1 00:00:16,400 --> 00:00:19,840 You know, not only is it the assignment of the church to 2 00:00:20,000 --> 00:00:22,720 bring people out of darkness into light, it's also the 3 00:00:22,720 --> 00:00:25,160 assignment of the church to go plant other churches. 4 00:00:27,120 --> 00:00:30,040 Because if you're only had a church and there were no other 5 00:00:30,040 --> 00:00:32,920 churches, well then there only be one church on the whole 6 00:00:32,920 --> 00:00:36,680 planet. So there are an expression that 7 00:00:36,840 --> 00:00:39,080 churches would plant. Again, This is why we went 8 00:00:39,080 --> 00:00:42,760 through the fivefold ministry teaching last month or the month 9 00:00:42,760 --> 00:00:45,080 before. Because when you have the 10 00:00:45,080 --> 00:00:48,040 apostle, the prophet, pastor, teacher, and evangelist, and 11 00:00:48,040 --> 00:00:51,040 they're working together with a common vision, then the elements 12 00:00:51,040 --> 00:00:55,720 associated with those fivefold ministry gifts will expand the 13 00:00:55,720 --> 00:01:01,040 church into other locations. And so we have the privilege of 14 00:01:01,040 --> 00:01:04,160 being able to plant churches. We obviously have three in 15 00:01:04,160 --> 00:01:06,760 Nicaragua. We have one in India. 16 00:01:06,760 --> 00:01:09,000 Obviously there's going to be 1 here in Dominican Republic. 17 00:01:09,000 --> 00:01:11,920 And we're going to be working on additional ones within our own 18 00:01:11,920 --> 00:01:15,800 state of Florida. And so God is doing something in 19 00:01:15,800 --> 00:01:20,720 this season so that the Kingdom of God can continue to advance. 20 00:01:21,120 --> 00:01:25,840 Because in the US, they are very much acquainted with, are 21 00:01:25,840 --> 00:01:30,800 familiar with the Savior, but they're not familiar with the 22 00:01:30,800 --> 00:01:34,320 King. And the King is coming. 23 00:01:35,360 --> 00:01:38,160 I said the King is coming, Hallelujah. 24 00:01:38,880 --> 00:01:42,520 And so we need to understand the King, Amen. 25 00:01:42,880 --> 00:01:44,680 And so it's our assignment to go. 26 00:01:44,680 --> 00:01:47,880 I believe it's what the Lord is doing in the last days anyway 27 00:01:48,080 --> 00:01:54,080 because there was a forerunner to Jesus and he preached repent 28 00:01:54,800 --> 00:01:56,600 for the Kingdom of heaven is at hand. 29 00:01:57,760 --> 00:02:02,160 Did he give access and understanding that he was the 30 00:02:02,160 --> 00:02:05,240 Lamb that would be slain to take away the sins of the world? 31 00:02:05,480 --> 00:02:09,039 Absolutely. But he herald his kingship. 32 00:02:09,600 --> 00:02:13,840 I said he herald his kingship. And so if there is a John the 33 00:02:13,840 --> 00:02:20,160 Baptist to bring Jesus in the first time he comes, what the 34 00:02:20,160 --> 00:02:24,520 church's assignment is the same to priest, the Kingdom of God, 35 00:02:24,520 --> 00:02:27,880 because the King is returning and he will not come as a 36 00:02:27,880 --> 00:02:30,680 suffering servant, but he comes as a reigning king. 37 00:02:31,840 --> 00:02:35,520 Amen. So with that being said, we need 38 00:02:35,520 --> 00:02:40,520 to #1 understand that when you look around in the sanctuary at 39 00:02:40,520 --> 00:02:44,640 Anchor Faith Church, there are people that are always coming 40 00:02:44,640 --> 00:02:47,880 through the door. And some have been here more 41 00:02:47,880 --> 00:02:50,520 than one time. Some have kind of settled in. 42 00:02:50,680 --> 00:02:53,960 And you have to understand for us, for you that have been here 43 00:02:53,960 --> 00:02:59,440 for some time, that not everyone has heard through the word what 44 00:02:59,440 --> 00:03:02,520 you have heard. Sabrina, remember the first time 45 00:03:02,520 --> 00:03:09,720 you heard the Kingdom? Thaddeus, where's that? 46 00:03:09,720 --> 00:03:13,520 That remember the first time you and Mercedes heard the Kingdom? 47 00:03:14,280 --> 00:03:18,000 Now remind me again, how many months had you been here before 48 00:03:18,000 --> 00:03:22,600 I preached on just the Kingdom? Two months. 49 00:03:22,760 --> 00:03:25,160 Two or three months. Which means he was here hearing 50 00:03:25,160 --> 00:03:29,200 services of which I'm saying Kingdom, but yet it's not 51 00:03:29,200 --> 00:03:33,680 resonating until I preached the Kingdom. 52 00:03:37,920 --> 00:03:40,680 Amen. Now, why is it important for us 53 00:03:40,680 --> 00:03:46,560 to come back periodically and just preach the Kingdom? 54 00:03:47,800 --> 00:03:53,360 Well #1 is what Jesus preached. If you read the four Gospels, he 55 00:03:53,360 --> 00:03:56,480 ministered on the Kingdom. It was his primary subject 56 00:03:56,480 --> 00:03:58,360 matter. In fact, I have a minister 57 00:03:58,360 --> 00:04:04,080 friend of mine who has really grabbed hold of the Kingdom. 58 00:04:04,080 --> 00:04:08,360 We we threw some different relationship and different 59 00:04:08,360 --> 00:04:10,920 things. All of a sudden his spirit man 60 00:04:11,040 --> 00:04:13,360 is awakened to the Kingdom of God. 61 00:04:13,600 --> 00:04:18,800 And during his study of Easter Sunday just a few weeks ago, 62 00:04:18,920 --> 00:04:23,600 they text me and says Jesus Christ is on the planet for 40 63 00:04:23,600 --> 00:04:28,120 days witnessing the 500 people after his death, burial, 64 00:04:28,120 --> 00:04:31,040 resurrection, and all he is talking about is the Kingdom of 65 00:04:31,040 --> 00:04:36,360 God. If the If the gospel message is 66 00:04:36,360 --> 00:04:41,960 changing from repent for the Kingdom of God is at hand to 67 00:04:42,360 --> 00:04:44,400 where are you going to go when you die? 68 00:04:46,640 --> 00:04:53,040 This is where it would occur if the message Jesus preached was 69 00:04:53,040 --> 00:04:54,800 repent. For the Kingdom of heaven is at 70 00:04:54,800 --> 00:05:00,480 hand to tell people I died on the cross and rose from the 71 00:05:00,480 --> 00:05:03,320 grave and ask them to come and ask me to come into their hearts 72 00:05:03,320 --> 00:05:06,000 so they'll be saved. That's where it would occur. 73 00:05:07,360 --> 00:05:12,600 But that is not what pre Jesus was testifying after his 74 00:05:12,600 --> 00:05:17,320 resurrection. Now to accept Jesus as Savior 75 00:05:17,720 --> 00:05:22,160 and to repent of your sins and be born again is required to be 76 00:05:22,160 --> 00:05:25,920 in the Kingdom. That is a true statement. 77 00:05:26,120 --> 00:05:31,960 But that is not the gospel. It's part of the gospel. 78 00:05:33,360 --> 00:05:36,600 Are you hearing me? It is part of the gospel. 79 00:05:37,600 --> 00:05:41,280 And the more I begin to just kind of look at things more and 80 00:05:41,280 --> 00:05:48,240 more and if you, every one of us objectively studied, we would 81 00:05:48,240 --> 00:05:52,400 find that the gospel that's being preached today is more man 82 00:05:52,400 --> 00:05:59,440 centric then it is God centric. If we were being objective. 83 00:06:00,560 --> 00:06:02,800 But why do we not become objective? 84 00:06:03,040 --> 00:06:07,200 Matthew chapter 15, verse 3 In Matthew chapter 15, verse 3, 85 00:06:07,200 --> 00:06:13,040 this is not a problem associated with only when Jesus walked the 86 00:06:13,080 --> 00:06:15,680 earth. This is not a problem that is 87 00:06:15,680 --> 00:06:19,800 only associated with the time period before anyone was born. 88 00:06:19,800 --> 00:06:26,600 Again, this is a challenge today and Jesus talking to religious 89 00:06:26,600 --> 00:06:29,160 people. And when I say religious people, 90 00:06:29,160 --> 00:06:34,440 I'm talking about priest and scribes that had access to the 91 00:06:34,440 --> 00:06:38,040 word of God. Not only did they have access to 92 00:06:38,040 --> 00:06:40,480 the word of God through the scrolls, the prophets, the Law 93 00:06:40,480 --> 00:06:45,040 of Moses, but they also had as their in their priestly hood 94 00:06:45,280 --> 00:06:50,520 access to the Spirit. Although he wasn't in them, he 95 00:06:50,520 --> 00:06:53,360 can come upon them. For we under we know in the old 96 00:06:53,360 --> 00:06:56,600 covenant the Holy Spirit would come upon the prophet, the 97 00:06:56,600 --> 00:07:00,360 priest and the King. And when he comes across the 98 00:07:00,360 --> 00:07:06,560 priest, it was to communicate the word of God from the law of 99 00:07:06,560 --> 00:07:12,480 Moses and the prophets, so that it was rightly divided and it 100 00:07:12,480 --> 00:07:15,760 was thus saith the Lord. Are you hearing me? 101 00:07:16,400 --> 00:07:23,520 So they had access to the Spirit who would tell them exactly what 102 00:07:23,520 --> 00:07:26,360 those verses are those letters meant. 103 00:07:27,880 --> 00:07:32,480 Yet here they are in Matthew 15 three asking Jesus some 104 00:07:32,480 --> 00:07:35,800 questions and Jesus says, why do you? 105 00:07:36,320 --> 00:07:39,520 He answered and said, then why do you yourselves transgress the 106 00:07:39,520 --> 00:07:42,560 commandment of God for the sake of your tradition? 107 00:07:43,200 --> 00:07:50,200 In essence, why do you put your interpretation on my word 108 00:07:50,280 --> 00:07:53,320 instead of my interpretation of my word? 109 00:07:54,240 --> 00:07:55,800 And you know that's happening today. 110 00:07:56,880 --> 00:08:00,080 I said that's happening today. And the number one reason why 111 00:08:00,080 --> 00:08:05,720 that happens is because primarily when we preach Genesis 112 00:08:05,720 --> 00:08:10,720 chapter 3, which is the fall of man to Revelations 20, then 113 00:08:10,720 --> 00:08:15,280 we're the most will do is have religion. 114 00:08:16,360 --> 00:08:18,600 Now you can have relationship in that. 115 00:08:18,800 --> 00:08:20,080 Have you ever heard that statement? 116 00:08:20,160 --> 00:08:21,880 I don't want to. It's not a religion, it's a 117 00:08:21,880 --> 00:08:24,000 relationship. It's more than just 118 00:08:24,000 --> 00:08:27,800 relationship. It's sonship. 119 00:08:29,280 --> 00:08:31,320 I mean, it's Kingdom, it's dominion. 120 00:08:31,320 --> 00:08:35,280 It's bigger than just that because you understand you can 121 00:08:35,280 --> 00:08:37,080 have a relationship with religion. 122 00:08:41,440 --> 00:08:44,440 Hey man now some of y'all been here a little bit I need you to 123 00:08:44,440 --> 00:08:49,840 help me preach a little bit better today so we can 124 00:08:49,840 --> 00:08:52,680 transgress the commandment of God. 125 00:08:52,960 --> 00:08:57,120 The number one way we transgress the commandment of God is found 126 00:08:57,120 --> 00:09:01,600 in James where James says be a doer of the word and not a 127 00:09:01,600 --> 00:09:05,800 hearer only because the biggest challenge that happens in 128 00:09:06,000 --> 00:09:11,240 churches all over the US and the world is when a St. has 129 00:09:11,240 --> 00:09:16,640 longevity in a place and they've been around a teaching. 