You know, not only is it the assignment of the church to
bring people out of darkness into light, it's also the
assignment of the church to go plant other churches.
Because if you're only had a church and there were no other
churches, well then there only be one church on the whole
planet. So there are an expression that
churches would plant. Again, This is why we went
through the fivefold ministry teaching last month or the month
before. Because when you have the
apostle, the prophet, pastor, teacher, and evangelist, and
they're working together with a common vision, then the elements
associated with those fivefold ministry gifts will expand the
church into other locations. And so we have the privilege of
being able to plant churches. We obviously have three in
Nicaragua. We have one in India.
Obviously there's going to be 1 here in Dominican Republic.
And we're going to be working on additional ones within our own
state of Florida. And so God is doing something in
this season so that the Kingdom of God can continue to advance.
Because in the US, they are very much acquainted with, are
familiar with the Savior, but they're not familiar with the
King. And the King is coming.
I said the King is coming, Hallelujah.
And so we need to understand the King, Amen.
And so it's our assignment to go.
I believe it's what the Lord is doing in the last days anyway
because there was a forerunner to Jesus and he preached repent
for the Kingdom of heaven is at hand.
Did he give access and understanding that he was the
Lamb that would be slain to take away the sins of the world?
Absolutely. But he herald his kingship.
I said he herald his kingship. And so if there is a John the
Baptist to bring Jesus in the first time he comes, what the
church's assignment is the same to priest, the Kingdom of God,
because the King is returning and he will not come as a
suffering servant, but he comes as a reigning king.
Amen. So with that being said, we need
to #1 understand that when you look around in the sanctuary at
Anchor Faith Church, there are people that are always coming
through the door. And some have been here more
than one time. Some have kind of settled in.
And you have to understand for us, for you that have been here
for some time, that not everyone has heard through the word what
you have heard. Sabrina, remember the first time
you heard the Kingdom? Thaddeus, where's that?
That remember the first time you and Mercedes heard the Kingdom?
Now remind me again, how many months had you been here before
I preached on just the Kingdom? Two months.
Two or three months. Which means he was here hearing
services of which I'm saying Kingdom, but yet it's not
resonating until I preached the Kingdom.
Amen. Now, why is it important for us
to come back periodically and just preach the Kingdom?
Well #1 is what Jesus preached. If you read the four Gospels, he
ministered on the Kingdom. It was his primary subject
matter. In fact, I have a minister
friend of mine who has really grabbed hold of the Kingdom.
We we threw some different relationship and different
things. All of a sudden his spirit man
is awakened to the Kingdom of God.
And during his study of Easter Sunday just a few weeks ago,
they text me and says Jesus Christ is on the planet for 40
days witnessing the 500 people after his death, burial,
resurrection, and all he is talking about is the Kingdom of
God. If the If the gospel message is
changing from repent for the Kingdom of God is at hand to
where are you going to go when you die?
This is where it would occur if the message Jesus preached was
repent. For the Kingdom of heaven is at
hand to tell people I died on the cross and rose from the
grave and ask them to come and ask me to come into their hearts
so they'll be saved. That's where it would occur.
But that is not what pre Jesus was testifying after his
resurrection. Now to accept Jesus as Savior
and to repent of your sins and be born again is required to be
in the Kingdom. That is a true statement.
But that is not the gospel. It's part of the gospel.
Are you hearing me? It is part of the gospel.
And the more I begin to just kind of look at things more and
more and if you, every one of us objectively studied, we would
find that the gospel that's being preached today is more man
centric then it is God centric. If we were being objective.
But why do we not become objective?
Matthew chapter 15, verse 3 In Matthew chapter 15, verse 3,
this is not a problem associated with only when Jesus walked the
earth. This is not a problem that is
only associated with the time period before anyone was born.
Again, this is a challenge today and Jesus talking to religious
people. And when I say religious people,
I'm talking about priest and scribes that had access to the
word of God. Not only did they have access to
the word of God through the scrolls, the prophets, the Law
of Moses, but they also had as their in their priestly hood
access to the Spirit. Although he wasn't in them, he
can come upon them. For we under we know in the old
covenant the Holy Spirit would come upon the prophet, the
priest and the King. And when he comes across the
priest, it was to communicate the word of God from the law of
Moses and the prophets, so that it was rightly divided and it
was thus saith the Lord. Are you hearing me?
So they had access to the Spirit who would tell them exactly what
those verses are those letters meant.
Yet here they are in Matthew 15 three asking Jesus some
questions and Jesus says, why do you?
He answered and said, then why do you yourselves transgress the
commandment of God for the sake of your tradition?
In essence, why do you put your interpretation on my word
instead of my interpretation of my word?
And you know that's happening today.
I said that's happening today. And the number one reason why
that happens is because primarily when we preach Genesis
chapter 3, which is the fall of man to Revelations 20, then
we're the most will do is have religion.
Now you can have relationship in that.
Have you ever heard that statement?
I don't want to. It's not a religion, it's a
relationship. It's more than just
relationship. It's sonship.
I mean, it's Kingdom, it's dominion.
It's bigger than just that because you understand you can
have a relationship with religion.
Hey man now some of y'all been here a little bit I need you to
help me preach a little bit better today so we can
transgress the commandment of God.
The number one way we transgress the commandment of God is found
in James where James says be a doer of the word and not a
hearer only because the biggest challenge that happens in
churches all over the US and the world is when a St. has
longevity in a place and they've been around a teaching.
They can become familiar with the teaching that they sit and
hear the teaching, but quit doing, quit doing the teaching.
