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Now, now we're ready. Luke chapter 12 verse 32 says
this. Do not be afraid.
Who's talking?
Come on, who's talking? Who's talking Jesus?
So why do we do things Jesus tells us not to do?
If you do things that Jesus tells you not to do, then it's
sin. If you do not keep His word,
it's sin. Jesus says do not be afraid we
He has not given us the spirit of fear.
There's nothing going on in the planet today that would cause us
any fear or trepidation. We do not have fear.
We are not to be afraid. And why is that?
He said, do not be afraid, little flock, for your Father
has chosen gladly to give you the Kingdom, not heaven.
Although heaven comes if you leave your body, you'll get
there, right? And you'll get there as long as
Jesus is there 'cause He's not going to stay there forever.
But at the end of the day, the Kingdom of God you can access
now and it's He loves for you to have access to His Kingdom.
And when you have access to his Kingdom, there is No Fear.
There's No Fear, there's No Fear.
There's No Fear because I'm not even afraid of what man can do
to me. I'm not even afraid that if a
man came and martyred me, killed me for my faith in Christ, it
doesn't matter because I can shed my blood here.
He thinks he's taken me out of the earth, but my blood is still
talking, and it will talk for generations, so much so that the
great Court will show up and try that individual for the crime of
murdering me. If they do not repent.
If they repent, I'll welcome them, those who killed me with
open arms, as my brethren, because they were deceived,
lost, and didn't realize it. But if they do not, my King will
judge them and put them into the lake of fire.
No blood is ever spilt and not reckoned with.
Never happens. All right, so at the end of the
day, what am I afraid of? I'm not afraid of who's in
power. I'm not afraid who gets elected.
I'll be a part of the process. I'd look for righteous people,
people who are are sensitive to the word, who are favorable to
the church. I'm definitely going to vote for
those individuals. I do not vote for parties.
I vote for individuals that have favored towards the church and
the calls of God. However, if something gets in
the mix and they do not arrive into government power, it
doesn't stop my government because the king is on the
throne. He's not been voted into power.
He's not going to be dethroned. He still's going to win and be
victorious and he's with me. And if God is for me, who can be
against me? So do not be afraid little
flock. Your Father has chosen gladly to
give you the Kingdom. Now here's the thing, if you
don't understand Kingdom, you can't get it.
Jesus says this in Matthew 417. We're using words here that most
people don't understand because again, at the end of the day,
they assume Kingdom is heaven. He said from that time Jesus
began to preach and say repent, for the Kingdom of heaven is at
hand. Now there's a Kingdom of heaven
and there's a Kingdom of God, but there's a Kingdom that
command that is already a manifestation in heaven and he
wants that Kingdom to manifest in the earth.
We know this because in Matthew chapter six, he says when you
pray, pray this way. Our Father, that's your Father,
my Father, and Jesus is Father, our Father, who art in heaven,
hallowed be your name, your Kingdom come, your will be done
on earth as it is in heaven. So Kingdom can't be heaven
because Kingdom can be in the earth.
Kingdom is the government rule of the king, it's his domain.
So there is no such thing as separation of church and state
in the Bible because the state of the church is the Kingdom.
In fact the the church is the legislative assembly.
If you read the passions translation and again if you
break it down in the Greek, it literally means that.
So they actually actually interpreted that phrase church
correctly. Ecclesia or ecclesia.
It is called out ones or separated ones.
It was not a new term. It was a term Jesus used
intentionally to say Rome has a called out one or a Senate, a
legislative assembly, a body of governing people.
I I have one too. We call it church, which is
giving it a religious connotation.
But in God's ears, church is not religious.
It's actually the embassy by which all the ambassadors come
together to hear from the home country.
So when we go out into this world, this planet among people
who are lost, separated from God, we say, I do not represent
myself, but my king in the words that I speak.
I only say what he says because I don't represent me, I
represent him. And when we actually live like
that, then the Kingdom power of God can show up in our lives and
through our lives. Now here's the thing, you can't
represent a Kingdom if you're not listening to the one who's
king of the Kingdom. So that's why Jesus says repent.
Repent is not a religious word. It literally means change your
thinking. One translation says it this
way. Side with my party, what would
be a case in point today, if you are a registered Democrat and
you got you, you left that party and went over and registered as
a Republican or vice versa. That is changing sides.
And at this point, those two particular parties are, you
know, almost are on polar opposites from each other.
So we were in the domain of darkness.
We were under the power and sway of the enemy.
Our Daddy, our Father, is the father of lies of which we were
children of because all of sin and fallen short of the glory of
God. We all committed rebellion and
treason against the crown of God, and we were under the sway
of our Father the devil. But Jesus, while we were yet
sinners, died for us. Paid the payment of the penalty
that was communicated to Adam in the garden.
Should he eat the fruit. That that word is still in play
today, still in play, and will be acted on.
It's still in play. Adam, if you eat of the fruit,
you're going to die. He ate the fruit.
He became a fall in a fallen nature.
He lost dominion. He gave his dominion over to the
devil whom he serves. Then all humanity now, because
we are born of that seed, is lost, separated from God, dead.
However, God said on that day after the fall of man, he said
I'll bring my seed through the woman and he's going to crush
the enemy, which means I'm going to pay the price associated with
death. It has to be paid however you
just don't receive it unless you bow to Jesus cause Lord is not a
religious word, it is supreme in authority.
Jesus is the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords.
We are leaving the allegiance to the devil and his realm and his
Kingdom and his way of doing and his behavior and his thinking
and it all that he does. And we are bowing our knee to
Jesus Christ the King because he paid the price to live, berate
us and allow us to get back into the position that Adam wants
hell, which is a position of dominion.
