Glory to God, all right? Revelation chapter 21 verses one
through 4 Revelations 21. We are not afraid of the Book of
Revelation. Simple book to understand,
especially when you understand what the Bible's about.
But when you don't understand what the Bible's about, you stay
away from Revelation because you don't understand.
Revelation is just a book of governments, of nations, but the
whole Bible is about this. And when you understand that,
you don't get upset. Revelation 21 takes place after
the catching away of the Church of which most scholars believe.
That's a seven-year period before Jesus Christ himself
returns to planet earth, puts his foot physically on the
planet, takes the devil, and when I say takes, he sends 1
Angel, just one, to chain him. Throw him into the bottomless
pit and he will stay there for 1000 years.
The deceiver will not have a voice on the planet for 1000
years. Jesus himself will physically be
present in the earth, not for 33 years, but for 1000 years, not
as a lamb that was slain, but as the reigning king.
The king is coming, I said. The King's coming and after that
thousand years he will release from that prison called the
bottomless pit, the devil again to roam on the earth.
And it will be after Jesus has physically been here for 1000
years, ruling and reigning, that nations will actually side with
the devil and act like they can go to the Jerusalem that is
still in the planet today and wage war against the King of
Kings. But it won't amount to anything.
I said Adam at his Adam, a breath from his mouth.
They will be defeated. And then all of a sudden, the
devil for the last time, he will take him and throw him into the
lake of fire, which is God's prison system.
It's not the devil's home. It's not where he gets to hang
out and have fun. It's not like some of the
ignorant people of the planet says when I go to hell I'm going
to take over and rule. No you're not.
You're going to scream, whine, cry and be in torment because it
is God's prison system of his Kingdom, of which for all
eternity we will see where the rebellious are.
This is why no one will ever rebel against God again, because
we will have a eternal record of where rebellion exists and it is
a lake of fire that burns forever.
And those who are in it are there because they wanted to be
there. They rejected the Lordship of
Jesus Christ and he will be cast there.
And then the dead, all those who had died without ever accepting
Christ, those that were in that place, not Abraham's bosom, but
that place on the other side of the abyss, That place where that
rich ruler was, that had that beggar named Lazarus, who used
to sit at his table and just look for crumbs as his dogs
would leak. Lick the sores on Lazarus.
He with his brothers most likely, and all who never called
on the name of the Lord or accepted his lordship, will be
pulled up out of the grave, taken to heaven, and stand
before the great white Throne judgment.
And God will judge each one of them.
The first book he pulls out is the Lamb Book of Life, and he'll
look for their name and we'll not find it.
And we'll close that book and then we'll open up the other
books. Every little thing of treason
and rebellion they ever did to the crown of God's Kingdom.
And according to those charges, he will sentence them eternally
into the lake of fire and 1 by 1 by 1 by 1, they will be cast
into the lake of fire, which is the second death.
Revelations 21 happens after this and it says in Revelations
21 verse one. Then I saw a new come on, speak
with me. A new what?
And a new why are we getting a new planet if we're going to
live in heaven forever? Now for some of you, I'm sad to
say that you've not been taught the actual conclusion of the
Bible. The only thing you've been
taught about God's conclusion is that we'll be with him forever
and he's currently in heaven. So we have decided that we'll
live in heaven forever. However, the Bible says then I
saw a new heaven and a new. Now I don't call it earth.
The Bible calls it earth. Jesus called it earth.
Jesus and the Holy Spirit who moved on John the Apostle and
gave him this revelation says there's a new heaven and new
earth. Now that doesn't mean heaven and
earth do not exist. It means they are burned with
fire, the 1st and 2nd heaven and are purified.
And this earth we're on will burn with fire and be purified
and it'll be a new earth for the 1st heaven.
And the first earth passed away and there is no longer any sea.
And I saw the holy city, the new Jerusalem coming, coming.
What coming? What down?
Out of, out of say out of, out of heaven.
Glory to God out of heaven, out of heaven from God made ready as
a bride adorned for her husband. And I heard a loud voice from
the throne saying, Behold, the Tabernacle of God is among men,
and he will dwell among everybody said, I want to go to
heaven. And God says I can't wait till I
come to the earth. God say man, I can't wait till I
come to the earth. I cannot wait until I make my
abode in the center of all creation called planet earth.
Now I'm not saying that the 3rd heaven won't exist, and I'm not
saying that we won't have access to it.
But I'm saying the Bible's very clear that God is making a
habitation on the earth. And you would be wanting only
religious tradition to reject this idea, because this is
actually not an idea. It is the voice of the Lord.
And it says, And He will dwell among them, and they shall be
his people, and God Himself, and who God Himself will be among
them. Look at verse 4.
And He will wipe away every tear from their eyes.
Now this is pretty powerful because we have concluded that
the minute we die and we're absent from our body and we're
present with the Lord, we won't cry anymore.
Yet it's at this point that he wipes away every tear from their
eyes and there will no longer be any death cause death He cast
into the lake of fire. So anybody would say, well, can
can we rebel again in the no, there'll be no longer any death.
