So, you know, Pastor, last week kicked off 2025 and the reigning
church, and I want to follow up with talking concerning the
reigning church. But what does the reigning
church look like? What does the reigning church
look like? Or we could say what are some of
the characteristics of what a reigning church looks like in
the earth? What are those characteristics?
What should be seen from the church?
And when I say the church, we know that we're talking about
what the body of Christ. We are the church, we are the
body of Christ. And so, you know, what does a
reigning church look like? And you know, it's very
important that we go through Scripture because we want to see
what Scripture has to say about what the church is to look like
today in the earth. And if we're going to walk in
the fact that we're going to be participating in the church that
is reigning in the earth until he returns.
Amen. And what is this picture of the
reigning church look like? And just I'm going to go over a
few. I have 10 points.
And yes, we're going to get through them because there's,
there's not much to say about it.
It's pretty self-explanatory. But there is one point, the last
point that I really want to focus on.
But we see that pastor used the Scripture out of Matthew 16 and
verses 18 through 19. It says this.
I also say to you that you are Peter and upon this rock I will
build my church. And we know that Jesus is still
building his church. The church is of Him, Amen.
And he is still the one that should be building His church in
the earth. He delegated that to what
pastors, prophets, teachers, evangelist to be able to help
him in the earth build his church.
But he's still the one in complete authority in his
building. Amen.
And so that's very important that we recognize that.
So he is still building his church and he says this and the
gates of hates will not overpower it or the gates of
hell will not overpower it. So it doesn't matter how dark
the world gets. Come on.
It doesn't matter the persecution that may come
against the church or the people of God, or the fact that we want
to stand up in the pulpit and still use the name of Jesus and
still preach about the blood and still cast out demons.
Come on. You know, just a month ago we
had somebody leave the church because we were demonstrating
casting out a demon. That's all right.
I don't care. I'm going to do what Jesus said
to do. People are being demonically
tormented right now in the world.
This is not just back when Jesus walked the earth.
No, it is relevant and prevalent today, Amen.
And evermore, evermore prevalent today.
And so we're going to do what Jesus said we were to do as the
church. We're not going to become
traditional, come on, We're not going to become religious.
We're going to actually be people that live by the word of
God. Amen.
And let that be the thing that we pulled our lives upon.
And so he says the gates of hell will not overpower it.
That means there's nothing in this earth that can come against
the church that would cost stop the church.
Nothing. Nothing.
No government. I mean, look at China.
Did it stop it? No.
No, it didn't stop it. Nothing can stop the church
because what happens because he gets himself within you and
we're going to talk about that later.
And so it can't overpower it. The only way that the enemy can
overpower you is when you submit to him and yield to him and
don't know who you are in Christ.
This is the only way the enemy overpowers you, period.
It's just the bottom line, OK. And then he goes on to say in
verse 19 it says, I will give you, who is he giving the church
right us the keys of the Kingdom of heaven.
And whatever you bind on earth shall have been bound in heaven,
and whatever you loose on earth shall have been loosed in
heaven, so that nothing in this world has the power to overtake
or overcome the church. And the church has been given
all authority. Keys represent authority.
He's been given us all authority to bind and to lose in the earth
what needs to be done so we can bind up the things that the
enemy is trying to act like he's going to come against the church
with. We bind it up.
We bind it up and say no in the name of Jesus.
You can't do that here. Come on, you can't do that in my
life, whatever the situation may be, because he's given us the
authority, the church, Amen. And if you are a born again
believer, then you are the church, you are the church, you
are the body of Christ, Amen. And so we see that a reigning
church here looks powerful. A reigning church,
characteristics of a reigning church, is one that looks
powerful. It is a powerful force in the
earth. It is not pitiful.
It is not pathetic. It is not beat down.
Come on. It is not broke.
Come on, the church is not broke.
That's a good word. No, It's a powerful force in the
earth. It is the most powerful force in
the earth today. And that has to become your
reality. It has to become your reality.
If it's not your reality, this is the problem.
It's got to become your reality. You have to receive the
revelation of it, and this is the problem is that still in the
earth most people do not want to see and have the revelation of
what Christ is trying to get across in the body of Christ.