OK, so a Kingdom to find. Is this a Kingdom?
Is the government influence of a king over his territory,
impacting it with his personal will, purpose and intent,
producing citizens expressed, expressing the culture, values,
morals, lifestyles, reflecting the King's nature?
So Jesus said, My father has chosen gladly to give you the
Kingdom, but you understand this, You can't have a Kingdom,
that you're not functioning in it as the Kingdom will allow.
The Kingdom has a value, a moral, a lifestyle associated
with it. In fact, you weren't allowed
into that Kingdom with your old nature.
No man could get into that Kingdom on his own merits.
No one could do their own personal good to be acknowledged
by God. That you can get over my Kingdom
and serve here. It was not available for all
have sinned. However, Christ died so he made
the way. He said I'm the door, you can
come on in. He told Nicodemus.
He said if a man is born again or born from above, he can enter
or see the Kingdom. Now, again, God never intended
for you just to enter and stand at the threshold like most
Christians do. They, they leave the domain of
darkness. You know, this would be the
door. They're at the threshold.
They get in, they're inside the house, but they're in the
threshold. And so they're like, I'm born
again. But they do this, you know, and
they do it so much that they're like, they're living like this.
They got their little pinky toe. I mean, when I say pinky toe,
I'm talking about the nail on the pinky toe.
Still on the threshold. You remember Jesus, I called on
you once. That's not lordship.
Lordship is I'm in the house. Shut the door to that.
I'm done with that. I'm done with that.
Now here's the thing, when you get in and you're done with
that, you don't think this way yet.
That's why the Kingdom says repent.
Jesus saying your thinking is completely off, but I can change
it. I can change it.
So what you can't do is get your spirit right.
Only God could do that. And when you call on the name of
the Lord, supreme authority to be saved, you become a new
creature in Christ. The old passes away.
That means that dead spirit is evicted from your skin suit and
cut off from your soul. You are three-part B.
It is cut off from that. Then he puts a new spirit in
you. Not renovated, not remodeled,
brand new. And it looks like Jesus.
Hallelujah. And only God could do that.
But then he says now that this spirit is alive to me and like
me, I'm going to move the Holy Ghost in.
And now He's going to start teaching you.
Why? Because your soul still has
residual thinking from the old way of living.
And we've got to clean up the attic.
Some of y'all need to clean up the attic.
All right, so the Bible tells us the saving of our soul is ours.
We are to work out our salvation with fear and trembling.
It is not working out. So our spirit man's right with
God so that we're right with God.
Only God could do that. But we are working out our mind,
our soul realm to get in line with our new created spirit who
can hear God, wants to hear God, and is not in any position to
want us in our new spirit. Man in Christ will resist
temptation every time. It's that strong every time.
If if you falter in a temptation, you've done it
within your mind realm, in your soul realm, because you started
looking at the scene instead of remembering who you are.
All right, so tonight then we need to talk about another
Kingdom principle. You know, the last couple
Wednesdays we talked about the Kingdom Code of Ethics
principle. If you weren't here, you can go
online and listen to it. But tonight I want to remind you
about the Kingdom education principle.
And that is the education system is designed to transfer,
reinforce and teach with repetition, say with repetition,
say with repetition, say with repetition, say with repetition,
the laws, the values, morals and manners of the king and the
Kingdom to succeeding generations and new citizens
with repetition. So you know, the church has this
problem. When I say the church, I don't
know that I'm saying the one Jesus is building.
But people that go to church that call themselves believers,
they are only concerned about where they're going to go when
they die. So they know that if I that if I
accept Jesus as Savior, could we love Savior Jesus?
He saved me from going to hell. Lord Jesus, a whole nother ball
game. Whole nother ball game.
Because we love Savior Jesus. Because again, we love anything
that we do wrong and someone saves us and keeps us from
wrong, but yet we don't actually have to change.
We like that kind of saving Lord is a whole another ball game
because now you've got to yield your will, your thoughts, your
way of doing. And some of us just think we're
way smarter than God after salvation.
Now we weren't smart enough to get in without him, but now that
we're in, we're smarter than him to stay there and to behave like
we want to. We want to teach Jesus doctrine.
So the Lord says, I'm going to bring you into here.
You're going to be alive unto me through your spirit.
But we're going to have to change your thinking.
Got to get your mind right. You need to go to class and in
order to go to class, you have to go through repetition.
But again, what happens? Most believers, you know, they
just want to go on to the next thing.
They don't want to keep hearing the same stuff.
The problem is if you do not know the concept of addition or
or multiplication, let me go ahead and get over into English
'cause I'm dealing with that grammar right now.
You understand if you don't understand about simple
sentences, complex sentences or clauses, I mean, and I did not
know, I have to change my thinking.
OK, so again, at the end of the day, some of you went to school,
you took precalculus like I did, but if I put that test in front
of you, you would fail. And why would you fail?
Because you lack the repetition to keep the subject there.
So in the natural, we know if we don't keep a repetition, we lose
what we have. Same thing in the realm of the
gym. It was your body.
If you don't keep a repetition with your body, you lose it.
I, I can testify, I let go in March when we went to the
Mediterranean. Everything is healthier there.
We're going to eat it all 13 lbs later.
How do I gain 13 lbs with nothing but healthy food?
Because you can't pull off restraints.
Because the fat cells that I suck dry and said you can't be
fat anymore in my body, right? These particular cells, they
found a way. They found a way.
They found a way to come back. Well, I fed them.
Whatever you feed will find a way.
Are you hearing me? Yeah.
So again, when we come in and have certain subjects, it's
amazing how quick a believer will check out.