And the minute you quit doing the teaching, then all of a
sudden the scripture is very clear and James is that your
life becomes deceived and you're in church.
So, well, how do you get out of deception?
Do the word. You have to do the word.
I said you have to do the word. You know, when you get around
people, a lot of times, you know, they're having all these
kind of challenge. And when you listen to them, you
can just pick up, well, just do the word.
If you just do the word, then we wouldn't have this problem.
Because part of the excuses that happen on in their lives of why
they act like they do, why they're behaving like they do,
why they're treating people like they are, is because it's just
not an application of doing the word.
And they can have knowledge. I mean, now as a pastor, I can
tell you right now, I experienced this all the time.
Because before people know I'm a pastor, you know, they'll talk a
certain way. But then the minute they find
out, I mean, it's, it's amazing to watch holiness and
sanctification turn in the room. At least that's what they want
me to think, because then they'll start giving me their
resume of all they know, what churches they've been to.
And all this where prior to their knowledge of me being a
pastor, I would not have known that.
Which lets me know they have deceived themselves.
They are walking with the Lord and they have deceived
themselves. They are in faith when the
reality is they're not. But they are full of knowledge.
They know God, they know Scripture, but the devil knows
scripture. Now I'm not calling you the
devil. I'm just saying the knowledge of
scripture alone doesn't make you holy.
Because the devil knows scripture.
He used it on Jesus. Well, it's also written since
we're throwing scripture out. I know some myself.
I was around those guys because I, I In fact, the devil wants to
know scripture. That way he can turn it to the
ones that are ignorant and unlearned.
Amen. Or turn it to those who have
selfish ambition. All right, so we see here that
there's this issue that Jesus is dealing with the religious
concerning tradition. And tradition can look holy, but
it's not. The tradition itself is actually
religious. And So what we have is this
paradigm within scripture that even in ours, in fact, the word
religion is only mentioned one time, if I'm not mistaken, maybe
twice. Definitely in James, because he
talks about pure and undefiled religion.
And the word religion is not negative in this sense.
It just means a belief system, OK, But you understand you can
have a government belief system, OK.
However, we have made a belief system of something that we
actually don't believe in. Meaning, when you truly believe,
you let it govern your life. OK, which means we go through
motions or we through mental ascent in agreement, but we're
not actually allowing it to govern our lives.
We still let our flesh, our feelings, our appetites, our own
desires still dictate what's going on in our lives and how we
respond to situations. So there's this challenge then
that happens in the earth. And it's a religion versus a
Kingdom mindset because religion re preoccupies man until he
finds the Kingdom. Religion prepares man to leave
earth, but the Kingdom empowers man to dominate Earth.
And if all you're doing is sitting around waiting to go
somewhere, have you started becoming religious?
Religion focuses on heaven. The Kingdom focuses on the
earth, because, you know, the Lord is focused on the earth.
Again, we've turned this gospel into mancentric instead of God
centric. If we were to be called up to
the 3rd heaven with the Lord, I could just imagine he may be
saying this. This could be the song in heaven
when we all get to earth. What a day of rejoicing that
will be. Now if you read the back of the
book, you you'll find out that's a true statement.
But we made the gospel man centric to where we want to get
to heaven. Yet the Lord's like, I just want
to be here. In fact, all through the Bible,
it is always about God coming here.
It's what it's about. But we've made it about us going
there. That's what religion does
because that gives us what we religion gives us escapism.
We just want to escape all the trouble and the problems.
Well, the Lord wants you delivered.
He wants you delivered for sure. He doesn't want you subject,
that's true. But he knows there's coming a
new heaven and a new earth to where it all be back in its
original state. Amen.
But his hand is not short, even in this climate.
Are you hearing me? So again, really, religion is
reaching up to God. The Kingdom is God coming down
to man. Religion wants to escape earth,
but the Kingdom wants to impact, influence and change the earth.
We are the most powerful force on the planet.
It is Saints of God, ambassadors for Christ, who know full well
that we are serving a king and we are his royal offspring.
Hallelujah. So religion seeks to take earth
to heaven, but the Kingdom seeks to bring heaven to earth.
Come on, you know it. Our Father who art in heaven,
hallowed be your name, your Kingdom, your will be on as it
is. You get around some believers
that have been preached the gospel of salvation and they
can't wait to split out of their skin suit and go to heaven.
Yet they'll quote that prayer but have no real belief that his
will can be accomplished in the earth.
Yet Jesus says pray this would happen, pray this would happen,
pray this would happen. So God desires for his heaven
realm that has never fallen in sin never to manifest back here
on the earth. And Jesus alludes that it can
happen while you're here, even in the state it's in now.
There's going to be ultimately a new earth.
I get it. And they're still sin going to
be there even if we're living holy, righteous and functioning
in the same power which we are that Jesus Christ functioned in.
You're not eradicating it in its entirety, but it would have
nothing on you and you literally would.
Your lifestyle, your actions, people would have to conclude
you're like heaven on earth. When they are confronted with
you, they are confronted with heaven in the earth.
Amen. Because that's the culture you
exude. We know in Genesis 11 God
created the heavens and the earth.
And why did He do it? Well, we get some insight in
Isaiah or Psalms 8911. It says the heavens are yours.
The earth also is yours, the world and all it contains.
You have founded them. We also know in Isaiah 4518, the
NIV version says it this way. For this is what the Lord says.
He who created the earth, heavens.
He is God who fashioned and made the earth.
