1 00:00:11,320 --> 00:00:14,080 Glory to God, all right? Revelation chapter 21 verses one 2 00:00:14,080 --> 00:00:19,120 through 4 Revelations 21. We are not afraid of the Book of 3 00:00:19,120 --> 00:00:22,920 Revelation. Simple book to understand, 4 00:00:23,160 --> 00:00:25,480 especially when you understand what the Bible's about. 5 00:00:25,960 --> 00:00:28,160 But when you don't understand what the Bible's about, you stay 6 00:00:28,160 --> 00:00:30,600 away from Revelation because you don't understand. 7 00:00:30,600 --> 00:00:34,920 Revelation is just a book of governments, of nations, but the 8 00:00:34,920 --> 00:00:38,120 whole Bible is about this. And when you understand that, 9 00:00:38,120 --> 00:00:42,800 you don't get upset. Revelation 21 takes place after 10 00:00:44,160 --> 00:00:48,000 the catching away of the Church of which most scholars believe. 11 00:00:48,000 --> 00:00:52,480 That's a seven-year period before Jesus Christ himself 12 00:00:52,480 --> 00:00:56,280 returns to planet earth, puts his foot physically on the 13 00:00:56,280 --> 00:01:00,920 planet, takes the devil, and when I say takes, he sends 1 14 00:01:00,920 --> 00:01:06,480 Angel, just one, to chain him. Throw him into the bottomless 15 00:01:06,480 --> 00:01:10,000 pit and he will stay there for 1000 years. 16 00:01:10,000 --> 00:01:15,080 The deceiver will not have a voice on the planet for 1000 17 00:01:15,080 --> 00:01:19,600 years. Jesus himself will physically be 18 00:01:19,600 --> 00:01:27,680 present in the earth, not for 33 years, but for 1000 years, not 19 00:01:27,680 --> 00:01:32,360 as a lamb that was slain, but as the reigning king. 20 00:01:34,560 --> 00:01:39,680 The king is coming, I said. The King's coming and after that 21 00:01:39,680 --> 00:01:44,840 thousand years he will release from that prison called the 22 00:01:44,840 --> 00:01:49,840 bottomless pit, the devil again to roam on the earth. 23 00:01:50,280 --> 00:01:54,280 And it will be after Jesus has physically been here for 1000 24 00:01:54,280 --> 00:02:00,080 years, ruling and reigning, that nations will actually side with 25 00:02:00,080 --> 00:02:05,440 the devil and act like they can go to the Jerusalem that is 26 00:02:05,440 --> 00:02:13,600 still in the planet today and wage war against the King of 27 00:02:13,600 --> 00:02:17,240 Kings. But it won't amount to anything. 28 00:02:18,040 --> 00:02:22,080 I said Adam at his Adam, a breath from his mouth. 29 00:02:23,000 --> 00:02:26,760 They will be defeated. And then all of a sudden, the 30 00:02:26,760 --> 00:02:31,080 devil for the last time, he will take him and throw him into the 31 00:02:31,080 --> 00:02:34,080 lake of fire, which is God's prison system. 32 00:02:34,760 --> 00:02:39,080 It's not the devil's home. It's not where he gets to hang 33 00:02:39,080 --> 00:02:41,880 out and have fun. It's not like some of the 34 00:02:41,880 --> 00:02:44,680 ignorant people of the planet says when I go to hell I'm going 35 00:02:44,680 --> 00:02:46,360 to take over and rule. No you're not. 36 00:02:46,600 --> 00:02:51,040 You're going to scream, whine, cry and be in torment because it 37 00:02:51,040 --> 00:02:55,680 is God's prison system of his Kingdom, of which for all 38 00:02:55,720 --> 00:02:59,600 eternity we will see where the rebellious are. 39 00:03:00,360 --> 00:03:03,960 This is why no one will ever rebel against God again, because 40 00:03:03,960 --> 00:03:12,040 we will have a eternal record of where rebellion exists and it is 41 00:03:12,040 --> 00:03:15,080 a lake of fire that burns forever. 42 00:03:15,920 --> 00:03:19,760 And those who are in it are there because they wanted to be 43 00:03:19,760 --> 00:03:22,600 there. They rejected the Lordship of 44 00:03:22,680 --> 00:03:25,560 Jesus Christ and he will be cast there. 45 00:03:25,800 --> 00:03:30,920 And then the dead, all those who had died without ever accepting 46 00:03:30,920 --> 00:03:34,760 Christ, those that were in that place, not Abraham's bosom, but 47 00:03:34,760 --> 00:03:38,560 that place on the other side of the abyss, That place where that 48 00:03:38,560 --> 00:03:42,520 rich ruler was, that had that beggar named Lazarus, who used 49 00:03:42,520 --> 00:03:47,200 to sit at his table and just look for crumbs as his dogs 50 00:03:47,200 --> 00:03:50,000 would leak. Lick the sores on Lazarus. 51 00:03:50,120 --> 00:03:54,360 He with his brothers most likely, and all who never called 52 00:03:54,360 --> 00:03:57,800 on the name of the Lord or accepted his lordship, will be 53 00:03:57,960 --> 00:04:01,400 pulled up out of the grave, taken to heaven, and stand 54 00:04:01,400 --> 00:04:03,720 before the great white Throne judgment. 55 00:04:05,120 --> 00:04:07,400 And God will judge each one of them. 56 00:04:07,640 --> 00:04:11,720 The first book he pulls out is the Lamb Book of Life, and he'll 57 00:04:11,720 --> 00:04:14,400 look for their name and we'll not find it. 58 00:04:14,520 --> 00:04:18,800 And we'll close that book and then we'll open up the other 59 00:04:18,800 --> 00:04:22,320 books. Every little thing of treason 60 00:04:22,320 --> 00:04:26,120 and rebellion they ever did to the crown of God's Kingdom. 61 00:04:27,240 --> 00:04:34,080 And according to those charges, he will sentence them eternally 62 00:04:34,320 --> 00:04:41,040 into the lake of fire and 1 by 1 by 1 by 1, they will be cast 63 00:04:41,040 --> 00:04:44,160 into the lake of fire, which is the second death. 64 00:04:45,880 --> 00:04:51,760 Revelations 21 happens after this and it says in Revelations 65 00:04:51,760 --> 00:04:57,440 21 verse one. Then I saw a new come on, speak 66 00:04:57,440 --> 00:04:59,040 with me. A new what? 67 00:04:59,560 --> 00:05:05,320 And a new why are we getting a new planet if we're going to 68 00:05:05,320 --> 00:05:10,480 live in heaven forever? Now for some of you, I'm sad to 69 00:05:10,480 --> 00:05:15,480 say that you've not been taught the actual conclusion of the 70 00:05:15,480 --> 00:05:17,560 Bible. The only thing you've been 71 00:05:17,560 --> 00:05:21,280 taught about God's conclusion is that we'll be with him forever 72 00:05:21,760 --> 00:05:25,200 and he's currently in heaven. So we have decided that we'll 73 00:05:25,200 --> 00:05:29,480 live in heaven forever. However, the Bible says then I 74 00:05:29,480 --> 00:05:32,960 saw a new heaven and a new. Now I don't call it earth. 75 00:05:32,960 --> 00:05:36,680 The Bible calls it earth. Jesus called it earth. 76 00:05:37,240 --> 00:05:41,120 Jesus and the Holy Spirit who moved on John the Apostle and 77 00:05:41,120 --> 00:05:44,840 gave him this revelation says there's a new heaven and new 78 00:05:44,840 --> 00:05:47,480 earth. Now that doesn't mean heaven and 79 00:05:47,480 --> 00:05:50,400 earth do not exist. It means they are burned with 80 00:05:50,400 --> 00:05:54,200 fire, the 1st and 2nd heaven and are purified. 81 00:05:54,920 --> 00:05:58,680 And this earth we're on will burn with fire and be purified 82 00:05:58,680 --> 00:06:01,720 and it'll be a new earth for the 1st heaven. 83 00:06:01,720 --> 00:06:05,120 And the first earth passed away and there is no longer any sea. 84 00:06:05,200 --> 00:06:12,160 And I saw the holy city, the new Jerusalem coming, coming. 85 00:06:12,160 --> 00:06:15,320 What coming? What down? 86 00:06:15,440 --> 00:06:21,640 Out of, out of say out of, out of heaven. 87 00:06:23,800 --> 00:06:30,760 Glory to God out of heaven, out of heaven from God made ready as 88 00:06:30,760 --> 00:06:35,400 a bride adorned for her husband. And I heard a loud voice from 89 00:06:35,400 --> 00:06:41,480 the throne saying, Behold, the Tabernacle of God is among men, 90 00:06:41,760 --> 00:06:51,440 and he will dwell among everybody said, I want to go to 91 00:06:51,440 --> 00:06:53,240 heaven. And God says I can't wait till I 92 00:06:53,240 --> 00:06:58,320 come to the earth. God say man, I can't wait till I 93 00:06:58,320 --> 00:07:01,320 come to the earth. I cannot wait until I make my 94 00:07:01,320 --> 00:07:06,400 abode in the center of all creation called planet earth. 95 00:07:06,400 --> 00:07:08,840 Now I'm not saying that the 3rd heaven won't exist, and I'm not 96 00:07:08,840 --> 00:07:10,960 saying that we won't have access to it. 97 00:07:11,080 --> 00:07:14,800 But I'm saying the Bible's very clear that God is making a 98 00:07:14,800 --> 00:07:21,560 habitation on the earth. And you would be wanting only 99 00:07:21,560 --> 00:07:26,560 religious tradition to reject this idea, because this is 100 00:07:26,560 --> 00:07:29,800 actually not an idea. It is the voice of the Lord. 101 00:07:31,120 --> 00:07:33,520 And it says, And He will dwell among them, and they shall be 102 00:07:33,520 --> 00:07:41,080 his people, and God Himself, and who God Himself will be among 103 00:07:41,080 --> 00:07:42,280 them. Look at verse 4. 104 00:07:42,720 --> 00:07:46,960 And He will wipe away every tear from their eyes. 105 00:07:47,280 --> 00:07:51,240 Now this is pretty powerful because we have concluded that 106 00:07:51,240 --> 00:07:53,920 the minute we die and we're absent from our body and we're 107 00:07:53,920 --> 00:07:56,240 present with the Lord, we won't cry anymore. 108 00:07:57,320 --> 00:08:05,320 Yet it's at this point that he wipes away every tear from their 109 00:08:05,320 --> 00:08:13,840 eyes and there will no longer be any death cause death He cast 110 00:08:13,840 --> 00:08:20,000 into the lake of fire. So anybody would say, well, can 111 00:08:20,000 --> 00:08:25,960 can we rebel again in the no, there'll be no longer any death. 112 00:08:26,200 --> 00:08:29,920 Those that are locked into life are locked into life eternally. 113 00:08:30,080 --> 00:08:34,159 Those that are locked into death are locked into death eternally. 114 00:08:35,559 --> 00:08:37,799 And it says there'll be no longer any death. 