Oh, I know you don't know, 'cause you're failing in life.
You fail with your emotion issue with your spouse, you're failing
at work. You know, you're not hanging on.
You need to say whoa, this is a great opportunity for me to
reinforce and re strengthen so that when I get out there, I
don't fail in this capacity. So there's no element honestly
of our spirit, of our nature. And I it includes the spirit.
The reality is in the spirit, God has done everything in you
at once at salvation. You are the righteousness of God
in Christ. It is there, but it will not be
released unless you develop it, period.
There is a process. I'm not going to preach on this.
Pastor Marsha is going to preach on some spiritual growth coming
up and starting next Wednesday. But yet when you get into the
Kingdom of God, you are babe in Christ.
It says that. That doesn't make you a mature
believer. In fact, Christ is coming back
for the church without spot or wrinkle for a mature church.
Well, why isn't he back yet? Because apparently we have not
matured. And then you can go into some
congregations and you feel like you're at a preschool.
You want to know where what the preschool churches look like?
Read Ephesians chapter 6, verse one through verse four.
It'll tell you the elementary principles.
And if that's all the doctrine, the church ministers, they, they
are willfully keeping their congregation in a childlike
state spiritually, although their spirit man wants to be
giants and grow and mature and take dominion over their soul
and their body. But you got to train that that
doesn't come just because you're born again.
It gives you access to it. Are you hearing me?
So Matthew 2818 to 20 says this. And Jesus came up and spoke to
them, saying, all authority has been given to me in heaven and
on earth. Go therefore and make what make
what? Come on make what and all of all
the nations baptizing them in the name of the Father, Son, the
Holy Spirit teaching them, teaching them to observe all
that I commanded you. And lo, I'm with you always,
even to the end of the age. Now here's the thing.
This is how the modern day church has changed us.
I'm going to give you the modern day.
Let me, I'm going to give you the US Christian Church
interpretation. And Jesus came out, spoke to
them and says authority has been given to me in heaven and on
earth only to me. Go therefore and make converts
of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, Son,
the Holy Spirit, letting them know where they're going to go
when they're die because they're sure not going to be able to
accomplish it while they're here.
And whether they do what I say or not, it's really irrelevant
because all I care about is that they're born again.
And lo, I'm with you. Even to the end of the age.
Because I'm not concerned about your spiritual growth, I'm only
concerned about where are you going to go when you die, which
is every other religions statement.
That was never Jesus's platform. Jesus never asked the crowd once
where are you going to go when you die and he never said that.
I'm just saying as anchor fake church, you need to abandon that
witnessing tool. You need to abandon that.
You need to become more well versed in the Kingdom so that
you so that you can live it, demonstrate it and then
articulate it in a way so that people will want to come into
the Kingdom today instead of waiting till they're on their
deathbed. And scare tactics is not what
gets people in the Kingdom. Where would you go today if you
died? Well, if they're lost, they
don't know. I mean, they just have their own
issue. And again, at the end, why do we
limit God's power? God's only powerful enough to
keep you from going to hell, but he sure can't do nothing with
you down here on the earth with the devil.
And that's exactly how most people live.
But he said go make what disciples.
Disciples is different. It means to become a pupil and
roll as a scholar, say scholar, say scholar.
Now scholar is not some fly by. I'm going to study the night
before the test, but I haven't been listening during the
classes anyway. And so I'm going to cram for an
exam. So when I get there, I pass
enough. Then I forget it because now
that subject's done and we can go on to the next thing.
And this is how believers, how do I know this?
They're in trouble. So they go cramming scripture
and cramming the Airways of their social media.
Please pray for me. I need a prayer chain.
We need something to happen and they're cramming this and God is
merciful. He's long-suffering, He is good,
He's benevolent. He can still do things for his
children because he's trying to get them to identify.
I do this all the time. I'll do this all the time to him
who believes. However, when Christ is sitting
there, they live their own life because I know where I'm going
to go when I die. Don't talk to me about anything.
What can you teach me anyway? Then crisis comes and then they
come to you because you actually live it and you get a little
tired, like I'm not praying for you.
I mean, I understand you do, but sometimes you think that, right?
Why am I praying for you now? Sometimes the Lord can say don't
pray for him because God himself is not going to be abused, taken
advantage of, taken for granted, manipulated.
You can't manipulate God. You don't manipulate God through
wistful wishful thinking or tears.
God's not moved by tears, He's moved by faith.
Are you hearing me? So we are to make disciples.
Now, in order to become a disciple, you must be born
again. You're going to have to be
converted. You're going to have to come out
of the domain of darkness into the Kingdom of his beloved Son.
But the reason why you're coming out is so that you can become a
scholar, a scholar. I said a scholar.
And you know what? I understand that we have
natural education because you understand the church at one
point was the leader in educating humanity.
Well, then the natural government got involved.
Now we have what we call public school.
And so the government says we'll educate them, and now we're
going to actually educate them without any reference to God.
So now we have a Society of people that are wise in their
own estimation, lifted up in pride cause knowledge puffs up,
you know, and as a result of that, you know, they are so
educated, so full of wisdom based upon natural things, but
have no acknowledgement towards God.
And as a result of that, there's this huge disconnect.
So what's happened? Because you were trained that
way, when you come to church, you don't have the because you'd
hated going to school anyway. Very few people in this room
love school. Couldn't wait to get there.
Very few people. So the disdain of that makes
this a disdain because we don't want to be lectured.
We don't have to hear. We don't have to yet.
This is life. Peter's like, where am I going
to go? You have the words of life.
If you don't see what's being ministered at the body that God
has placed you in in order to educate you so you can glad
because he gladly wants to give you the Kingdom and access to
the Kingdom, then you're going to miss out and it's only
because of a lack of self restraint and understanding the
value of the word of God in your life.