130 00:09:17,200 --> 00:09:21,280 They can become familiar with the teaching that they sit and 131 00:09:21,280 --> 00:09:25,200 hear the teaching, but quit doing, quit doing the teaching. 132 00:09:25,600 --> 00:09:28,480 And the minute you quit doing the teaching, then all of a 133 00:09:28,480 --> 00:09:31,160 sudden the scripture is very clear and James is that your 134 00:09:31,160 --> 00:09:34,600 life becomes deceived and you're in church. 135 00:09:38,320 --> 00:09:39,840 So, well, how do you get out of deception? 136 00:09:39,960 --> 00:09:42,880 Do the word. You have to do the word. 137 00:09:43,440 --> 00:09:46,000 I said you have to do the word. You know, when you get around 138 00:09:46,000 --> 00:09:47,680 people, a lot of times, you know, they're having all these 139 00:09:47,680 --> 00:09:49,520 kind of challenge. And when you listen to them, you 140 00:09:49,520 --> 00:09:51,520 can just pick up, well, just do the word. 141 00:09:51,520 --> 00:09:53,600 If you just do the word, then we wouldn't have this problem. 142 00:09:53,760 --> 00:09:57,240 Because part of the excuses that happen on in their lives of why 143 00:09:57,240 --> 00:09:59,520 they act like they do, why they're behaving like they do, 144 00:09:59,520 --> 00:10:02,040 why they're treating people like they are, is because it's just 145 00:10:02,040 --> 00:10:04,360 not an application of doing the word. 146 00:10:06,120 --> 00:10:09,600 And they can have knowledge. I mean, now as a pastor, I can 147 00:10:09,600 --> 00:10:12,280 tell you right now, I experienced this all the time. 148 00:10:13,400 --> 00:10:18,160 Because before people know I'm a pastor, you know, they'll talk a 149 00:10:18,160 --> 00:10:21,680 certain way. But then the minute they find 150 00:10:21,680 --> 00:10:26,440 out, I mean, it's, it's amazing to watch holiness and 151 00:10:26,440 --> 00:10:30,920 sanctification turn in the room. At least that's what they want 152 00:10:30,920 --> 00:10:34,120 me to think, because then they'll start giving me their 153 00:10:34,120 --> 00:10:39,120 resume of all they know, what churches they've been to. 154 00:10:39,120 --> 00:10:42,560 And all this where prior to their knowledge of me being a 155 00:10:42,560 --> 00:10:47,560 pastor, I would not have known that. 156 00:10:49,640 --> 00:10:53,200 Which lets me know they have deceived themselves. 157 00:10:53,200 --> 00:10:58,440 They are walking with the Lord and they have deceived 158 00:10:58,440 --> 00:11:01,120 themselves. They are in faith when the 159 00:11:01,120 --> 00:11:05,440 reality is they're not. But they are full of knowledge. 160 00:11:06,000 --> 00:11:12,760 They know God, they know Scripture, but the devil knows 161 00:11:12,760 --> 00:11:15,680 scripture. Now I'm not calling you the 162 00:11:15,680 --> 00:11:18,160 devil. I'm just saying the knowledge of 163 00:11:18,160 --> 00:11:20,600 scripture alone doesn't make you holy. 164 00:11:20,720 --> 00:11:24,360 Because the devil knows scripture. 165 00:11:24,880 --> 00:11:28,240 He used it on Jesus. Well, it's also written since 166 00:11:28,240 --> 00:11:30,880 we're throwing scripture out. I know some myself. 167 00:11:31,520 --> 00:11:37,920 I was around those guys because I, I In fact, the devil wants to 168 00:11:37,920 --> 00:11:44,520 know scripture. That way he can turn it to the 169 00:11:44,520 --> 00:11:47,360 ones that are ignorant and unlearned. 170 00:11:48,360 --> 00:11:52,560 Amen. Or turn it to those who have 171 00:11:52,560 --> 00:11:56,680 selfish ambition. All right, so we see here that 172 00:11:56,680 --> 00:11:59,760 there's this issue that Jesus is dealing with the religious 173 00:11:59,760 --> 00:12:06,320 concerning tradition. And tradition can look holy, but 174 00:12:06,320 --> 00:12:09,480 it's not. The tradition itself is actually 175 00:12:09,480 --> 00:12:12,480 religious. And So what we have is this 176 00:12:12,480 --> 00:12:17,040 paradigm within scripture that even in ours, in fact, the word 177 00:12:17,040 --> 00:12:21,680 religion is only mentioned one time, if I'm not mistaken, maybe 178 00:12:21,680 --> 00:12:23,720 twice. Definitely in James, because he 179 00:12:23,720 --> 00:12:25,760 talks about pure and undefiled religion. 180 00:12:25,920 --> 00:12:28,840 And the word religion is not negative in this sense. 181 00:12:28,840 --> 00:12:32,800 It just means a belief system, OK, But you understand you can 182 00:12:32,800 --> 00:12:38,640 have a government belief system, OK. 183 00:12:39,240 --> 00:12:44,600 However, we have made a belief system of something that we 184 00:12:44,640 --> 00:12:48,600 actually don't believe in. Meaning, when you truly believe, 185 00:12:48,600 --> 00:12:52,520 you let it govern your life. OK, which means we go through 186 00:12:52,520 --> 00:12:57,560 motions or we through mental ascent in agreement, but we're 187 00:12:57,560 --> 00:13:00,240 not actually allowing it to govern our lives. 188 00:13:00,240 --> 00:13:05,760 We still let our flesh, our feelings, our appetites, our own 189 00:13:05,760 --> 00:13:10,400 desires still dictate what's going on in our lives and how we 190 00:13:10,400 --> 00:13:14,000 respond to situations. So there's this challenge then 191 00:13:14,000 --> 00:13:16,520 that happens in the earth. And it's a religion versus a 192 00:13:16,520 --> 00:13:21,520 Kingdom mindset because religion re preoccupies man until he 193 00:13:21,520 --> 00:13:27,160 finds the Kingdom. Religion prepares man to leave 194 00:13:27,160 --> 00:13:30,400 earth, but the Kingdom empowers man to dominate Earth. 195 00:13:34,520 --> 00:13:36,880 And if all you're doing is sitting around waiting to go 196 00:13:36,880 --> 00:13:40,720 somewhere, have you started becoming religious? 197 00:13:43,240 --> 00:13:47,240 Religion focuses on heaven. The Kingdom focuses on the 198 00:13:47,240 --> 00:13:50,960 earth, because, you know, the Lord is focused on the earth. 199 00:13:52,480 --> 00:13:57,680 Again, we've turned this gospel into mancentric instead of God 200 00:13:57,680 --> 00:14:00,000 centric. If we were to be called up to 201 00:14:00,000 --> 00:14:03,840 the 3rd heaven with the Lord, I could just imagine he may be 202 00:14:03,840 --> 00:14:06,640 saying this. This could be the song in heaven 203 00:14:06,800 --> 00:14:11,320 when we all get to earth. What a day of rejoicing that 204 00:14:11,320 --> 00:14:18,280 will be. Now if you read the back of the 205 00:14:18,280 --> 00:14:21,080 book, you you'll find out that's a true statement. 206 00:14:23,240 --> 00:14:26,760 But we made the gospel man centric to where we want to get 207 00:14:26,760 --> 00:14:30,000 to heaven. Yet the Lord's like, I just want 208 00:14:30,000 --> 00:14:33,520 to be here. In fact, all through the Bible, 209 00:14:33,520 --> 00:14:36,000 it is always about God coming here. 210 00:14:39,200 --> 00:14:41,760 It's what it's about. But we've made it about us going 211 00:14:41,760 --> 00:14:43,800 there. That's what religion does 212 00:14:44,000 --> 00:14:47,880 because that gives us what we religion gives us escapism. 213 00:14:49,120 --> 00:14:51,840 We just want to escape all the trouble and the problems. 214 00:14:52,080 --> 00:14:53,920 Well, the Lord wants you delivered. 215 00:14:56,360 --> 00:15:00,160 He wants you delivered for sure. He doesn't want you subject, 216 00:15:01,040 --> 00:15:04,040 that's true. But he knows there's coming a 217 00:15:04,040 --> 00:15:08,080 new heaven and a new earth to where it all be back in its 218 00:15:08,080 --> 00:15:11,360 original state. Amen. 219 00:15:11,600 --> 00:15:16,080 But his hand is not short, even in this climate. 220 00:15:16,960 --> 00:15:20,600 Are you hearing me? So again, really, religion is 221 00:15:20,600 --> 00:15:23,400 reaching up to God. The Kingdom is God coming down 222 00:15:23,400 --> 00:15:26,160 to man. Religion wants to escape earth, 223 00:15:26,160 --> 00:15:30,160 but the Kingdom wants to impact, influence and change the earth. 224 00:15:30,880 --> 00:15:35,040 We are the most powerful force on the planet. 225 00:15:35,280 --> 00:15:43,440 It is Saints of God, ambassadors for Christ, who know full well 226 00:15:44,320 --> 00:15:49,240 that we are serving a king and we are his royal offspring. 227 00:15:49,640 --> 00:15:54,640 Hallelujah. So religion seeks to take earth 228 00:15:54,640 --> 00:15:58,360 to heaven, but the Kingdom seeks to bring heaven to earth. 229 00:15:58,360 --> 00:16:02,400 Come on, you know it. Our Father who art in heaven, 230 00:16:02,880 --> 00:16:09,920 hallowed be your name, your Kingdom, your will be on as it 231 00:16:09,920 --> 00:16:12,880 is. You get around some believers 232 00:16:12,880 --> 00:16:17,600 that have been preached the gospel of salvation and they 233 00:16:17,600 --> 00:16:22,560 can't wait to split out of their skin suit and go to heaven. 234 00:16:25,200 --> 00:16:33,600 Yet they'll quote that prayer but have no real belief that his 235 00:16:33,600 --> 00:16:36,040 will can be accomplished in the earth. 236 00:16:37,640 --> 00:16:42,080 Yet Jesus says pray this would happen, pray this would happen, 237 00:16:42,840 --> 00:16:47,960 pray this would happen. So God desires for his heaven 238 00:16:47,960 --> 00:16:58,120 realm that has never fallen in sin never to manifest back here 239 00:16:58,120 --> 00:17:02,280 on the earth. And Jesus alludes that it can 240 00:17:02,280 --> 00:17:07,240 happen while you're here, even in the state it's in now. 241 00:17:07,520 --> 00:17:09,280 There's going to be ultimately a new earth. 242 00:17:09,280 --> 00:17:11,400 I get it. And they're still sin going to 243 00:17:11,400 --> 00:17:14,280 be there even if we're living holy, righteous and functioning 244 00:17:14,400 --> 00:17:18,400 in the same power which we are that Jesus Christ functioned in. 245 00:17:18,680 --> 00:17:22,119 You're not eradicating it in its entirety, but it would have 246 00:17:22,119 --> 00:17:27,000 nothing on you and you literally would. 247 00:17:27,040 --> 00:17:32,520 Your lifestyle, your actions, people would have to conclude 248 00:17:32,680 --> 00:17:38,080 you're like heaven on earth. When they are confronted with 249 00:17:38,080 --> 00:17:41,600 you, they are confronted with heaven in the earth. 250 00:17:42,680 --> 00:17:45,600 Amen. Because that's the culture you 251 00:17:45,800 --> 00:17:48,440 exude. We know in Genesis 11 God 252 00:17:48,440 --> 00:17:49,920 created the heavens and the earth. 253 00:17:50,840 --> 00:17:53,040 And why did He do it? Well, we get some insight in 254 00:17:53,040 --> 00:17:56,720 Isaiah or Psalms 8911. It says the heavens are yours. 255 00:17:56,720 --> 00:17:59,440 The earth also is yours, the world and all it contains. 256 00:17:59,440 --> 00:18:04,640 You have founded them. We also know in Isaiah 4518, the 257 00:18:04,640 --> 00:18:07,800 NIV version says it this way. For this is what the Lord says. 258 00:18:07,800 --> 00:18:09,600 He who created the earth, heavens. 