115 00:08:38,000 --> 00:08:42,760 There will no longer be any mourning or crying or pain. 116 00:08:43,080 --> 00:08:45,840 The first things have passed away. 117 00:08:45,960 --> 00:08:49,800 Wow, wow. Do you understand? 118 00:08:50,000 --> 00:08:53,040 Because we have done a disservice to the Scripture and 119 00:08:53,040 --> 00:08:57,400 we have stayed within the redemption of man alone without 120 00:08:57,480 --> 00:09:02,360 taking in account God's intent for man and what God concludes 121 00:09:02,360 --> 00:09:07,600 in Revelations 21 and 22. We have only been following a 122 00:09:07,600 --> 00:09:10,800 Savior instead of seeing Him as a king. 123 00:09:11,840 --> 00:09:16,840 And a savior is what Jesus did. Jesus had to become savior 124 00:09:17,000 --> 00:09:21,240 because man fell from dominion. But Jesus has always been Lord. 125 00:09:21,840 --> 00:09:27,800 He's always been the ruler. He's never abdicated his throne. 126 00:09:28,920 --> 00:09:33,720 He's always been the ruler and He's been a ruler in heaven at 127 00:09:33,720 --> 00:09:38,560 the right hand of his Father. But because man fell from his 128 00:09:38,560 --> 00:09:42,600 dominion, Jesus had to come and restore that dominion. 129 00:09:43,120 --> 00:09:46,520 Because the Bible's about a king, his Kingdom, and his royal 130 00:09:46,520 --> 00:09:50,320 offspring. We see in Genesis 126 again a 131 00:09:50,320 --> 00:09:54,320 perfect chapter, Genesis 1 and 2, No sin is on the earth at 132 00:09:54,320 --> 00:09:56,880 this particular time. Adam and Eve are made in the 133 00:09:56,880 --> 00:09:59,920 image of God, as it says. Then God said, let us make man 134 00:09:59,920 --> 00:10:01,920 in our image according to our likeness, and let them have 135 00:10:01,920 --> 00:10:04,720 dominion or rule over the fish of the sea, over the birds of 136 00:10:04,720 --> 00:10:07,200 the air, over the cattle, over all the earth, and over every 137 00:10:07,200 --> 00:10:08,600 creeping thing that creeps on the earth. 138 00:10:08,600 --> 00:10:11,560 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God. 139 00:10:11,560 --> 00:10:13,440 He created them, male and female. 140 00:10:13,520 --> 00:10:16,560 He created them, and He never gets that wrong. 141 00:10:17,040 --> 00:10:23,000 Dominion means to govern, to rule, to control things, to 142 00:10:23,000 --> 00:10:25,240 manage, to master something, to have rulership. 143 00:10:25,400 --> 00:10:29,480 When we hear these words today, because the world is in a fallen 144 00:10:29,480 --> 00:10:34,080 state and men rule over men, God never intended that. 145 00:10:34,120 --> 00:10:36,960 When we hear these words, we obviously start thinking of 146 00:10:36,960 --> 00:10:40,280 humans. But Genesis 126 never intended 147 00:10:40,280 --> 00:10:44,440 for me to rule Dustin. I was only to rule the things on 148 00:10:44,440 --> 00:10:48,000 the earth and over the environment of the earth, not 149 00:10:48,000 --> 00:10:52,360 over other humans, because humans are ruled only by one 150 00:10:53,960 --> 00:11:01,040 God, only by God. So when God in this Genesis 1 151 00:11:01,720 --> 00:11:06,000 ruling is not a negative, it's not oppression. 152 00:11:08,960 --> 00:11:14,280 Ruling is release of authority, power, purpose. 153 00:11:14,480 --> 00:11:19,800 Because God is so confident in His rulership, He doesn't mind 154 00:11:19,800 --> 00:11:25,400 sharing because you can't overtake His throne. 155 00:11:27,080 --> 00:11:30,160 Some have tried, all have failed. 156 00:11:34,160 --> 00:11:36,160 Some have tried, all have failed. 157 00:11:37,160 --> 00:11:40,360 An anointed cherub tried, failed, and a third of the 158 00:11:40,360 --> 00:11:44,960 angels fell with him. However, when man still today 159 00:11:45,080 --> 00:11:50,360 tries to put his seat above the most high, he fails every time. 160 00:11:51,760 --> 00:11:54,960 He fails every time. You say I would never do that. 161 00:11:54,960 --> 00:11:58,400 I would never try to rule God. Well, do you do your word or his 162 00:11:58,400 --> 00:12:03,040 word? Because if you do your word 163 00:12:03,040 --> 00:12:07,920 instead of His word, then you are trying to put your authority 164 00:12:07,920 --> 00:12:10,640 above his. Because there's a way that seems 165 00:12:10,640 --> 00:12:14,040 right to a man until you line it up with the word of God. 166 00:12:14,920 --> 00:12:17,960 Hallelujah. So in this dispensation, God 167 00:12:17,960 --> 00:12:20,280 says don't forsake the assembling of yourself together. 168 00:12:20,720 --> 00:12:24,080 Which means then I don't make an excuse not to come to church. 169 00:12:25,160 --> 00:12:29,440 I show up and I participate in the body. 170 00:12:29,840 --> 00:12:32,240 We are participators. We are not spectators. 171 00:12:32,320 --> 00:12:34,120 We are jointed and fitted together. 172 00:12:34,160 --> 00:12:37,720 We all bring our joint supply. That's not negotiable. 173 00:12:38,680 --> 00:12:41,320 That's submission to the highest authority. 174 00:12:41,400 --> 00:12:44,760 The one who sits on the throne, the one that every knee will bow 175 00:12:44,760 --> 00:12:47,920 and every tongue will confess, is Christ, that Christ Jesus is 176 00:12:47,920 --> 00:12:50,880 Lord. And so we see here that God 177 00:12:51,000 --> 00:12:54,600 established us to rule. A Kingdom is a government 178 00:12:54,600 --> 00:12:58,960 influence of a king over his territory, impacting it with his 179 00:12:58,960 --> 00:13:02,120 personal will, purpose and intent, producing citizens, 180 00:13:02,120 --> 00:13:06,160 expressing the culture, values, morals and lifestyle, reflecting 181 00:13:06,160 --> 00:13:08,960 the King's nature. And this is what God wanted. 182 00:13:08,960 --> 00:13:12,200 I'm in heaven ruling here, man. You rule earth down there. 183 00:13:12,360 --> 00:13:16,640 Your planet and my place will look exactly alike because we're 184 00:13:16,640 --> 00:13:19,520 of the same nature. And you'll rule like I do in 185 00:13:19,520 --> 00:13:21,800 your sphere as I rule in my sphere. 186 00:13:22,440 --> 00:13:26,840 I ultimately rule all spheres. But I'm giving you access to 187 00:13:26,840 --> 00:13:37,120 rule there, to manage, to control, to have dominion, to 188 00:13:37,120 --> 00:13:40,320 rule over these things. Notice God never said let man, 189 00:13:40,480 --> 00:13:43,160 let's make man in our image corner line is and let him rule 190 00:13:43,160 --> 00:13:47,480 over me and the fish and the birds. 191 00:13:47,520 --> 00:13:49,960 No, you're never ruling over the Creator. 192 00:13:51,560 --> 00:13:55,720 Hallelujah. He gave you very specific 193 00:13:55,720 --> 00:13:57,440 boundaries. See, the original plan of God 194 00:13:57,440 --> 00:14:00,440 was to extend His heavenly Kingdom on the earth through 195 00:14:00,440 --> 00:14:03,320 mankind. God created man to manage and 196 00:14:03,320 --> 00:14:06,360 administrate His king dominion on the earth. 197 00:14:06,920 --> 00:14:10,000 Because here's the thing, God believes that government is the 198 00:14:10,040 --> 00:14:13,960 answer to mankind's problem. It's His government. 199 00:14:14,800 --> 00:14:19,280 This is why Isaiah Nah six and seven concerning this child that 200 00:14:19,280 --> 00:14:23,040 is coming because Adam had fallen from dominion. 201 00:14:23,040 --> 00:14:26,400 He says a child will be born, a son will be given, and the 202 00:14:26,400 --> 00:14:28,120 government will rest on his shoulders. 203 00:14:28,120 --> 00:14:31,680 Notice a child is born in Isaiah Chapter 9 verse six and seven. 204 00:14:31,960 --> 00:14:37,320 Notice a child is born, but a son is not born because the son 205 00:14:37,320 --> 00:14:40,920 always existed. And this is in your Bible. 206 00:14:41,840 --> 00:14:45,040 And I know this can be tough in the US because we've been 207 00:14:45,680 --> 00:14:49,640 conditioned or trained to separate government and church, 208 00:14:49,920 --> 00:14:52,680 not understanding that church is actually government. 209 00:14:53,720 --> 00:14:57,840 Because church is not a term that Jesus used or made-up or 210 00:14:57,840 --> 00:15:01,640 communicated to the disciples that they never heard before and 211 00:15:01,640 --> 00:15:04,520 was not known in the world that they were living in. 212 00:15:04,520 --> 00:15:06,960 In fact, the Greek word is ecclesia. 213 00:15:06,960 --> 00:15:11,960 Some say ecclesia, and it it is the same term used by the Roman 214 00:15:11,960 --> 00:15:17,440 government for their Senate, for their legislative body, for 215 00:15:17,440 --> 00:15:24,000 those who carried out the will of their king Caesar in Rome. 216 00:15:25,280 --> 00:15:31,880 And so we as the Church, or more like ambassadors and our 217 00:15:31,880 --> 00:15:36,560 assembling is us coming together and the embassy of God, where we 218 00:15:36,560 --> 00:15:40,520 hear from the home country and communicate his plans, his 219 00:15:40,520 --> 00:15:46,040 purposes, his will upon the governments or tribes and people 220 00:15:46,040 --> 00:15:48,760 of the earth. And listen, we're letting them 221 00:15:48,760 --> 00:15:54,040 know there's a better government because all the world today is 222 00:15:54,040 --> 00:15:57,080 looking for new and better government. 223 00:15:57,720 --> 00:16:05,400 Why are there protests in Iran? Why are there citizens? 224 00:16:05,440 --> 00:16:12,200 Why is there citizens in Cuba right now protesting because 225 00:16:12,200 --> 00:16:16,920 they believe there is a better government for them to be under? 226 00:16:20,600 --> 00:16:22,760 And the whole plan is looking for this. 227 00:16:24,120 --> 00:16:28,560 And the reality is, is that all forms of government is man's 228 00:16:28,560 --> 00:16:36,040 attempt to be in a system that God created, yet without God or 229 00:16:36,040 --> 00:16:40,280 without the Holy Spirit. And God never intended man to 230 00:16:40,280 --> 00:16:41,960 govern without the Spirit of God. 231 00:16:44,280 --> 00:16:47,240 Never. It was never God's intent. 