So Doctor Miles Monroe said this in in his book Applying the
Kingdom. He said learning is more than
mental knowledge of facts and information.
The knowledge must be reproducible.
In practical terms, this means demonstrating the ability to
perform the action learned as well as teach it to someone else
so that they can learn it also. That's powerful because again,
what we do if we don't watch out is we come just to go through a
class. All right, we have new Anchor
Faith Life classes starting July 7th.
You can go into our guest relations and register for those
now. But we have Anchor Faith Life
classes not so that you can because we don't give
certificates for that. You don't get a little
certificate at the end of it to say you complete because people
just love to get their little certificates, right?
They love to get their little degrees.
They love to get their little stuff.
You know, again, most people have degrees on their wall
they're not even functioning in. They gave the state or that
institution 10s of thousands of dollars to receive a degree in a
subject matter that they do not function in.
And I'm supposed to be impressed with you that I should hire you
in another echelon for a totally different just because you have
a degree. I could say, well, you weren't
smart enough to get a degree that you were actually going to
function in the rest of your life because what you're trained
in, you're not even doing. So you're no different than
someone who has no degree in the position I'm hiring you.
So why am I giving you credit for a degree that of something
that I'm putting you in now and you're not even trained to do
and it's all over the place? You must have a bachelor's to
apply or a master's no matter what it is as long as you have
it. And yet people are hiring people
all the time, yet hiring them in positions that they were never
trained in? Well, heck, you could walk off
the street and do that same in anyway you can go ahead and look
it up yourself. The percentage of people who are
actually working within the degree field they have they they
received, you're going to be shocked.
You're going to be shocked. So Proverbs 35 and six says this
trust in the Lord with all your heart.
Do not lean on your own understanding in all your ways.
Acknowledge him and he will what make your path straight.
Now this is really this right here is very problematic a lot
of times and again, I I I have an honorary degree, OK, but it's
not because I haven't done the work OK, so there's a couple
ways you can get them right. You can pay money for them, sit
in the actual classes or you. Can do the work yourself.
And it be recognized that you've done that work within that
particular field and as a result of that you haven't.
I actually the degree that I have is within the field that
I'm doing. OK.
With that being said, I did go to Bible school to be trained.
They just could not issue degrees at the time.
But I'm well equipped because of that.
Ultimately, a degree issuing university.
As you know, FCU gave me a doctorate few years ago of which
I have written eight books, right?
We have authored 8 books. And again, I didn't panel
myself, but I sure did do the studying because anyone that was
a part of the project had my content.
And I'll just tell you right now, people who are on the best
selling authors of The New York Times, which is kind of a
gimmick anyway, but most of them did not sit down and pin their
own books. All right.
With that being said, he said do not lean to your own
understanding which tells us we should never put confidence in
our own personal work ethic where you put more value in a
degree you have than in what you're receiving by revelation
from God. I'm not downplaying the study.
Again, if you're called to be a brain surgeon, please go study
how to do it. I really don't want you to show
up and say I saw something on YouTube.
Cause seriously, how many of you go to YouTube?
Yes, you're going to YouTube on how to fix things in your house.
You're not calling the plumber, You're not calling an
electrician, you're not calling us.
Whatever. You're looking at a mechanic,
you're trying to figure it out yourself.
Somebody's got on there. You don't know who they are.
You don't even know if they can actually fix the thing that
they're telling you to fix. And by all abandonment of faith,
you begin to rip your whole tear down all of your brake system on
your vehicle. I mean, seriously, some of them
don't. You don't even go to the end of
the video to make sure they don't say, man, I didn't know
what I was doing because he's like, oh, here's one.
We'll start here. Now take this, OK?
And you start tearing it off and you don't know how it ends yet.
That's faith, people. That's a confident persuasion
that someone you don't know is going to lead you down the right
path to completion. Oh Hallelujah and all our ways
we are to acknowledge Him and make our paths straight, and
that is after salvation. But again, if Jesus is only
where am I going to go when I die, then you don't take that
serious. Obviously we do, but many don't
take that serious because they've got it covered.
I know where I'm going to go when I die.
The rest will work itself out. Well let's go on.
Proverbs 1412 says there is a way which seems right to a man,
but it's bend is the way of death.
So again, the Lord's life before me, everything you thought was
right was actually wrong. It just led to death.
And I'm here to correct this thinking so that it will be
different. First Corinthians chapter 2
verse 14 says, But a natural man does not accept the things of
the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him and he cannot
understand them because they are what spiritually appraised.
Again, we already know on the natural.
If we do not through repetition keep things in front of us, we
can lose that information and knowledge because no longer are
we practicing it. We are not keeping it in front
of us. OK, how much more the things of
the Spirit, because God never intended for you to learn His
Word for trivia purposes only. If you ever get around the
spiritual elites, you know how I call them spiritual elites?
Because they ask what I consider stupid questions.
And I say that because it comes across like, you know, they want
to attain to some kind of higher revelation.
And here's one of them. Did Adam and Eve have a belly
button? That is the dumbest thing ever
because knowledge of that doesn't do anything for your
faith. Have you you've been around?
They always try to ask these obscure questions to try to seem
and, which makes me think. That's a trivia person.
This is a trivia Christian. 'Cause they're going to let me
know, you know who killed David, They're going to let me know
about Noah and his family. They're going to give me all the
talking points. They're going to try to impress
me by telling me who Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego in their
original names were, right? I mean, they're going to want to
be impressive. They're going to exegesis,
they're going to want to break down Greek stuff and all this.