He founded it. He did not create it to be
empty, but formed it to be inhabited.
When God was creating the earth in the beginning, He did not buy
it, nor did He conquer it. It's His by right of, it's His
by right of of ownership, by right of creation.
He owns it by right of creation. It didn't even exist till he
spoke it right till he spoke it. Yet when he spoke this place
into existence, he had something in mind.
Not it to just be the third rock from the sun, because the fourth
rock from the sun had no inhabitants much as they're
looking for stuff now. I'm not saying there weren't
things going on at a different time.
I'm not saying that because we have no account that took place
prior to where Satan was cast out of the heavens because the
Bible tells us, you know, as Paul, Paul said, I know a man,
whether in body or out of body do not know, caught up to the
3rd heaven. Well if there's a 3rd heaven,
then that means there's a first a second.
Most scholars believe that the 1st heaven is our earthly
atmosphere. The second heavens is the
universe. The 3rd heaven is where God
resides. Well, if the second heavens are
the universe, well could I saw Satan fall like lightning from
heaven? Could he have fallen out of the
2nd heaven because there was an angelic host that was managing
all of the galaxies? Now I'm just talking.
I'm not telling you that we're not building doctrine on this.
But you understand, all that stuff's not out there for no
reason. Now, if it's only out there to
let you know that it's so huge and big there has to be a God,
and that is evidence alone, then so be it.
However, it could be because we know according to Scripture that
Satan, he used to traffic, that means he used to conduct some
business between other places, back to the throne of God, which
is in heaven in the recesses of the north.
All right, we're not getting into that theology today.
My point is when the earth was made, God was thinking about
somebody and it says in Psalms 115 verse 15 to 16 it says may
you be blessed of the Lord, Maker of heaven and earth.
The heavens are the heavens of the Lord, but the earth He has
given to the sons of man. The NIV says it this way in
verse 16. The highest heavens belong to
God, but the earth He has given to man, the earth He has given
to mankind. So we see here that the
territory of the earth was created from the home country,
meaning heaven wasn't taken by force.
God created it. It was no one's possession
beforehand, and there were no inhabitants on the earth at
first, but it was designed with them in mind.
Are you hearing me? In essence, the earth was
specifically prepared for somebody.
Well, who are those somebodies? We are those somebodies.
So the original inhabits inhabitants are not different of
a different culture from the culture of heaven, but we're
actually the offspring of the king himself.
This is why in Genesis chapter one, verse 26 and 27, very
powerful verse. In fact, I wish the church would
go back to this one more than they would go back to Genesis 3,
because if you do not know why man is created, This is why you
will believe man will live in heaven forever.
Although the Scripture, the Bible that people use to say
that doesn't even say that in the last two chapters.
However, it said then God said, let us make man in our image.
In whose image? In God's image.
So we're in God's image at this point.
Let us make man in our image according to our likeness.
That means a carbon copy. Now you're not God, but you do
have the DNA of God, your spirit.
Man when originally designed was of the nature of God and then he
goes on and said let them, this is both male and female.
Let them have dominion 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 him, male and female. He created them.
Man. I just want to thank our media
team for using this particular slide because man, y'all can
really read this good, can't you?
Everybody's like wow, this is a clear font.
It looks amazing. I'm like wow I could read this
if I was in the lobby. This is amazing.
So both male and females that have dominion.
Notice what's not in the list of 26 men.
So men were never to have dominion over each other.
We were never to rule over one another.
That was not God's intent. God only.
In fact, God never intended man to be self governed but to be
governed by God. Hallelujah.
So This is why we struggle in elections because it goes
against our original nature to vote for someone over.
However, God had to institute a system after the fall because of
the sin of humanity. So we don't go against
authorities and even authorities in the earth with humans because
God had to put it in play, because God would keep a line of
righteous humans that if they were able to govern, would
always point us towards the Lord.
Are you hearing me? So even though it's in our
fallen state to want to rebel from authority in our original
state, that is not the case. That is a choice.
Still, Adam did rebel, but he had to choose to go there.
Are you hearing me? All right, so we go on.
Then Dominion means this. It means to govern, it means to
rule, it means to manage, it means to master something.
It means to control things. So God said, let man have
dominion, Let man control. Everybody says, well, God's in
control. God's in control of His Word,
that is true, but He's not in control of you because if He was
in control of you, He would make you get born again.
But He will not make you get born again.
He will allow you to go to hell. He will allow you to not choose
Him because He does not have people with Him forever that do
not want to be with Him. Not just through obedience, but
willingly want to be with Him by choice.
Are you hearing what I'm saying? So the kingdoms are built upon
concepts. And this is what we've we've
created these terms because we have been preaching a gospel
from Genesis 3 to Revelations 20, and we've made certain words
now so nasty and negative. However, in concept of Kingdom,
they're actually beautiful and lovely.
Kingdoms are built upon concepts of legalities, not legalism, but
legalities which extend to its citizens, offering them the
rights and the privilege that are guaranteed by the king.
Aren't you glad when you purchase something and it has a
warranty? It's not because they told you,
it's because it is written and it's a legal binding warranty
that then you can go and say it is written, that if this occurs
with the product that I can redeem for another one.
I have the legal right now. It's not by what you did, it's
by what was written. Hallelujah.
Now, there's not a child in here that if their parents told them
their whole life, I love you and I'm going to give you all this,
mine then died and did not get it written.