232 00:16:47,240 --> 00:16:51,200 For when he made Manny breathed into his breath and his nostrils 233 00:16:51,200 --> 00:16:54,840 the breath of life, the Holy Spirit was there to confirm, to 234 00:16:54,840 --> 00:16:58,320 let him know that he was a child of God and he could function 235 00:16:58,440 --> 00:17:02,200 like God in the earth, in the assignment that God and purpose 236 00:17:02,200 --> 00:17:04,960 he had given him. You understand there is a 237 00:17:05,000 --> 00:17:09,000 purpose for man. The purpose for man is not to 238 00:17:09,000 --> 00:17:15,119 sing. Again. 239 00:17:15,160 --> 00:17:20,000 We have taken a tradition of the word worship man. 240 00:17:20,040 --> 00:17:22,839 God created us to worship. Well, first of all, worship is 241 00:17:22,839 --> 00:17:26,000 not singing. It can include singing. 242 00:17:26,800 --> 00:17:30,520 Singing can because singing is actually praise. 243 00:17:30,680 --> 00:17:33,480 Whether it's fast or slow, it's praise nonetheless. 244 00:17:33,760 --> 00:17:41,040 Worship is when you bow your knee, submit yourself to the one 245 00:17:41,040 --> 00:17:43,880 that rules. So in that context, we were 246 00:17:43,880 --> 00:17:47,240 created to worship. We were created to bow our 247 00:17:47,240 --> 00:17:51,880 knees, submit ourselves to the King of glory, to the Creator of 248 00:17:51,880 --> 00:17:55,360 heaven and earth, to follow Him with all of our heart, all of 249 00:17:55,360 --> 00:17:59,680 our mind, all of our strength, everything about us was to be 250 00:17:59,680 --> 00:18:04,440 His and completely His and willfully His, because He loves 251 00:18:04,440 --> 00:18:11,600 us with an everlasting love, with an everlasting love, Mama, 252 00:18:11,600 --> 00:18:16,640 it's amazing. And because God created us, He 253 00:18:16,640 --> 00:18:20,920 had a position for us. But yet we only see ourselves in 254 00:18:20,920 --> 00:18:24,920 our failed state when God is trying to restore us to our 255 00:18:24,920 --> 00:18:28,120 righteous state. And He's doing this on all 256 00:18:28,120 --> 00:18:32,680 fronts, not just in the spirit, not just in the soul realm or 257 00:18:32,680 --> 00:18:36,160 the mental realm, but also ultimately even in the body 258 00:18:36,160 --> 00:18:40,720 realm, that our spirit, soul, and body will be glorified, 259 00:18:40,760 --> 00:18:44,160 Hallelujah, and will be restored back to what God said. 260 00:18:44,560 --> 00:18:49,480 So again, God knows that what's in the heart of all humans, that 261 00:18:49,480 --> 00:18:53,600 there is this government that we can exist in that releases our 262 00:18:53,600 --> 00:18:56,640 full potential and allows us to live our best life. 263 00:18:59,080 --> 00:19:03,520 This is why people come to the United States for a better life 264 00:19:03,520 --> 00:19:06,040 for themselves and their children. 265 00:19:06,600 --> 00:19:14,480 Children for generations, yet the United States fails when 266 00:19:14,480 --> 00:19:17,840 compared to the Kingdom of God. It's not even close. 267 00:19:18,520 --> 00:19:21,400 I mean, it's been good, but it's not even close. 268 00:19:22,440 --> 00:19:28,440 And ours is on a track right now for some troubled times because 269 00:19:28,560 --> 00:19:32,040 we have changed our thinking concerning our government. 270 00:19:32,040 --> 00:19:33,800 We call it a democracy all the time. 271 00:19:33,800 --> 00:19:37,760 When it's not, it's a constitutional Republic that 272 00:19:37,760 --> 00:19:40,520 democratically elects their leaders. 273 00:19:41,960 --> 00:19:48,320 And if the more morality of humanity stays with the Lord, 274 00:19:48,520 --> 00:19:52,480 then we should be electing moral leaders. 275 00:19:53,640 --> 00:19:58,920 But if the majority become immoral, then they will elect 276 00:19:58,920 --> 00:20:03,600 immoral leaders and the righteous will suffer as a 277 00:20:03,600 --> 00:20:08,960 result of unrighteousness. Because we put power in the 278 00:20:08,960 --> 00:20:15,360 hands of humans that are not perfect. 279 00:20:17,240 --> 00:20:21,920 But if the church, I said if the church would just rise. 280 00:20:21,920 --> 00:20:24,120 And I'm talking, I'm not talking denominationally. 281 00:20:24,400 --> 00:20:27,200 I'm talking about those who say that Jesus Christ is Lord. 282 00:20:27,520 --> 00:20:32,920 It is easy to recognize who you should and should not vote for 283 00:20:34,360 --> 00:20:38,400 because you will strip yourself of a natural party. 284 00:20:38,440 --> 00:20:41,680 Not saying you won't have one. So you can vote, but your 285 00:20:41,720 --> 00:20:45,080 allegiance will not be to a Republican Party, will not be to 286 00:20:45,080 --> 00:20:49,240 a Democrat party, will not be to a Libertarian Party, will not be 287 00:20:49,320 --> 00:20:52,120 a part of loyal to a Greenpeace party. 288 00:20:52,240 --> 00:20:54,760 There's so many parties out there I can't even name them 289 00:20:54,760 --> 00:20:56,200 all. But you won't be loyal. 290 00:20:56,200 --> 00:21:01,720 You'll be loyal to the Kingdom and the king alone, and you'll 291 00:21:01,720 --> 00:21:04,800 vote accordingly. And let me tell you, every time 292 00:21:04,800 --> 00:21:11,680 you cast your vote, the King's writing it down, whether that 293 00:21:11,680 --> 00:21:18,840 vote represents him and his word or whether it represents your 294 00:21:18,840 --> 00:21:23,040 personal self-interest. So he said, a child will be 295 00:21:23,040 --> 00:21:25,160 born, a son will be given to the government, will rest on his 296 00:21:25,160 --> 00:21:27,480 shoulders, and his name will be called Wonderful counselor, 297 00:21:28,160 --> 00:21:29,680 Mighty God, Eternal Father, Prince of Peace. 298 00:21:29,680 --> 00:21:31,520 There'll be no end to the increase of His government. 299 00:21:31,520 --> 00:21:34,200 Order of peace on the throne of David or over His Kingdom, to 300 00:21:34,200 --> 00:21:36,320 establish it and to uphold it with justice and righteousness 301 00:21:36,320 --> 00:21:38,400 from then on and forevermore. The zeal of the Lord of hosts 302 00:21:38,640 --> 00:21:41,200 will accomplish this. Again, every human heart is 303 00:21:41,200 --> 00:21:42,720 searching for a new and better world. 304 00:21:43,360 --> 00:21:45,480 All men believe that government is the answer of the power of 305 00:21:45,480 --> 00:21:47,400 government. God believes it as well. 306 00:21:47,520 --> 00:21:50,480 He knows it's His Kingdom. And this can be troubling 307 00:21:50,480 --> 00:21:53,720 because at the end of the day, as we've launched this 308 00:21:53,840 --> 00:21:57,760 particular topic, when I it's not even a topic, It is the 309 00:21:57,760 --> 00:22:03,560 Bible of the Kingdom everywhere that the Bible has a theme that 310 00:22:03,560 --> 00:22:06,400 is bigger and larger than the blood of Jesus. 311 00:22:09,200 --> 00:22:12,680 Because Genesis 1 and 2 did not need the blood of Jesus. 312 00:22:15,120 --> 00:22:18,800 The blood of Jesus was not required in Genesis 1 and 2, but 313 00:22:18,800 --> 00:22:21,960 the Kingdom was there. Are you hearing me? 314 00:22:22,680 --> 00:22:26,680 The Kingdom was there. So there was an existence where 315 00:22:26,680 --> 00:22:33,120 the blood of Jesus was not necessary and man existed in 316 00:22:33,120 --> 00:22:36,720 relationship with God without the blood. 317 00:22:37,520 --> 00:22:43,800 Now unfortunately, Adam did sin and Adam did bring sin into the 318 00:22:43,800 --> 00:22:46,720 world and all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of 319 00:22:46,720 --> 00:22:48,560 God. And we cannot have a 320 00:22:48,560 --> 00:22:51,360 relationship now with God except through the blood. 321 00:22:52,400 --> 00:22:56,480 But the blood of Jesus is paying a price to put us back in the 322 00:22:56,480 --> 00:22:59,880 position that Genesis 1 wanted us to be in. 323 00:23:00,240 --> 00:23:02,520 Most people are just wanting to go to heaven. 324 00:23:02,560 --> 00:23:05,160 And let me tell you, you know why you like this idea so much? 325 00:23:06,480 --> 00:23:10,800 It's because it strips you of your responsibility of son and 326 00:23:10,800 --> 00:23:13,080 daughter ship. You don't want to be 327 00:23:13,080 --> 00:23:15,240 responsible. That's why they accept this 328 00:23:15,240 --> 00:23:17,680 tradition. Because when you accept 329 00:23:17,680 --> 00:23:20,800 kingship, when you accept dominion, when you accept your 330 00:23:20,800 --> 00:23:24,480 rightful place, then you know I have a responsibility to my 331 00:23:24,480 --> 00:23:30,600 Father to obey Him at His word. I am not just accepting Him as 332 00:23:30,600 --> 00:23:33,400 my Savior who paid the price for my wrongdoing. 333 00:23:33,520 --> 00:23:38,200 I am yielding to His Lordship. Lord is not even a religious 334 00:23:38,200 --> 00:23:40,600 word. It means supreme in authority 335 00:23:42,040 --> 00:23:47,840 and because we rebel against any human authority, we really bell 336 00:23:48,000 --> 00:23:55,000 rebel against Jesus's authority. But if Jesus is Lord, which is 337 00:23:55,000 --> 00:23:59,080 really the only way you can be saved, it doesn't say call on 338 00:23:59,080 --> 00:24:03,880 the name of the Savior, says call on the name of the the 339 00:24:03,880 --> 00:24:07,320 Lord. You have to acknowledge you are 340 00:24:07,320 --> 00:24:09,920 supreme. I could not do it myself. 341 00:24:10,120 --> 00:24:12,040 My words had no authority, no power. 342 00:24:12,040 --> 00:24:13,880 My actions had no authority, no power. 343 00:24:14,000 --> 00:24:16,640 It had no way to make me right and right standing with you. 344 00:24:16,920 --> 00:24:18,920 Jesus, you and you alone are the only one. 345 00:24:19,040 --> 00:24:21,040 You are the Lamb that's without spot or wrinkle. 