But then you see them in life. They can't handle their
emotions. They can't handle conflict, they
can't handle stress. A situation comes and they freak
out. It takes them so much time to
recover. Where's your knowledge of who
God saved in the flood now? And how important is that belly
button right now? How important is that
Hallelujah? I said Hallelujah.
We need to hunger for this spiritual appraisement.
Proverbs 26 says this, for the Lord gives wisdom.
From his mouth come knowledge and understanding.
From his what? Where's that at?
Because you're not looking at Jesus.
So where's his mouth at today? It's the Word, and if you're not
in the word, he's not talking to you.
Proverbs, 1514. The mind of the intelligence
seeks knowledge. Now again these verses, you
know, I'm using them, you know, just portions of them because
again, the mouth of the full feeds on on folly and man,
there's plenty of people that again are feeding on folly
because again, they don't care about any other thing about God
and how to overcome in life. They just know I know where I'm
going to go when I die. And so they miss out on the
Kingdom God wants to gladly give them.
Now, God is not in a delayed program.
There are things he's strategically doing because of
humanity and there are dispensations that ultimately
here's why all these dispensations change.
They are progressive revelations of God.
In the very first one, which was Adam and Eve in the garden, it
was heaven and earth exactly alike, perfect.
There's no change between the two.
He, they could, they could, He could calm down, no issues, no
conflict, no sin, everything. And he had knowledge like no
one's no one on earth has ever had.
Are you hearing what I'm saying? Which lets us know then because
he ate fruit in that environment.
There is no I'll forgive you, son.
You've never blown it moment in that environment.
It was cut off. Love put Adam out the garden
with his wife. No second chance in that moment.
Now, that doesn't mean Adam couldn't believe that God
through his conversation. I'm going to send my seed, a
messiah's coming. Someone's going to come and
deliver me, and I'm going to be able to come.
Because we know there were people in Abraham's bosom that
Jesus delivered. And all those people were the
righteous dead. They were believing for the
Savior, they believing for the King.
And they were in a place that was not the grave, not where
torment was. They were in a different
location awaiting the death, burial and then resurrection of
Jesus. OK and by all rights Adam and
Eve could could have been in there.
Bible doesn't say it, but they could have been OK.
The point is, is that sin entered the world.
The whole system changed because of one failure immediately.
But then we get into other dispensations where God begins
to reveal things in a different way.
In essence, He's putting man in so many conditions how God's
revealing himself, then he holds them accountable to how He's
revealed himself specifically. We are in a dispensation now
that is that is more. How do I want to say it is at a
higher level than the old covenant?
It's not. It's not more tolerant.
Can I say that it's not more tolerant, It's at a higher level
because in the old covenant, they weren't alive to the
Spirit. They were dead, and there were
only three types of individuals that had the Holy Ghost come
upon them, and the sprinkling of blood did a lot.
It didn't save them, it didn't redeem them in its totality, but
it did keep a covenant around them.
However, we are in a new covenant, a better covenant, and
if we're in a better covenant, then that means we have more
responsibility in this covenant, not less.
And and the education principle of the Kingdom, The king in his
writings to us through the apostle Paul mainly, but in
others in Jude and John and in Paul and Peter, they all deal
with these doctrines that try to put you in a lower state instead
of the higher state to where you think you can come in and live
like you used to. And God tolerates it.
He does not tolerate that. He expects you to live different
because what excuse do you have? You're born of God and the Holy
Ghost lives in you. He lives in you.
So I don't understand why a believer would want to live such
a sub level life. And the only reason they do is
because they're still a babe. Because babes don't care about
nobody but themselves when the baby comes out of the womb.
Doesn't care about Mama. Although Mama loves a baby.
Going crazy over the baby. But the baby's not saying mom
now, before this thing. Starts.
What would you? How would you like to sleep at
night? What are your hours?
Because I really want to make it convenient.
I I love you and I'm thinking about you.
I sure don't want to make years and Dad's life a living hell for
the first six months because I don't get on the right schedule.
So just tell me what you need and listen, I'm not going to bug
you when I'm real hungry, OK? I'm just going to tap, OK?
I'm going to be peaceful about it, you know?
When I get a little hungry, I'm just going to tap on your
shoulder. I'm.
Going to say I think it's Tom, right?
Is this how it rolls out? No, don't roll out now.
I know some of your life man. My child was so great.
Yeah, have another one. 'Cause you know what, usually we
get a few to come out, you know, pretty good.
They tend to just for whatever reason, hit it right.
They sleep all night. They very are are very rarely
irritable and you know, don't really cry a whole lot, you
know, in the whole grand scheme of things, but don't think
something's not going to show up right.
But then you so excited about that.
Let's have another one. The next one comes out.
It's like I'm not my sibling, right here we go And it's like,
why is this one scream all the time?
Apparently it's going to be a singer.
I wish it would get some words right now, right.
So again, why do they do this? Believers is because they whine,
cry. They're selfish.
They need to be. Educated, trained.
All right, so Proverbs, let me skip a few.
I'm I'm going to skip a few. Let's go to Proverbs 1533 Be the
last proverb I go and we'll get into Galatians.
The fear of the Lord is the instruction for.
Wisdom Galatians four one through 2.
The King James says this. Now I say that that the heir, as
long as he is a child, differeth like I'm in the King James
nothing from the servant, though he be Lord of all.
So the heir is Lord of all, but he looks no different than the
servant but under tutors and governors until the time
appointed of the father. So at the end of the day, here's
a child that ultimately at birth has a right because of their
birth. It is by birth.
Everything because of birth is already sealed within them to be
able to have full authority and power of whatever it is that
they are an heir to. However, the servant who was not
born in that position does not have that.