Those that are locked into life are locked into life eternally.
Those that are locked into death are locked into death eternally.
And it says there'll be no longer any death.
There will no longer be any mourning or crying or pain.
The first things have passed away.
Wow, wow. Do you understand?
Because we have done a disservice to the Scripture and
we have stayed within the redemption of man alone without
taking in account God's intent for man and what God concludes
in Revelations 21 and 22. We have only been following a
Savior instead of seeing Him as a king.
And a savior is what Jesus did. Jesus had to become savior
because man fell from dominion. But Jesus has always been Lord.
He's always been the ruler. He's never abdicated his throne.
He's always been the ruler and He's been a ruler in heaven at
the right hand of his Father. But because man fell from his
dominion, Jesus had to come and restore that dominion.
Because the Bible's about a king, his Kingdom, and his royal
offspring. We see in Genesis 126 again a
perfect chapter, Genesis 1 and 2, No sin is on the earth at
this particular time. Adam and Eve are made in the
image of God, as it says. Then God said, let us make man
in our image according to our likeness, and let them have
dominion or rule over the fish of the sea, over the birds of
the air, over the cattle, over all the earth, and over every
creeping thing that creeps on the earth.
So God created man in his own image, in the image of God.
He created them, male and female.
He created them, and He never gets that wrong.
Dominion means to govern, to rule, to control things, to
manage, to master something, to have rulership.
When we hear these words today, because the world is in a fallen
state and men rule over men, God never intended that.
When we hear these words, we obviously start thinking of
humans. But Genesis 126 never intended
for me to rule Dustin. I was only to rule the things on
the earth and over the environment of the earth, not
over other humans, because humans are ruled only by one
God, only by God. So when God in this Genesis 1
ruling is not a negative, it's not oppression.
Ruling is release of authority, power, purpose.
Because God is so confident in His rulership, He doesn't mind
sharing because you can't overtake His throne.
Some have tried, all have failed.
An anointed cherub tried, failed, and a third of the
angels fell with him. However, when man still today
tries to put his seat above the most high, he fails every time.
He fails every time. You say I would never do that.
I would never try to rule God. Well, do you do your word or his
word? Because if you do your word
instead of His word, then you are trying to put your authority
above his. Because there's a way that seems
right to a man until you line it up with the word of God.
Hallelujah. So in this dispensation, God
says don't forsake the assembling of yourself together.
Which means then I don't make an excuse not to come to church.
I show up and I participate in the body.
We are participators. We are not spectators.
We are jointed and fitted together.
We all bring our joint supply. That's not negotiable.
That's submission to the highest authority.
The one who sits on the throne, the one that every knee will bow
and every tongue will confess, is Christ, that Christ Jesus is
Lord. And so we see here that God
established us to rule. A Kingdom is a government
influence of a king over his territory, impacting it with his
personal will, purpose and intent, producing citizens,
expressing the culture, values, morals and lifestyle, reflecting
the King's nature. And this is what God wanted.
I'm in heaven ruling here, man. You rule earth down there.
Your planet and my place will look exactly alike because we're
of the same nature. And you'll rule like I do in
your sphere as I rule in my sphere.
I ultimately rule all spheres. But I'm giving you access to
rule there, to manage, to control, to have dominion, to
rule over these things. Notice God never said let man,
let's make man in our image corner line is and let him rule
over me and the fish and the birds.
No, you're never ruling over the Creator.
Hallelujah. He gave you very specific
boundaries. See, the original plan of God
was to extend His heavenly Kingdom on the earth through
mankind. God created man to manage and
administrate His king dominion on the earth.
Because here's the thing, God believes that government is the
answer to mankind's problem. It's His government.
This is why Isaiah Nah six and seven concerning this child that
is coming because Adam had fallen from dominion.
He says a child will be born, a son will be given, and the
government will rest on his shoulders.
Notice a child is born in Isaiah Chapter 9 verse six and seven.
Notice a child is born, but a son is not born because the son
always existed. And this is in your Bible.
And I know this can be tough in the US because we've been
conditioned or trained to separate government and church,
not understanding that church is actually government.
Because church is not a term that Jesus used or made-up or
communicated to the disciples that they never heard before and
was not known in the world that they were living in.
In fact, the Greek word is ecclesia.
Some say ecclesia, and it it is the same term used by the Roman
government for their Senate, for their legislative body, for
those who carried out the will of their king Caesar in Rome.
And so we as the Church, or more like ambassadors and our
assembling is us coming together and the embassy of God, where we
hear from the home country and communicate his plans, his
purposes, his will upon the governments or tribes and people
of the earth. And listen, we're letting them
know there's a better government because all the world today is
looking for new and better government.
Why are there protests in Iran? Why are there citizens?
Why is there citizens in Cuba right now protesting because
they believe there is a better government for them to be under?
And the whole plan is looking for this.
And the reality is, is that all forms of government is man's
attempt to be in a system that God created, yet without God or
without the Holy Spirit. And God never intended man to
govern without the Spirit of God.
Never. It was never God's intent.