346 00:24:21,120 --> 00:24:24,000 You are the one who came and fully obeyed the Father's will. 347 00:24:24,120 --> 00:24:26,360 You are not like your first brother Adam. 348 00:24:26,480 --> 00:24:31,840 You obeyed God at the very word, and you died on a cross, so that 349 00:24:31,840 --> 00:24:36,880 your blood would be without stain, so that I could have 350 00:24:37,000 --> 00:24:42,480 access again. You did this because you will 351 00:24:42,480 --> 00:24:47,080 keep your Father's word, and Father will keep His word 352 00:24:47,080 --> 00:24:51,360 concerning me. Now it's up to me and so it's 353 00:24:51,360 --> 00:24:55,320 not a hard time, not a hard thing for me to pray, for me to 354 00:24:55,320 --> 00:24:58,000 read, for me to be in church because it's an outward 355 00:24:58,000 --> 00:25:00,840 expression of something that's changed on the inside of me. 356 00:25:01,000 --> 00:25:05,240 I just love to be in the presence of God in every aspect 357 00:25:05,240 --> 00:25:06,880 that God wants me to be in his presence. 358 00:25:09,000 --> 00:25:13,640 So today I want to show you again that the Kingdom mandate 359 00:25:13,640 --> 00:25:16,920 runs through the entire Bible. It's the re establishment to 360 00:25:16,920 --> 00:25:22,840 humanity, what God started in the garden. 361 00:25:23,120 --> 00:25:28,560 And so he found someone in the earth and said I'm bringing the 362 00:25:28,560 --> 00:25:33,040 Kingdom back. I gave dominion to man. 363 00:25:33,800 --> 00:25:38,360 Man will have to get it back, but man alone can't do it. 364 00:25:38,360 --> 00:25:42,440 So I have to send my own seed in the form of a man. 365 00:25:43,240 --> 00:25:44,960 So I'm going to have to have a bloodline. 366 00:25:47,360 --> 00:25:50,720 And so we started with a man named Abram. 367 00:25:51,720 --> 00:25:54,200 Genesis chapter 12. Let's go through the Bible 368 00:25:54,200 --> 00:25:55,080 together. Can we? 369 00:25:55,560 --> 00:25:59,320 In Genesis chapter 12 verses one through 3, it says now the Lord 370 00:25:59,480 --> 00:26:04,720 said to Abram, go from your country and from your relatives 371 00:26:04,720 --> 00:26:07,360 and from your father's house to the land, which I will show you 372 00:26:08,680 --> 00:26:11,480 and I will make you a great notice. 373 00:26:11,480 --> 00:26:17,120 He didn't say a great religion because Jesus is not interested 374 00:26:17,120 --> 00:26:20,720 in religion. He's interested in his Kingdom. 375 00:26:21,560 --> 00:26:24,080 He said I'll make you a great nation, I'll bless you and I'll 376 00:26:24,080 --> 00:26:28,400 make your your name great. And so you will be a blessing, 377 00:26:28,400 --> 00:26:30,480 right? And he goes, and the one who 378 00:26:30,480 --> 00:26:34,400 curses you I will curse, and those who bless you I will 379 00:26:34,400 --> 00:26:37,920 bless. And then he goes, and in all the 380 00:26:37,920 --> 00:26:43,600 families of the earth will be blessed because of Abram, whose 381 00:26:43,600 --> 00:26:48,160 name was changed when he, when he walked in covenant with God. 382 00:26:49,080 --> 00:26:51,760 God said, no longer will I call you Abram, but I'll call you 383 00:26:51,760 --> 00:26:55,040 Abraham. Abraham means a father of many 384 00:26:55,760 --> 00:26:58,800 not religions, a father of many nations. 385 00:26:58,800 --> 00:27:02,280 I have made you. Now he calls him this before he 386 00:27:02,280 --> 00:27:07,640 ever has a son or child of his own, which means God doesn't 387 00:27:07,640 --> 00:27:14,080 speak about what's now, God speaks about what will be God 388 00:27:14,080 --> 00:27:15,840 and whatever God says will happen. 389 00:27:17,160 --> 00:27:20,200 And Abraham, the father of many nations, gave birth to a man 390 00:27:20,200 --> 00:27:22,920 named Isaac, who is the coveted child? 391 00:27:22,920 --> 00:27:25,720 Not Ishmael. Ishmael is not God's covenant 392 00:27:25,720 --> 00:27:29,160 child. He is a child of the flesh. 393 00:27:29,560 --> 00:27:33,040 He is not a child of the Spirit. He is not ordained by God. 394 00:27:34,400 --> 00:27:39,880 He goes on to say that a Isaac gave birth to a child named 395 00:27:40,040 --> 00:27:44,240 Jacob. Jacob wrestles with the Lord in 396 00:27:44,240 --> 00:27:51,840 Genesis and the Lord changes his name and his new name, instead 397 00:27:51,840 --> 00:27:55,280 of Jacob's supplanter, becomes Israel. 398 00:27:56,480 --> 00:28:02,000 Israel is a nation that is still in planet earth today. 399 00:28:02,760 --> 00:28:06,240 It is the birth of the nation of Israel. 400 00:28:06,280 --> 00:28:09,920 When God said Abraham make you a great nation, out of him came 401 00:28:09,920 --> 00:28:15,080 the nation of Israel. So the Bible's about a king, his 402 00:28:15,080 --> 00:28:19,360 Kingdom and his royal offspring, and he is demonstrating in the 403 00:28:19,440 --> 00:28:25,680 earth that he will rule the nations, and he'll start with 404 00:28:25,680 --> 00:28:30,280 one called Israel. He wants Israel to be the object 405 00:28:30,280 --> 00:28:32,760 of every other government's desire. 406 00:28:33,680 --> 00:28:40,360 So he tells Israel through his prophet Moses, as he delivers 407 00:28:40,360 --> 00:28:44,000 them out of Egypt to take them over into the Promised land. 408 00:28:44,120 --> 00:28:49,160 He gives them a recorded law. And the law is simply the 409 00:28:49,160 --> 00:28:54,560 behavior and action that is necessary to demonstrate God's 410 00:28:54,560 --> 00:28:58,200 Kingdom in the earth. And in Deuteronomy 28, he says, 411 00:28:58,200 --> 00:29:06,960 This man, if you will obey my voice, because I am the one who 412 00:29:06,960 --> 00:29:13,120 sits in the heavens and laughs, I am the one that is ruler over 413 00:29:13,120 --> 00:29:15,880 everything. If you will obey what I say, 414 00:29:16,120 --> 00:29:18,200 you'll be blessed coming in and blessed going out. 415 00:29:18,440 --> 00:29:20,320 You'll be the head and not the tail. 416 00:29:20,400 --> 00:29:24,080 You'll be above and not beneath. Everything you put your hand to 417 00:29:24,080 --> 00:29:26,520 is going to prosper. I mean, you're going to be so 418 00:29:26,520 --> 00:29:31,000 blessed in the field, in the city, your your livestock. 419 00:29:31,120 --> 00:29:35,480 The the society was agricultural and he was saying every thing 420 00:29:35,480 --> 00:29:38,280 agricultural that you do will be so blessed. 421 00:29:38,360 --> 00:29:43,440 In fact the nation's you'll be so wealthy because I'm your king 422 00:29:43,640 --> 00:29:47,960 that the nations will come to you to receive, but you will not 423 00:29:47,960 --> 00:29:50,880 have to go to them. You want to bar die from them. 424 00:29:51,000 --> 00:29:53,880 You will be the wealthiest nation on the planet. 425 00:29:55,120 --> 00:29:58,960 And then he says in with anyone, tries to be your enemy. 426 00:30:00,080 --> 00:30:04,880 When he comes up against you one way, I'll send him back in seven 427 00:30:04,880 --> 00:30:08,960 ways. I'll run him down the road. 428 00:30:09,760 --> 00:30:14,920 But he said, as my nation, in order to maintain this blessing, 429 00:30:15,120 --> 00:30:19,960 you must obey my word because my word is life. 430 00:30:19,960 --> 00:30:23,840 And remember what we said last week, the reason why you want to 431 00:30:23,840 --> 00:30:28,240 obey him is 'cause he's life and anything that you, when you do 432 00:30:28,240 --> 00:30:33,200 not obey, it's death. Last week we said your body 433 00:30:33,200 --> 00:30:38,400 tells you without speaking that in order for you to live, you 434 00:30:38,400 --> 00:30:41,920 require oxygen. Now it's not pure oxygen, it's a 435 00:30:41,920 --> 00:30:44,080 mixture. But what that mixture is, you 436 00:30:44,080 --> 00:30:49,480 require it. You could rebel and tell your 437 00:30:49,480 --> 00:30:52,440 body. Don't tell me I have to inhale 438 00:30:52,880 --> 00:30:56,160 this gas called oxygen and whatever the rest was, you know, 439 00:30:56,680 --> 00:30:58,760 percentages. I guess I need to get that now 440 00:30:58,760 --> 00:31:01,240 so I can quote it for you, right? 441 00:31:01,520 --> 00:31:04,760 You could Google it or ChatGPT yourself and find out what we're 442 00:31:04,760 --> 00:31:06,160 breathing. OK? 443 00:31:07,120 --> 00:31:08,440 It's why you're living right now. 444 00:31:09,440 --> 00:31:12,360 But many of you could walk in here with a tank of propane, 445 00:31:14,640 --> 00:31:19,760 hook it up like a little mask, turn on your vow, and only allow 446 00:31:19,880 --> 00:31:23,480 propane to go through your nostrils into your lungs. 447 00:31:24,040 --> 00:31:29,760 I do not believe you'll make it out of service 'cause you can 448 00:31:29,760 --> 00:31:32,880 rebel. And here's the thing, If sin 449 00:31:32,880 --> 00:31:41,560 paid out as fast as you sucking propane, then you would quit 450 00:31:41,560 --> 00:31:43,760 doing the choices that are contrary to God. 451 00:31:45,840 --> 00:31:49,920 Because we'd be like, how foolish somebody would walk up 452 00:31:49,920 --> 00:31:54,560 in here sucking on carbon monoxide, sucking on propane, I 453 00:31:54,560 --> 00:31:58,800 mean, sucking on carbon dioxide. What you're releasing, you can't 454 00:31:58,800 --> 00:32:01,840 even keep in you. You can't breathe that in and 455 00:32:01,840 --> 00:32:07,080 sustain your life. Any other form other than what 456 00:32:07,080 --> 00:32:12,720 we're inhaling now will bring death to us 'cause God created 457 00:32:12,720 --> 00:32:16,800 our bodies to survive in the planet with this oxygen. 