259 00:18:09,720 --> 00:18:12,080 He is God who fashioned and made the earth. 260 00:18:12,200 --> 00:18:14,320 He founded it. He did not create it to be 261 00:18:14,320 --> 00:18:16,560 empty, but formed it to be inhabited. 262 00:18:16,680 --> 00:18:23,120 When God was creating the earth in the beginning, He did not buy 263 00:18:23,120 --> 00:18:27,080 it, nor did He conquer it. It's His by right of, it's His 264 00:18:27,080 --> 00:18:30,160 by right of of ownership, by right of creation. 265 00:18:30,480 --> 00:18:34,320 He owns it by right of creation. It didn't even exist till he 266 00:18:34,320 --> 00:18:41,400 spoke it right till he spoke it. Yet when he spoke this place 267 00:18:42,600 --> 00:18:46,520 into existence, he had something in mind. 268 00:18:47,160 --> 00:18:52,000 Not it to just be the third rock from the sun, because the fourth 269 00:18:52,000 --> 00:18:56,200 rock from the sun had no inhabitants much as they're 270 00:18:56,200 --> 00:18:59,840 looking for stuff now. I'm not saying there weren't 271 00:18:59,840 --> 00:19:02,520 things going on at a different time. 272 00:19:03,680 --> 00:19:08,240 I'm not saying that because we have no account that took place 273 00:19:08,240 --> 00:19:14,280 prior to where Satan was cast out of the heavens because the 274 00:19:14,280 --> 00:19:17,120 Bible tells us, you know, as Paul, Paul said, I know a man, 275 00:19:17,120 --> 00:19:19,240 whether in body or out of body do not know, caught up to the 276 00:19:19,240 --> 00:19:20,960 3rd heaven. Well if there's a 3rd heaven, 277 00:19:20,960 --> 00:19:22,240 then that means there's a first a second. 278 00:19:22,240 --> 00:19:25,200 Most scholars believe that the 1st heaven is our earthly 279 00:19:25,200 --> 00:19:27,160 atmosphere. The second heavens is the 280 00:19:27,160 --> 00:19:30,240 universe. The 3rd heaven is where God 281 00:19:30,240 --> 00:19:32,640 resides. Well, if the second heavens are 282 00:19:32,640 --> 00:19:37,560 the universe, well could I saw Satan fall like lightning from 283 00:19:37,560 --> 00:19:40,160 heaven? Could he have fallen out of the 284 00:19:40,160 --> 00:19:44,960 2nd heaven because there was an angelic host that was managing 285 00:19:45,520 --> 00:19:48,880 all of the galaxies? Now I'm just talking. 286 00:19:49,040 --> 00:19:51,680 I'm not telling you that we're not building doctrine on this. 287 00:19:51,800 --> 00:19:53,680 But you understand, all that stuff's not out there for no 288 00:19:53,680 --> 00:19:57,200 reason. Now, if it's only out there to 289 00:19:57,200 --> 00:20:01,040 let you know that it's so huge and big there has to be a God, 290 00:20:01,040 --> 00:20:03,520 and that is evidence alone, then so be it. 291 00:20:04,160 --> 00:20:08,840 However, it could be because we know according to Scripture that 292 00:20:08,840 --> 00:20:12,040 Satan, he used to traffic, that means he used to conduct some 293 00:20:12,040 --> 00:20:17,440 business between other places, back to the throne of God, which 294 00:20:17,440 --> 00:20:20,040 is in heaven in the recesses of the north. 295 00:20:20,280 --> 00:20:22,760 All right, we're not getting into that theology today. 296 00:20:22,880 --> 00:20:26,560 My point is when the earth was made, God was thinking about 297 00:20:26,560 --> 00:20:32,360 somebody and it says in Psalms 115 verse 15 to 16 it says may 298 00:20:32,360 --> 00:20:34,720 you be blessed of the Lord, Maker of heaven and earth. 299 00:20:34,840 --> 00:20:37,760 The heavens are the heavens of the Lord, but the earth He has 300 00:20:37,760 --> 00:20:41,840 given to the sons of man. The NIV says it this way in 301 00:20:41,840 --> 00:20:43,720 verse 16. The highest heavens belong to 302 00:20:43,720 --> 00:20:48,640 God, but the earth He has given to man, the earth He has given 303 00:20:49,400 --> 00:20:52,320 to mankind. So we see here that the 304 00:20:52,320 --> 00:20:56,320 territory of the earth was created from the home country, 305 00:20:57,080 --> 00:21:00,480 meaning heaven wasn't taken by force. 306 00:21:01,280 --> 00:21:04,600 God created it. It was no one's possession 307 00:21:04,600 --> 00:21:08,400 beforehand, and there were no inhabitants on the earth at 308 00:21:08,400 --> 00:21:11,040 first, but it was designed with them in mind. 309 00:21:12,040 --> 00:21:14,760 Are you hearing me? In essence, the earth was 310 00:21:14,760 --> 00:21:17,560 specifically prepared for somebody. 311 00:21:18,560 --> 00:21:22,080 Well, who are those somebodies? We are those somebodies. 312 00:21:22,280 --> 00:21:26,200 So the original inhabits inhabitants are not different of 313 00:21:26,200 --> 00:21:30,520 a different culture from the culture of heaven, but we're 314 00:21:30,520 --> 00:21:33,280 actually the offspring of the king himself. 315 00:21:34,200 --> 00:21:38,160 This is why in Genesis chapter one, verse 26 and 27, very 316 00:21:38,160 --> 00:21:40,680 powerful verse. In fact, I wish the church would 317 00:21:40,680 --> 00:21:43,680 go back to this one more than they would go back to Genesis 3, 318 00:21:44,880 --> 00:21:49,400 because if you do not know why man is created, This is why you 319 00:21:49,400 --> 00:21:52,160 will believe man will live in heaven forever. 320 00:21:52,560 --> 00:21:57,080 Although the Scripture, the Bible that people use to say 321 00:21:57,080 --> 00:22:01,320 that doesn't even say that in the last two chapters. 322 00:22:02,120 --> 00:22:06,160 However, it said then God said, let us make man in our image. 323 00:22:06,160 --> 00:22:09,000 In whose image? In God's image. 324 00:22:09,520 --> 00:22:13,320 So we're in God's image at this point. 325 00:22:14,920 --> 00:22:17,480 Let us make man in our image according to our likeness. 326 00:22:17,480 --> 00:22:21,800 That means a carbon copy. Now you're not God, but you do 327 00:22:21,800 --> 00:22:24,360 have the DNA of God, your spirit. 328 00:22:24,360 --> 00:22:35,960 Man when originally designed was of the nature of God and then he 329 00:22:35,960 --> 00:22:38,560 goes on and said let them, this is both male and female. 330 00:22:38,560 --> 00:22:41,560 Let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds 331 00:22:41,560 --> 00:22:43,520 of the air, over the cattle, over all the earth and over 332 00:22:43,520 --> 00:22:44,840 every creeping thing that creeps on the earth. 333 00:22:44,920 --> 00:22:47,640 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God, he 334 00:22:47,640 --> 00:22:49,800 created him, male and female. He created them. 335 00:22:49,960 --> 00:22:51,120 Man. I just want to thank our media 336 00:22:51,120 --> 00:22:53,760 team for using this particular slide because man, y'all can 337 00:22:53,760 --> 00:22:55,080 really read this good, can't you? 338 00:22:55,840 --> 00:22:57,680 Everybody's like wow, this is a clear font. 339 00:22:57,680 --> 00:23:01,880 It looks amazing. I'm like wow I could read this 340 00:23:02,080 --> 00:23:05,680 if I was in the lobby. This is amazing. 341 00:23:07,480 --> 00:23:11,480 So both male and females that have dominion. 342 00:23:11,480 --> 00:23:14,880 Notice what's not in the list of 26 men. 343 00:23:15,720 --> 00:23:18,880 So men were never to have dominion over each other. 344 00:23:19,280 --> 00:23:21,640 We were never to rule over one another. 345 00:23:23,240 --> 00:23:26,360 That was not God's intent. God only. 346 00:23:26,360 --> 00:23:33,040 In fact, God never intended man to be self governed but to be 347 00:23:33,040 --> 00:23:37,960 governed by God. Hallelujah. 348 00:23:39,240 --> 00:23:42,760 So This is why we struggle in elections because it goes 349 00:23:42,760 --> 00:23:47,040 against our original nature to vote for someone over. 350 00:23:48,360 --> 00:23:53,760 However, God had to institute a system after the fall because of 351 00:23:53,760 --> 00:23:56,920 the sin of humanity. So we don't go against 352 00:23:56,920 --> 00:24:02,480 authorities and even authorities in the earth with humans because 353 00:24:02,480 --> 00:24:06,560 God had to put it in play, because God would keep a line of 354 00:24:06,560 --> 00:24:11,960 righteous humans that if they were able to govern, would 355 00:24:11,960 --> 00:24:14,200 always point us towards the Lord. 356 00:24:15,040 --> 00:24:18,080 Are you hearing me? So even though it's in our 357 00:24:18,280 --> 00:24:23,080 fallen state to want to rebel from authority in our original 358 00:24:23,080 --> 00:24:28,640 state, that is not the case. That is a choice. 359 00:24:28,640 --> 00:24:33,600 Still, Adam did rebel, but he had to choose to go there. 360 00:24:35,280 --> 00:24:37,960 Are you hearing me? All right, so we go on. 361 00:24:37,960 --> 00:24:40,520 Then Dominion means this. It means to govern, it means to 362 00:24:40,520 --> 00:24:45,760 rule, it means to manage, it means to master something. 363 00:24:46,080 --> 00:24:50,320 It means to control things. So God said, let man have 364 00:24:50,320 --> 00:24:54,160 dominion, Let man control. Everybody says, well, God's in 365 00:24:54,160 --> 00:24:56,440 control. God's in control of His Word, 366 00:24:56,440 --> 00:25:01,560 that is true, but He's not in control of you because if He was 367 00:25:01,560 --> 00:25:04,000 in control of you, He would make you get born again. 368 00:25:05,200 --> 00:25:07,200 But He will not make you get born again. 369 00:25:07,840 --> 00:25:13,800 He will allow you to go to hell. He will allow you to not choose 370 00:25:13,800 --> 00:25:18,640 Him because He does not have people with Him forever that do 371 00:25:18,640 --> 00:25:24,120 not want to be with Him. Not just through obedience, but 372 00:25:24,120 --> 00:25:28,240 willingly want to be with Him by choice. 373 00:25:28,400 --> 00:25:32,360 Are you hearing what I'm saying? So the kingdoms are built upon 374 00:25:32,360 --> 00:25:34,840 concepts. And this is what we've we've 375 00:25:34,840 --> 00:25:40,520 created these terms because we have been preaching a gospel 376 00:25:40,600 --> 00:25:45,760 from Genesis 3 to Revelations 20, and we've made certain words 377 00:25:45,760 --> 00:25:50,840 now so nasty and negative. However, in concept of Kingdom, 378 00:25:50,960 --> 00:25:53,560 they're actually beautiful and lovely. 379 00:25:55,880 --> 00:26:03,240 Kingdoms are built upon concepts of legalities, not legalism, but 380 00:26:03,240 --> 00:26:07,560 legalities which extend to its citizens, offering them the 381 00:26:07,560 --> 00:26:12,080 rights and the privilege that are guaranteed by the king. 382 00:26:13,040 --> 00:26:15,840 Aren't you glad when you purchase something and it has a 383 00:26:15,840 --> 00:26:19,200 warranty? It's not because they told you, 384 00:26:19,440 --> 00:26:26,480 it's because it is written and it's a legal binding warranty 385 00:26:26,760 --> 00:26:31,680 that then you can go and say it is written, that if this occurs 386 00:26:31,680 --> 00:26:35,800 with the product that I can redeem for another one. 387 00:26:37,120 --> 00:26:41,760 I have the legal right now. It's not by what you did, it's 388 00:26:41,760 --> 00:26:43,360 by what was written. Hallelujah. 