Until revelation does not happen, until it becomes real to
you, because it can be revealed to me, it can be real in my
life. But you still don't make it real
in yours. And we're here to get the
reality within you so that you can make it real in your life.
Amen. So that you can make it real in
your life. The reigning Church is a
powerful church. It's a powerful church and you
are part of it. Those who have called on the
name of the Lord, those who have made Jesus Christ their Lord and
their Savior, listen, you are a part of a powerful force in the
earth. Amen.
Hallelujah. The next thing we see, a
reigning church looks like is one of authority and dominion.
A reigning church you will see people operating in authority
and in dominion. Just like the fact that we
recognize we've been given the keys of the Kingdom of God.
So part of our authority and our dominion is to bind up and to
loose things that are in the earth that belong to us, the
territory that belongs to us, to take dominion over.
Amen. And it's one of authority.
It's one of power. It's one of dominion.
People ought to look at your life and see that you have taken
dominion over the things of this world.
Not that you're still succumbed to it, but you've actually taken
the power over things of this world and taken dominion over
things that are trying to rule and reign in your life.
Now read out of the amplified, verse 19 out of Matthew 16 out
of the amplified. It says I will give you the keys
and here it is authority of the Kingdom of heaven and whatever
you bind, whatever you forbid and declare to be improper and
unlawful on earth. Wow, unlawful on earth.
You know, there's a lot of things happening in our earth
that are unlawful. And he is waiting for the church
to rise up and say no more. We're not going to allow that in
our city. We're not going to allow all
that come on in our nation. It is unlawful and I forbid it
and I declare it and I take authority over it.
So the reigning church is one of authority.
It's one of dominion, Hallelujah.
And it's one that knows its place and what we have to do for
the church to be able to rise up and reign in the earth in this
last day. A reigning church #3 this is
number 3. Y'all good.
See, I've already been moving through fast.
See, a reigning church should have a spirit.
This is very important. A reigning church should have a
spirit of wisdom and revelation. A reigning church should have a
spirit of wisdom and revelation. It should have instruction of
divine truth. Come on, that is unknown and
revealed to and by the Spirit. This is what every single one of
us should be walking in. A spirit of wisdom and
revelation. Revelation that has been
revealed to us by the Spirit of how God needs us to operate in
the earth as children of the living God.
Listen, it is supreme intelligence.
You think AI is something we have the creator of heaven and
earth housed on the inside of us?
Come on, glory to God, the Supreme Intelligence.
Come on, the great I am, glory to God that has is all wisdom,
Hallelujah, all power. Come on living on the inside of
us. And it's time that we recognize
it and get to the plate and say, I'm going to rise up and I'm
going to quit letting this mediocre thinking keep me bound
when I have the Supreme Intelligence living on the
inside of me, a spirit of wisdom and revelation.
There ought to be nothing that we can't do and we can't
accomplish. How do nobodies?
I mean, you know, I was thinking, and I don't care who
your president is, who your president is not.
I don't really care because my king is on the throne and no man
can save us. They can only just help us out a
little bit along the way. Anyway, I was thinking about
this the other day. You know, when presidents come
into the office because, you know, Monday's inaugural day.
But anyway, when presidents come into the office and they begin
to choose their cabinet and we know they, some of them will
begin to have, you know, like Billy Graham.
He has been a voice that has gone before tons of presidents
and prayed or those that would be your faith counselors.
And I'm thinking here's Billy Graham, a nobody that God raised
up to sit. This is how our lives should be
that God raised up to have supreme intelligence to be able
to sit before president after president after president after
president in our nation's, to be able to give them spiritual
counsel from above, Supreme intelligence and wisdom.
Our wisdom should not be of this world should not.
That's what this means when you look up in the Greek supreme
wisdom and revelation. It is divine, revealed things to
us by the Spirit, and this wisdom is Supreme Intelligence
used of the knowledge of the very diverse matters.
No matter what the matter is. You can tap into not AI, but
into the Supreme Intelligence of the world.
It is not the World Wide Web that has Supreme Intelligence.
And we have this living on the inside of us.
We have this living on the inside of us.