For when he made Manny breathed into his breath and his nostrils
the breath of life, the Holy Spirit was there to confirm, to
let him know that he was a child of God and he could function
like God in the earth, in the assignment that God and purpose
he had given him. You understand there is a
purpose for man. The purpose for man is not to
sing. Again.
We have taken a tradition of the word worship man.
God created us to worship. Well, first of all, worship is
not singing. It can include singing.
Singing can because singing is actually praise.
Whether it's fast or slow, it's praise nonetheless.
Worship is when you bow your knee, submit yourself to the one
that rules. So in that context, we were
created to worship. We were created to bow our
knees, submit ourselves to the King of glory, to the Creator of
heaven and earth, to follow Him with all of our heart, all of
our mind, all of our strength, everything about us was to be
His and completely His and willfully His, because He loves
us with an everlasting love, with an everlasting love, Mama,
it's amazing. And because God created us, He
had a position for us. But yet we only see ourselves in
our failed state when God is trying to restore us to our
righteous state. And He's doing this on all
fronts, not just in the spirit, not just in the soul realm or
the mental realm, but also ultimately even in the body
realm, that our spirit, soul, and body will be glorified,
Hallelujah, and will be restored back to what God said.
So again, God knows that what's in the heart of all humans, that
there is this government that we can exist in that releases our
full potential and allows us to live our best life.
This is why people come to the United States for a better life
for themselves and their children.
Children for generations, yet the United States fails when
compared to the Kingdom of God. It's not even close.
I mean, it's been good, but it's not even close.
And ours is on a track right now for some troubled times because
we have changed our thinking concerning our government.
We call it a democracy all the time.
When it's not, it's a constitutional Republic that
democratically elects their leaders.
And if the more morality of humanity stays with the Lord,
then we should be electing moral leaders.
But if the majority become immoral, then they will elect
immoral leaders and the righteous will suffer as a
result of unrighteousness. Because we put power in the
hands of humans that are not perfect.
But if the church, I said if the church would just rise.
And I'm talking, I'm not talking denominationally.
I'm talking about those who say that Jesus Christ is Lord.
It is easy to recognize who you should and should not vote for
because you will strip yourself of a natural party.
Not saying you won't have one. So you can vote, but your
allegiance will not be to a Republican Party, will not be to
a Democrat party, will not be to a Libertarian Party, will not be
a part of loyal to a Greenpeace party.
There's so many parties out there I can't even name them
all. But you won't be loyal.
You'll be loyal to the Kingdom and the king alone, and you'll
vote accordingly. And let me tell you, every time
you cast your vote, the King's writing it down, whether that
vote represents him and his word or whether it represents your
personal self-interest. So he said, a child will be
born, a son will be given to the government, will rest on his
shoulders, and his name will be called Wonderful counselor,
Mighty God, Eternal Father, Prince of Peace.
There'll be no end to the increase of His government.
Order of peace on the throne of David or over His Kingdom, to
establish it and to uphold it with justice and righteousness
from then on and forevermore. The zeal of the Lord of hosts
will accomplish this. Again, every human heart is
searching for a new and better world.
All men believe that government is the answer of the power of
government. God believes it as well.
He knows it's His Kingdom. And this can be troubling
because at the end of the day, as we've launched this
particular topic, when I it's not even a topic, It is the
Bible of the Kingdom everywhere that the Bible has a theme that
is bigger and larger than the blood of Jesus.
Because Genesis 1 and 2 did not need the blood of Jesus.
The blood of Jesus was not required in Genesis 1 and 2, but
the Kingdom was there. Are you hearing me?
The Kingdom was there. So there was an existence where
the blood of Jesus was not necessary and man existed in
relationship with God without the blood.
Now unfortunately, Adam did sin and Adam did bring sin into the
world and all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of
God. And we cannot have a
relationship now with God except through the blood.
But the blood of Jesus is paying a price to put us back in the
position that Genesis 1 wanted us to be in.
Most people are just wanting to go to heaven.
And let me tell you, you know why you like this idea so much?
It's because it strips you of your responsibility of son and
daughter ship. You don't want to be
responsible. That's why they accept this
tradition. Because when you accept
kingship, when you accept dominion, when you accept your
rightful place, then you know I have a responsibility to my
Father to obey Him at His word. I am not just accepting Him as
my Savior who paid the price for my wrongdoing.
I am yielding to His Lordship. Lord is not even a religious
word. It means supreme in authority
and because we rebel against any human authority, we really bell
rebel against Jesus's authority. But if Jesus is Lord, which is
really the only way you can be saved, it doesn't say call on
the name of the Savior, says call on the name of the the
Lord. You have to acknowledge you are
supreme. I could not do it myself.
My words had no authority, no power.
My actions had no authority, no power.
It had no way to make me right and right standing with you.
Jesus, you and you alone are the only one.
You are the Lamb that's without spot or wrinkle.
You are the one who came and fully obeyed the Father's will.
You are not like your first brother Adam.
You obeyed God at the very word, and you died on a cross, so that
your blood would be without stain, so that I could have
access again. You did this because you will
keep your Father's word, and Father will keep His word
concerning me. Now it's up to me and so it's
not a hard time, not a hard thing for me to pray, for me to
read, for me to be in church because it's an outward
expression of something that's changed on the inside of me.
