480 --> 01:02:27,800
option of different allegiance. 
So he doesn't have to come in, 

1154
01:02:27,800 --> 01:02:29,880
the enemy doesn't have to come 
in and tempt you with. 

1155
01:02:29,920 --> 01:02:31,880
Really, really bad. 
Stuff that you would list on in 

1156
01:02:31,880 --> 01:02:33,720
your mind is a really bad thing.
All he has. 

1157
01:02:33,720 --> 01:02:35,720
To do is tempt you with 
something that causes your 

1158
01:02:35,720 --> 01:02:38,320
allegiance to be somewhere other
than with the crown. 

1159
01:02:42,200 --> 01:02:44,200
So when he says unless you hate.
Your brother and mother and. 

1160
01:02:44,200 --> 01:02:46,680
Father, he's not saying you need
to have animosity or I'll will. 

1161
01:02:46,680 --> 01:02:49,280
Towards them. 
What he's saying is if they are 

1162
01:02:49,280 --> 01:02:53,400
more important to you, then you 
can't be with me. 

1163
01:02:53,640 --> 01:02:57,480
But you can have that. 
He gives you the choice. 

1164
01:02:57,480 --> 01:02:58,960
You can have it again, Pastor 
Earl says. 

1165
01:02:58,960 --> 01:03:01,400
It's so clear this is a freeing 
statement for all who would 

1166
01:03:01,400 --> 01:03:04,240
hear. 
God will let you do whatever you

1167
01:03:04,240 --> 01:03:09,480
want to do. 
God will literally let you do 

1168
01:03:09,480 --> 01:03:11,840
anything you can imagine. 
You can do whatever you want to 

1169
01:03:11,840 --> 01:03:14,720
do. 
But he will hold you accountable

1170
01:03:15,040 --> 01:03:17,280
according. 
To his standard and his word. 

1171
01:03:17,720 --> 01:03:20,280
And you will be judged based 
upon what you chose to do. 

1172
01:03:25,840 --> 01:03:27,400
He's not forcing you into the 
Kingdom. 

1173
01:03:27,400 --> 01:03:29,600
He's not forcing you to do 
something with your time and 

1174
01:03:29,600 --> 01:03:30,800
your energy. 
He's not forcing your 

1175
01:03:30,800 --> 01:03:32,440
allegiance, but he is giving you
the option. 

1176
01:03:32,640 --> 01:03:34,680
You can. 
You can side with me or you can 

1177
01:03:34,680 --> 01:03:37,760
reject. 
I find it interesting when Jesus

1178
01:03:37,760 --> 01:03:41,120
was on the cross, you've got 
this great, great picture of 

1179
01:03:41,160 --> 01:03:45,800
either or this great picture of 
rejection or acceptance that 

1180
01:03:45,800 --> 01:03:51,200
there were two thieves. 
And we would say this is an 

1181
01:03:51,280 --> 01:03:57,680
equal opportunity scenario, but 
one of them said, you are the 

1182
01:03:57,680 --> 01:03:59,120
Son of God, can I be with you in
paradise? 

1183
01:03:59,120 --> 01:04:01,520
And Jesus said, yes. 
The other one could have just 

1184
01:04:01,520 --> 01:04:03,800
asked. 
The other one could have just 

1185
01:04:03,800 --> 01:04:07,840
believed and acted. 
But in that moment, one person 

1186
01:04:09,080 --> 01:04:12,160
recognized who he was and gave 
their allegiance to him in that 

1187
01:04:12,160 --> 01:04:13,920
moment. 
And the other person just 

1188
01:04:13,920 --> 01:04:16,600
didn't. 
They just did what they wanted. 

1189
01:04:17,560 --> 01:04:22,280
They just didn't feel like it. 
Whatever the reason, one person 

1190
01:04:22,280 --> 01:04:25,120
received something from Jesus, 
one person didn't. 

1191
01:04:26,840 --> 01:04:28,920
That's why if we go back to that
rich young ruler, we look at the

1192
01:04:28,920 --> 01:04:30,920
we don't have to go back to the 
verse, but look at the scenario.