Supreme Intelligence, Why we acting stupid?
Colossians 2-3 says this. In whom are hidden Talking of
God, In whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and
knowledge? The Church should be giving
answers to the world, bringing answers to our community,
bringing answers to the educational system, bringing
answers come on to every sphere and sector of society.
It ought to reign supreme above any other else's wisdom.
I don't care who it is. And we ought to be bold enough
to stand before Elon Musk and let him know you not the
smartest cookie on the planet because we have a supreme
intelligence on the inside. Come on, think about these
things. Think about these things.
This is what the church ought to be looking like.
It's what the church ought to be acting like it.
It's what the church ought to be producing, the reigning church.
This is what we ought to be producing in the world.
Hallelujah. Now let's look at Ephesians
chapter 1. Ephesians chapter 1, 17 through
23, it says that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, Ephesians
obviously is talking about the Ephesians church.
This is Paul writing to the church.
These are prayers that we pray over our church, right?
You and prayer and corporate prayer.
You know, we pray these over our church.
This is speaking to you, the body of Christ, the church.
This is for us to become aware of, to know, to meditate on.
Ephesians 117 through 23 says this, that the God of our Lord
Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, say glory.
Y'all going to keep saying this word in a minute.
Say glory may give to you a what spirit of wisdom and revelation?
Say a spirit of supreme intelligence in the knowledge of
him. I pray that the eyes of your
heart would be enlightened. This has been my prayer this
year for this coming up year for the body of Christ.
Oh that we would just get revelation.
The the eyes of our understanding would wake up to
what is on the inside of us, to what we are housing, to what we
are carrying to the world. That the eyes of our heart would
be enlightened. Revelation means that the light
comes on enlightened, so that the revelation, knowledge or the
light of God would come on in our hearts, so that you will
know what is the hope of His calling and what are the riches
of His. Say it again, Say it again, the
riches of His glory. We are carriers of this glory of
the Supreme Intelligence. Come on, the Supreme One on the
inside of us that is full of all wisdom.
So there are some riches of the glory of his inheritance in the
Saints. There is some riches in His
glory that belong to us Inheritance.
It belongs to us.
Come on, Say it belongs to me. Say it belongs to me.
Oh Hallelujah, it belongs to me. And then verse 19 says this.
And what is the surpassing greatness of His power towards
us who believe here it is that power again.
It's there. It's a great power that belongs
to the church. Come on.
And then he goes on to say, these are in accordance with His
working of the strength of His might, which he brought about in
Christ when he raised him from the dead and seated him at the
right hand in heavenly places. Far above all rule, all
authority. This is it, all power and
dominion, in every name that is named, not only in this age, but
also in the one to come. Come on, you know there is a one
to come. This isn't the end of all
things. Come on, there is a one to come,
another age to come. And that's why he set eternity
in the hearts of man. Every heart knows there's
something beyond their existence.
Every heart. I don't care if it is the
hardest of hearts, they've only tried to cover it up to quit
asking the questions. There's got to be more to life
than this, because nothing in this world satisfies the heart
of man except eternity. And he put all things in
subjection under his feet, and he gave him his head over all
things. What to the church?
To the church, All power, all authority, everything come on.
All authority and power is under the feet of the church because
it's under his come on, under his feet, which his body, which
is us, the church, the fullness of him who feels all and all.
So a reigning church is a church that houses his presence, that
houses his presence. It has riches come on of glory
that belong to us. So a reigning church is going to
be a Church of his presence. We're not going to squelch the
presence of God. You know, many people squelch
what I had to be obedient to do earlier.
But see, your life means more to me than what anybody else
thinks, because many churches squelch the presence of God and
they will not let the presence of God dwell in the house that
it belongs to. And so they don't want any of
that Holy Spirit stuff happening.
They don't want anyone to prophecy.
Come on. They don't want anyone to cast
out a demon. They don't want anybody to lay
hands on the sick. They don't want anybody to speak
in them their tongues. Come on, this is the truth.
It's the truth. And it's the very thing that he
said His church would house, the power in the presence of God,
the riches of His glory. Come on, the riches of his glory
there ought to be. When you talk about the presence
of God that fills the house that is there in the church, listen.