I just love to be in the presence of God in every aspect
that God wants me to be in his presence.
So today I want to show you again that the Kingdom mandate
runs through the entire Bible. It's the re establishment to
humanity, what God started in the garden.
And so he found someone in the earth and said I'm bringing the
Kingdom back. I gave dominion to man.
Man will have to get it back, but man alone can't do it.
So I have to send my own seed in the form of a man.
So I'm going to have to have a bloodline.
And so we started with a man named Abram.
Genesis chapter 12. Let's go through the Bible
together. Can we?
In Genesis chapter 12 verses one through 3, it says now the Lord
said to Abram, go from your country and from your relatives
and from your father's house to the land, which I will show you
and I will make you a great notice.
He didn't say a great religion because Jesus is not interested
in religion. He's interested in his Kingdom.
He said I'll make you a great nation, I'll bless you and I'll
make your your name great. And so you will be a blessing,
right? And he goes, and the one who
curses you I will curse, and those who bless you I will
bless. And then he goes, and in all the
families of the earth will be blessed because of Abram, whose
name was changed when he, when he walked in covenant with God.
God said, no longer will I call you Abram, but I'll call you
Abraham. Abraham means a father of many
not religions, a father of many nations.
I have made you. Now he calls him this before he
ever has a son or child of his own, which means God doesn't
speak about what's now, God speaks about what will be God
and whatever God says will happen.
And Abraham, the father of many nations, gave birth to a man
named Isaac, who is the coveted child?
Not Ishmael. Ishmael is not God's covenant
child. He is a child of the flesh.
He is not a child of the Spirit. He is not ordained by God.
He goes on to say that a Isaac gave birth to a child named
Jacob. Jacob wrestles with the Lord in
Genesis and the Lord changes his name and his new name, instead
of Jacob's supplanter, becomes Israel.
Israel is a nation that is still in planet earth today.
It is the birth of the nation of Israel.
When God said Abraham make you a great nation, out of him came
the nation of Israel. So the Bible's about a king, his
Kingdom and his royal offspring, and he is demonstrating in the
earth that he will rule the nations, and he'll start with
one called Israel. He wants Israel to be the object
of every other government's desire.
So he tells Israel through his prophet Moses, as he delivers
them out of Egypt to take them over into the Promised land.
He gives them a recorded law. And the law is simply the
behavior and action that is necessary to demonstrate God's
Kingdom in the earth. And in Deuteronomy 28, he says,
This man, if you will obey my voice, because I am the one who
sits in the heavens and laughs, I am the one that is ruler over
everything. If you will obey what I say,
you'll be blessed coming in and blessed going out.
You'll be the head and not the tail.
You'll be above and not beneath. Everything you put your hand to
is going to prosper. I mean, you're going to be so
blessed in the field, in the city, your your livestock.
The the society was agricultural and he was saying every thing
agricultural that you do will be so blessed.
In fact the nation's you'll be so wealthy because I'm your king
that the nations will come to you to receive, but you will not
have to go to them. You want to bar die from them.
You will be the wealthiest nation on the planet.
And then he says in with anyone, tries to be your enemy.
When he comes up against you one way, I'll send him back in seven
ways. I'll run him down the road.
But he said, as my nation, in order to maintain this blessing,
you must obey my word because my word is life.
And remember what we said last week, the reason why you want to
obey him is 'cause he's life and anything that you, when you do
not obey, it's death. Last week we said your body
tells you without speaking that in order for you to live, you
require oxygen. Now it's not pure oxygen, it's a
mixture. But what that mixture is, you
require it. You could rebel and tell your
body. Don't tell me I have to inhale
this gas called oxygen and whatever the rest was, you know,
percentages. I guess I need to get that now
so I can quote it for you, right?
You could Google it or ChatGPT yourself and find out what we're
breathing. OK?
It's why you're living right now.
But many of you could walk in here with a tank of propane,
hook it up like a little mask, turn on your vow, and only allow
propane to go through your nostrils into your lungs.
I do not believe you'll make it out of service 'cause you can
rebel. And here's the thing, If sin
paid out as fast as you sucking propane, then you would quit
doing the choices that are contrary to God.
Because we'd be like, how foolish somebody would walk up
in here sucking on carbon monoxide, sucking on propane, I
mean, sucking on carbon dioxide. What you're releasing, you can't
even keep in you. You can't breathe that in and
sustain your life. Any other form other than what
we're inhaling now will bring death to us 'cause God created
our bodies to survive in the planet with this oxygen.
And in fact, it's our blood that's moving this oxygen
around. And so you can say I'm not going
to obey God, but what you're saying is I'm hooking myself up
to something that's going to kill me.
And that's the best way I can demonstrate it.
Because God's word is like, he's not telling you what to do
because you like I'm the guy. He's telling you because he's
like, I'm life and I want you to live.
I want you to live. I want you to have the fullest
life. I mean, I created you.
I know why you're living. I know why what your personal
and destiny is. I want you to have the fullness.