1193
01:04:31,200 --> 01:04:34,600
The rich young ruler has the 
ultimate Christian experience 

1194
01:04:35,800 --> 01:04:37,040
talking. 
I grew up as a Christian in the 

1195
01:04:37,040 --> 01:04:38,480
90s. 
OK, we got God's presence 

1196
01:04:38,480 --> 01:04:40,160
showing up through Steven Kurtz,
Chapman in the room. 

1197
01:04:41,560 --> 01:04:43,920
You know, we, we had zero 
Pokémon in our house. 

1198
01:04:46,320 --> 01:04:48,160
We never watched Rugrats, not 
one time. 

1199
01:04:49,280 --> 01:04:52,120
It was like a holy sanctuary 
when you came to our 90s 

1200
01:04:52,120 --> 01:05:00,400
Christian home. 
But this guy actually had Jesus 

1201
01:05:00,400 --> 01:05:05,080
himself stand before him and 
answer questions about his 

1202
01:05:05,080 --> 01:05:09,360
destiny. 
That's why there's an issue when

1203
01:05:09,360 --> 01:05:11,200
you're just like, oh, if we can 
just get in the presence of the 

1204
01:05:11,200 --> 01:05:12,400
Lord, things will. 
Change. 

1205
01:05:13,960 --> 01:05:18,640
No, no they won't if you get in 
the presence of the Lord. 

1206
01:05:19,960 --> 01:05:24,600
You will have to change 
something, but nothing just 

1207
01:05:24,600 --> 01:05:26,400
changes for your benefit just 
because you're near Him. 

1208
01:05:28,600 --> 01:05:32,040
In fact, being in the presence 
of the Lord without a heart 

1209
01:05:32,040 --> 01:05:36,040
that's ready to give allegiance 
to Him is actually more damaging

1210
01:05:36,040 --> 01:05:40,200
for you. 
Think about that's why 

1211
01:05:40,200 --> 01:05:41,640
communion's such a big deal, 
right? 

1212
01:05:41,640 --> 01:05:45,200
You're swearing this blood oath 
of your allegiance to him and 

1213
01:05:45,200 --> 01:05:48,920
his rulership and his Kingdom. 
And he says, but don't take it 

1214
01:05:50,280 --> 01:05:52,440
if there's unforgiveness in your
heart and don't take it if 

1215
01:05:52,440 --> 01:05:55,080
you're not right. 
And doesn't Pastor Earl warn us 

1216
01:05:55,080 --> 01:05:57,080
that every time? 
Hey, if you're not a believer, 

1217
01:05:57,080 --> 01:05:58,960
if you're saying I don't know if
I'm right with God, he always 

1218
01:05:58,960 --> 01:06:01,680
gives an invitation first 
because you are getting into the

1219
01:06:01,680 --> 01:06:04,720
presence of God and making a 
promise to God that are you 

1220
01:06:04,720 --> 01:06:07,120
about to go break it when you go
to lunch and order something off

1221
01:06:07,120 --> 01:06:08,120
that menu you probably 
shouldn't. 

1222
01:06:10,960 --> 01:06:13,000
Or when you go home and you turn
on that TV to something that 

1223
01:06:13,000 --> 01:06:16,640
probably shouldn't be on that TV
yet you just drank a blood oath 

1224
01:06:16,640 --> 01:06:21,440
at church swearing your fealty 
to the crown. 

1225
01:06:24,040 --> 01:06:26,120
Yeah, this rich young ruler 
stands before Jesus and he says,

1226
01:06:26,120 --> 01:06:28,040
what can I do about my life? 
And Jesus gives him a direct 

1227
01:06:28,040 --> 01:06:29,400
answer. 
How many people want that, 

1228
01:06:29,400 --> 01:06:29,880
right? 
How many? 

1229
01:06:29,880 --> 01:06:31,600
People have said. 
I just wish I knew my purpose. 

1230
01:06:32,320 --> 01:06:33,720
I just wish, I just wish I knew 
what to do. 

1231
01:06:33,720 --> 01:06:35,560
You know, I've got this 
opportunity to come up and, and,

1232
01:06:35,560 --> 01:06:38,400
and I just, I'm not really sure.
And, and if I could, and they're

1233
01:06:38,400 --> 01:06:40,440
thinking, if I could just ask 
Jesus and Jesus says like, do 

1234
01:06:40,440 --> 01:06:42,080
this, I would do it. 
I'd do it in a heartbeat. 