It ought to be producing an effect.
Listen, the presence of God, this power of God is the change
agent. We can speak, you can have the
Word, but it's only when the Spirit gets a hold of it in our
life that we allow the change to happen.
It's the Spirit and the presence and the power of God that's the
change agent. Remember in Genesis, this isn't
in my notes in Genesis chapter 1, what happened?
God was the Word. He was there in the beginning,
and what happened? It says that the Spirit was
hovering over the earth. See, This is why the Spirit is
the change agent, because when he spoke the word, the Spirit,
the power, the presence went into action to what?
Create what we begin to see. And behold, said, let there be
light. And the Spirit of God went into
action to change it, to make it become light.
He said let there be man, let there be animals.
What happened? The Spirit of God went into
action. The presence of God, the power
of God is the change agent. So I'm telling you, when there
is a church full of the presence, full of the power of
God, there ought to be change happening in your life.
It's the change. Agency ought to be change.
You should never remain the same.
Once you encounter the presence and the power of God, your life
should forever be changed. And that's what a reigning
church looks like. It houses the presence of God,
the power of God, so that we can see the fullness of God, the
riches of His glory manifesting among us.
Oh Hallelujah. Now let's go to Ephesians
chapter 4. Ephesians 411 through 16 is
where we're going to see the next 4A reigning church is a
mature church, and pastor taught extensively about that on last
Sunday. So I really don't want to focus
on that at all. Just to know that a reigning
church is going to be a church that's mature.
That's what he's talking about, that it would be filled up with
the fullness of God. People would be mature, they'd
be growing, they'd be producing the effect of the power of God
and the presence of God is affecting their everyday life
and you can see it evident in their life.
Drug addicts ought to be, you know, come and claim because of
the power and the presence of God in the church, Come on.
And you see them go out and be able to overcome.
Come on. Pornography ought to be falling
off of people. Come on.
This is the presence and the power of God.
Come on, that can set a man free, totally free people
growing and maturing. So Ephesians 411 through 16, it
says this. And he gave gifts to the church,
and they were varied. He himself appointed some
apostles I'm reading out of the amplified special messengers
representatives, some as prophets who will speak a
message from God to the people, some as evangelists who will
spread the good news of salvation, some as pastors,
teachers, to be able to shepherd and to guide and instruct the
flock. And he did this what?
To fully equip and perfect the Saints, God's people, for the
work of service, to build up the body of Christ, the Church.
You see that? What is He?
Here it goes. Until we all reach oneness in
the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God growing
spiritually to become a mature believer.
His church will be producing mature believers.
It will be producing a reigning church will produce mature
believers. The next thing we see that a
reigning church will produce is equipped Saints.
Equipped Saints, I ought to be able to send you out into this
community and you ought to be able to lay hands on the sick.
You ought to be able to cast out demons in Walmart, and they need
to be you need to be come on, laying hands on the sick.
You need to be leading people to Christ.
You ought to be equipped with who you are in Christ and the
authority that you've been given so that when you're in your job,
when you're talking to your coworker, you ought to know how
to rightly divide the word of truth.
You ought to be able to, you know, and I and I've, I've
testified by people out in the community that every time they
were on a cross, someone from Anchor, anchor faith, they say
that man, they're full of the word.
I mean, I felt like I needed to go back to Sunday school.
You ought to, because that's what we want to produce.
It's what we want to produce. To have a reigning church.
Come on, an equipped church, a mature church.
The next thing we see here, even in that Scripture, the same one
in verse 13, it says until we all reach oneness in the faith,
we ought to be 1 and united. A reigning church will be one of
unity. One of unity.
This is what a characteristic of a reigning church will look like
is that we all are one. We know who we are, we know what
we are supposed to be doing, and we know that we're going to
unite with everyone and not try to bring any type of strife,
division, discord, backbiting, gossip.
Because what does that do? It brings disunity.
And as the body of Christ, we should not be producing that.