I'm not. I have no issue here because I'm
going to exist whether you do or not.
I'll be God whether you accept me or not.
I'll rule and reign whether you want to rule and reign or not.
You do not intimidate me, but I know your purpose.
This is why you want to say yes, Lord, I'm following you.
So Moses gives this law and we've treated the law so
negatively when the law was trying to reveal based upon how
man could live with God at the time, to live holy and righteous
and just not so that they could go to heaven and be in the in,
in the presence of God. We know that all that died in
the old covenant went to the grave, but they went to
Paradise. That means they could live
according to the law by faith in a way that they did not go where
the rich ruler went, but they went to a place called Paradise.
And in Paradise there was no torment in the grave there.
We got much to teach about that because our traditions have made
things so negative. Well, the law was there to show
that we couldn't. The law was there to show the
Kingdom of God. Man already knew he couldn't.
There was a way that seemed right, and they still died.
Then he gives them another way. He's trying to reveal himself
and his nature and his character, Not to prove them to
them they couldn't, but to continue to demonstrate to them
who he was. And we could not live the law in
such a way that we would be perfect before God, but we could
live it by faith enough that we didn't have to go to the place
beyond the abyss, but we could be in paradise and await that
day for when Jesus Christ himself would come and lead
captivity captive out. But we get over into Samuel
first Samuel chapter 8, verse 7. It says in the God said to
Samuel, listen to the voice of the people in regard to all that
they say to you. They have not rejected you, but
they have rejected me from being king over them.
Now this is the nation that God went to Moses and said go, let
my people go. I'm going to use you.
I'm want you to go to that nation.
I want you to tell that nation that I'm their king, I'm their
God. Pharaoh thinks he's a God.
I want him to know I am and he's worshipping false ones and I'm
going to have all that belief system and religion that they're
after Crumble. Every one of his curses was in
direct connection to an object Egypt worshipped.
He was letting him know. You thought your God could do
this. I crushed it.
You thought your God. I mean, they serve the God of
Rod, the sun God, and he blackened it out.
It was so dark they couldn't even see.
He's like, where's your God now? Are you hearing what I'm saying?
And when the rest of Egypt dark, he leaves a light on.
And where Israel's at. Oh my gosh.
So God was a nation delivering a nation, went to a nation to
deliver a nation. And so he wants to take them
into a land flowing with milk and honey, where they could go
and they can live and prosper. And if they would obey them,
they'd be huge blessing to the world, to humanity, and showcase
the God and King of heaven. Yet these and Samuel did, just
like their forefathers who died in the wilderness.
They said we want to see a king, we want a man, we don't want God
anymore. And God acknowledged to Sammy,
He said, they've not rejected you, they've rejected me as king
over them. What's it say in Psalms 24/7 to
10? Lift up your heads, O gates, and
be lifted up, O ancient doors, that the King of glory may come
in. Who is the King of glory?
The Lord strong and mighty, the Lord mighty in battle.
Lift up your heads O gates, and lift them up, O ancient doors,
that the King of glory may come in.
Who is the King of glory? The Lord of hosts.
He is King of glory. Psalms 47, seven says For God is
the King of all the earth. Sing praises with understanding.
Yes, Jesus is the Lamb that was slain, but he's first king.
God is king, they rule and reign.
It's the Kingdom of God that is the the dominant, the theme of
the Bible, and it's about the restoration of this Kingdom back
to man through man with man for God.
That ultimately at the very end, if we get into Coloss
Corinthians, that Jesus, who has that authority will turn it
right back over to Dad. Wow, we know that Daniel talked
about this Kingdom that would come.
We talked about it last week in Daniel chapter 2, that a rock
was made without hands and it would crush all of these
kingdoms that ever existed because the Bible's about a
king, his Kingdom, his royal offspring, Zechariah prophesied
in Chapter 9, verse 9. Again, we're just going through
the Bible. Rejoice greatly, O daughter Zod
shouting tribe, O daughter of Jerusalem, behold, your king is
coming to you. He is just an endowed with
salvation and mounted on a donkey, even a coat a full of a
donkey. Remember when Jesus says go into
town, I want you to get that donkey.
And if someone tries to stop you, tell them not that the
Savior needs it, but that the Lord has need of it.
And when they stop the disciples, hey, what are you
doing on time that that's not yours?
They said the Lord has need of it And they said, Oh, the Lord,
oh, he's supreme authority at his words.
You can have it. And Jesus sure enough came into
town on that donkey never been written, and they laid their
coats and they laid out palm branches, and they did all as he
was coming in triumphantly, the King of glory.
In Luke chapter 1 verses 30 to 33, the Angel said to her
concerning Mary said, do not be afraid Mary, for you have found
favor with God. And behold, you will conceive in
your womb and bear some, and you, and you shall name him
Jesus, and he will be great, and will be called the Son of the
Most High. And the Lord God will give him
what? The throne of his father David,
and he will reign over the House of Jacob Forever, and his
Kingdom will have no end. Isaiah prophesied about the
Kingdom. Jeremiah prophesied about the
Kingdom, Zechariah prophesied about the Kingdom, Samuel knew
about the Kingdom, The prophets of old all knew about the
Kingdom. Everybody's looking for the
king. The whole old covenant is about
the king is coming. The problem is they did not
realize that Jesus had to come as a suffering servant and 1st
pay a price, but he still was king nonetheless.