And they do not look different in the beginning because the one
that's the heir is being told what to do, being instructed how
to respond, being communicated to in this situation.
This is how you handle yourself. You're the heir now.
The heir doesn't have like that, The air doesn't walk like that,
the air doesn't talk like that. So the air is being corrected
just as a servant would be corrected in the context.
We don't put the table together that way or we don't do this,
that and the other and then give instruction to the servant.
Now this is how you prepare this and this how you prepare that,
and this is how you do this particular position.
They don't differ, but they are being, but those heirs are under
tutors and governors. Look what it says here in John
chapter 14 verse 25 and 26. New Living translation says it
this way. He said I'm telling you these
things now while I'm still with you.
But when the Father sends the advocate, one translation says
counselor as my representative, that is the Holy Spirit.
He will teach you everything and will remind you of everything
I've told you. So the reason, number one reason
why the Lord or a reason why I'm not going to say #1 it's, it's,
but it's just as impactful, OK. And that is the reason why the
the Lord places the Holy Spirit in you is not just to bear
witness with your spirit. You are a child of God.
Now, why is that necessary though?
Because the Holy Spirit has an assignment to say to you,
listen, you're a child of God. Because up to this point you
have fallen short, you're flat, you have you have guilt, shame,
you don't think you're worthy to be.
And he has to say, now listen, we going to go to work because
listen, you're a child of God. You are a child of God.
You are the son and daughter of the King.
So that's why he bears witness with your spirit.
You are of God, you're of God. And what's he saying now?
Listen, you're of God. God's never been defeated by
evil, never been overcome by, never been put down by it, never
been destroyed by it, never yielded to at one time it he,
that spirit always conquered and it's in you.
You are child of God. That's why he's bearing because
he's giving you your identity as an heir.
You are joint heirs with Christ. But now that you're an heir,
it's time to go to work. I said it's time to go to work,
it's time to be trained through the Kingdom education principle.
We call it the renewing of the mind.
But again, so many people abandoned this process.
And when you abandon this process, you are not going to
pull the Kingdom into this natural life while you're in the
life and live it to its fullness, because your lack of
knowledge of His Kingdom and how it functions and operates will
hinder you from having what God has with great joy to give you.
God is not withholding the Kingdom from you, You withhold
it from yourself through a lack of being a scholar and staying
in. Repetition.
Are you hearing me? He goes on to say John 1415 to
17 again, the New Living Translation.
I really think these translation, they have it,
they're they probably didn't have it, so they had a different
one. But it says, if you love me,
here we go, right? If you love me, what are you
going to do? You're going to obey my
commandments. Why is that?
Because you're the child of a king.
Because Jesus himself says I only do what Dad says, he said I
love Dad. How does Dad know?
Because I obey. Again, we've already said this
and I'm going to say it again for repetition.
Surely Jesus would love the Lord.
He's of his nature, He's God. He's the second person of God.
Yet that alone doesn't say I love you, Father.
The same thing with the first Adam, because Jesus is
considered the last Adam out of God's nature.
He breathes into this skin suit, or this man made out of the
dust. He forms him out of the dust of
the earth, breathes into his nostrils the breath of life.
Then he wants to know, do you love me?
It's of His nature. How would Adam not be of the
nature of love? Because love is only manifested
in obedience to His Word. Love is not a feeling.
So he says, Adam, you can eat from any tree of the garden, but
of the tree of the knowledge of good, evil, you shall not eat
for the day you eat you will. Surely This is why Jesus says,
now listen, if you love me man, you're going to keep my word
because I've only kept the Father's word.
I've only done that. This is why the Father loves me
because I prove it all the time. Now again, I know what your mom
wants to. Do.
You want to kick back on those statements and say, don't tell
me I don't love God when I did wrong.
That is an act of rebellion. And in order to stay in right
standing, you repent from that and get back into doing what He
told you to do. That's an act of love.
And the Bible's very clear about this.
It doesn't mince words with this.
We we want it to be the other way because we want to still do
our way. We want to know all that we can
do and he still accept us. Well, God's never accepted you.
He accepted Jesus. We were not acceptable.
We were damnable, rightly so, but God through Christ said,
I'll accept you in Christ, make him Lord.
Well, what's it mean? Make him Lord.
I'm going to obey you because I love you.
I mean, my gosh, you died for me.
You took all my treason, my rebellion, my wrongdoing, my
disobedience. In fact, God in his new covenant
within the Gospels, I think it's Galatians that he's storing up
wrath for the sons of disobedience and that's for
dispensation that we've not even hit yet.
But this is easy for the new believer because my nature is to
love God. He has the Holy Spirit in me.
He's telling me I'm a child of God and he has empowered me with
the same spirit because of the same spirit of the race crash on
the dead lives in me and my spirit is in Christ.
Then how I'm incapable in the spirit realm to not do his word.
So all I got to do is say, mind you going to get it together.
We going to learn this principle.
We are going to quit wine bagging and complaining like the
old man. We're done with that.
I'm a higher species of being now.
So what do you say, Dad? And we're like, wow, that hurts,
but that's OK. I'll crucify that deal and do
the word anyway because your word's life.
So if you love me, you'll obey my commandments.
I'll ask the Father, and he will give you another counselor who
will not never leave you. He is the Holy Spirit who leads
into all truth. So Hebrews 513 and 14.
Then we'll jump over into the first verse of chapter 6.