We should not want anything to harm the body of Christ,
anything. And so let's read on verse 13
until we all reach to oneness in the faith and the knowledge of
the Son of God growing spiritually to become a mature
believer. And I just want to say this side
note because I hear the Holy Ghost saying it, if you are a
gossip and if you are a backbiter, you are sowing
discord. So arrest yourself and, and, and
submit your tongue. Come on to the Spirit of God.
And so and know this, that if you are gossiping and you are
backbiting, it's proving that you're really not mature.
Because a mature person knows I can keep my mouth shut and it
doesn't even matter if I say this or not.
Doesn't matter what I think, what my opinion is, you know, we
have people call the church and say, well, what's your opinion
about this? I don't have an opinion about
that. I mean, really they call the
church and want to know what's your opinion about this?
Well, my only opinion is what the word of God says, and I have
no opinion on the matter. Especially if you're trying to
cause problems among the body, right?
You got to know when a mature person knows.
I don't need to respond to this. This is ridiculous.
I don't have to say that I don't have to defend myself.
I don't have to justify my behavior.
I don't have to do any of these things because I know who I am
in Christ. And, and, and words can you can
be throwing your words out before the swine, pearls before
the swine. Quick to hear, quick to hear.
A mature person is quick to hear.
I know y'all are not liking it, but I'm going to say it quick to
hear and what that means. I'm going to be led by the
Spirit and what I say when I open up my mouth, OK.
And so a mature person will know this mature believer reaching to
the measures of the fullness of Christ, manifesting his
spiritual completeness and exercising our spiritual gifts
in unity. You see that all of us have got
been given spiritual gifts. And a mature person is saying,
I'm not going to sit on my light.
I'm not going to cover my bushel.
I mean hide my light under the bushel.
I know God's given me gifts to do things and I'm going to use
it to serve the body. A mature person will do that,
not just sit in the church and do nothing.
Anyway, side note, I better get on the happy stuff over here,
verse 14, so that we no longer are children or spiritually
immature, tossed back and forth like ships on a stormy sea and
carried about by every wind and shifting of doctrine, by the
cunning trickery of unscrupulous men, by the deceitful scheming
of people ready to do anything for personal profit.
But what? Speaking the truth in love and
all things, both our speech and our lives.
It's not just about what you say, because you can say you
love me all day long, but your actions say other things.
OK, this is the amplified y'all might want to read it.
And so he goes on to say this. It says both in our speech and
our lives. Expressing His truth.
Let us grow up in all things unto Him, following His example,
who is the head, Christ from Him the whole body, the church, and
it's all its various parts are joined and knitted firmly
together. But whatever joint supplies,
when every or when each part is working properly, causes the
body to grow and mature, building itself up in what
unselfish love. So a reigning church is not
going to just be a Church of being one or unified.
A reigning church will have God's love functioning and
flowing within it that we love you enough.
See, everybody wants to have the warm fuzzy feelings of love.
But here he says how I love you is to speak the truth to you in
love. And we know people don't always
want to hear the truth. You can't handle the truth,
that's why you got to know when to speak and when not.
OK, so the whole goal is to only speak the truth into people's
lives because we love you like God loves you anyway.
A reigning church. A reigning church is one that is
going to walk in love. And walking in love means
sometimes I've got to speak the truth to you.
And you may not want to hear it, right, But a glorious reigning
church will look that way, full of love, all right?
Not just loving the unlovable that comes in and welcoming the
homeless. Yes, we do all that, but it's
about also speaking the truth to you and love.
OK, we do all that. But anyway, so the next thing
that we want to look at is the reigning church is full of God's
love, and this is God's love. This is not love is love.
And whatever love you decide you want it to be, this is God's
agape love, OK? This is what the church ought to
be producing and ought to be. You ought to be able to see this
in people's lives, that they love people, that they are there
for people, that they want to encourage people, all of these
things. OK.
And you know, this is what a reigning church is going to look
like. The next thing is a reigning
church will look like a church that is always serving.
And we have a serving church. Amen.
You know, we have so many people that are serving that we decided
this year we were going to get all of our servers together
because we haven't done it and do a team rally.