1235
01:06:43,480 --> 01:06:46,840
Maybe, maybe you would, because 
the rich young ruler definitely 

1236
01:06:46,840 --> 01:06:48,040
said that. 
What can I do? 

1237
01:06:48,080 --> 01:06:51,000
And Jesus looked at him and 
said, sell everything and follow

1238
01:06:51,000 --> 01:06:53,920
me. 
And he thought that's. 

1239
01:06:55,640 --> 01:07:01,920
Not what I wanted him to say. 
Then people come to church and 

1240
01:07:01,920 --> 01:07:03,880
come to their pastor and have a 
meeting with their pastors or 

1241
01:07:03,880 --> 01:07:05,960
have a meeting with Pastor Mike,
say Pastor Mike struggles with 

1242
01:07:05,960 --> 01:07:06,880
this addiction, what should I 
do? 

1243
01:07:06,880 --> 01:07:08,480
And Pastor Mike says, here's 
what you should do. 

1244
01:07:08,480 --> 01:07:11,600
And they're like, no, no, I need
to ask somebody else. 

1245
01:07:12,520 --> 01:07:15,400
I need to go online. 
I should, I should start a chat 

1246
01:07:15,400 --> 01:07:18,800
on Facebook. 
Because what Pastor Mike said 

1247
01:07:19,280 --> 01:07:22,080
that's I don't still get to do 
what I want. 

1248
01:07:24,160 --> 01:07:26,040
I bet Saint Augustine News 
they'll probably have some 

1249
01:07:26,040 --> 01:07:32,880
answers. 
It's crazy. 

1250
01:07:34,880 --> 01:07:38,520
Last one we'll look at tonight 
is this John chapter 8 verse 28.

1251
01:07:39,200 --> 01:07:43,920
Another thing that people have a
a an allegiance to besides the 

1252
01:07:43,920 --> 01:07:45,560
crown. 
Another option that people often

1253
01:07:45,560 --> 01:07:50,040
go to is their own opinions. 
And really, this is one of the 

1254
01:07:50,480 --> 01:07:53,120
most damaging ones, one of the 
one of the ones that holds us 

1255
01:07:53,120 --> 01:07:55,440
back the most is because if we 
have an allegiance to our own 

1256
01:07:55,440 --> 01:07:57,800
opinion and we can't be wrong, 
and then all of a sudden God 

1257
01:07:57,800 --> 01:07:58,760
presents us. 
With where we're. 

1258
01:07:58,760 --> 01:08:01,440
Wrong, yet we have to say, oh 
God, but you're right and I was 

1259
01:08:01,440 --> 01:08:08,280
less right. 
It's OK just to say I was wrong.

1260
01:08:08,800 --> 01:08:11,120
I've got to turn and change 
because my behavior was wrong. 

1261
01:08:11,400 --> 01:08:12,680
Jesus gives us the example of 
this. 

1262
01:08:12,680 --> 01:08:15,640
It says when, when you lift up 
this, Let me see. 

1263
01:08:16,120 --> 01:08:18,399
Yeah, When you lift up the Son 
of Man, then you will know that 

1264
01:08:18,399 --> 01:08:20,439
I am he. 
He says I do nothing of my own 

1265
01:08:20,439 --> 01:08:24,279
initiative, But I speak things 
the Father has taught me. 

1266
01:08:27,520 --> 01:08:29,960
He's saying I don't have my 
opinion about this matter. 

1267
01:08:29,960 --> 01:08:31,960
I'm not doing things because I 
just want to do them. 

1268
01:08:31,960 --> 01:08:34,479
I'm doing things because my 
allegiance is not with my own 

1269
01:08:34,479 --> 01:08:37,120
desires, my own will, my own 
flesh. 

1270
01:08:37,120 --> 01:08:43,560
My my allegiance is with the 
King and I wish I could say that

1271
01:08:43,560 --> 01:08:46,800
more Christians with the finger 
quotes in case you're just 

1272
01:08:46,800 --> 01:08:51,359
listening online and not 
watching would have this same 

1273
01:08:51,359 --> 01:08:53,680
thing being demonstrated in 
their life. 