It says for everyone who partakes only say only say only
only of milk is not accustomed to the word of righteousness,
for He is an infant. OK, but solid food, say solid
food. Now here's the thing about solid
food, though. If you're if you can only drink
milk, you can't eat solid food. OK so at the end of the day it's
amazing how many infants in Christ try to go to places where
there's solid food. You take a baby to an all you
can eat BBQ buffet. I don't care how much that child
is drooling for a brisket for a a a BBQ rib from Captain's BBQ
down off of A1A. Right.
I don't care how much they have no teeth, no ability to handle
the solid food. Unless you're throwing it in a
blender and turn it in liquid form, it's not happening.
And I agree that would be nasty. However, when they threw milk,
grow and develop the ability to start handling.
And how can you handle solid food?
You are doing the milk of the word.
If you're not doing the milk of the word, then you can't eat
solid. Now that doesn't mean you can't
hear solid. Be around solid, smell solid,
put solid in your mouth and gum it to death.
But when you try to swallow, what will happen?
You're going to choke and die on something that you cannot
assimilate because you're not a doer of milk.
See if a solid food is for the mature.
So again, infants don't get do not get solid food.
Infants do not get solid food. You have to move to maturity.
You said, well, how long does it take to become mature?
As fast as you are always a doer of what you've heard and in
repetition continue in it. You're practicing it.
You're practicing it so. But solid food is for the
mature. Who, because of what practice,
have their senses trained to discern good and evil?
And I don't have time to dissect this, but you already know that
most believers that are infants or babes cannot discern good or
evil, although they think they can.
The Scripture declares they cannot.
And This is why our nation's like, it is because we've turned
out converts at the turn of the century after the World War Two
that some people came together and said, how can we make the
gospel its simplest form, what we preach on?
Where are you going to go when you die?
It was not the prevailing conversation over 100 years ago.
This is recent within our own nation, but man, we have taken
it hook, line and sinker because again, we don't want
responsibility of discipleship, or at least churches do.
Not now that's not us. Because we have a plethora of
opportunities for you to be discipled.
You come to church on why do we do midweek?
You know how many churches don't even do midweek, Don't even do
midweek, and then this Sunday they're only teaching for 25
minutes and you're supposed to mature with 25 minutes of 168
hours in a week That the enemy is bombarding you with other
conversations. That is called insanity.
That pastors believe that their congregations are maturing
because, and here's the thing, every pastor knows the people
don't come every service. I mean, it's like a pastor's
biggest dream is that everyone who said they went to their
church showed up at one time. I think people are going to be
surprised when they're catching away because they're going to be
like, we're all going. Some of you might not.
I'm not going to get into that one anyway, but we just like,
come on. So again, if it's 25 minutes and
we, we think regular attendance is one or two, two services is
50 minutes of training. Because here's the thing, you
know as well as I do, it is a challenge sometimes to learn on
your own. Now I've, I would much rather, I
thank God for you too, but I'd love to be able to see where's
that go, right, 'cause how many guys, we get some project from
IT or something. And what do we do?
We start laying it all out and you already start to see how
this thing through common sense is going and you start to
process. Yet there's an instruction
manual. We don't look at that and you
understand the structure. Manners have gotten so dumbed
down. They don't have words anymore.
It's just pictures. Do you understand how how we
are? We're being treated like
preschoolers. It is a coloring book that they
have given us to put whole pieces of furniture together.
Sometimes I'm looking, I'm like, what's the length on this there?
I have two ones longer than the other.
And you're not really, I mean my shapes, but again, you start
getting documents to learn in words.
Well then you got to be to understand the context and you
understand God did not give you a picture.
Book I don't want to hear this it.
Didn't give you a picture book because again, you know, if we
got a IKEA setting that says insert and you're reading you're
like, I don't even know what they're talking about right now.
What are they saying? It's this and they're have you
ever read a property? If they appraisers paragraph of
your property, It isn't 2121 US One South.
That's not how that goes. I mean, it's like this whole
massive description of all these points and everything you're
like, what the that's my property.
I mean, if if someone handed me your property appraiser
paragraph and says here's directions to my house, I feel
like I ain't coming, right? I mean, again, that literally
says anywhere on the globe where you are, but none of us can
decipher that. Now someone could train us.
That then you'd be like, oh, I know where you live.
But you got to know where the longitude and latitude and all
that kind of stuff's hitting. Anyway, all right, so Ephesians
4, we know that they gave us pastors and the fivefold
ministry to equip the Saints. Again, we are here to train.
I'm closing down now. We're here to train so that we
can all grow up to become a mature body, right?
Verse 16 From whom? The whole body being fitted and
held together by what every joint supplies according to the
proper working of each individual part, causes the body
to for the building up of itself in love.
It also says in verse 13, until we attain, till we all attain to
the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God
to a mature man, to the measure of the statute which belongs to
the fullness of Christ. And again, God doesn't want to
leave anyone behind, so we all have to mature.
It is the requirement of God for his church.
He doesn't want preschoolers. He wants people to move to
maturity. And I do believe the day's
coming where this can be at a greater level.
You know, could it be that right before he returns and catches us
away that the ones that come in are technically geniuses?
Because, you know, there have been people that are
academically really intelligent and they're 12/13/14, they're
graduating, going to college. I mean, they just have the mind
to do it. And can God do things in the
spirit with you once you're born again and grow you up and you
take control of that soul realm? You allow the education
principle of the Kingdom to function in your life so that
you start immediately showing the values, the morals, and the
lifestyle of a citizen of the Kingdom of God so that it
reflects the king himself. I believe that's highly
plausible. Highly plausible, most likely,
actually. OK.
But again, it's still because you're going to submit to a
training for, you know, it just comes natural that I can just do
the things of God. Well, you know what comes
natural to you too, because you're a supernatural being.