389 00:26:47,080 --> 00:26:52,120 Now, there's not a child in here that if their parents told them 390 00:26:52,120 --> 00:26:55,520 their whole life, I love you and I'm going to give you all this, 391 00:26:55,520 --> 00:26:59,560 mine then died and did not get it written. 392 00:27:01,880 --> 00:27:05,440 Because in our nation, if there's not a will associated 393 00:27:05,440 --> 00:27:09,800 with the assets, it will go before the government or the 394 00:27:09,800 --> 00:27:13,800 state, and then you'll have to go through a whole process to 395 00:27:13,800 --> 00:27:18,760 potentially even receive that. Now all the while, well, I know 396 00:27:18,760 --> 00:27:22,680 my parents love me, but man, they, they said, but they did 397 00:27:22,680 --> 00:27:29,600 not go the route that allowed me to have the legal aspect of what 398 00:27:29,600 --> 00:27:33,240 they said. God didn't just speak, He wrote 399 00:27:33,240 --> 00:27:37,160 it. This is why we're in a covenant. 400 00:27:37,920 --> 00:27:42,760 His word is legally legal, binding even to himself. 401 00:27:45,760 --> 00:27:51,240 He is bound to His own Word. This is why His Word is the 402 00:27:51,240 --> 00:27:56,120 highest, and it's so amazing because God, when He begins to 403 00:27:56,120 --> 00:28:02,760 speak, He is speaking, and He is a heavenly Father that is bound 404 00:28:02,920 --> 00:28:11,880 to His own kingship. He does not let His feelings 405 00:28:12,240 --> 00:28:16,640 override His Word. What is a Kingdom? 406 00:28:16,800 --> 00:28:18,520 Doctor Miles Monroe said it this way. 407 00:28:18,680 --> 00:28:21,920 A Kingdom is the government influence of a king over his 408 00:28:21,920 --> 00:28:25,680 territory, impacting it with his personal will, purpose and 409 00:28:25,680 --> 00:28:30,040 intent, producing citizens, expressing the culture, values, 410 00:28:30,040 --> 00:28:33,160 morals and lifestyles reflecting the King's culture. 411 00:28:33,880 --> 00:28:35,600 Don't you want to have the nature of God? 412 00:28:36,280 --> 00:28:41,080 The culture of God in heaven. No sickness, no disease, no 413 00:28:41,080 --> 00:28:45,920 poverty, no lag, no depression, no issue, no stealing, no 414 00:28:45,920 --> 00:28:49,840 robbing, no coveting, no adultery, no fornication, no 415 00:28:49,840 --> 00:28:52,520 kind of lying. None of that exists. 416 00:28:58,280 --> 00:29:00,880 And He wants His Kingdom to manifest here with the same 417 00:29:00,880 --> 00:29:03,200 culture. Isn't that amazing? 418 00:29:03,960 --> 00:29:08,720 Hallelujah. And so God wanted to extend His 419 00:29:08,720 --> 00:29:11,400 heavenly Kingdom on earth through US. 420 00:29:12,960 --> 00:29:17,960 God created man to manage or administrate His king dominion 421 00:29:18,160 --> 00:29:21,680 on the earth. The Bible is about a king, His 422 00:29:21,680 --> 00:29:24,200 Kingdom, and his roll offspring. It is not a religious book. 423 00:29:24,200 --> 00:29:32,960 It is the history of God's nation, His Kingdom, His 424 00:29:32,960 --> 00:29:36,600 culture. The whole reason why God even 425 00:29:36,600 --> 00:29:42,440 put in the Law of Moses was to regulate a nation so that all 426 00:29:42,440 --> 00:29:47,000 the other nations could conclude your king is the king. 427 00:29:47,000 --> 00:29:49,640 Your nation is the one we would aspire to because you know 428 00:29:49,640 --> 00:29:51,120 what's going on in the planet right now? 429 00:29:51,680 --> 00:29:55,200 Everyone in the planet just wants a new and better world. 430 00:29:57,360 --> 00:30:03,760 Even the ones that kill come in and peel for other nations. 431 00:30:03,840 --> 00:30:11,240 They have an ideology that their way is the better world at the 432 00:30:11,240 --> 00:30:14,440 core. That's their mindset in the 433 00:30:14,440 --> 00:30:18,600 Middle East. They believe that is the better 434 00:30:18,720 --> 00:30:26,880 world in most dictatorships. They believe they have the 435 00:30:27,040 --> 00:30:31,760 ability to create the better world, the best government, the 436 00:30:31,760 --> 00:30:37,240 best for people. But you know what? 437 00:30:37,240 --> 00:30:41,240 God believes that the answer is a better world. 438 00:30:44,880 --> 00:30:48,200 In Genesis 215 to 17 said Then God took man and put him in the 439 00:30:48,200 --> 00:30:50,520 garden and said to cultivate and keep it. 440 00:30:50,520 --> 00:30:53,000 And God commanded the man saying from any tree of the garden you 441 00:30:53,000 --> 00:30:55,080 may eat free to, but of the knowledge of good and evil you 442 00:30:55,080 --> 00:30:56,600 shall not eat, for the day you eat you will. 443 00:30:56,600 --> 00:30:59,880 Surely if Adam had never eaten the fruit, where would he be 444 00:30:59,880 --> 00:31:03,440 today? Now that will mess up religion 445 00:31:07,080 --> 00:31:09,960 because people who are conditioned to go to heaven when 446 00:31:09,960 --> 00:31:13,840 they die, they do not ask the question, what if Adam had not 447 00:31:13,840 --> 00:31:21,400 eaten the fruit? I can guarantee you Adam was not 448 00:31:21,400 --> 00:31:23,160 singing when we all get to heaven. 449 00:31:24,360 --> 00:31:28,080 I can guarantee you prior to eating the fruit, Adam had no 450 00:31:28,480 --> 00:31:34,280 care to even go to heaven because God always came to the 451 00:31:34,280 --> 00:31:38,360 earth. And it's amazing in modern day 452 00:31:38,360 --> 00:31:42,400 Christianity, the religious aspect is that people in their 453 00:31:42,400 --> 00:31:47,840 tradition will get very angry that you do not make heaven the 454 00:31:47,840 --> 00:31:51,520 center. Heaven is not the center, God is 455 00:31:51,520 --> 00:31:53,720 the center. Heaven is a place. 456 00:31:55,560 --> 00:32:00,160 And if God is who God is, which he is, can cannot he create the 457 00:32:00,160 --> 00:32:03,120 culture of that place in any place? 458 00:32:05,360 --> 00:32:10,320 I remember one person one time, but years back just was out of 459 00:32:10,320 --> 00:32:17,680 their mind upset that I wasn't, you know, putting heaven like 460 00:32:17,680 --> 00:32:20,520 the ultimate goal of why we live to go there. 461 00:32:20,680 --> 00:32:24,200 And they were like, do you understand that 98% of all 462 00:32:24,200 --> 00:32:27,120 believers talk about will live in heaven forever? 463 00:32:27,480 --> 00:32:30,400 Well, I don't care what has been traditionally accepted. 464 00:32:31,800 --> 00:32:36,400 I didn't write the Bible, but if you read the last two chapters, 465 00:32:36,400 --> 00:32:39,320 there'll be a new heaven and a new earth. 466 00:32:40,840 --> 00:32:44,640 Why in the world is there a new planet if we're living in heaven 467 00:32:44,640 --> 00:32:47,080 forever? Why is the new Jerusalem coming 468 00:32:47,080 --> 00:32:54,280 down out of heaven to the earth? That's in the same canonization 469 00:32:54,800 --> 00:32:58,400 that we read all the time. But we are so traditional in our 470 00:32:58,400 --> 00:33:01,680 truths and in our talking points. 471 00:33:02,280 --> 00:33:05,680 And honestly, This is why at Anchor Faith Church, as your 472 00:33:05,680 --> 00:33:08,960 apostle pastor, I inspire you to study. 473 00:33:09,920 --> 00:33:13,600 I am here to create a Kingdom culture and Kingdom culture. 474 00:33:13,600 --> 00:33:17,160 People are thinkers. They are people who apply the 475 00:33:17,160 --> 00:33:21,200 Word and study the Word. You are not here to catch my 476 00:33:21,400 --> 00:33:23,960 Christianese and my little statements. 477 00:33:24,400 --> 00:33:27,560 You're here to go into the Scripture and examine it. 478 00:33:27,720 --> 00:33:32,480 God wants you to study. He wants you to seek. 479 00:33:32,880 --> 00:33:36,680 He wants you to find. In most places, they're not even 480 00:33:36,680 --> 00:33:41,520 seeking, they're just parroting what they're hearing. 481 00:33:43,160 --> 00:33:47,840 And if you are a pet parrot, you are not living by faith. 482 00:33:50,840 --> 00:33:55,640 You're not living by faith, but we understand that Adam did eat. 483 00:33:55,640 --> 00:33:58,680 If you read Genesis chapter 3, that he did eat the fruit. 484 00:33:58,680 --> 00:34:02,080 Now, one of the traditions that is in Christianity is that the 485 00:34:02,080 --> 00:34:07,080 devil stole, you know, from Adam. 486 00:34:07,240 --> 00:34:11,719 He did not steal a thing from Adam, did not steal a thing. 487 00:34:12,600 --> 00:34:15,920 Although he comes to steal, kill and destroy, he did not steal. 488 00:34:16,960 --> 00:34:25,600 Adam abdicated his dominion. He willfully gave his dominion 489 00:34:27,719 --> 00:34:33,760 to the serpent in the garden. Willfully because the day he 490 00:34:33,760 --> 00:34:39,280 ate, he chose to bow to the word of the serpent instead of the 491 00:34:39,280 --> 00:34:43,800 word of his father. His father, who was king, did 492 00:34:43,800 --> 00:34:47,360 not tell him. Listen son, I just want you to 493 00:34:47,360 --> 00:34:50,120 know I had a little issue up here in my realm. 494 00:34:51,480 --> 00:34:55,400 I had this anointed cherub that went rogue, developed a 495 00:34:55,400 --> 00:35:00,600 rebellion, and quite a few of the angelic beings that I 496 00:35:00,600 --> 00:35:06,680 created, I created at a word. They, they came from my word. 497 00:35:07,520 --> 00:35:11,520 They have rebelled against me. They thought they could Take Me 498 00:35:11,520 --> 00:35:17,320 Out, but it didn't bode well. I just want you to know I cast 499 00:35:17,320 --> 00:35:20,600 them down to your area. So be on the lookout. 500 00:35:21,680 --> 00:35:25,560 He did not tell him that he had already given him a word of 501 00:35:25,560 --> 00:35:28,240 empowerment. He said have dominion over the 502 00:35:28,240 --> 00:35:31,200 earth. This is what you do if you keep 503 00:35:31,200 --> 00:35:34,440 it, cultivate it and do not eat this fruit. 504 00:35:36,120 --> 00:35:39,600 And if Adam just would have kept the word, it doesn't matter what 505 00:35:39,760 --> 00:35:42,400 this serpent would have said done or anything. 506 00:35:42,400 --> 00:35:46,920 In fact, the minute the serpent says you're not going to die for 507 00:35:46,920 --> 00:35:50,080 the day that you eat the fruit, God knows you'll be like him, 508 00:35:50,080 --> 00:35:53,000 knowing good and evil. When he was talking to his wife, 509 00:35:53,280 --> 00:35:56,400 Adam should have walked up and said you need to get out of here 510 00:35:57,640 --> 00:35:59,840 because that is not the word of my father. 511 00:36:00,360 --> 00:36:01,720 That is not the word of the king. 512 00:36:03,080 --> 00:36:06,120 We have been instructed I love him and I am going to do his 513 00:36:06,120 --> 00:36:09,560 word. And he could have kicked it 514 00:36:09,560 --> 00:36:13,600 because who had the authority? Adam had the authority. 