458 00:32:19,240 --> 00:32:22,040 And in fact, it's our blood that's moving this oxygen 459 00:32:22,040 --> 00:32:26,560 around. And so you can say I'm not going 460 00:32:26,560 --> 00:32:29,600 to obey God, but what you're saying is I'm hooking myself up 461 00:32:29,600 --> 00:32:31,680 to something that's going to kill me. 462 00:32:32,800 --> 00:32:34,600 And that's the best way I can demonstrate it. 463 00:32:35,240 --> 00:32:38,880 Because God's word is like, he's not telling you what to do 464 00:32:38,880 --> 00:32:42,560 because you like I'm the guy. He's telling you because he's 465 00:32:42,560 --> 00:32:45,360 like, I'm life and I want you to live. 466 00:32:45,960 --> 00:32:48,960 I want you to live. I want you to have the fullest 467 00:32:48,960 --> 00:32:50,920 life. I mean, I created you. 468 00:32:51,120 --> 00:32:54,160 I know why you're living. I know why what your personal 469 00:32:54,160 --> 00:32:56,880 and destiny is. I want you to have the fullness. 470 00:32:57,080 --> 00:32:59,960 I'm not. I have no issue here because I'm 471 00:32:59,960 --> 00:33:02,320 going to exist whether you do or not. 472 00:33:05,080 --> 00:33:08,280 I'll be God whether you accept me or not. 473 00:33:09,440 --> 00:33:12,840 I'll rule and reign whether you want to rule and reign or not. 474 00:33:13,680 --> 00:33:18,320 You do not intimidate me, but I know your purpose. 475 00:33:18,800 --> 00:33:23,000 This is why you want to say yes, Lord, I'm following you. 476 00:33:24,240 --> 00:33:29,760 So Moses gives this law and we've treated the law so 477 00:33:29,760 --> 00:33:33,760 negatively when the law was trying to reveal based upon how 478 00:33:33,760 --> 00:33:38,400 man could live with God at the time, to live holy and righteous 479 00:33:38,480 --> 00:33:43,400 and just not so that they could go to heaven and be in the in, 480 00:33:44,720 --> 00:33:47,440 in the presence of God. We know that all that died in 481 00:33:47,440 --> 00:33:51,440 the old covenant went to the grave, but they went to 482 00:33:51,440 --> 00:33:54,760 Paradise. That means they could live 483 00:33:55,200 --> 00:34:00,520 according to the law by faith in a way that they did not go where 484 00:34:00,720 --> 00:34:05,400 the rich ruler went, but they went to a place called Paradise. 485 00:34:05,880 --> 00:34:10,800 And in Paradise there was no torment in the grave there. 486 00:34:13,760 --> 00:34:19,040 We got much to teach about that because our traditions have made 487 00:34:19,040 --> 00:34:21,239 things so negative. Well, the law was there to show 488 00:34:21,239 --> 00:34:23,520 that we couldn't. The law was there to show the 489 00:34:23,520 --> 00:34:27,000 Kingdom of God. Man already knew he couldn't. 490 00:34:27,000 --> 00:34:28,920 There was a way that seemed right, and they still died. 491 00:34:29,199 --> 00:34:32,639 Then he gives them another way. He's trying to reveal himself 492 00:34:32,639 --> 00:34:36,159 and his nature and his character, Not to prove them to 493 00:34:36,159 --> 00:34:39,600 them they couldn't, but to continue to demonstrate to them 494 00:34:39,600 --> 00:34:44,320 who he was. And we could not live the law in 495 00:34:44,320 --> 00:34:48,040 such a way that we would be perfect before God, but we could 496 00:34:48,040 --> 00:34:51,600 live it by faith enough that we didn't have to go to the place 497 00:34:51,600 --> 00:34:56,480 beyond the abyss, but we could be in paradise and await that 498 00:34:56,480 --> 00:35:01,840 day for when Jesus Christ himself would come and lead 499 00:35:01,840 --> 00:35:05,680 captivity captive out. But we get over into Samuel 500 00:35:05,680 --> 00:35:08,920 first Samuel chapter 8, verse 7. It says in the God said to 501 00:35:08,920 --> 00:35:12,880 Samuel, listen to the voice of the people in regard to all that 502 00:35:12,880 --> 00:35:15,320 they say to you. They have not rejected you, but 503 00:35:15,320 --> 00:35:19,400 they have rejected me from being king over them. 504 00:35:19,640 --> 00:35:24,560 Now this is the nation that God went to Moses and said go, let 505 00:35:24,560 --> 00:35:27,760 my people go. I'm going to use you. 506 00:35:27,760 --> 00:35:29,600 I'm want you to go to that nation. 507 00:35:29,720 --> 00:35:33,200 I want you to tell that nation that I'm their king, I'm their 508 00:35:33,200 --> 00:35:35,640 God. Pharaoh thinks he's a God. 509 00:35:35,680 --> 00:35:40,120 I want him to know I am and he's worshipping false ones and I'm 510 00:35:40,120 --> 00:35:43,440 going to have all that belief system and religion that they're 511 00:35:43,440 --> 00:35:48,080 after Crumble. Every one of his curses was in 512 00:35:48,080 --> 00:35:51,720 direct connection to an object Egypt worshipped. 513 00:35:52,040 --> 00:35:53,880 He was letting him know. You thought your God could do 514 00:35:53,880 --> 00:35:54,920 this. I crushed it. 515 00:35:55,040 --> 00:35:57,880 You thought your God. I mean, they serve the God of 516 00:35:57,880 --> 00:36:00,520 Rod, the sun God, and he blackened it out. 517 00:36:01,640 --> 00:36:03,600 It was so dark they couldn't even see. 518 00:36:03,960 --> 00:36:08,040 He's like, where's your God now? Are you hearing what I'm saying? 519 00:36:08,040 --> 00:36:11,920 And when the rest of Egypt dark, he leaves a light on. 520 00:36:12,600 --> 00:36:14,760 And where Israel's at. Oh my gosh. 521 00:36:15,360 --> 00:36:21,320 So God was a nation delivering a nation, went to a nation to 522 00:36:21,320 --> 00:36:24,280 deliver a nation. And so he wants to take them 523 00:36:24,280 --> 00:36:28,440 into a land flowing with milk and honey, where they could go 524 00:36:28,600 --> 00:36:31,760 and they can live and prosper. And if they would obey them, 525 00:36:31,760 --> 00:36:36,920 they'd be huge blessing to the world, to humanity, and showcase 526 00:36:37,440 --> 00:36:42,640 the God and King of heaven. Yet these and Samuel did, just 527 00:36:42,640 --> 00:36:44,920 like their forefathers who died in the wilderness. 528 00:36:45,120 --> 00:36:49,400 They said we want to see a king, we want a man, we don't want God 529 00:36:49,400 --> 00:36:51,120 anymore. And God acknowledged to Sammy, 530 00:36:51,120 --> 00:36:53,920 He said, they've not rejected you, they've rejected me as king 531 00:36:54,560 --> 00:36:58,760 over them. What's it say in Psalms 24/7 to 532 00:36:58,760 --> 00:37:00,840 10? Lift up your heads, O gates, and 533 00:37:00,840 --> 00:37:03,880 be lifted up, O ancient doors, that the King of glory may come 534 00:37:03,880 --> 00:37:05,480 in. Who is the King of glory? 535 00:37:05,600 --> 00:37:09,000 The Lord strong and mighty, the Lord mighty in battle. 536 00:37:09,000 --> 00:37:11,920 Lift up your heads O gates, and lift them up, O ancient doors, 537 00:37:12,040 --> 00:37:14,360 that the King of glory may come in. 538 00:37:14,440 --> 00:37:17,440 Who is the King of glory? The Lord of hosts. 539 00:37:17,440 --> 00:37:21,080 He is King of glory. Psalms 47, seven says For God is 540 00:37:21,080 --> 00:37:24,480 the King of all the earth. Sing praises with understanding. 541 00:37:24,640 --> 00:37:28,320 Yes, Jesus is the Lamb that was slain, but he's first king. 542 00:37:28,320 --> 00:37:30,200 God is king, they rule and reign. 543 00:37:30,320 --> 00:37:35,120 It's the Kingdom of God that is the the dominant, the theme of 544 00:37:35,120 --> 00:37:39,160 the Bible, and it's about the restoration of this Kingdom back 545 00:37:39,160 --> 00:37:43,960 to man through man with man for God. 546 00:37:44,120 --> 00:37:47,520 That ultimately at the very end, if we get into Coloss 547 00:37:47,920 --> 00:37:51,680 Corinthians, that Jesus, who has that authority will turn it 548 00:37:51,680 --> 00:37:57,160 right back over to Dad. Wow, we know that Daniel talked 549 00:37:57,160 --> 00:37:58,680 about this Kingdom that would come. 550 00:37:58,680 --> 00:38:01,840 We talked about it last week in Daniel chapter 2, that a rock 551 00:38:01,840 --> 00:38:05,360 was made without hands and it would crush all of these 552 00:38:05,360 --> 00:38:08,240 kingdoms that ever existed because the Bible's about a 553 00:38:08,240 --> 00:38:12,200 king, his Kingdom, his royal offspring, Zechariah prophesied 554 00:38:12,320 --> 00:38:15,080 in Chapter 9, verse 9. Again, we're just going through 555 00:38:15,080 --> 00:38:18,480 the Bible. Rejoice greatly, O daughter Zod 556 00:38:18,560 --> 00:38:22,480 shouting tribe, O daughter of Jerusalem, behold, your king is 557 00:38:22,480 --> 00:38:24,840 coming to you. He is just an endowed with 558 00:38:24,840 --> 00:38:28,800 salvation and mounted on a donkey, even a coat a full of a 559 00:38:28,800 --> 00:38:30,720 donkey. Remember when Jesus says go into 560 00:38:30,720 --> 00:38:33,960 town, I want you to get that donkey. 561 00:38:35,720 --> 00:38:39,720 And if someone tries to stop you, tell them not that the 562 00:38:39,720 --> 00:38:44,000 Savior needs it, but that the Lord has need of it. 563 00:38:44,320 --> 00:38:46,200 And when they stop the disciples, hey, what are you 564 00:38:46,200 --> 00:38:47,960 doing on time that that's not yours? 565 00:38:48,160 --> 00:38:51,200 They said the Lord has need of it And they said, Oh, the Lord, 566 00:38:51,200 --> 00:38:53,280 oh, he's supreme authority at his words. 567 00:38:53,280 --> 00:38:56,800 You can have it. And Jesus sure enough came into 568 00:38:56,800 --> 00:39:00,520 town on that donkey never been written, and they laid their 569 00:39:00,520 --> 00:39:03,440 coats and they laid out palm branches, and they did all as he 570 00:39:03,440 --> 00:39:08,040 was coming in triumphantly, the King of glory. 