Because in our nation, if there's not a will associated
with the assets, it will go before the government or the
state, and then you'll have to go through a whole process to
potentially even receive that. Now all the while, well, I know
my parents love me, but man, they, they said, but they did
not go the route that allowed me to have the legal aspect of what
they said. God didn't just speak, He wrote
it. This is why we're in a covenant.
His word is legally legal, binding even to himself.
He is bound to His own Word. This is why His Word is the
highest, and it's so amazing because God, when He begins to
speak, He is speaking, and He is a heavenly Father that is bound
to His own kingship. He does not let His feelings
override His Word. What is a Kingdom?
Doctor Miles Monroe said it this way.
A Kingdom is the 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 lifestyles reflecting the King's culture.
Don't you want to have the nature of God?
The culture of God in heaven. No sickness, no disease, no
poverty, no lag, no depression, no issue, no stealing, no
robbing, no coveting, no adultery, no fornication, no
kind of lying. None of that exists.
And He wants His Kingdom to manifest here with the same
culture. Isn't that amazing?
Hallelujah. And so God wanted to extend His
heavenly Kingdom on earth through US.
God created man to manage or administrate His king dominion
on the earth. The Bible is about a king, His
Kingdom, and his roll offspring. It is not a religious book.
It is the history of God's nation, His Kingdom, His
culture. The whole reason why God even
put in the Law of Moses was to regulate a nation so that all
the other nations could conclude your king is the king.
Your nation is the one we would aspire to because you know
what's going on in the planet right now?
Everyone in the planet just wants a new and better world.
Even the ones that kill come in and peel for other nations.
They have an ideology that their way is the better world at the
core. That's their mindset in the
Middle East. They believe that is the better
world in most dictatorships. They believe they have the
ability to create the better world, the best government, the
best for people. But you know what?
God believes that the answer is a better world.
In Genesis 215 to 17 said Then God took man and put him in the
garden and said to cultivate and keep it.
And God commanded the man saying from any tree of the garden you
may eat free to, but of the knowledge of good and evil you
shall not eat, for the day you eat you will.
Surely if Adam had never eaten the fruit, where would he be
today? Now that will mess up religion
because people who are conditioned to go to heaven when
they die, they do not ask the question, what if Adam had not
eaten the fruit? I can guarantee you Adam was not
singing when we all get to heaven.
I can guarantee you prior to eating the fruit, Adam had no
care to even go to heaven because God always came to the
earth. And it's amazing in modern day
Christianity, the religious aspect is that people in their
tradition will get very angry that you do not make heaven the
center. Heaven is not the center, God is
the center. Heaven is a place.
And if God is who God is, which he is, can cannot he create the
culture of that place in any place?
I remember one person one time, but years back just was out of
their mind upset that I wasn't, you know, putting heaven like
the ultimate goal of why we live to go there.
And they were like, do you understand that 98% of all
believers talk about will live in heaven forever?
Well, I don't care what has been traditionally accepted.
I didn't write the Bible, but if you read the last two chapters,
there'll be a new heaven and a new earth.
Why in the world is there a new planet if we're living in heaven
forever? Why is the new Jerusalem coming
down out of heaven to the earth? That's in the same canonization
that we read all the time. But we are so traditional in our
truths and in our talking points.
And honestly, This is why at Anchor Faith Church, as your
apostle pastor, I inspire you to study.
I am here to create a Kingdom culture and Kingdom culture.
People are thinkers. They are people who apply the
Word and study the Word. You are not here to catch my
Christianese and my little statements.
You're here to go into the Scripture and examine it.
God wants you to study. He wants you to seek.
He wants you to find. In most places, they're not even
seeking, they're just parroting what they're hearing.
And if you are a pet parrot, you are not living by faith.
You're not living by faith, but we understand that Adam did eat.
If you read Genesis chapter 3, that he did eat the fruit.
Now, one of the traditions that is in Christianity is that the
devil stole, you know, from Adam.
He did not steal a thing from Adam, did not steal a thing.
Although he comes to steal, kill and destroy, he did not steal.
Adam abdicated his dominion. He willfully gave his dominion
to the serpent in the garden. Willfully because the day he
ate, he chose to bow to the word of the serpent instead of the
word of his father. His father, who was king, did
not tell him. Listen son, I just want you to
know I had a little issue up here in my realm.
I had this anointed cherub that went rogue, developed a
rebellion, and quite a few of the angelic beings that I
created, I created at a word. They, they came from my word.
They have rebelled against me. They thought they could Take Me
Out, but it didn't bode well. I just want you to know I cast
them down to your area. So be on the lookout.
He did not tell him that he had already given him a word of
empowerment. He said have dominion over the
earth. This is what you do if you keep
it, cultivate it and do not eat this fruit.
And if Adam just would have kept the word, it doesn't matter what
this serpent would have said done or anything.
In fact, the minute the serpent says you're not going to die for
the day that you eat the fruit, God knows you'll be like him,
knowing good and evil. When he was talking to his wife,
Adam should have walked up and said you need to get out of here
because that is not the word of my father.
That is not the word of the king.
We have been instructed I love him and I am going to do his
word. And he could have kicked it
because who had the authority? Adam had the authority.
So sin is a result of rebellion, not religion.
Sin is a result of someone rebelling against God's
government to accept a lesser rule.
Yeah, that's right. Are you here?
In fact, I would even submit to you here, Satan, at this point.
Does it even have a rule? Right.
Yeah, that's right. He's been cast out with a bunch
of rogues that are just willfully following him, not
because he actually has power over him, but the minute Adam
ate the fruit, he gave him power.