515 00:36:18,160 --> 00:36:23,960 So sin is a result of rebellion, not religion. 516 00:36:25,120 --> 00:36:28,440 Sin is a result of someone rebelling against God's 517 00:36:28,440 --> 00:36:32,880 government to accept a lesser rule. 518 00:36:32,880 --> 00:36:37,080 Yeah, that's right. Are you here? 519 00:36:37,120 --> 00:36:41,200 In fact, I would even submit to you here, Satan, at this point. 520 00:36:41,280 --> 00:36:42,800 Does it even have a rule? Right. 521 00:36:45,480 --> 00:36:50,440 Yeah, that's right. He's been cast out with a bunch 522 00:36:50,440 --> 00:36:54,520 of rogues that are just willfully following him, not 523 00:36:54,520 --> 00:36:58,320 because he actually has power over him, but the minute Adam 524 00:36:58,320 --> 00:37:01,000 ate the fruit, he gave him power. 525 00:37:02,960 --> 00:37:05,880 He gave him the power to be the God of this world. 526 00:37:06,040 --> 00:37:09,360 Meaning the systems that function and sin enter the 527 00:37:09,360 --> 00:37:11,280 world. Death and destruction enter the 528 00:37:11,280 --> 00:37:13,560 world. The earth itself began to cry 529 00:37:13,560 --> 00:37:14,000 out. Why? 530 00:37:14,120 --> 00:37:17,560 Because of all the things that are being done on this planet 531 00:37:17,560 --> 00:37:22,320 that are contrary to the word of God, that are in disobedience to 532 00:37:22,320 --> 00:37:27,080 God's way of doing things. That is the problem. 533 00:37:27,080 --> 00:37:30,680 Why are there earthquakes? That's why Why are there 534 00:37:30,680 --> 00:37:32,720 hurricanes? Not because of global warming, 535 00:37:32,720 --> 00:37:34,840 although there will be a global warming event. 536 00:37:36,360 --> 00:37:40,040 OK, that is a true statement. And it's not because of the 537 00:37:40,040 --> 00:37:45,000 pollution of of coal and gas. It's the pollution of sin. 538 00:37:46,760 --> 00:37:51,280 Sin. Every time fornication is 539 00:37:51,280 --> 00:37:53,680 happening in a city, it's corrupting the earth. 540 00:37:53,760 --> 00:37:55,440 Every time adultery is corrupting. 541 00:37:55,440 --> 00:37:58,560 Every time a child disobeys their parents, it's corrupting 542 00:37:58,560 --> 00:38:03,240 the planet and the planet is suffering because of that 543 00:38:03,240 --> 00:38:10,880 pollution sin. All right, so independent is the 544 00:38:10,880 --> 00:38:12,560 most dangerous word in the Kingdom. 545 00:38:17,040 --> 00:38:21,480 And This is why the Kingdom is tough to receive in the United 546 00:38:21,480 --> 00:38:25,800 States, because we love our independence. 547 00:38:27,080 --> 00:38:33,880 In fact, we gained independence from A Kingdom, but man's 548 00:38:33,880 --> 00:38:39,040 Kingdom is not God's Kingdom because man ruled, which is 549 00:38:39,040 --> 00:38:43,640 monarchy is not the same as theocracy, which is God ruled. 550 00:38:44,960 --> 00:38:48,440 Are you hearing me? Because God is not a man that he 551 00:38:48,440 --> 00:38:52,920 should lie. So independence is the most 552 00:38:52,920 --> 00:38:55,920 dangerous word in a Kingdom and rebellion is the second most 553 00:38:55,920 --> 00:38:57,400 dangerous. The minute you want to become 554 00:38:57,440 --> 00:39:01,960 independent of thought, you will rebel from God. 555 00:39:04,640 --> 00:39:07,400 The minute you negotiate. Well, God said, but man, you 556 00:39:07,400 --> 00:39:10,160 know why? See, now you're you're doing is 557 00:39:10,160 --> 00:39:13,160 you are toying with the most dangerous word in a Kingdom. 558 00:39:13,320 --> 00:39:16,600 You're trying to come up with an independent thought. 559 00:39:18,800 --> 00:39:21,280 And the minute you take hold of this independent thought that's 560 00:39:21,280 --> 00:39:26,160 contrary to what God says, it is written, then you will act on 561 00:39:26,160 --> 00:39:27,800 it. And that's called rebellion. 562 00:39:30,320 --> 00:39:36,440 And rebellion produces what we, what we call disobedience or 563 00:39:36,520 --> 00:39:42,320 unrighteousness. So Adam lost a Kingdom, not a 564 00:39:42,320 --> 00:39:44,520 religion. Therefore the redemptive work of 565 00:39:44,520 --> 00:39:48,600 Christ could be, would be the re establishment of his Kingdom on 566 00:39:48,600 --> 00:39:52,280 the earth. Adam did not lose Christianity. 567 00:39:52,360 --> 00:39:54,600 In fact, Adam did not fall from heaven. 568 00:39:56,400 --> 00:39:58,800 Again, Restoration, we've used this before. 569 00:39:59,160 --> 00:40:01,240 Let me have that communion element. 570 00:40:01,960 --> 00:40:04,440 Yeah, let me use that because we're doing communion here in a 571 00:40:04,440 --> 00:40:07,480 minute. If the, if I originally designed 572 00:40:07,480 --> 00:40:17,200 this communion element to be here, sliding to be here, This 573 00:40:17,200 --> 00:40:19,600 is its original creation and it falls. 574 00:40:21,200 --> 00:40:26,480 Where's Restoration? Restoration is not at a higher 575 00:40:26,480 --> 00:40:32,160 place in heaven. Restoration is where it was 576 00:40:32,160 --> 00:40:38,000 originally created. Adam did not fall from heaven 577 00:40:39,680 --> 00:40:42,080 and Adam did not lose a religion. 578 00:40:42,480 --> 00:40:47,480 He lost dominion. He lost his sonship and his 579 00:40:47,480 --> 00:40:51,840 dominion ability. Him being the little king of the 580 00:40:51,840 --> 00:40:54,520 king. That's what he lost. 581 00:40:54,720 --> 00:41:02,080 He gave the devil, the adversary to God power in the planet. 582 00:41:06,520 --> 00:41:10,160 Now people use this as a tradition. 583 00:41:10,680 --> 00:41:15,920 If you were the only one that would accept Jesus, God would 584 00:41:15,920 --> 00:41:18,400 ascend him. Like if everybody else that was 585 00:41:18,400 --> 00:41:22,520 ever born wouldn't have and only one God would have sent. 586 00:41:22,840 --> 00:41:26,280 That is a tradition of man and it's not a biblical truth. 587 00:41:28,560 --> 00:41:33,200 The biblical truth is, if no human being after the fall of 588 00:41:33,200 --> 00:41:38,440 Adam would ever have accepted Jesus, Jesus is still coming. 589 00:41:41,920 --> 00:41:43,120 You say, well, why would he come? 590 00:41:43,120 --> 00:41:46,040 If God's all knowing and he is, and he knows no one's going to 591 00:41:46,040 --> 00:41:48,840 accept the death, burial, resurrection of Jesus, why would 592 00:41:48,840 --> 00:41:51,960 he do it? Because God has to do his own 593 00:41:51,960 --> 00:41:54,160 word. He's obligated and bound to it. 594 00:41:54,320 --> 00:41:56,560 And what did God say before Adam fell? 595 00:41:56,560 --> 00:42:00,920 He said let us make man in our image according to our likeness. 596 00:42:01,720 --> 00:42:07,800 Now God's obligated to have that pathway available and the minute 597 00:42:07,800 --> 00:42:12,200 Adam fell and now everyone that comes through the line of Adam 598 00:42:12,320 --> 00:42:17,960 is not sons of God. They will all sin and fall short 599 00:42:17,960 --> 00:42:21,560 of the glory of God. They are of the fallen nature of 600 00:42:21,560 --> 00:42:23,800 Adam who has been cut off from God. 601 00:42:24,800 --> 00:42:28,440 This is why God has to bring His seed through a woman only. 602 00:42:29,800 --> 00:42:34,280 But a man has to come because the earth was given to man. 603 00:42:34,680 --> 00:42:39,440 So God from his God perspective alone cannot take it back. 604 00:42:41,160 --> 00:42:48,160 Only a man can take it. This is why God must come as 605 00:42:48,200 --> 00:42:51,680 Jesus the Word in the flesh. Hallelujah. 606 00:42:51,680 --> 00:42:53,360 But you know what? Can I give you a spoiler alert? 607 00:42:54,840 --> 00:42:59,120 Spoiler alert, only a man can give it back to God. 608 00:43:05,080 --> 00:43:07,640 Adam could have when it was getting rough. 609 00:43:08,400 --> 00:43:10,200 I just can't handle this. It's too tempting. 610 00:43:10,200 --> 00:43:11,400 It's too tempting to want to pull. 611 00:43:11,920 --> 00:43:17,640 Lord Father, I know you're here. Listen, I can't handle this. 612 00:43:18,240 --> 00:43:19,960 I give this dominion back to you. 613 00:43:22,720 --> 00:43:25,840 You're the only just one. The only one capable. 614 00:43:28,440 --> 00:43:31,640 Because when you read the back of the book, not the back is 615 00:43:31,640 --> 00:43:34,800 actually in Corinthian letter. It's in the Corinthian letter it 616 00:43:34,800 --> 00:43:39,240 says that Jesus at the new heaven and earth will give the 617 00:43:39,240 --> 00:43:43,720 dominion back to the Father. This is why we will never ever 618 00:43:43,720 --> 00:43:45,920 sin again. It'll never be around, it'll 619 00:43:45,920 --> 00:43:50,360 never happen ever. And the perfect society will be 620 00:43:50,360 --> 00:43:59,160 with God forever, and those who rebelled will be in the lake of 621 00:43:59,160 --> 00:44:03,560 fire forever. And God didn't put them there. 622 00:44:03,640 --> 00:44:06,640 They chose to go there. Now when I say God didn't put 623 00:44:06,640 --> 00:44:09,480 them there, he released it because he had the authority. 624 00:44:09,480 --> 00:44:11,200 You didn't want me. I'll give you what you want. 625 00:44:11,240 --> 00:44:13,400 And I have that authority and you can't change it. 626 00:44:14,640 --> 00:44:17,240 Which means they can't say, well, if I put myself here, I 627 00:44:17,240 --> 00:44:18,400 can get myself out. You can't. 628 00:44:18,400 --> 00:44:20,480 The only way you get yourself out is to make Jesus Christ your 629 00:44:20,480 --> 00:44:23,440 Lord now. Because if you die without him, 630 00:44:24,760 --> 00:44:30,600 you without him forever, Come on, say Amen, Kenneth E Hagin 631 00:44:30,600 --> 00:44:34,040 said in his book the Believers Authority on page 16. 632 00:44:34,040 --> 00:44:37,560 Actually not the probably it's probably not the new legacy 633 00:44:37,560 --> 00:44:39,240 edition. It was probably the original 1. 634 00:44:39,520 --> 00:44:43,320 But he said the trouble with us is that we've preached a cross 635 00:44:43,320 --> 00:44:46,400 religion. We need to preach a throne, one 636 00:44:48,640 --> 00:44:53,480 He even realized the cross was what Jesus had to endure. 637 00:44:53,680 --> 00:44:57,680 And what did he what he endured? He gave us not a cross, but a 638 00:44:57,680 --> 00:45:00,520 throne. Now we take up our own cross. 639 00:45:00,520 --> 00:45:02,000 And what does that just literally mean? 640 00:45:02,080 --> 00:45:04,400 That doesn't mean any of us are going to die on a cross. 641 00:45:04,520 --> 00:45:10,560 It means that we die to ourselves daily in order to take 642 00:45:10,560 --> 00:45:12,960 what He's given us, which is the throne. 643 00:45:13,000 --> 00:45:17,640 He's raised us up and seated us in heavenly places in Christ 644 00:45:17,840 --> 00:45:20,680 Jesus. He's given us the throne. 