Even in the action of Savior. He was saving us because of his
kingship. Oh my gosh.
And so he comes, he the Angel tells Mary, that's the king in
your womb. Listen, Thrones are in kingdoms,
not religions. In Matthew chapter 2 verses one
and two, it says now after Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea
in the days of Herod, the king Magi from the east, that's wise
men or astrologers from the east arrived in Jerusalem saying
where is he who was born king of the Jews?
We saw a star in the east and have come to worship him.
These guys came from where Babylon was.
These guys came from the place that Daniel prophesied about
this king coming. They have been waiting for
generations for this day and when the the star arrived on the
night he was birthday. It took them almost two years to
get to Jerusalem. And when they came into town and
met the king, King Herod, who was over Jerusalem, sat in that
place because of Pontius Pilate, the governor of Rome, home, and
he was ruling the people under the authority of the governor
Pilot. They said, where's the king of
the Jews? They did not come and look for
where's this new religion? Who's this guy that's going to
save the they're saying, where is the king?
This king that we have heard is coming and his Kingdom is going
to have no end. It was prophesied by this wise
man in our day called Daniel Belshazzar was his name given to
him by Nebuchadnezzar and said that this Kingdom was coming and
he would wipe out every other. And we want to put our
allegiance to the Kingdom that is a global takeover.
Oh my goodness. And we said last week, the devil
knows it's about a Kingdom In Luke chapter 4, remember, Jesus
was full of the Holy Ghost, goes into the wilderness and it says
the devil let him up in verse 5 and showed him all the kingdoms
of the world in the moment of time.
The devil said, I'll give all this domain and its glory to
you, for it's been handed over to me.
Where did the devil get it from Adam in the garden.
He did not steal it. Adam willfully gave the devil
his dominion over the earth. But Jesus has come to take it
back, to take it all back. Hallelujah.
And did he take it back? Glory to God, Hallelujah.
So in order, he's given him an alternative.
You can rule as long as you bow to me.
The devil wasn't asking for a song, He was asking for
submission to his rulership. But the Lord says it is written.
It is written, you shall worship the Lord thy God and him only.
There's only one that I'll bow and knee to.
There's only one that is over all and He is my Father and I'll
never bow to you. And what he didn't know is I'm
taking it anyway in Luke chapter 4 verse 43, and it says in Jesus
he said I must preach the Kingdom of God to the other
cities also, for I was sent for this purpose.
What was his purpose? Well, we know at first Johnny
said to destroy the works of the devil.
What's he destroying? He's destroying the devil's
dominion, his authority, his power that he received from
Adam. He said I'm going to take it
back. I'm going to destroy his works.
This act of rebellion and treason and the ability, we're
all man. All he can do is rebel against
God. Well, I'm going to strip him of
that. And if man will put his
allegiance in me and bow down to my kingship, then I'll put in
them a new spirit. And that spirit will want to
obey Dad. It won't be a rebellious, stiff
neck, hard hearted spirit anymore.
It'll be one that says, yes, Dad, ABBA, Father, I want to
yield to you. I want to submit to you.
It has access to the Holy Ghost. And we'll hear from heaven and
obey the plan and purpose of God and stay yielded to him always.
And from that point on, Matthew 417, it said that Jesus began to
preach and say repent for the Kingdom of heaven as at hand.
That's all he preached about. We preach about born again more
than we preach about the Kingdom.
In fact, most of the church in the Western world, and in the
Eastern for that matter, at this point, doesn't even know it's
about a Kingdom. They think it's about an exit
strategy for heaven when it's really about world domination.
Now, when I say that, I'm not saying that we're going to stay
on planet Earth forever now. I'm saying if you die, you'll be
present with the Lord and he's presently in heaven.
But if you don't think this is about a global takeover, you
cannot run a bumper sticker and say coexist because nothing will
exist but God. He's the only thing that will
exist and the only reason they can coexist now is because God
is a merciful God, is a compassionate and kind God, and
he will let you believe whatever you want to believe, but he will
hold you accountable to whatever you believe.
If you choose to not accept him and want some other religion, he
will allow you because he will not make you submit to him, but
you will submit at some point. Now unfortunately when that
submission comes, it'll be a separation for eternity.
This is good news. You know we're this has become
such a foreign concept that when you preach like this it seems
abnormal when the reality is it is the normal part of the Bible.
I mean just do your homework. The Bible's ate up with the
Kingdom. Look at every time Jesus
publicly ministered when he started the conversation.
He'll say the Kingdom of heaven is like this and the Kingdom of
God is like that. He will address questions.
And the only reason we know we need to be born again is because
a religious man came at 2:00 in the morning and said, you know,
you must be from God. His name was Nicodemus.
And Jesus said unless a man is born again, he shall not see the
Kingdom of God. He won't even enter it.