He gave him the power to be the God of this world.
Meaning the systems that function and sin enter the
world. Death and destruction enter the
world. The earth itself began to cry
out. Why?
Because of all the things that are being done on this planet
that are contrary to the word of God, that are in disobedience to
God's way of doing things. That is the problem.
Why are there earthquakes? That's why Why are there
hurricanes? Not because of global warming,
although there will be a global warming event.
OK, that is a true statement. And it's not because of the
pollution of of coal and gas. It's the pollution of sin.
Sin. Every time fornication is
happening in a city, it's corrupting the earth.
Every time adultery is corrupting.
Every time a child disobeys their parents, it's corrupting
the planet and the planet is suffering because of that
pollution sin. All right, so independent is the
most dangerous word in the Kingdom.
And This is why the Kingdom is tough to receive in the United
States, because we love our independence.
In fact, we gained independence from A Kingdom, but man's
Kingdom is not God's Kingdom because man ruled, which is
monarchy is not the same as theocracy, which is God ruled.
Are you hearing me? Because God is not a man that he
should lie. So independence is the most
dangerous word in a Kingdom and rebellion is the second most
dangerous. The minute you want to become
independent of thought, you will rebel from God.
The minute you negotiate. Well, God said, but man, you
know why? See, now you're you're doing is
you are toying with the most dangerous word in a Kingdom.
You're trying to come up with an independent thought.
And the minute you take hold of this independent thought that's
contrary to what God says, it is written, then you will act on
it. And that's called rebellion.
And rebellion produces what we, what we call disobedience or
unrighteousness. So Adam lost a Kingdom, not a
religion. Therefore the redemptive work of
Christ could be, would be the re establishment of his Kingdom on
the earth. Adam did not lose Christianity.
In fact, Adam did not fall from heaven.
Again, Restoration, we've used this before.
Let me have that communion element.
Yeah, let me use that because we're doing communion here in a
minute. If the, if I originally designed
this communion element to be here, sliding to be here, This
is its original creation and it falls.
Where's Restoration? Restoration is not at a higher
place in heaven. Restoration is where it was
originally created. Adam did not fall from heaven
and Adam did not lose a religion.
He lost dominion. He lost his sonship and his
dominion ability. Him being the little king of the
king. That's what he lost.
He gave the devil, the adversary to God power in the planet.
Now people use this as a tradition.
If you were the only one that would accept Jesus, God would
ascend him. Like if everybody else that was
ever born wouldn't have and only one God would have sent.
That is a tradition of man and it's not a biblical truth.
The biblical truth is, if no human being after the fall of
Adam would ever have accepted Jesus, Jesus is still coming.
You say, well, why would he come?
If God's all knowing and he is, and he knows no one's going to
accept the death, burial, resurrection of Jesus, why would
he do it? Because God has to do his own
word. He's obligated and bound to it.
And what did God say before Adam fell?
He said let us make man in our image according to our likeness.
Now God's obligated to have that pathway available and the minute
Adam fell and now everyone that comes through the line of Adam
is not sons of God. They will all sin and fall short
of the glory of God. They are of the fallen nature of
Adam who has been cut off from God.
This is why God has to bring His seed through a woman only.
But a man has to come because the earth was given to man.
So God from his God perspective alone cannot take it back.
Only a man can take it. This is why God must come as
Jesus the Word in the flesh. Hallelujah.
But you know what? Can I give you a spoiler alert?
Spoiler alert, only a man can give it back to God.
Adam could have when it was getting rough.
I just can't handle this. It's too tempting.
It's too tempting to want to pull.
Lord Father, I know you're here. Listen, I can't handle this.
I give this dominion back to you.
You're the only just one. The only one capable.
Because when you read the back of the book, not the back is
actually in Corinthian letter. It's in the Corinthian letter it
says that Jesus at the new heaven and earth will give the
dominion back to the Father. This is why we will never ever
sin again. It'll never be around, it'll
never happen ever. And the perfect society will be
with God forever, and those who rebelled will be in the lake of
fire forever. And God didn't put them there.
They chose to go there. Now when I say God didn't put
them there, he released it because he had the authority.
You didn't want me. I'll give you what you want.
And I have that authority and you can't change it.
Which means they can't say, well, if I put myself here, I
can get myself out. You can't.
The only way you get yourself out is to make Jesus Christ your
Lord now. Because if you die without him,
you without him forever, Come on, say Amen, Kenneth E Hagin
said in his book the Believers Authority on page 16.
Actually not the probably it's probably not the new legacy
edition. It was probably the original 1.
But he said the trouble with us is that we've preached a cross
religion. We need to preach a throne, one
He even realized the cross was what Jesus had to endure.
And what did he what he endured? He gave us not a cross, but a
throne. Now we take up our own cross.
And what does that just literally mean?
That doesn't mean any of us are going to die on a cross.
It means that we die to ourselves daily in order to take
what He's given us, which is the throne.
He's raised us up and seated us in heavenly places in Christ
Jesus. He's given us the throne.
Oh my goodness. So the kingdom's not a religion,
but a government, and it was never God's plan to establish
religion. See, repentance focuses on the
nature of man, but the Kingdom focuses on the purpose of man.
Do you need to repent? Yes, and repentance is not even
a religious word. It just means change your
thinking side with my party. Actually he's like, you're in
the wrong government, you're a citizen of the wrong government.
You are never designed to be in the domain of darkness, the
authority of darkness under the Prince of the power of the air.
That was never my intent for you.
And I'm here to deliver you. I'm here to redeem you.