645 00:45:20,880 --> 00:45:23,960 Oh my goodness. So the kingdom's not a religion, 646 00:45:23,960 --> 00:45:27,520 but a government, and it was never God's plan to establish 647 00:45:27,520 --> 00:45:30,080 religion. See, repentance focuses on the 648 00:45:30,080 --> 00:45:33,880 nature of man, but the Kingdom focuses on the purpose of man. 649 00:45:34,280 --> 00:45:39,040 Do you need to repent? Yes, and repentance is not even 650 00:45:39,040 --> 00:45:41,080 a religious word. It just means change your 651 00:45:41,080 --> 00:45:46,880 thinking side with my party. Actually he's like, you're in 652 00:45:46,880 --> 00:45:50,400 the wrong government, you're a citizen of the wrong government. 653 00:45:50,840 --> 00:45:55,280 You are never designed to be in the domain of darkness, the 654 00:45:55,280 --> 00:45:58,520 authority of darkness under the Prince of the power of the air. 655 00:45:58,880 --> 00:46:00,640 That was never my intent for you. 656 00:46:00,960 --> 00:46:03,480 And I'm here to deliver you. I'm here to redeem you. 657 00:46:03,560 --> 00:46:06,640 I'm here to deliver you like he delivered the Israelites out of 658 00:46:06,640 --> 00:46:08,760 Egypt. That's just a type and shadow of 659 00:46:08,760 --> 00:46:12,760 pulling you out of the domain of darkness in slavery and with a 660 00:46:12,760 --> 00:46:16,480 tyrannical ruler and brought you into the Kingdom of his beloved 661 00:46:16,480 --> 00:46:21,320 son. Hallelujah because the devil 662 00:46:21,320 --> 00:46:23,400 himself knows it's all about a Kingdom. 663 00:46:23,560 --> 00:46:27,840 Look at this and then we'll do a speed round in Luke chapter 4 664 00:46:27,840 --> 00:46:29,880 verse one through 2. It says Jesus full of the Holy 665 00:46:29,880 --> 00:46:32,960 Spirit return from the Jordan and was led around by the Spirit 666 00:46:32,960 --> 00:46:36,520 into the wilderness 40 days being tempted by the devil and 667 00:46:36,520 --> 00:46:39,240 he led him up and showed him all the kingdoms of the world in the 668 00:46:39,240 --> 00:46:42,320 moment of time, showed him all the what not religions. 669 00:46:43,600 --> 00:46:46,480 And the devil said, I will give you all this domain and its 670 00:46:46,720 --> 00:46:50,960 glory for it has been what hand it over to me and I can give it 671 00:46:50,960 --> 00:46:53,760 to whomever I wish, which means I'm authorized. 672 00:46:54,600 --> 00:46:59,040 They are mine. They were given to me and he 673 00:46:59,040 --> 00:47:04,360 received them in the garden. Therefore, here's the condition 674 00:47:04,840 --> 00:47:08,520 that I set for you for me to give you this world dominion. 675 00:47:10,520 --> 00:47:13,600 That is, you will worship before me, and it all be yours. 676 00:47:14,680 --> 00:47:18,960 If Jesus had succumbed to this as being the Son of God, God in 677 00:47:18,960 --> 00:47:24,080 the flesh, it would have put the devil in a position to be able 678 00:47:24,080 --> 00:47:30,480 to go back to the throne in heaven because he just don't 679 00:47:30,480 --> 00:47:33,600 want planet earth. He wants the original seed in 680 00:47:33,600 --> 00:47:35,800 the Isaiah chapter 14. You can read it yourself. 681 00:47:35,920 --> 00:47:38,600 I will ascend my throne above the Most High in the recesses of 682 00:47:38,600 --> 00:47:40,680 the north. In fact, I'm going after the 683 00:47:40,680 --> 00:47:44,720 Father's throne, and He wanted to get the Father's throne 684 00:47:44,720 --> 00:47:47,040 through the Son. He thought the first son, Adam, 685 00:47:47,280 --> 00:47:49,280 took care of him. I'll get it from the last. 686 00:47:49,280 --> 00:47:50,560 I'll get this from the last time. 687 00:47:50,680 --> 00:47:55,800 But He knows you want this. This is what you had. 688 00:47:56,200 --> 00:48:02,040 But what did he say? If you are the Son of God, This 689 00:48:02,040 --> 00:48:04,520 is why Jesus was saying I am the Son of man. 690 00:48:05,280 --> 00:48:09,080 He wanted to emphasize His man's side more than his God side, 691 00:48:09,200 --> 00:48:15,040 because what He was getting, what He was coming to, to redeem 692 00:48:15,160 --> 00:48:22,320 was mankind's dominion. So Jesus Christ, when you accept 693 00:48:22,320 --> 00:48:24,840 him as Lord, which is not a religious word, it just means 694 00:48:24,840 --> 00:48:28,120 supreme and authority. When you do that, he's not 695 00:48:28,120 --> 00:48:30,080 saying great, you can go to heaven when you die. 696 00:48:30,080 --> 00:48:33,600 What he's saying is great, now you can become a child of God. 697 00:48:33,680 --> 00:48:35,960 I can give you the dominion, Adam loss. 698 00:48:36,040 --> 00:48:38,200 You can rule and reign in this life. 699 00:48:38,280 --> 00:48:40,920 You can have it now. You can pull heaven to earth. 700 00:48:40,960 --> 00:48:43,840 You are my child now. You are Son of God now. 701 00:48:43,920 --> 00:48:46,960 He gives you destiny, not destination. 702 00:48:51,040 --> 00:48:54,560 Because people who truly study the Bible know we're not long 703 00:48:54,560 --> 00:49:01,560 term in heaven anyway. And because of that handing over 704 00:49:01,680 --> 00:49:05,200 Second Corinthians 4/4 tells us that Satan became the God of 705 00:49:05,200 --> 00:49:07,600 this world. Are you hearing me? 706 00:49:07,960 --> 00:49:10,680 He became the Prince of the power of the air and the 707 00:49:10,680 --> 00:49:13,600 governments of the world function off of him. 708 00:49:14,560 --> 00:49:19,480 That's why all of the innocents are are being attacked because 709 00:49:19,480 --> 00:49:22,920 there is a devil. God is not doing those works. 710 00:49:22,920 --> 00:49:25,280 The devil are. The devil is Jesus came to 711 00:49:25,280 --> 00:49:30,720 destroy the works of the devil. So God believes that government 712 00:49:30,720 --> 00:49:33,280 is the answer to mankind's problem and it's his government. 713 00:49:33,280 --> 00:49:35,840 We found it in Isaiah Chapter 9. Come on if y'all been with us, 714 00:49:35,840 --> 00:49:39,760 you know in Isaiah 9/6 through seven I wish more churches would 715 00:49:39,760 --> 00:49:42,760 read this scripture. This is not a future event it is 716 00:49:42,760 --> 00:49:46,840 a now event for a child will be born to us. 717 00:49:46,840 --> 00:49:49,160 What's his name? Come on what's his name? 718 00:49:50,120 --> 00:49:52,960 A son will be given to us and we always like to point out right 719 00:49:52,960 --> 00:49:55,360 here, notice a child is born, but a son is not born. 720 00:49:55,360 --> 00:49:58,800 And the reason a son is not born because the son always existed. 721 00:50:02,520 --> 00:50:06,160 So a son is given to us. That's the Son of God and the 722 00:50:06,560 --> 00:50:11,520 government, not religion, but the government will rest on his 723 00:50:11,520 --> 00:50:14,040 shoulders and his name will be called wonderful counselor, 724 00:50:14,040 --> 00:50:16,600 mighty God, eternal Father, Prince of Peace, has a child 725 00:50:16,600 --> 00:50:20,480 been born? He came and brought a government 726 00:50:20,480 --> 00:50:24,080 when he came. Now it's not physically present, 727 00:50:24,080 --> 00:50:30,720 but it is in the unseen present and it's rulership functions, 728 00:50:30,760 --> 00:50:32,400 you know, into the increase of his government. 729 00:50:32,400 --> 00:50:34,880 So the minute the child is born and the son is given, there'll 730 00:50:34,880 --> 00:50:38,920 be no end to the increase of his government or of peace on the 731 00:50:38,920 --> 00:50:41,160 throne of David. Thrones are in kingdoms, not in 732 00:50:41,160 --> 00:50:44,080 religions or over his Kingdom to establish it, withhold it with 733 00:50:44,080 --> 00:50:46,520 justice and righteousness. From then on, forevermore in the 734 00:50:46,520 --> 00:50:48,440 zeal of the Lord of hosts will accomplish this. 735 00:50:48,600 --> 00:50:51,320 So the Kingdom mandate runs through the entire Bible. 736 00:50:51,440 --> 00:50:55,920 It's the reestablishment to humanity, to humanity. 737 00:50:56,000 --> 00:50:58,480 What started and it started with Adam. 738 00:51:01,120 --> 00:51:07,280 I mean started with Abram. Abram, God got him moved in 739 00:51:07,280 --> 00:51:11,760 covenant with changed him in Genesis 12 to Abraham, which is 740 00:51:11,760 --> 00:51:16,760 a father of many nations, not a father of many religions or a 741 00:51:16,760 --> 00:51:19,960 father of a religion, but of a nation. 742 00:51:20,200 --> 00:51:23,040 And if we followed this fabric and if you want to write down 743 00:51:23,040 --> 00:51:25,440 I'm not going to if they put them up there, they can put them 744 00:51:25,440 --> 00:51:27,160 up quick. I'm not going to take forever. 745 00:51:27,160 --> 00:51:30,080 This is our speed round. But it started because when man 746 00:51:30,080 --> 00:51:33,040 fell, God said I'm going to bring my seed through the woman. 747 00:51:33,040 --> 00:51:36,080 He's going to crush your head. You'll bruise this hill. 748 00:51:36,080 --> 00:51:38,760 He's going to crush your head. He's taken back the dominion you 749 00:51:38,760 --> 00:51:43,320 law that Adam lost. So he goes and says I'm going to 750 00:51:43,320 --> 00:51:46,080 show my nation in the earth because this is about a Kingdom. 751 00:51:46,520 --> 00:51:50,160 He can finds a guy named Abram, calls him Abraham which is a 752 00:51:50,160 --> 00:51:53,240 father of many nation. He gives birth to Isaac, Isaac 753 00:51:53,240 --> 00:51:56,360 gives birth to Jacob, Jacob wrestles with the Lord and gets 754 00:51:56,360 --> 00:51:59,440 a new name called Israel and that nation is in the planet 755 00:51:59,440 --> 00:52:01,280 today. You can actually go visit it. 756 00:52:03,360 --> 00:52:07,800 Israel's not a religion. Now Israel has a religion, but 757 00:52:07,800 --> 00:52:09,640 it's not a religion. It is a nation. 758 00:52:09,960 --> 00:52:12,440 And that's what God wanted to show a nation. 759 00:52:13,400 --> 00:52:18,680 And he tells this nation through Moses, if you will follow me, 760 00:52:19,040 --> 00:52:23,840 obey my word, I'll be your king, I'll conquer nations. 761 00:52:24,040 --> 00:52:26,280 All you have to do is do what I've written. 762 00:52:26,400 --> 00:52:29,160 You obey my laws, my commands, my statues. 763 00:52:29,160 --> 00:52:30,680 You'll be blessed coming in and blessed going out. 764 00:52:30,680 --> 00:52:31,720 You'll be the head, not the tail. 765 00:52:31,720 --> 00:52:34,280 You'll be above and not beneath. All your offsprings going to 766 00:52:34,280 --> 00:52:35,720 show up. I mean, you're going to be so 767 00:52:35,720 --> 00:52:37,440 fruitful. You will be the envy of every 768 00:52:37,440 --> 00:52:39,360 nation. Nations will come to you to 769 00:52:39,360 --> 00:52:41,120 borrow. But but you won't have to borrow 770 00:52:41,120 --> 00:52:42,760 from anybody. You'll be the lender. 771 00:52:42,760 --> 00:52:46,280 You'll never be the borrower. Wow, he says. 772 00:52:46,280 --> 00:52:48,240 Your enemy had come. Before you one way, but flee 773 00:52:48,240 --> 00:52:52,760 before you seven ways, because the Lord thy God is your banner. 