Right? And you have to be born again.
Why? Because we can't smuggle
ourselves in. You know what the legal
immigration policy for the Kingdom of God is?
It is being a born citizen of that Kingdom.
I can't buy my way in. My good works can't get my way
in. I must be born of God.
It's the only way into His Kingdom.
In fact, his border is so tight, it's a narrow gate and few get
in. Unfortunately, I believe
sometimes the Christian Church is preaching such a wide gate.
Now it's easy if you'll accept Christ, He's done all the work,
but it's your responsibility once.
Once you've accepted that work and it's the most powerful life,
it is not looking back and trying to have an old life.
Matthew 610, nine and 10 says pray then this way our Father,
whose father, who is in heaven, hallowed be your name, your
Kingdom come, your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.
He's our daddy. John chapter 18 verses 33 to 37.
Therefore Pilate entered some in Jesus and said, are you the king
of the Jews? Notice he didn't say, hey, are
you starting a new religion? I heard something called
Christianity was around. I mean, Christ is not even a
religious name. It is a title.
It is the Greek equivalent to the Hebrew word Messiah, which
is the anointed, one of his anointing.
And that's what you do to kings. And that's what happened to
Jesus the day he was baptized in the Jordan River.
God anointed him, and then he made a confession from heaven.
This is my beloved son in whom I will please.
It was him acknowledging Jesus's kingship.
So let me say Jesus Christ, we're saying Jesus the King and
not just the King, the eternal King, the King that will never
let go of his throne. Jesus answered.
Are you saying this on your own to others?
Tell you about me, Jesus not denying he's a king, Pilate
said. I'm not a Jew, am I?
Your nation, your own what? Your own nation, Chief Priest
delivered you over to me. Notice he recognizes Jesus's
nation before he recognized those, the religious part of the
nation. Jesus said my kingdom's not of
this world. If my Kingdom were of this
world, then my servants will be fighting so that I will not be
handed over to the Jews. But as it is, my Kingdom is not
of this realm. Now what Jesus is not saying is
that his Kingdom doesn't exist in the planet because he's
already said when you pray, pray this my king, your Kingdom come,
your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.
So Jesus be a liar if his Kingdom couldn't impact the
planet. What he's saying is, is my
Kingdom does not operate like worldly kingdoms.
He qualifies that by saying if if my Kingdom were of this world
or if it operated like this, then my servants would not let
me be handed over the Jews. In fact he could say I have an
Angel down here right now smoke the whole place.
Have you not read what happened in my nation when I sit down 1
Angel and smoke 185,000 Assyrians and Mennonites?
I mean his angels are special, special forces.
I mean Secret Service to the next level.
Are you hearing what I'm saying? He goes on.
Then in verse 37, therefore Pilate says so you are king.
Jesus said you say correctly that I am a king.
Jesus doesn't deny because he knows he is.
Then he goes on and says, for this I have been born and for
this I've come into the world to testify the truth.
Everyone who is of the truth hears my voice.
What did Jesus say? He said unless a Colonel we fall
in the ground and die, it cannot produce after its own kind.
So Jesus died a king and he was raised a king.
So he can make you a king because he's the king of king.
Who are those kings? You are those kings.
We are a royal bloodline. We are put back into the royal
bloodline and given the Kingdom back to us.
Hallelujah. In Acts chapter one verse 3, the
death, burial, resurrection of Jesus has occurred and it says
to these He presented himself alive after his suffering by
many convincing proofs appearing to them over a period of 40
days. And Speaking of things, Jesus
did not change his message to say after he was raised and say,
go tell everybody they must be born again and ask them where
are they going to go when they die?
He didn't change his message. He said it's the Kingdom, the
Kingdom, the Kingdom, the Kingdom, the Kingdom.
And then when you're operating the Kingdom, people be like,
what is going on with you? How do you live this life?
How can you have this? How can you have joy in such
troubling times? How can it seems like everything
works out for you? How come it seems like this that
the other you say, well, let me tell you about my Kingdom and
then they're like man, I want to get in that Kingdom and say,
well, you must be born again. You must confess Jesus as Lord.
It goes on and says in Acts chapter 20 verses 25 to 27 of
the writer of over half of the New Testament.
His name was Paul. It says and now behold, I know
that all of you among whom I went about preaching the Kingdom
will no longer see my face. Therefore I testify you this day
that I am innocent of the blood of all men, for I did not shrink
from declaring you the whole purpose of God.
All of the letters that are written to the churches by Paul
is Paul outlining to those churches, this is the culture of
the Kingdom that you are now a part of.
He said you once lived in one domain.
Now you're in a different You have been transferred out of the
domain of darkness into the Kingdom of his beloved son.
This is how citizens live within the Kingdom.
So even Paul's letters to the churches are about the lifestyle
of the citizen of the king. In Hebrews chapter 12, verses
28, it says this. Therefore, since we have
received a Kingdom which cannot be shaken, let us show gratitude
by which we may offer to God an accountable service with
reverence and awe. This is why we dominate in the
earth. This year we talked about the
church would dominate. The reason we dominate as a
people is because come on, church, help me out.