I'm here to deliver you like he delivered the Israelites out of
Egypt. That's just a type and shadow of
pulling you out of the domain of darkness in slavery and with a
tyrannical ruler and brought you into the Kingdom of his beloved
son. Hallelujah because the devil
himself knows it's all about a Kingdom.
Look at this and then we'll do a speed round in Luke chapter 4
verse one through 2. It says Jesus full of the Holy
Spirit return from the Jordan and was led around by the Spirit
into the wilderness 40 days being tempted by the devil and
he led him up and showed him all the kingdoms of the world in the
moment of time, showed him all the what not religions.
And the devil said, I will give you all this domain and its
glory for it has been what hand it over to me and I can give it
to whomever I wish, which means I'm authorized.
They are mine. They were given to me and he
received them in the garden. Therefore, here's the condition
that I set for you for me to give you this world dominion.
That is, you will worship before me, and it all be yours.
If Jesus had succumbed to this as being the Son of God, God in
the flesh, it would have put the devil in a position to be able
to go back to the throne in heaven because he just don't
want planet earth. He wants the original seed in
the Isaiah chapter 14. You can read it yourself.
I will ascend my throne above the Most High in the recesses of
the north. In fact, I'm going after the
Father's throne, and He wanted to get the Father's throne
through the Son. He thought the first son, Adam,
took care of him. I'll get it from the last.
I'll get this from the last time.
But He knows you want this. This is what you had.
But what did he say? If you are the Son of God, This
is why Jesus was saying I am the Son of man.
He wanted to emphasize His man's side more than his God side,
because what He was getting, what He was coming to, to redeem
was mankind's dominion. So Jesus Christ, when you accept
him as Lord, which is not a religious word, it just means
supreme and authority. When you do that, he's not
saying great, you can go to heaven when you die.
What he's saying is great, now you can become a child of God.
I can give you the dominion, Adam loss.
You can rule and reign in this life.
You can have it now. You can pull heaven to earth.
You are my child now. You are Son of God now.
He gives you destiny, not destination.
Because people who truly study the Bible know we're not long
term in heaven anyway. And because of that handing over
Second Corinthians 4/4 tells us that Satan became the God of
this world. Are you hearing me?
He became the Prince of the power of the air and the
governments of the world function off of him.
That's why all of the innocents are are being attacked because
there is a devil. God is not doing those works.
The devil are. The devil is Jesus came to
destroy the works of the devil. So God believes that government
is the answer to mankind's problem and it's his government.
We found it in Isaiah Chapter 9. Come on if y'all been with us,
you know in Isaiah 9/6 through seven I wish more churches would
read this scripture. This is not a future event it is
a now event for a child will be born to us.
What's his name? Come on what's his name?
A son will be given to us and we always like to point out right
here, notice a child is born, but a son is not born.
And the reason a son is not born because the son always existed.
So a son is given to us. That's the Son of God and the
government, not religion, but the government will rest on his
shoulders and his name will be called wonderful counselor,
mighty God, eternal Father, Prince of Peace, has a child
been born? He came and brought a government
when he came. Now it's not physically present,
but it is in the unseen present and it's rulership functions,
you know, into the increase of his government.
So the minute the child is born and the son is given, there'll
be no end to the increase of his government or of peace on the
throne of David. Thrones are in kingdoms, not in
religions or over his Kingdom to establish it, withhold it with
justice and righteousness. From then on, forevermore in the
zeal of the Lord of hosts will accomplish this.
So the Kingdom mandate runs through the entire Bible.
It's the reestablishment to humanity, to humanity.
What started and it started with Adam.
I mean started with Abram. Abram, God got him moved in
covenant with changed him in Genesis 12 to Abraham, which is
a father of many nations, not a father of many religions or a
father of a religion, but of a nation.
And if we followed this fabric and if you want to write down
I'm not going to if they put them up there, they can put them
up quick. I'm not going to take forever.
This is our speed round. But it started because when man
fell, God said I'm going to bring my seed through the woman.
He's going to crush your head. You'll bruise this hill.
He's going to crush your head. He's taken back the dominion you
law that Adam lost. So he goes and says I'm going to
show my nation in the earth because this is about a Kingdom.
He can finds a guy named Abram, calls him Abraham which is a
father of many nation. He gives birth to Isaac, Isaac
gives birth to Jacob, Jacob wrestles with the Lord and gets
a new name called Israel and that nation is in the planet
today. You can actually go visit it.
Israel's not a religion. Now Israel has a religion, but
it's not a religion. It is a nation.
And that's what God wanted to show a nation.
And he tells this nation through Moses, if you will follow me,
obey my word, I'll be your king, I'll conquer nations.
All you have to do is do what I've written.
You obey my laws, my commands, my statues.
You'll be blessed coming in and blessed going out.
You'll be the head, not the tail.
You'll be above and not beneath. All your offsprings going to
show up. I mean, you're going to be so
fruitful. You will be the envy of every
nation. Nations will come to you to
borrow. But but you won't have to borrow
from anybody. You'll be the lender.
You'll never be the borrower. Wow, he says.
Your enemy had come. Before you one way, but flee
before you seven ways, because the Lord thy God is your banner.
Come on, here's your banner, here's your victory, he said.
But if you don't obey me, it's problematic because I'm not
building a. Nation that.
Doesn't reflect my culture, nor is he building a church.
That's not reflecting his culture.
But we get over to First Samuel Chapter 8.