774 00:52:54,360 --> 00:52:58,480 Come on, here's your banner, here's your victory, he said. 775 00:52:58,480 --> 00:53:03,880 But if you don't obey me, it's problematic because I'm not 776 00:53:03,880 --> 00:53:05,040 building a. Nation that. 777 00:53:05,040 --> 00:53:08,680 Doesn't reflect my culture, nor is he building a church. 778 00:53:08,680 --> 00:53:10,320 That's not reflecting his culture. 779 00:53:13,440 --> 00:53:15,160 But we get over to First Samuel Chapter 8. 780 00:53:15,160 --> 00:53:16,400 We. Know there's some problems and 781 00:53:16,400 --> 00:53:21,320 all of a sudden the people say I want a king that we can see and 782 00:53:21,320 --> 00:53:22,880 he. Says to the prophet, Samuel 783 00:53:22,880 --> 00:53:24,320 says. Samuel, give the people what 784 00:53:24,320 --> 00:53:26,000 they want, for they've not rejected you, but they've 785 00:53:26,000 --> 00:53:28,320 rejected me as king. Is, is God king? 786 00:53:28,880 --> 00:53:32,840 Psalms 47, seven through 10 Who is the king of glory? 787 00:53:33,320 --> 00:53:37,520 The Lord, strong and mighty. He is the king of glory. 788 00:53:38,040 --> 00:53:40,880 Psalms 47, seven. For God is King of all the 789 00:53:40,920 --> 00:53:44,880 earth. We talk about Savior, but he's 790 00:53:44,880 --> 00:53:47,280 Lord. In fact, if Adam had never eaten 791 00:53:47,280 --> 00:53:50,160 the fruit, we never would have experienced Savior Jesus. 792 00:53:50,960 --> 00:53:52,800 We only would have known him as Lord. 793 00:53:54,680 --> 00:53:55,760 Savior is what? He did. 794 00:53:55,760 --> 00:53:59,000 Lord is who He. Is Zechariah Nah Nah says 795 00:53:59,000 --> 00:54:01,000 rejoice greatly. O daughter of Zion, shouting 796 00:54:01,000 --> 00:54:03,640 tribe, O daughter of Jerusalem, behold, your king is coming to 797 00:54:03,640 --> 00:54:05,800 you. He is just and endowed with 798 00:54:05,800 --> 00:54:08,560 salvation. He came on a coat, and did he 799 00:54:08,560 --> 00:54:10,200 come on a coat? Yes he did. 800 00:54:10,960 --> 00:54:15,240 We see in in Luke chapter one once again the Angel comes to 801 00:54:15,240 --> 00:54:18,480 Mary and says in your womb is the most high. 802 00:54:18,600 --> 00:54:21,800 The Lord God, he has given him the throne of his father David 803 00:54:21,800 --> 00:54:23,560 and his Kingdom will have no end. 804 00:54:24,720 --> 00:54:26,600 He didn't say he's coming to. Bring a new religion to. 805 00:54:26,600 --> 00:54:27,880 The Earth that nobody knows about. 806 00:54:29,640 --> 00:54:31,360 And Matthew? 2 the the. 807 00:54:31,360 --> 00:54:34,160 Magi are wise men. From the earth came seeking a 808 00:54:34,160 --> 00:54:41,200 king, not a new religion. In Luke 4, Jesus himself says. 809 00:54:41,200 --> 00:54:44,640 I must preach the Kingdom of God to every other city also I was 810 00:54:44,640 --> 00:54:50,680 sent for this purpose Jesus his message was repent for the 811 00:54:50,680 --> 00:54:55,200 Kingdom of heaven is at hand and when confronted. 812 00:54:55,200 --> 00:54:58,680 With with. Pilate in John chapter 18 813 00:54:58,680 --> 00:55:03,840 concerning him being a king, Pilate says, man, are you the 814 00:55:03,840 --> 00:55:06,040 King of the Jews? And Jesus said, did somebody 815 00:55:06,040 --> 00:55:08,760 tell you about me or did you learn this on your own? 816 00:55:09,320 --> 00:55:11,880 And he's like, look, your people and your chief priest handed you 817 00:55:11,880 --> 00:55:12,720 over to me. What have you done? 818 00:55:12,720 --> 00:55:15,080 He said, my Kingdom is not of this world. 819 00:55:15,200 --> 00:55:17,480 Now, that doesn't mean it is not in this world. 820 00:55:18,080 --> 00:55:21,800 It means what he's saying is it does not operate like worldly 821 00:55:21,800 --> 00:55:27,120 kingdoms because he implies that he, he literally explains, he 822 00:55:27,120 --> 00:55:28,360 said my kingdom's not of this world. 823 00:55:28,360 --> 00:55:31,200 If it were meaning if I function like the kingdoms of this world, 824 00:55:31,320 --> 00:55:34,000 he said my servants would not let me be handed over to the 825 00:55:34,000 --> 00:55:35,720 Jews. And have you read the Scripture 826 00:55:35,920 --> 00:55:39,520 that God has sent an Angel on more than one occasion to the 827 00:55:39,520 --> 00:55:43,560 planet to actually destroy men? Nations 1. 828 00:55:43,560 --> 00:55:50,560 Angel defeated 185 Mennonite men in an army 1. 829 00:55:53,520 --> 00:55:55,440 When Jesus was in the garden, says don't you? 830 00:55:55,440 --> 00:55:59,520 Know at his attack, his arrest, don't you know I could call a 831 00:55:59,520 --> 00:56:02,960 legion of angels now. I mean do you really think this 832 00:56:02,960 --> 00:56:05,760 is the problem? That if it was all about self 833 00:56:05,760 --> 00:56:08,920 preservation? I have servants. 834 00:56:08,920 --> 00:56:11,640 That come down and. Smoke the planet. 835 00:56:14,040 --> 00:56:17,960 But I must fulfill the. Word of my father, he wants you 836 00:56:17,960 --> 00:56:21,160 to have the dominion back, and you cannot have the dominion 837 00:56:21,160 --> 00:56:23,880 back. If I don't die, if I don't go to 838 00:56:23,880 --> 00:56:27,760 the grave, if I don't die a king so we can have kings. 839 00:56:27,880 --> 00:56:31,160 If I don't lay down my life and pay the price of your 840 00:56:31,160 --> 00:56:35,320 disobedience so that you could have my life, the life you were 841 00:56:35,320 --> 00:56:38,680 always supposed to have, the work Jesus did on the planet was 842 00:56:38,680 --> 00:56:41,320 not to show you what God can do, it was to show you what you can 843 00:56:41,320 --> 00:56:43,520 do. Come on. 844 00:56:43,520 --> 00:56:47,440 Because every miracle Jesus performed was in the dominion. 845 00:56:47,440 --> 00:56:53,360 Adam lost. He called Fish. 846 00:56:53,960 --> 00:56:57,760 To a net did Adam had a dominion over the fish of the sea. 847 00:56:58,640 --> 00:57:03,960 He called fish to Peter's line. He made he called talk to dead 848 00:57:03,960 --> 00:57:10,200 fish, and they multiplied. This is the dominion Adam had 849 00:57:10,320 --> 00:57:11,880 he. Could speak to plants. 850 00:57:13,760 --> 00:57:15,600 God never intended for plants to. 851 00:57:15,600 --> 00:57:18,440 Have dominion over man. That's right, tobacco. 852 00:57:20,600 --> 00:57:27,000 Marijuana. Hops. 853 00:57:28,080 --> 00:57:29,800 We. The things that we make. 854 00:57:29,880 --> 00:57:33,520 Our barley and alcohol with grapes. 855 00:57:35,720 --> 00:57:41,240 He never intended for. Plants to make you buy them to 856 00:57:41,240 --> 00:57:44,480 mess with your mind and get you intoxicated. 857 00:57:47,760 --> 00:57:50,880 You have Dominion. And when you know. 858 00:57:50,880 --> 00:57:52,440 That you would be free from. Addiction. 859 00:57:53,520 --> 00:57:55,360 Be like you don't own me anymore. 860 00:57:55,360 --> 00:57:58,760 I've been redeemed. I have dominion over you. 861 00:57:58,880 --> 00:58:01,720 You're just a plant. Do you understand? 862 00:58:01,720 --> 00:58:05,480 I talk to you plan, I curse you at your roots and you can't even 863 00:58:05,480 --> 00:58:07,880 produce fruit. When Jesus spoke to the fig 864 00:58:07,880 --> 00:58:11,560 tree, it was done. You can speak to a cigarette and 865 00:58:11,560 --> 00:58:13,320 say you're done. In my life. 866 00:58:13,440 --> 00:58:18,360 You have no more fruit in my life you want to be free, be 867 00:58:18,360 --> 00:58:21,160 free. Indeed, you have demean. 868 00:58:21,160 --> 00:58:24,280 If you're born again. But Jesus went on to say, he 869 00:58:24,280 --> 00:58:26,400 said, You say correctly, that I am a king. 870 00:58:26,400 --> 00:58:29,920 For this I have been born. Are you hearing me in Acts 871 00:58:29,920 --> 00:58:32,280 chapter 1 after his death, burial, resurrection, We're 872 00:58:32,280 --> 00:58:36,160 winding down now. Jesus in for 40 days only spoke 873 00:58:36,160 --> 00:58:40,880 concerning the Kingdom of God. If the gospel is changing to be 874 00:58:40,880 --> 00:58:44,760 the message only that Jesus Christ came and died on the 875 00:58:44,760 --> 00:58:47,360 cross and rose from the grave. And if you ask him to be Lord of 876 00:58:47,360 --> 00:58:49,200 your life, when you die, you'll go to heaven forever. 877 00:58:49,600 --> 00:58:51,240 That's where he would have changed it. 878 00:58:53,560 --> 00:58:55,280 But he didn't change it. He does. 879 00:58:55,280 --> 00:58:58,960 Know to be in the Kingdom you're you need to do that. 880 00:58:59,920 --> 00:59:05,760 You must be born again. He knows that, but it's not. 881 00:59:05,760 --> 00:59:08,680 Just so you can go to heaven. When you die, it's so that 882 00:59:08,680 --> 00:59:14,800 heaven can come to you while you're on the earth in Acts. 883 00:59:14,800 --> 00:59:20,200 Chapter 20, verse 27 to. 2025 to 27 Paul, who wrote over half of 884 00:59:20,200 --> 00:59:24,440 the New Testament, said this. He said, And now behold, I know 885 00:59:24,840 --> 00:59:28,360 all of you among whom I went about preaching the Kingdom, and 886 00:59:28,360 --> 00:59:31,600 you will no longer see my face. Therefore I testified you to 887 00:59:31,600 --> 00:59:33,040 this day. I'm innocent of the blood of all 888 00:59:33,040 --> 00:59:35,400 men, for I did not shrink from declaring to you the whole 889 00:59:35,400 --> 00:59:38,240 purpose of God. He preached on the Kingdom 890 00:59:38,240 --> 00:59:41,120 everywhere he went. Philip preached on the Kingdom 891 00:59:41,120 --> 00:59:43,760 in the book of Acts. Paul preached on the Kingdom in 892 00:59:43,760 --> 00:59:45,880 the book of Acts. Peter talked on the Kingdom. 893 00:59:45,880 --> 00:59:48,560 In fact, Paul's letters to the churches is really just 894 00:59:48,560 --> 00:59:51,200 communicating. You used to live in a different 895 00:59:51,200 --> 00:59:53,200 Kingdom and that was your behavior and culture. 896 00:59:53,320 --> 00:59:56,280 But now you're in a new Kingdom. It's the Kingdom of God, and 897 00:59:56,280 --> 00:59:58,680 this is your behavior. This is your culture. 898 00:59:58,680 --> 01:00:01,320 You know, there used to be a time in the United States of 899 01:00:01,320 --> 01:00:04,640 America that if you wanted to become a citizen, you had to go 900 01:00:04,640 --> 01:00:07,840 to classes, you would watch videos and they would say this 901 01:00:07,840 --> 01:00:17,240 is the culture of our nation. Some nations you go and you 902 01:00:17,240 --> 01:00:20,840 throw. Trash out, you're fine because 903 01:00:20,840 --> 01:00:22,840 they don't want trash in their nation. 904 01:00:23,280 --> 01:00:26,960 But I've gone to some nation. I'm like that's. 905 01:00:26,960 --> 01:00:31,800 Their culture, they. See trash everywhere if you. 906 01:00:31,800 --> 01:00:35,320 Do not renew the minds of. People coming in, they'll bring 907 01:00:35,320 --> 01:00:39,000 their culture with them. You'll go into some city of I. 908 01:00:39,000 --> 01:00:43,080 You feel like you're in a third world country in your nation. 