I mean, seriously, you watch movies longer than I'm preaching
right now. I mean, where's your national
excitement? I'm not going to say pride, your
national excitement about this Kingdom that you live in because
the world's going to hell in a handbasket.
In one sense, all the nations are going to pass away.
We are a part of the only one that will exist forever and
never has suffered loss and there has an endurance till the
end. If you can't even endure to the
end of a sermon. I have a heck of a time when the
great deceptions are running upon us like never before and we
are in that day right now. So we have to be very attentive
to remind ourselves we are not of this world.
We are in another Kingdom and that Kingdom cannot be shaken.
And our king cannot be shaken, and his word cannot be shaken,
and his word is undaunted by any tactic of the devil.
We're to dominate. First Timothy 615 says Let me
tell you this, it is a false humility for you to keep
dragging yourself around like you some sorry no good nothing.
You were a sorry, no good nothing.
We were all destined for the lake of fire but God.
And the minute I confessed him as Lord, he made me a new
person. Now I will not cheapen this new
person and call them a ragtag, a piece of junk, not worthy of
something. He's like, how can you say
you're not worthy when you're now in Christ?
I've made you worthy. I've given you my righteousness.
Act like a child of God, man. And great humility is when you
yield and say, I'm just going to be exactly what God said.
I am. I am what I am by the grace of
God. That is humility.
That is not arrogance, that is not pride.
That is I am what I am by the grace of God.
I'm doing what I'm doing today because of but God made me new
and gave me His spirit and allowed me to overcome things at
my word to His word because His word said and I said what his
word said. I have no sin consciousness.
I have Christ consciousness. I am conscious of the fact I'm a
child of God. I've been delivered from that,
that shame from that guilt from that low standard of living.
I've been delivered from that and there's no shame in me being
a say, but my God said I will win.
My God said I will try, my God said, and I will because he has
whoa, glory to God, he who is blessed.
First Timothy 6:15 and only sovereign ruler, the King of
kings and the Lord of Lords. Three more passages.
First Peter 29 But you are a chosen race, oh man, a royal
priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God's own possession.
Look what it does say. You are a chosen religion, you
are the chief religion, you are the greatest religion, you are
the only religion. No, you are the chosen.
Now listen, I understand religion by definition is a
belief system and pure and unfiled religion which is only
mentioned in James and then one other place.
So religion is not even a big word God used.
But what he was saying is if you have a belief system in the
Kingdom, then there should be some demonstrations of that
belief system. And you would take care of the
poor and the widow, the orphans and the widows.
But we're not chasing a religion.
We're yielded to a Kingdom. He says this in Revelation 21.
Again, going to the back of the book.
Again, we've gone through multiple scriptures and the city
has no need of the sun or the moon to shine on it, for the
glory of God is illuminated and it's lamp is the Lamb, and the
nations will walk by its light, and the kings of the earth will
bring their glory into it. This is after the catching away
the church, after the millennial reign of Christ, after the
devils let go for a time and deceives the nation.
It's after that battle that he is then cast into the lake of
fire with a false prophet and the beast, which are just other
nations. And then it's after the great
white Throne judgment, and all those who did not call on the
name of the Lord to be saved will be cast into the lake of
fire, which is a second death. Then there'll be a new heaven
and a new earth. And he will that new Jerusalem
will come down out of heaven to the earth, and God will be among
men. And notice the kings of the
earth who are US will bring their glory into this new
Jerusalem. That's why Matthew 2414 and
we're living in this day says this, this gospel, not the
gospel to be born again, but the gospel of the Kingdom shall be
preached into the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and
then the end will come. Yes, you must be born again.
But why? It's not to go to heaven when
you die. It's so you can become a child
of God today. The gospel is not about a
destination after you die. It's about a destiny on earth.
Now, as a son of God, heaven comes as long as the Lord
remains there. And I'm going up to the heaven
one way or the other, either leaving my skin suit or I'm
changing the moment in the twinkling of an eye and I blast
up out of here at that trumpet. Either way, I'm going to go, but
I will return with Him. I'll be with him during the
millennial reign, and then I will stay with Him on this new
heaven and new earth. Hallelujah.
And if He deploys me to the ends of the universe on an assignment
for Him, so be it. But I'll be present with God and
it seems like he'll be present on the earth a lot and I'll be
with Him. And I'm very thankful for that.
Now, I know it's a little bit later, but you know, when you go
through the whole Bible, it takes a little time.
And again, if you want to, there are plenty of churches that will
stay on a 30 minute clock for you.
If that's all you can endure, you can go and be a part of
those churches. But we're here to raise
disciples, and if you are going to be a force for the Kingdom of
God, it's going to take a little bit more than two or three
scriptures and a bunch of anecdotal stories.
And I don't apologize for that, CJ.
You know, I don't apologize for that because we'll send our kids
to two hour practices multiple times during the week and then
won't let them come to youth service on Wednesday night
'cause they're tired. I'm talking to people in the
camera, not here, right? No Kingdom's the most part.
Seek first.