We. Know there's some problems and
all of a sudden the people say I want a king that we can see and
he. Says to the prophet, Samuel
says. Samuel, give the people what
they want, for they've not rejected you, but they've
rejected me as king. Is, is God king?
Psalms 47, seven through 10 Who is the king of glory?
The Lord, strong and mighty. He is the king of glory.
Psalms 47, seven. For God is King of all the
earth. We talk about Savior, but he's
Lord. In fact, if Adam had never eaten
the fruit, we never would have experienced Savior Jesus.
We only would have known him as Lord.
Savior is what? He did.
Lord is who He. Is Zechariah Nah Nah says
rejoice greatly. O daughter of Zion, shouting
tribe, O daughter of Jerusalem, behold, your king is coming to
you. He is just and endowed with
salvation. He came on a coat, and did he
come on a coat? Yes he did.
We see in in Luke chapter one once again the Angel comes to
Mary and says in your womb is the most high.
The Lord God, he has given him the throne of his father David
and his Kingdom will have no end.
He didn't say he's coming to. Bring a new religion to.
The Earth that nobody knows about.
And Matthew? 2 the the.
Magi are wise men. From the earth came seeking a
king, not a new religion. In Luke 4, Jesus himself says.
I must preach the Kingdom of God to every other city also I was
sent for this purpose Jesus his message was repent for the
Kingdom of heaven is at hand and when confronted.
With with. Pilate in John chapter 18
concerning him being a king, Pilate says, man, are you the
King of the Jews? And Jesus said, did somebody
tell you about me or did you learn this on your own?
And he's like, look, your people and your chief priest handed you
over to me. What have you done?
He said, my Kingdom is not of this world.
Now, that doesn't mean it is not in this world.
It means what he's saying is it does not operate like worldly
kingdoms because he implies that he, he literally explains, he
said my kingdom's not of this world.
If it were meaning if I function like the kingdoms of this world,
he said my servants would not let me be handed over to the
Jews. And have you read the Scripture
that God has sent an Angel on more than one occasion to the
planet to actually destroy men? Nations 1.
Angel defeated 185 Mennonite men in an army 1.
When Jesus was in the garden, says don't you?
Know at his attack, his arrest, don't you know I could call a
legion of angels now. I mean do you really think this
is the problem? That if it was all about self
preservation? I have servants.
That come down and. Smoke the planet.
But I must fulfill the. Word of my father, he wants you
to have the dominion back, and you cannot have the dominion
back. If I don't die, if I don't go to
the grave, if I don't die a king so we can have kings.
If I don't lay down my life and pay the price of your
disobedience so that you could have my life, the life you were
always supposed to have, the work Jesus did on the planet was
not to show you what God can do, it was to show you what you can
do. Come on.
Because every miracle Jesus performed was in the dominion.
Adam lost. He called Fish.
To a net did Adam had a dominion over the fish of the sea.
He called fish to Peter's line. He made he called talk to dead
fish, and they multiplied. This is the dominion Adam had
he. Could speak to plants.
God never intended for plants to.
Have dominion over man. That's right, tobacco.
Marijuana. Hops.
We. The things that we make.
Our barley and alcohol with grapes.
He never intended for. Plants to make you buy them to
mess with your mind and get you intoxicated.
You have Dominion. And when you know.
That you would be free from. Addiction.
Be like you don't own me anymore.
I've been redeemed. I have dominion over you.
You're just a plant. Do you understand?
I talk to you plan, I curse you at your roots and you can't even
produce fruit. When Jesus spoke to the fig
tree, it was done. You can speak to a cigarette and
say you're done. In my life.
You have no more fruit in my life you want to be free, be
free. Indeed, you have demean.
If you're born again. But Jesus went on to say, he
said, You say correctly, that I am a king.
For this I have been born. Are you hearing me in Acts
chapter 1 after his death, burial, resurrection, We're
winding down now. Jesus in for 40 days only spoke
concerning the Kingdom of God. If the gospel is changing to be
the message only that Jesus Christ came and died on the
cross and rose from the grave. And if you ask him to be Lord of
your life, when you die, you'll go to heaven forever.
That's where he would have changed it.
But he didn't change it. He does.
Know to be in the Kingdom you're you need to do that.
You must be born again. He knows that, but it's not.
Just so you can go to heaven. When you die, it's so that
heaven can come to you while you're on the earth in Acts.
Chapter 20, verse 27 to. 2025 to 27 Paul, who wrote over half of
the New Testament, said this. He said, And now behold, I know
all of you among whom I went about preaching the Kingdom, and
you will no longer see my face. Therefore I testified you to
this day. I'm innocent of the blood of all
men, for I did not shrink from declaring to you the whole
purpose of God. He preached on the Kingdom
everywhere he went. Philip preached on the Kingdom
in the book of Acts. Paul preached on the Kingdom in
the book of Acts. Peter talked on the Kingdom.
In fact, Paul's letters to the churches is really just
communicating. You used to live in a different
Kingdom and that was your behavior and culture.
But now you're in a new Kingdom. It's the Kingdom of God, and
this is your behavior. This is your culture.
You know, there used to be a time in the United States of
America that if you wanted to become a citizen, you had to go
to classes, you would watch videos and they would say this
is the culture of our nation. Some nations you go and you
throw. Trash out, you're fine because
they don't want trash in their nation.
But I've gone to some nation. I'm like that's.
Their culture, they. See trash everywhere if you.
Do not renew the minds of. People coming in, they'll bring
their culture with them. You'll go into some city of I.
You feel like you're in a third world country in your nation.