When I say comes natural, it's within you to be able to take
control of your thoughts, your mind and, and and yield it to
the word of God. First Corinthians 1420 says
this, brethren, do not be children in your thinking yet in
evil be infant. So what's he saying in the
subject of being evil, diabolic, fleshly, like your old life, be
an infant, know nothing about it.
Quit act like you're an expert in slander, gossip, malicious
fornication, sexual sins. I mean you left that life all of
a sudden become infant to it at like I don't even know how to do
that now. You're old way.
You used to be professional and expert, but in this new life I
don't even know how to do that. That is a foreign concept to me.
So Paul is saying in your thinking, don't be children,
quit being a child. Look at your neighbor and say
quit being a. Child, my wife and I real quick,
you know, went to breakfast this morning and Mandy's people have
their kids there because of vacation and this kid just
started blowing his nose with nothing snotting.
And they're like, don't do that. He did it again.
Then that grandparent put, you know, a rag, you know, on him.
And he then when he pulled it off, he did it again.
Just defiance. Then then the threats came.
You understand? I'm going to call you dad.
Then they started calling their name call and then they don't be
and they're talking, but no action, no action, no action.
And they just kept their deal. And then one of the little ones
went and grabbed a little coaster, went over because we're
on a, you know, upper floor. We were outside eating and threw
it, don't do that. And said their name like, well,
if you'd have been paying attention, they wouldn't have
got so close with it anyway. Don't.
But you know how many believers act childish like this?
Now let me just say this as your pastor, I'm not going to be one
of those parents. So if you come to this church
and you want to keep acting rebellious, well, you can find
another one. Come on, you can find another
one. I mean if you willfully want to
be. Rebellious.
Then you go somewhere else. And we'll help you get there.
We're going to hold you accountable to maturity because
I'm not here just to be excited that you're going to heaven when
you die. I'm here to mature the body.
And we're not going to have a spoiled rotten spiritual child
acting out. They will be corrected.
All right, OK, let's leave on a smiling note.
Do not be children in your thinking yet.
And evil be infants, but in your thinking be mature.
Do you understand? Right now I have given you 3.
Sundays at another church tonight.
But in your thinking, mature. Mature.
The word mature here means this literally.
In the Greek it means pertaining to being mature in one's
behavior. Mature Grown up to be a mature.
Person it means in context to the measure of the stature of
the fullness of Christ. God wants us.
It means maturity of behavior. You are the mature in your
behavior. You shouldn't be easily
offended, right? Right.
You should be quick to forgive. You should be quick to
righteousness and run from evil. You should flee the appearance.
You should be constantly thinking about somebody else
other than yourself. No slander, no gossip, no
division among the brethren. None of this stuff happens to
the with the mature. Are you hearing me?
It means not lacking any moral quality.
In fact, it includes the word perfect, and the reason it uses
that is because God himself is perfect, or that word is.
Complete God never intended for Jesus to come.
To have you. Incomplete in the three areas of
your being. You'd be beat.
Down, broke down physically in sickness, disease, just barely
holding on. And man, you know it's going to
let go of your spirit man anyway.
Your mind, your emotions are going to be broke, beat down,
destroyed, crushed because of how much oppression issues
people have come against you. All the abuse that's happened to
you verbally, mentally, emotionally, you know, both
physically, whatever the case may be, but you know what?
At least you're going to go to heaven when you die.
That was never the gospel he preached.
He allowed you to become complete in every three area
that you don't even recognize that other person and people
like I don't even recognize that other person in you.
So we close with Romans chapter 12, verse 2.
The new American standard says do not be conformed to this
world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind so that
you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and
acceptable and perfect. Guess what?
You're not going to prove the will of God just because you're
born again. In fact, you're incapable of
proving the will of God just because you're born again.
You're only given access to the Kingdom that now you can gain.
You can receive knowledge on how to begin to function effectively
in His Kingdom by birthright because there are many that are
not exercising the will of God based upon immaturity and as
long as you want self, you'll stay a baby.
The Passion says it this way. Stop imitating the ideals and
opinions of the culture around you, but be inwardly transformed
by the Holy Spirit through a total reformation of how you
think of how you think of how you think.
You understand. I can't control your thoughts.
You can't control my thoughts, but I can do by the Spirit.
If you and I have got, we have something that we're dealing
with. The scripture says this, and if
you have not come to the conclusion you're going to do
it, I have come to the collusion.
I am going to do it. Then I also can exercise
patience until you get to that place.
I don't have to rant and rave just because you haven't come to
where this is the best place to be because I can trust God.
So even though a person may not be totally functioning in the
light of what they could know in the word, it doesn't mean that
I'm coming against them, a heart against them or whatever the
case, me and pay I can say well. Lord, you can deal with that.
You can go on and deal with that.
I'm going to be at peace anyway because I've matured.
So this will empower you to discern God's will as you live a
beautiful life, satisfying and perfect in his eyes.
Amen. So Jesus never intended for you
to be converted and then just figure what you can out, why you
can. No, he said, I have a very
strategic system. I'm offering them a Kingdom.
I'm giving them the dominion back that Adam lost.
This was never about them coming to heaven.
It was about them having dominion and becoming a child of
God. It was about their destiny, not
a destination. And so as a result of that, if
they're coming into our Kingdom, they sure are not going to
function well with their thinking.
I'm not here to change their soul.
I'm here to give them a new spirit and then give them a
teacher in them who will educate them from my realm on how they
as an heir are is they are supposed to respond and act.
And as they yield to that spirit, they can wash their mind
with my word, change their thinking and begin to live on a
whole nother level. A level they were always
destined to live 'cause they were never supposed to live.
In the aspect of sin, disobedience, where death
reigns, I'll give them the ability to reign in life.
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