571 00:39:08,560 --> 00:39:12,120 In Luke chapter 1 verses 30 to 33, the Angel said to her 572 00:39:12,640 --> 00:39:15,200 concerning Mary said, do not be afraid Mary, for you have found 573 00:39:15,200 --> 00:39:17,800 favor with God. And behold, you will conceive in 574 00:39:17,800 --> 00:39:21,120 your womb and bear some, and you, and you shall name him 575 00:39:21,120 --> 00:39:23,880 Jesus, and he will be great, and will be called the Son of the 576 00:39:23,880 --> 00:39:26,400 Most High. And the Lord God will give him 577 00:39:26,400 --> 00:39:29,120 what? The throne of his father David, 578 00:39:29,120 --> 00:39:31,880 and he will reign over the House of Jacob Forever, and his 579 00:39:31,880 --> 00:39:37,160 Kingdom will have no end. Isaiah prophesied about the 580 00:39:37,160 --> 00:39:39,720 Kingdom. Jeremiah prophesied about the 581 00:39:39,720 --> 00:39:44,680 Kingdom, Zechariah prophesied about the Kingdom, Samuel knew 582 00:39:44,680 --> 00:39:47,240 about the Kingdom, The prophets of old all knew about the 583 00:39:47,240 --> 00:39:48,760 Kingdom. Everybody's looking for the 584 00:39:48,760 --> 00:39:52,120 king. The whole old covenant is about 585 00:39:52,120 --> 00:39:55,240 the king is coming. The problem is they did not 586 00:39:55,240 --> 00:39:58,720 realize that Jesus had to come as a suffering servant and 1st 587 00:39:58,720 --> 00:40:02,280 pay a price, but he still was king nonetheless. 588 00:40:02,280 --> 00:40:07,000 Even in the action of Savior. He was saving us because of his 589 00:40:07,000 --> 00:40:08,840 kingship. Oh my gosh. 590 00:40:10,360 --> 00:40:15,040 And so he comes, he the Angel tells Mary, that's the king in 591 00:40:15,040 --> 00:40:18,160 your womb. Listen, Thrones are in kingdoms, 592 00:40:18,160 --> 00:40:24,680 not religions. In Matthew chapter 2 verses one 593 00:40:24,680 --> 00:40:27,480 and two, it says now after Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea 594 00:40:27,480 --> 00:40:31,280 in the days of Herod, the king Magi from the east, that's wise 595 00:40:31,280 --> 00:40:34,080 men or astrologers from the east arrived in Jerusalem saying 596 00:40:34,320 --> 00:40:36,720 where is he who was born king of the Jews? 597 00:40:37,360 --> 00:40:40,160 We saw a star in the east and have come to worship him. 598 00:40:40,160 --> 00:40:42,760 These guys came from where Babylon was. 599 00:40:42,960 --> 00:40:46,040 These guys came from the place that Daniel prophesied about 600 00:40:46,040 --> 00:40:47,920 this king coming. They have been waiting for 601 00:40:47,920 --> 00:40:52,360 generations for this day and when the the star arrived on the 602 00:40:52,360 --> 00:40:55,640 night he was birthday. It took them almost two years to 603 00:40:55,640 --> 00:40:58,640 get to Jerusalem. And when they came into town and 604 00:40:58,640 --> 00:41:03,720 met the king, King Herod, who was over Jerusalem, sat in that 605 00:41:03,720 --> 00:41:07,960 place because of Pontius Pilate, the governor of Rome, home, and 606 00:41:07,960 --> 00:41:11,640 he was ruling the people under the authority of the governor 607 00:41:11,800 --> 00:41:15,280 Pilot. They said, where's the king of 608 00:41:15,280 --> 00:41:18,360 the Jews? They did not come and look for 609 00:41:18,360 --> 00:41:21,800 where's this new religion? Who's this guy that's going to 610 00:41:21,800 --> 00:41:25,280 save the they're saying, where is the king? 611 00:41:25,760 --> 00:41:29,520 This king that we have heard is coming and his Kingdom is going 612 00:41:29,520 --> 00:41:33,640 to have no end. It was prophesied by this wise 613 00:41:33,640 --> 00:41:38,560 man in our day called Daniel Belshazzar was his name given to 614 00:41:38,560 --> 00:41:42,320 him by Nebuchadnezzar and said that this Kingdom was coming and 615 00:41:42,520 --> 00:41:45,480 he would wipe out every other. And we want to put our 616 00:41:45,480 --> 00:41:49,960 allegiance to the Kingdom that is a global takeover. 617 00:41:52,920 --> 00:41:55,600 Oh my goodness. And we said last week, the devil 618 00:41:55,600 --> 00:41:58,360 knows it's about a Kingdom In Luke chapter 4, remember, Jesus 619 00:41:58,360 --> 00:42:01,800 was full of the Holy Ghost, goes into the wilderness and it says 620 00:42:01,800 --> 00:42:04,480 the devil let him up in verse 5 and showed him all the kingdoms 621 00:42:04,480 --> 00:42:05,720 of the world in the moment of time. 622 00:42:05,720 --> 00:42:08,600 The devil said, I'll give all this domain and its glory to 623 00:42:08,600 --> 00:42:10,120 you, for it's been handed over to me. 624 00:42:10,120 --> 00:42:13,280 Where did the devil get it from Adam in the garden. 625 00:42:13,640 --> 00:42:18,000 He did not steal it. Adam willfully gave the devil 626 00:42:18,000 --> 00:42:23,440 his dominion over the earth. But Jesus has come to take it 627 00:42:23,440 --> 00:42:27,040 back, to take it all back. Hallelujah. 628 00:42:27,480 --> 00:42:32,200 And did he take it back? Glory to God, Hallelujah. 629 00:42:32,960 --> 00:42:36,840 So in order, he's given him an alternative. 630 00:42:37,280 --> 00:42:40,520 You can rule as long as you bow to me. 631 00:42:41,360 --> 00:42:45,920 The devil wasn't asking for a song, He was asking for 632 00:42:45,920 --> 00:42:50,320 submission to his rulership. But the Lord says it is written. 633 00:42:51,400 --> 00:42:56,320 It is written, you shall worship the Lord thy God and him only. 634 00:42:56,320 --> 00:42:58,480 There's only one that I'll bow and knee to. 635 00:42:58,520 --> 00:43:02,520 There's only one that is over all and He is my Father and I'll 636 00:43:02,520 --> 00:43:05,000 never bow to you. And what he didn't know is I'm 637 00:43:05,000 --> 00:43:10,880 taking it anyway in Luke chapter 4 verse 43, and it says in Jesus 638 00:43:10,880 --> 00:43:14,040 he said I must preach the Kingdom of God to the other 639 00:43:14,040 --> 00:43:17,880 cities also, for I was sent for this purpose. 640 00:43:19,040 --> 00:43:21,200 What was his purpose? Well, we know at first Johnny 641 00:43:21,200 --> 00:43:22,880 said to destroy the works of the devil. 642 00:43:23,320 --> 00:43:26,120 What's he destroying? He's destroying the devil's 643 00:43:26,120 --> 00:43:29,960 dominion, his authority, his power that he received from 644 00:43:29,960 --> 00:43:31,480 Adam. He said I'm going to take it 645 00:43:31,480 --> 00:43:33,280 back. I'm going to destroy his works. 646 00:43:33,440 --> 00:43:36,800 This act of rebellion and treason and the ability, we're 647 00:43:36,800 --> 00:43:38,960 all man. All he can do is rebel against 648 00:43:38,960 --> 00:43:40,880 God. Well, I'm going to strip him of 649 00:43:40,880 --> 00:43:42,440 that. And if man will put his 650 00:43:42,440 --> 00:43:46,040 allegiance in me and bow down to my kingship, then I'll put in 651 00:43:46,040 --> 00:43:50,760 them a new spirit. And that spirit will want to 652 00:43:50,760 --> 00:43:53,440 obey Dad. It won't be a rebellious, stiff 653 00:43:53,440 --> 00:43:55,520 neck, hard hearted spirit anymore. 654 00:43:55,560 --> 00:43:59,080 It'll be one that says, yes, Dad, ABBA, Father, I want to 655 00:43:59,080 --> 00:44:00,680 yield to you. I want to submit to you. 656 00:44:00,800 --> 00:44:04,520 It has access to the Holy Ghost. And we'll hear from heaven and 657 00:44:04,520 --> 00:44:09,880 obey the plan and purpose of God and stay yielded to him always. 658 00:44:10,240 --> 00:44:14,880 And from that point on, Matthew 417, it said that Jesus began to 659 00:44:14,880 --> 00:44:17,680 preach and say repent for the Kingdom of heaven as at hand. 660 00:44:17,680 --> 00:44:21,360 That's all he preached about. We preach about born again more 661 00:44:21,360 --> 00:44:22,600 than we preach about the Kingdom. 662 00:44:22,840 --> 00:44:25,400 In fact, most of the church in the Western world, and in the 663 00:44:25,400 --> 00:44:27,960 Eastern for that matter, at this point, doesn't even know it's 664 00:44:27,960 --> 00:44:30,400 about a Kingdom. They think it's about an exit 665 00:44:30,400 --> 00:44:34,360 strategy for heaven when it's really about world domination. 666 00:44:36,880 --> 00:44:40,000 Now, when I say that, I'm not saying that we're going to stay 667 00:44:40,000 --> 00:44:44,080 on planet Earth forever now. I'm saying if you die, you'll be 668 00:44:44,080 --> 00:44:46,320 present with the Lord and he's presently in heaven. 669 00:44:46,440 --> 00:44:54,080 But if you don't think this is about a global takeover, you 670 00:44:54,080 --> 00:44:59,680 cannot run a bumper sticker and say coexist because nothing will 671 00:44:59,680 --> 00:45:04,000 exist but God. He's the only thing that will 672 00:45:04,000 --> 00:45:08,960 exist and the only reason they can coexist now is because God 673 00:45:09,040 --> 00:45:13,360 is a merciful God, is a compassionate and kind God, and 674 00:45:13,360 --> 00:45:16,520 he will let you believe whatever you want to believe, but he will 675 00:45:16,520 --> 00:45:18,440 hold you accountable to whatever you believe. 676 00:45:19,520 --> 00:45:23,480 If you choose to not accept him and want some other religion, he 677 00:45:23,480 --> 00:45:29,600 will allow you because he will not make you submit to him, but 678 00:45:29,600 --> 00:45:35,840 you will submit at some point. Now unfortunately when that 679 00:45:35,840 --> 00:45:38,640 submission comes, it'll be a separation for eternity. 680 00:45:41,560 --> 00:45:44,760 This is good news. You know we're this has become 681 00:45:44,760 --> 00:45:47,760 such a foreign concept that when you preach like this it seems 682 00:45:47,760 --> 00:45:51,680 abnormal when the reality is it is the normal part of the Bible. 683 00:45:54,040 --> 00:45:57,280 I mean just do your homework. The Bible's ate up with the 684 00:45:57,280 --> 00:45:59,320 Kingdom. Look at every time Jesus 685 00:45:59,320 --> 00:46:02,920 publicly ministered when he started the conversation. 686 00:46:03,240 --> 00:46:06,080 He'll say the Kingdom of heaven is like this and the Kingdom of 687 00:46:06,080 --> 00:46:09,880 God is like that. He will address questions. 688 00:46:10,320 --> 00:46:13,600 And the only reason we know we need to be born again is because 689 00:46:13,600 --> 00:46:16,920 a religious man came at 2:00 in the morning and said, you know, 690 00:46:16,920 --> 00:46:19,120 you must be from God. His name was Nicodemus. 