909 01:00:43,520 --> 01:00:48,400 Let me tell you, there'll be no third world country in heaven or 910 01:00:48,400 --> 01:00:51,720 in the new earth. You're not. 911 01:00:51,720 --> 01:00:53,640 Bringing an old. Set. 912 01:00:57,840 --> 01:00:58,520 Come on. Amen. 913 01:00:58,760 --> 01:01:01,200 So Paul's writing. To the church is saying we're 914 01:01:01,200 --> 01:01:04,360 going to have to talk about this new culture we're in because 915 01:01:04,360 --> 01:01:07,560 this is the culture that will exist forever and you can start 916 01:01:07,560 --> 01:01:09,240 living it now. You can have the benefits of it 917 01:01:09,240 --> 01:01:11,800 now you can walk in it now you can see it now you can 918 01:01:11,800 --> 01:01:14,800 experience it now you can have the blessings associating at the 919 01:01:14,800 --> 01:01:17,000 health care system. The reason why you're healed is 920 01:01:17,000 --> 01:01:19,280 because it's the health care system of the Kingdom. 921 01:01:20,440 --> 01:01:22,320 The reason why you can get. Baptized in the Holy. 922 01:01:22,320 --> 01:01:24,080 Ghost whatever is speaking in tongues because it's the 923 01:01:24,080 --> 01:01:28,440 language of the Kingdom. It's not spooky or demonic. 924 01:01:28,440 --> 01:01:33,200 It's the voice of God. He created tongues anyway, it's 925 01:01:33,200 --> 01:01:34,960 so. Simple when? 926 01:01:34,960 --> 01:01:38,120 You understand it's the Kingdom. Hebrews 12/28 says therefore, 927 01:01:38,120 --> 01:01:41,600 since we received a Kingdom that cannot be shaken, Timothy says 928 01:01:41,600 --> 01:01:46,000 this he who is blessed, verses 6 chapter 6, verse 15 blessed, an 929 01:01:46,000 --> 01:01:48,560 only sovereign ruler, the king of kings and the Lord of Lords. 930 01:01:48,640 --> 01:01:52,080 Who are those kings? Who are those kings? 931 01:01:52,520 --> 01:01:55,280 You are those when, when are you those kings? 932 01:01:55,640 --> 01:02:02,840 Right now you can. Rule and right now, which means 933 01:02:02,840 --> 01:02:05,560 you can rule and reign over. Your thoughts you can rule and 934 01:02:05,560 --> 01:02:07,480 reign over. Your emotions, you can rule and 935 01:02:07,480 --> 01:02:10,360 reign over your flesh, You can rule and reign over gossip. 936 01:02:10,480 --> 01:02:12,440 You can rule and reign over bitterness. 937 01:02:12,440 --> 01:02:14,200 You can rule and reign over unforgiveness. 938 01:02:14,200 --> 01:02:17,520 You can rule and reign over everything, and when you realize 939 01:02:17,520 --> 01:02:21,400 you're in a Kingdom and the Kingdom citizens are loyal and 940 01:02:21,400 --> 01:02:26,200 love to obey their king who sits on the throne and is righteous 941 01:02:26,200 --> 01:02:31,040 and holy, then you will no longer allow tradition or our 942 01:02:31,040 --> 01:02:34,760 traditional thought of His word to creep in so that you can keep 943 01:02:34,760 --> 01:02:42,400 your flesh. First Peter 29 says but you. 944 01:02:42,400 --> 01:02:46,000 Are chosen, raised a royal priesthood, a holy nation for 945 01:02:46,000 --> 01:02:48,520 God's own possession. All right, let's read Revelation 946 01:02:48,520 --> 01:02:53,000 21 as our ushers come and get ready to serve you Communion. 947 01:02:53,960 --> 01:02:56,320 Revelations 21 one and two says this. 948 01:02:56,600 --> 01:03:01,400 Then I saw a new heaven. This is after the catching away 949 01:03:01,400 --> 01:03:04,880 of the church. This is after the tribulation 950 01:03:05,000 --> 01:03:07,000 and the Antichrist reign on the planet. 951 01:03:07,160 --> 01:03:12,320 This is after Jesus comes, puts his foot down and throws Satan 952 01:03:13,360 --> 01:03:17,440 chained up by 1 Angel thrown into the bottomless pit and he 953 01:03:17,440 --> 01:03:20,320 reigns on the planet for 1000 years. 954 01:03:20,440 --> 01:03:23,120 This is after. This is after he releases the 955 01:03:23,120 --> 01:03:26,680 devil for a time to deceive the nation's after he's been 956 01:03:26,680 --> 01:03:31,440 physically present on the earth, reigning for 1000 years with us 957 01:03:31,440 --> 01:03:36,880 in our glorified bodies. And they form a war against. 958 01:03:36,880 --> 01:03:40,920 Him that mouse to nothing. Then he judges, he throws the 959 01:03:40,920 --> 01:03:43,880 devil into the lake of fire, which is the second death, along 960 01:03:43,880 --> 01:03:47,200 with a false prophet. Then the grave gives up, the 961 01:03:47,200 --> 01:03:51,960 dead goes to heaven, and he judges all that never called on 962 01:03:51,960 --> 01:03:54,160 his name, and whose name is not written in the Lamb's book 963 01:03:54,160 --> 01:03:56,960 alive. And he sends them to their 964 01:03:56,960 --> 01:04:02,000 eternal prison, the Lake of. Fire is not devil. 965 01:04:02,000 --> 01:04:05,440 'S home. It's God's prison. 966 01:04:08,040 --> 01:04:10,960 For eternity. And then after all. 967 01:04:10,960 --> 01:04:12,200 That's done. It says this. 968 01:04:12,200 --> 01:04:14,960 Then I saw a new heaven and the new earth, for the 1st heaven 969 01:04:14,960 --> 01:04:17,960 and the first earth had passed away, and there's no longer any 970 01:04:17,960 --> 01:04:20,840 sea. And I saw the holy city, the new 971 01:04:20,840 --> 01:04:27,080 Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, made ready as a 972 01:04:27,080 --> 01:04:30,960 bride adorn for her husband. It came down out of heaven. 973 01:04:31,680 --> 01:04:35,040 Are you hearing me verse 23 and it said the city has no need of 974 01:04:35,040 --> 01:04:38,920 the sun or the moon to shine on it, for the glory of God has 975 01:04:38,920 --> 01:04:42,440 illuminated and it's lamp is the lamp is the Lamb, and the 976 01:04:42,440 --> 01:04:47,560 nation's will walk by its light. And the kings of the earth, the 977 01:04:47,560 --> 01:04:50,600 kings of the what? Not the kings in heaven who are 978 01:04:50,600 --> 01:04:54,120 living with him. The kings of the will bring 979 01:04:54,120 --> 01:05:00,320 their glory into it. God will come and set up his, 980 01:05:01,120 --> 01:05:07,720 His now creation's capital on planet Earth. 981 01:05:15,140 --> 01:05:19,100 The Bible's about a king. His Kingdom and his royal 982 01:05:19,100 --> 01:05:23,660 offspring. And I'm telling you, Saints 983 01:05:25,140 --> 01:05:26,580 people, you know. Who are born again? 984 01:05:26,580 --> 01:05:29,620 They need to. Know about their king because 985 01:05:29,620 --> 01:05:35,420 they're not ready for the king. Many in our nation are saved 986 01:05:35,500 --> 01:05:41,040 through democracy. They're saved through democracy. 987 01:05:42,600 --> 01:05:44,480 Because they. Define when we say. 988 01:05:44,480 --> 01:05:51,600 Whom the Son has set is through American freedom, and our 989 01:05:51,600 --> 01:05:54,800 definition of freedom is we have freedom of speech. 990 01:05:55,240 --> 01:05:59,600 We can say what we want to do, what we want to become, what we 991 01:05:59,600 --> 01:06:02,560 want to be. That's not in the Kingdom of 992 01:06:02,560 --> 01:06:04,800 God. In the Kingdom of God, you are 993 01:06:04,800 --> 01:06:06,720 to become what He created you to be. 994 01:06:07,000 --> 01:06:09,440 You are to discover yourself in Him. 995 01:06:09,880 --> 01:06:11,600 You don't get to say what you want to say. 996 01:06:11,840 --> 01:06:14,160 You are to say what He says. Because His word is life, and 997 01:06:14,160 --> 01:06:17,440 yours is not alone. Because. 998 01:06:17,440 --> 01:06:27,200 Freedom is life in Him. Thank you Lord, and many are 999 01:06:27,200 --> 01:06:30,920 preaching. Freedom through American 1000 01:06:31,000 --> 01:06:39,280 democracy, not biblical Kingdom. Because when you are in the. 1001 01:06:39,280 --> 01:06:42,880 Kingdom, Ricky, you have to. Forgive your brother. 1002 01:06:43,600 --> 01:06:47,360 You have to love them, you have to walk towards them the way God 1003 01:06:47,360 --> 01:06:50,840 says you are to treat them, the way he tells you to treat them. 1004 01:06:51,160 --> 01:06:53,920 And sometimes Ricky, he tells you to treat them if they are 1005 01:06:53,920 --> 01:06:57,480 so-called brother or living in sin that he tells you to say 1006 01:06:57,480 --> 01:07:01,160 don't even get around them for the purpose of hopefully they'll 1007 01:07:01,160 --> 01:07:04,560 repent because they are living this like so-called free life 1008 01:07:04,560 --> 01:07:06,760 and grace. That is not what he intended. 1009 01:07:06,960 --> 01:07:08,520 And he's like, that is not my holiness. 1010 01:07:08,520 --> 01:07:11,520 That is not why I died. Don't even associate with such. 1011 01:07:12,640 --> 01:07:14,480 And that means you love. Them because you do. 1012 01:07:14,480 --> 01:07:19,720 That. I don't have the choice to 1013 01:07:19,720 --> 01:07:21,960 respond to. You the way I want to. 1014 01:07:25,000 --> 01:07:28,040 I say, Lord, what do we do? How do we respond? 1015 01:07:28,040 --> 01:07:29,320 How do we act? How do we do? 1016 01:07:30,200 --> 01:07:33,480 Even today I don't have the choice to tell you what I want 1017 01:07:33,480 --> 01:07:36,760 to preach this morning, I said. Dad. 1018 01:07:36,760 --> 01:07:38,680 What do you want to say to? Your people. 1019 01:07:39,600 --> 01:07:41,920 So I'm not even preaching next Sunday, it's Mother's Day. 1020 01:07:44,480 --> 01:07:50,520 Can't start a series? I perceive and I heard him. 1021 01:07:50,520 --> 01:07:52,600 Say on the inside because. I thought I was just going to 1022 01:07:52,600 --> 01:07:55,480 preach on communion initially. I'm going to preach on 1023 01:07:55,480 --> 01:07:57,360 communion. I've not done that. 1024 01:07:57,360 --> 01:07:59,760 And I went there and I started reading it, you know, and I was 1025 01:07:59,760 --> 01:08:04,600 listening, but it was quiet. And then I heard the Lord say, 1026 01:08:04,880 --> 01:08:07,360 you need to remind them that this is about a king, his 1027 01:08:07,360 --> 01:08:10,200 Kingdom and his royal offspring. He said, Son, there are many in 1028 01:08:10,200 --> 01:08:12,520 your service right now that have not even heard you say this 1029 01:08:12,520 --> 01:08:16,880 before. Said yes Sir. 1030 01:08:18,080 --> 01:08:24,680 And here we are preaching the Kingdom so. 1031 01:08:24,680 --> 01:08:27,800 For those who know. Stay obedient to. 1032 01:08:27,800 --> 01:08:30,359 Your Heavenly Father. Because He will uphold his word 1033 01:08:30,359 --> 01:08:33,560 concerning you. And for those who just heard, 1034 01:08:33,640 --> 01:08:39,120 it's not a religion, it's a Kingdom that you're. 1035 01:08:39,120 --> 01:08:41,800 A citizen. This is why healing is easy, 1036 01:08:43,120 --> 01:08:44,880 because he's already. Paid the price. 1037 01:08:45,319 --> 01:08:48,439 Deliverance is easy because he's already laid down his life.