1274
01:08:53,680 --> 01:08:55,040
I do nothing on my own 
initiative. 

1275
01:08:55,040 --> 01:08:57,520
Another place. 
Jesus said I don't say anything 

1276
01:08:57,520 --> 01:08:59,760
of my own will, but whatever the
Father says. 

1277
01:08:59,760 --> 01:09:03,920
That's what I repeat to you. 
But too many believers are often

1278
01:09:03,920 --> 01:09:06,760
up their opinions and then 
making a strong stance on their 

1279
01:09:06,760 --> 01:09:09,520
opinion, then making decisions 
based on their opinions without 

1280
01:09:09,520 --> 01:09:12,000
really consulting what is God 
saying about what I'm doing? 

1281
01:09:14,080 --> 01:09:16,319
I want to be in God's will, but 
I also want to have what I want.

1282
01:09:18,319 --> 01:09:21,120
Jesus's final moment was he gets
down in the cross. 

1283
01:09:21,240 --> 01:09:23,560
Before the cross he gets down on
his knees and he prays and 

1284
01:09:23,560 --> 01:09:27,600
travails and says, Father, if 
there's any way, let this cup 

1285
01:09:27,600 --> 01:09:33,439
pass from me. 
Which tells us Jesus wasn't some

1286
01:09:33,439 --> 01:09:37,120
robot that could only do what 
the Father wanted. 

1287
01:09:37,760 --> 01:09:40,800
This tells us that Jesus being 
all God and yet all man still 

1288
01:09:40,800 --> 01:09:44,000
had a free will. 
And in that moment as he 

1289
01:09:44,000 --> 01:09:47,640
travailed, he said, but not my 
will. 

1290
01:09:49,840 --> 01:09:53,160
And I'm telling you, we get it 
that there was this moment on 

1291
01:09:53,160 --> 01:09:55,440
the cross whenever it thundered 
and lightning, he said it is 

1292
01:09:55,440 --> 01:09:56,760
finished. 
And there was like this storm 

1293
01:09:56,760 --> 01:09:58,360
rolled in. 
We we get this whole picture 

1294
01:09:58,360 --> 01:09:59,680
right? 
But you understand there was 

1295
01:09:59,680 --> 01:10:02,880
something that shook in heaven. 
And then when he uttered the 

1296
01:10:02,880 --> 01:10:04,200
words. 
But not my. 

1297
01:10:04,200 --> 01:10:08,800
Will your will be done, Your 
will be. 

1298
01:10:08,800 --> 01:10:14,680
Done is the most powerful phrase
that aligns yourself with your 

1299
01:10:14,680 --> 01:10:17,520
allegiance to the crown. 
Your allegiance is proven in 

1300
01:10:17,520 --> 01:10:20,000
that phrase. 
Thy will be done and then it is 

1301
01:10:20,000 --> 01:10:22,160
followed through with you doing 
His will. 

1302
01:10:24,280 --> 01:10:26,680
Matthew chapter 6 whenever we 
see the Lord's Prayer. 

1303
01:10:26,760 --> 01:10:29,640
Again, this is another example 
of when Jesus is telling us. 

1304
01:10:30,560 --> 01:10:32,720
Where is your allegiance? 
He says Our Father, who art in 

1305
01:10:32,720 --> 01:10:39,080
heaven, hallowed be your name, 
your Kingdom come, and your your

1306
01:10:40,240 --> 01:10:43,440
whose will? 
What are you supposed to pray 

1307
01:10:43,440 --> 01:10:49,440
that whose will is done? 
Note that he didn't say our will

1308
01:10:49,440 --> 01:10:56,040
be done because there's not 
another option besides you or 

1309
01:10:56,040 --> 01:11:00,480
him. 
So in the end there's going to 

1310
01:11:00,480 --> 01:11:03,960
be two people, only two people 
in the very end of all things, 

1311
01:11:04,800 --> 01:11:10,040
those who say to the Lord, thy 
will be done, and to those the 

1312
01:11:10,040 --> 01:11:21,160
Lord says thy will be done. 
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01:11:21,160 --> 01:11:23,640
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