691 00:46:19,120 --> 00:46:22,440 And Jesus said unless a man is born again, he shall not see the 692 00:46:22,440 --> 00:46:24,000 Kingdom of God. He won't even enter it. 693 00:46:24,640 --> 00:46:26,840 Right? And you have to be born again. 694 00:46:26,840 --> 00:46:28,640 Why? Because we can't smuggle 695 00:46:28,640 --> 00:46:31,560 ourselves in. You know what the legal 696 00:46:31,640 --> 00:46:35,000 immigration policy for the Kingdom of God is? 697 00:46:35,360 --> 00:46:38,240 It is being a born citizen of that Kingdom. 698 00:46:39,880 --> 00:46:43,240 I can't buy my way in. My good works can't get my way 699 00:46:43,240 --> 00:46:45,440 in. I must be born of God. 700 00:46:45,440 --> 00:46:47,200 It's the only way into His Kingdom. 701 00:46:48,520 --> 00:46:59,560 In fact, his border is so tight, it's a narrow gate and few get 702 00:46:59,560 --> 00:47:08,230 in. Unfortunately, I believe 703 00:47:08,230 --> 00:47:11,150 sometimes the Christian Church is preaching such a wide gate. 704 00:47:14,350 --> 00:47:18,230 Now it's easy if you'll accept Christ, He's done all the work, 705 00:47:19,430 --> 00:47:21,950 but it's your responsibility once. 706 00:47:22,270 --> 00:47:26,670 Once you've accepted that work and it's the most powerful life, 707 00:47:26,670 --> 00:47:29,790 it is not looking back and trying to have an old life. 708 00:47:33,640 --> 00:47:38,840 Matthew 610, nine and 10 says pray then this way our Father, 709 00:47:38,840 --> 00:47:42,000 whose father, who is in heaven, hallowed be your name, your 710 00:47:42,000 --> 00:47:44,640 Kingdom come, your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. 711 00:47:44,640 --> 00:47:48,600 He's our daddy. John chapter 18 verses 33 to 37. 712 00:47:48,920 --> 00:47:52,360 Therefore Pilate entered some in Jesus and said, are you the king 713 00:47:52,360 --> 00:47:53,800 of the Jews? Notice he didn't say, hey, are 714 00:47:53,800 --> 00:47:57,520 you starting a new religion? I heard something called 715 00:47:57,520 --> 00:48:01,120 Christianity was around. I mean, Christ is not even a 716 00:48:01,120 --> 00:48:03,720 religious name. It is a title. 717 00:48:04,480 --> 00:48:07,080 It is the Greek equivalent to the Hebrew word Messiah, which 718 00:48:07,080 --> 00:48:08,560 is the anointed, one of his anointing. 719 00:48:08,560 --> 00:48:11,760 And that's what you do to kings. And that's what happened to 720 00:48:11,760 --> 00:48:14,200 Jesus the day he was baptized in the Jordan River. 721 00:48:14,200 --> 00:48:17,720 God anointed him, and then he made a confession from heaven. 722 00:48:17,720 --> 00:48:19,720 This is my beloved son in whom I will please. 723 00:48:19,880 --> 00:48:22,400 It was him acknowledging Jesus's kingship. 724 00:48:24,760 --> 00:48:29,000 So let me say Jesus Christ, we're saying Jesus the King and 725 00:48:29,000 --> 00:48:32,800 not just the King, the eternal King, the King that will never 726 00:48:32,800 --> 00:48:38,000 let go of his throne. Jesus answered. 727 00:48:38,000 --> 00:48:39,320 Are you saying this on your own to others? 728 00:48:39,320 --> 00:48:43,320 Tell you about me, Jesus not denying he's a king, Pilate 729 00:48:43,320 --> 00:48:44,240 said. I'm not a Jew, am I? 730 00:48:44,240 --> 00:48:48,560 Your nation, your own what? Your own nation, Chief Priest 731 00:48:48,560 --> 00:48:50,840 delivered you over to me. Notice he recognizes Jesus's 732 00:48:50,840 --> 00:48:53,920 nation before he recognized those, the religious part of the 733 00:48:53,920 --> 00:48:57,880 nation. Jesus said my kingdom's not of 734 00:48:57,880 --> 00:49:02,200 this world. If my Kingdom were of this 735 00:49:02,200 --> 00:49:04,480 world, then my servants will be fighting so that I will not be 736 00:49:04,480 --> 00:49:06,640 handed over to the Jews. But as it is, my Kingdom is not 737 00:49:06,640 --> 00:49:08,760 of this realm. Now what Jesus is not saying is 738 00:49:08,760 --> 00:49:12,200 that his Kingdom doesn't exist in the planet because he's 739 00:49:12,200 --> 00:49:15,600 already said when you pray, pray this my king, your Kingdom come, 740 00:49:15,600 --> 00:49:17,320 your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. 741 00:49:17,320 --> 00:49:20,680 So Jesus be a liar if his Kingdom couldn't impact the 742 00:49:20,680 --> 00:49:22,040 planet. What he's saying is, is my 743 00:49:22,040 --> 00:49:24,160 Kingdom does not operate like worldly kingdoms. 744 00:49:24,320 --> 00:49:29,920 He qualifies that by saying if if my Kingdom were of this world 745 00:49:29,920 --> 00:49:32,840 or if it operated like this, then my servants would not let 746 00:49:32,840 --> 00:49:36,480 me be handed over the Jews. In fact he could say I have an 747 00:49:36,480 --> 00:49:38,640 Angel down here right now smoke the whole place. 748 00:49:39,720 --> 00:49:42,480 Have you not read what happened in my nation when I sit down 1 749 00:49:42,480 --> 00:49:46,560 Angel and smoke 185,000 Assyrians and Mennonites? 750 00:49:48,280 --> 00:49:51,640 I mean his angels are special, special forces. 751 00:49:52,000 --> 00:49:54,160 I mean Secret Service to the next level. 752 00:49:54,400 --> 00:49:57,080 Are you hearing what I'm saying? He goes on. 753 00:49:57,080 --> 00:49:59,360 Then in verse 37, therefore Pilate says so you are king. 754 00:49:59,400 --> 00:50:01,520 Jesus said you say correctly that I am a king. 755 00:50:02,600 --> 00:50:04,480 Jesus doesn't deny because he knows he is. 756 00:50:05,640 --> 00:50:08,040 Then he goes on and says, for this I have been born and for 757 00:50:08,040 --> 00:50:10,000 this I've come into the world to testify the truth. 758 00:50:10,160 --> 00:50:12,160 Everyone who is of the truth hears my voice. 759 00:50:12,160 --> 00:50:14,440 What did Jesus say? He said unless a Colonel we fall 760 00:50:14,440 --> 00:50:17,200 in the ground and die, it cannot produce after its own kind. 761 00:50:17,840 --> 00:50:21,080 So Jesus died a king and he was raised a king. 762 00:50:21,120 --> 00:50:24,720 So he can make you a king because he's the king of king. 763 00:50:24,920 --> 00:50:27,760 Who are those kings? You are those kings. 764 00:50:27,920 --> 00:50:32,960 We are a royal bloodline. We are put back into the royal 765 00:50:32,960 --> 00:50:36,080 bloodline and given the Kingdom back to us. 766 00:50:36,080 --> 00:50:39,000 Hallelujah. In Acts chapter one verse 3, the 767 00:50:39,000 --> 00:50:42,000 death, burial, resurrection of Jesus has occurred and it says 768 00:50:42,000 --> 00:50:45,200 to these He presented himself alive after his suffering by 769 00:50:45,200 --> 00:50:48,040 many convincing proofs appearing to them over a period of 40 770 00:50:48,040 --> 00:50:52,800 days. And Speaking of things, Jesus 771 00:50:52,800 --> 00:50:57,280 did not change his message to say after he was raised and say, 772 00:50:57,440 --> 00:51:01,160 go tell everybody they must be born again and ask them where 773 00:51:01,160 --> 00:51:02,360 are they going to go when they die? 774 00:51:04,560 --> 00:51:08,080 He didn't change his message. He said it's the Kingdom, the 775 00:51:08,080 --> 00:51:10,960 Kingdom, the Kingdom, the Kingdom, the Kingdom. 776 00:51:10,960 --> 00:51:12,920 And then when you're operating the Kingdom, people be like, 777 00:51:12,920 --> 00:51:14,960 what is going on with you? How do you live this life? 778 00:51:14,960 --> 00:51:17,040 How can you have this? How can you have joy in such 779 00:51:17,320 --> 00:51:19,440 troubling times? How can it seems like everything 780 00:51:19,440 --> 00:51:21,560 works out for you? How come it seems like this that 781 00:51:21,560 --> 00:51:23,920 the other you say, well, let me tell you about my Kingdom and 782 00:51:23,920 --> 00:51:25,520 then they're like man, I want to get in that Kingdom and say, 783 00:51:25,520 --> 00:51:29,480 well, you must be born again. You must confess Jesus as Lord. 784 00:51:30,040 --> 00:51:34,680 It goes on and says in Acts chapter 20 verses 25 to 27 of 785 00:51:34,680 --> 00:51:37,600 the writer of over half of the New Testament. 786 00:51:37,720 --> 00:51:40,880 His name was Paul. It says and now behold, I know 787 00:51:40,880 --> 00:51:43,320 that all of you among whom I went about preaching the Kingdom 788 00:51:43,320 --> 00:51:46,200 will no longer see my face. Therefore I testify you this day 789 00:51:46,200 --> 00:51:49,080 that I am innocent of the blood of all men, for I did not shrink 790 00:51:49,080 --> 00:51:50,640 from declaring you the whole purpose of God. 791 00:51:51,000 --> 00:51:53,960 All of the letters that are written to the churches by Paul 792 00:51:54,080 --> 00:51:57,360 is Paul outlining to those churches, this is the culture of 793 00:51:57,360 --> 00:51:59,000 the Kingdom that you are now a part of. 794 00:51:59,680 --> 00:52:01,760 He said you once lived in one domain. 795 00:52:01,880 --> 00:52:04,200 Now you're in a different You have been transferred out of the 796 00:52:04,200 --> 00:52:07,440 domain of darkness into the Kingdom of his beloved son. 797 00:52:07,440 --> 00:52:09,760 This is how citizens live within the Kingdom. 798 00:52:11,040 --> 00:52:16,080 So even Paul's letters to the churches are about the lifestyle 799 00:52:16,160 --> 00:52:20,960 of the citizen of the king. In Hebrews chapter 12, verses 800 00:52:20,960 --> 00:52:23,520 28, it says this. Therefore, since we have 801 00:52:23,520 --> 00:52:27,760 received a Kingdom which cannot be shaken, let us show gratitude 802 00:52:27,760 --> 00:52:31,040 by which we may offer to God an accountable service with 803 00:52:31,040 --> 00:52:36,800 reverence and awe. This is why we dominate in the 804 00:52:36,840 --> 00:52:40,040 earth. This year we talked about the 805 00:52:40,040 --> 00:52:44,120 church would dominate. The reason we dominate as a 806 00:52:44,120 --> 00:52:47,200 people is because come on, church, help me out. 807 00:52:47,520 --> 00:52:49,760 I mean, seriously, you watch movies longer than I'm preaching 808 00:52:49,760 --> 00:52:55,040 right now. I mean, where's your national 809 00:52:55,360 --> 00:52:57,480 excitement? I'm not going to say pride, your 810 00:52:57,480 --> 00:53:01,240 national excitement about this Kingdom that you live in because 811 00:53:01,240 --> 00:53:03,240 the world's going to hell in a handbasket. 