Let me tell you, there'll be no third world country in heaven or
in the new earth. You're not.
Bringing an old. Set.
Come on. Amen.
So Paul's writing. To the church is saying we're
going to have to talk about this new culture we're in because
this is the culture that will exist forever and you can start
living it now. You can have the benefits of it
now you can walk in it now you can see it now you can
experience it now you can have the blessings associating at the
health care system. The reason why you're healed is
because it's the health care system of the Kingdom.
The reason why you can get. Baptized in the Holy.
Ghost whatever is speaking in tongues because it's the
language of the Kingdom. It's not spooky or demonic.
It's the voice of God. He created tongues anyway, it's
so. Simple when?
You understand it's the Kingdom. Hebrews 12/28 says therefore,
since we received a Kingdom that cannot be shaken, Timothy says
this he who is blessed, verses 6 chapter 6, verse 15 blessed, an
only sovereign ruler, the king of kings and the Lord of Lords.
Who are those kings? Who are those kings?
You are those when, when are you those kings?
Right now you can. Rule and right now, which means
you can rule and reign over. Your thoughts you can rule and
reign over. Your emotions, you can rule and
reign over your flesh, You can rule and reign over gossip.
You can rule and reign over bitterness.
You can rule and reign over unforgiveness.
You can rule and reign over everything, and when you realize
you're in a Kingdom and the Kingdom citizens are loyal and
love to obey their king who sits on the throne and is righteous
and holy, then you will no longer allow tradition or our
traditional thought of His word to creep in so that you can keep
your flesh. First Peter 29 says but you.
Are chosen, raised a royal priesthood, a holy nation for
God's own possession. All right, let's read Revelation
21 as our ushers come and get ready to serve you Communion.
Revelations 21 one and two says this.
Then I saw a new heaven. This is after the catching away
of the church. This is after the tribulation
and the Antichrist reign on the planet.
This is after Jesus comes, puts his foot down and throws Satan
chained up by 1 Angel thrown into the bottomless pit and he
reigns on the planet for 1000 years.
This is after. This is after he releases the
devil for a time to deceive the nation's after he's been
physically present on the earth, reigning for 1000 years with us
in our glorified bodies. And they form a war against.
Him that mouse to nothing. Then he judges, he throws the
devil into the lake of fire, which is the second death, along
with a false prophet. Then the grave gives up, the
dead goes to heaven, and he judges all that never called on
his name, and whose name is not written in the Lamb's book
alive. And he sends them to their
eternal prison, the Lake of. Fire is not devil.
'S home. It's God's prison.
For eternity. And then after all.
That's done. It says this.
Then I saw a new heaven and the new earth, for the 1st heaven
and the first earth had passed away, and there's no longer any
sea. And I saw the holy city, the new
Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, made ready as a
bride adorn for her husband. It came down out of heaven.
Are you hearing me verse 23 and it said the city has no need of
the sun or the moon to shine on it, for the glory of God has
illuminated and it's lamp is the lamp is the Lamb, and the
nation's will walk by its light. And the kings of the earth, the
kings of the what? Not the kings in heaven who are
living with him. The kings of the will bring
their glory into it. God will come and set up his,
His now creation's capital on planet Earth.
The Bible's about a king. His Kingdom and his royal
offspring. And I'm telling you, Saints
people, you know. Who are born again?
They need to. Know about their king because
they're not ready for the king. Many in our nation are saved
through democracy. They're saved through democracy.
Because they. Define when we say.
Whom the Son has set is through American freedom, and our
definition of freedom is we have freedom of speech.
We can say what we want to do, what we want to become, what we
want to be. That's not in the Kingdom of
God. In the Kingdom of God, you are
to become what He created you to be.
You are to discover yourself in Him.
You don't get to say what you want to say.
You are to say what He says. Because His word is life, and
yours is not alone. Because.
Freedom is life in Him. Thank you Lord, and many are
preaching. Freedom through American
democracy, not biblical Kingdom. Because when you are in the.
Kingdom, Ricky, you have to. Forgive your brother.
You have to love them, you have to walk towards them the way God
says you are to treat them, the way he tells you to treat them.
And sometimes Ricky, he tells you to treat them if they are
so-called brother or living in sin that he tells you to say
don't even get around them for the purpose of hopefully they'll
repent because they are living this like so-called free life
and grace. That is not what he intended.
And he's like, that is not my holiness.
That is not why I died. Don't even associate with such.
And that means you love. Them because you do.
That. I don't have the choice to
respond to. You the way I want to.
I say, Lord, what do we do? How do we respond?
How do we act? How do we do?
Even today I don't have the choice to tell you what I want
to preach this morning, I said. Dad.
What do you want to say to? Your people.
So I'm not even preaching next Sunday, it's Mother's Day.
Can't start a series? I perceive and I heard him.
Say on the inside because. I thought I was just going to
preach on communion initially. I'm going to preach on
communion. I've not done that.
And I went there and I started reading it, you know, and I was
listening, but it was quiet. And then I heard the Lord say,
you need to remind them that this is about a king, his
Kingdom and his royal offspring. He said, Son, there are many in
your service right now that have not even heard you say this
before. Said yes Sir.
And here we are preaching the Kingdom so.
For those who know. Stay obedient to.
Your Heavenly Father. Because He will uphold his word
concerning you. And for those who just heard,
it's not a religion, it's a Kingdom that you're.
A citizen. This is why healing is easy,
because he's already. Paid the price.
Deliverance is easy because he's already laid down his life.