812 00:53:03,680 --> 00:53:06,480 In one sense, all the nations are going to pass away. 813 00:53:06,600 --> 00:53:09,520 We are a part of the only one that will exist forever and 814 00:53:09,520 --> 00:53:17,000 never has suffered loss and there has an endurance till the 815 00:53:17,040 --> 00:53:21,400 end. If you can't even endure to the 816 00:53:21,400 --> 00:53:25,640 end of a sermon. I have a heck of a time when the 817 00:53:25,640 --> 00:53:29,160 great deceptions are running upon us like never before and we 818 00:53:29,160 --> 00:53:33,280 are in that day right now. So we have to be very attentive 819 00:53:33,560 --> 00:53:35,760 to remind ourselves we are not of this world. 820 00:53:35,760 --> 00:53:38,840 We are in another Kingdom and that Kingdom cannot be shaken. 821 00:53:38,960 --> 00:53:42,160 And our king cannot be shaken, and his word cannot be shaken, 822 00:53:42,320 --> 00:53:45,960 and his word is undaunted by any tactic of the devil. 823 00:53:53,360 --> 00:53:58,400 We're to dominate. First Timothy 615 says Let me 824 00:53:58,400 --> 00:54:02,080 tell you this, it is a false humility for you to keep 825 00:54:02,080 --> 00:54:05,840 dragging yourself around like you some sorry no good nothing. 826 00:54:06,840 --> 00:54:08,640 You were a sorry, no good nothing. 827 00:54:08,640 --> 00:54:11,680 We were all destined for the lake of fire but God. 828 00:54:12,920 --> 00:54:15,560 And the minute I confessed him as Lord, he made me a new 829 00:54:15,560 --> 00:54:18,680 person. Now I will not cheapen this new 830 00:54:18,680 --> 00:54:22,960 person and call them a ragtag, a piece of junk, not worthy of 831 00:54:22,960 --> 00:54:24,280 something. He's like, how can you say 832 00:54:24,280 --> 00:54:26,760 you're not worthy when you're now in Christ? 833 00:54:26,880 --> 00:54:30,320 I've made you worthy. I've given you my righteousness. 834 00:54:30,560 --> 00:54:37,400 Act like a child of God, man. And great humility is when you 835 00:54:37,400 --> 00:54:40,600 yield and say, I'm just going to be exactly what God said. 836 00:54:40,600 --> 00:54:42,720 I am. I am what I am by the grace of 837 00:54:42,720 --> 00:54:44,840 God. That is humility. 838 00:54:44,840 --> 00:54:47,240 That is not arrogance, that is not pride. 839 00:54:47,360 --> 00:54:50,000 That is I am what I am by the grace of God. 840 00:54:50,200 --> 00:54:55,320 I'm doing what I'm doing today because of but God made me new 841 00:54:56,280 --> 00:55:00,800 and gave me His spirit and allowed me to overcome things at 842 00:55:00,800 --> 00:55:05,440 my word to His word because His word said and I said what his 843 00:55:05,440 --> 00:55:12,440 word said. I have no sin consciousness. 844 00:55:12,440 --> 00:55:16,960 I have Christ consciousness. I am conscious of the fact I'm a 845 00:55:16,960 --> 00:55:20,200 child of God. I've been delivered from that, 846 00:55:20,520 --> 00:55:26,040 that shame from that guilt from that low standard of living. 847 00:55:26,520 --> 00:55:31,720 I've been delivered from that and there's no shame in me being 848 00:55:31,720 --> 00:55:34,480 a say, but my God said I will win. 849 00:55:34,520 --> 00:55:41,760 My God said I will try, my God said, and I will because he has 850 00:55:43,680 --> 00:55:48,760 whoa, glory to God, he who is blessed. 851 00:55:49,240 --> 00:55:52,680 First Timothy 6:15 and only sovereign ruler, the King of 852 00:55:52,680 --> 00:55:56,080 kings and the Lord of Lords. Three more passages. 853 00:55:56,760 --> 00:56:01,080 First Peter 29 But you are a chosen race, oh man, a royal 854 00:56:01,080 --> 00:56:05,240 priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God's own possession. 855 00:56:05,320 --> 00:56:09,240 Look what it does say. You are a chosen religion, you 856 00:56:09,240 --> 00:56:13,480 are the chief religion, you are the greatest religion, you are 857 00:56:13,480 --> 00:56:16,480 the only religion. No, you are the chosen. 858 00:56:16,560 --> 00:56:20,800 Now listen, I understand religion by definition is a 859 00:56:20,840 --> 00:56:26,560 belief system and pure and unfiled religion which is only 860 00:56:26,560 --> 00:56:28,600 mentioned in James and then one other place. 861 00:56:29,000 --> 00:56:31,840 So religion is not even a big word God used. 862 00:56:33,000 --> 00:56:35,560 But what he was saying is if you have a belief system in the 863 00:56:35,560 --> 00:56:38,280 Kingdom, then there should be some demonstrations of that 864 00:56:38,280 --> 00:56:39,800 belief system. And you would take care of the 865 00:56:39,800 --> 00:56:42,160 poor and the widow, the orphans and the widows. 866 00:56:44,040 --> 00:56:46,360 But we're not chasing a religion. 867 00:56:46,920 --> 00:56:57,270 We're yielded to a Kingdom. He says this in Revelation 21. 868 00:56:57,270 --> 00:56:59,510 Again, going to the back of the book. 869 00:56:59,670 --> 00:57:03,800 Again, we've gone through multiple scriptures and the city 870 00:57:03,800 --> 00:57:07,320 has no need of the sun or the moon to shine on it, for the 871 00:57:07,320 --> 00:57:10,840 glory of God is illuminated and it's lamp is the Lamb, and the 872 00:57:10,840 --> 00:57:14,240 nations will walk by its light, and the kings of the earth will 873 00:57:14,240 --> 00:57:17,720 bring their glory into it. This is after the catching away 874 00:57:17,720 --> 00:57:20,720 the church, after the millennial reign of Christ, after the 875 00:57:20,720 --> 00:57:23,040 devils let go for a time and deceives the nation. 876 00:57:23,040 --> 00:57:26,920 It's after that battle that he is then cast into the lake of 877 00:57:26,920 --> 00:57:29,320 fire with a false prophet and the beast, which are just other 878 00:57:29,320 --> 00:57:31,280 nations. And then it's after the great 879 00:57:31,280 --> 00:57:33,840 white Throne judgment, and all those who did not call on the 880 00:57:33,840 --> 00:57:35,920 name of the Lord to be saved will be cast into the lake of 881 00:57:35,920 --> 00:57:37,880 fire, which is a second death. Then there'll be a new heaven 882 00:57:37,880 --> 00:57:43,080 and a new earth. And he will that new Jerusalem 883 00:57:43,080 --> 00:57:46,000 will come down out of heaven to the earth, and God will be among 884 00:57:46,000 --> 00:57:47,560 men. And notice the kings of the 885 00:57:47,560 --> 00:57:52,960 earth who are US will bring their glory into this new 886 00:57:52,960 --> 00:57:55,920 Jerusalem. That's why Matthew 2414 and 887 00:57:55,920 --> 00:58:00,080 we're living in this day says this, this gospel, not the 888 00:58:00,080 --> 00:58:04,360 gospel to be born again, but the gospel of the Kingdom shall be 889 00:58:04,360 --> 00:58:08,200 preached into the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and 890 00:58:08,200 --> 00:58:13,640 then the end will come. Yes, you must be born again. 891 00:58:14,600 --> 00:58:17,120 But why? It's not to go to heaven when 892 00:58:17,120 --> 00:58:19,640 you die. It's so you can become a child 893 00:58:19,640 --> 00:58:24,440 of God today. The gospel is not about a 894 00:58:24,440 --> 00:58:30,160 destination after you die. It's about a destiny on earth. 895 00:58:30,160 --> 00:58:38,720 Now, as a son of God, heaven comes as long as the Lord 896 00:58:38,720 --> 00:58:42,200 remains there. And I'm going up to the heaven 897 00:58:42,200 --> 00:58:45,760 one way or the other, either leaving my skin suit or I'm 898 00:58:45,760 --> 00:58:48,360 changing the moment in the twinkling of an eye and I blast 899 00:58:48,360 --> 00:58:52,960 up out of here at that trumpet. Either way, I'm going to go, but 900 00:58:52,960 --> 00:58:56,320 I will return with Him. I'll be with him during the 901 00:58:56,320 --> 00:59:00,200 millennial reign, and then I will stay with Him on this new 902 00:59:00,200 --> 00:59:02,920 heaven and new earth. Hallelujah. 903 00:59:03,120 --> 00:59:06,200 And if He deploys me to the ends of the universe on an assignment 904 00:59:06,200 --> 00:59:10,440 for Him, so be it. But I'll be present with God and 905 00:59:10,440 --> 00:59:15,000 it seems like he'll be present on the earth a lot and I'll be 906 00:59:15,000 --> 00:59:16,800 with Him. And I'm very thankful for that. 907 00:59:19,200 --> 00:59:23,120 Now, I know it's a little bit later, but you know, when you go 908 00:59:23,120 --> 00:59:24,760 through the whole Bible, it takes a little time. 909 00:59:27,120 --> 00:59:30,760 And again, if you want to, there are plenty of churches that will 910 00:59:30,760 --> 00:59:32,760 stay on a 30 minute clock for you. 911 00:59:32,760 --> 00:59:37,000 If that's all you can endure, you can go and be a part of 912 00:59:37,000 --> 00:59:41,720 those churches. But we're here to raise 913 00:59:41,880 --> 00:59:46,440 disciples, and if you are going to be a force for the Kingdom of 914 00:59:46,440 --> 00:59:48,960 God, it's going to take a little bit more than two or three 915 00:59:48,960 --> 00:59:51,760 scriptures and a bunch of anecdotal stories. 916 00:59:54,120 --> 00:59:56,240 And I don't apologize for that, CJ. 917 00:59:56,320 --> 01:00:02,360 You know, I don't apologize for that because we'll send our kids 918 01:00:02,680 --> 01:00:08,560 to two hour practices multiple times during the week and then 919 01:00:08,560 --> 01:00:11,120 won't let them come to youth service on Wednesday night 920 01:00:11,120 --> 01:00:17,320 'cause they're tired. I'm talking to people in the 921 01:00:17,320 --> 01:00:23,000 camera, not here, right? No Kingdom's the most part. 922 01:00:23,000 --> 01:00:24,120 Seek first.