So y'all don't be freaking out. I heard y'all got this e-mail
sent out from planning center and we talked about being, you
know, it being at a team rally and it was going to be sports
related. You don't have to play sports,
guys, OK? It's the theme of what we are
doing, OK? And pastor's going to be your
coach. He's not going to make you get
down and give him fifty OK, or run laps.
It's all fun and games to show our appreciation because you
know what, out of a Church of 700, we have over 400 people
that are serving on a regular basis.
I would say we have a serving church, but I know we still need
more because there's still so much more to do.
So don't think we got so many that you can't know.
We still need children's workers.
Bless your hearts. And you know, I was just telling
them the other day, I would love to be just sitting in that
nursery rocking those babies and it would just satisfy my heart.
Every single service I would sit in there, change those babies
diapers and rock those babies because it would sure sometimes
be better than being doing what I have to do because there's
just only reason I'm doing this is because of what God has said
and His grace. And his anointing.
Amen. So anyway, we're going to have a
fun time with y'all, not to scare y'all, OK?
And free food and fun time and just showing our appreciation.
So what did I say? A reigning church.
Look, a serving church. Yes, you can see that because I
read the scripture where he said in here about using our
exercising our spiritual what gifts and unity.
OK, that was in verse 13 as well.
Look at all the things that are found in this Scriptures in
Ephesians from 11 to 14. Now let's look at verse 16.
There again it says from him the whole body, the church in all of
its various parts. There it is joined, knitted
firmly together. But what every joint supplies
when each part is working properly, causes the body to
grow and mature, building itself up in unselfish love.
So when you bring your gifts to the table, when you decide
you're going to serve and use the gifts that God has given
you, the talents that God has given you, what are you doing?
You are not only just being obedient to use your gift for
God. Your gift is now affecting
someone else's growth and maturity.
It's building the church up, right.
So again, your gift is now building someone else up so that
they can begin to mature. It's the building up of the
body. So when we come to serve, it's
not just, oh, I'm serving because they need someone in the
nursery. No, I'm serving so that actually
a Mama can get up in here and actually learn who she is as a
woman of God and a mom of God. And I can help nurture these
children because as you can see from the video, they're learning
who they are in Christ. These children, they're not just
being babysat. I mean, I was driving in the
car. Luna came.
I was driving the other day after service and I had Luna in
the car and Luna looked over at me and she said, now I said, I
always say, now what did you learn in service?
This is my granddaughter. What you learn in service today.
Well, we talked about King Samuel, but I got some questions
about him. This is what Luna's saying.
I mean, does this sound like Luna?
I've got some questions about him.
And so I'm like, oh, geez, I'm going to have to get my scholar
brain on here for a minute now. Samuel, you know, disobeyed God.
Well, what did he do? You know, I mean, and she's
asking me all these questions and I'm like Luna, you know, I
really wanted to just hear Jesus.
I preached that morning. So I was driving her and I was
still up underneath the anointing and I'm just like
crashed, you know, when you and y'all may not know, but yes, it
is a real thing. And so I'm just sitting there
driving, and I didn't really want to get into a full
discourse about Samuel. I just wanted to hear her say
Jesus because that's what they always usually say.
What did you learn about in church today, Jesus, You know,
Anyway, my brain hurt already. So we had this whole discussion
about Samuel because she was just in her mind going on about
all this stuff, and she was acting like this too.
Now I just got some questions about Samuel.
So what am I saying? We're teaching and getting the
word of God in them. It's not a Bible story to her.
It's real life. She she, she was saying, you
know, Samuel disobeyed. What did he do?
Because I don't want to do that. So last point, y'all holding on
because this is the main event. Sorry.
A reigning church is a glorious church, is a glorious church.
A reigning church is a glorious church filled with his glory,
filled with his power, filled with his presence, filled with
his spirit. The reigning church, this
glorious church, what does that mean?
Glorious? It means honorable.
Honorable. You know the church one day used
to be honorable in a community. It's honorable.
Holy, set apart a city on a hill, Come on for all the world
to what? See, a reigning church should be
a glorious church to where it is standing out in its community
that people are seeing, seeing the glory of God.
They're seeing the demonstrations of the power of
God in people's lives. So much so that if we actually
would look like the glorious church that he was building, we
would not have to run people down.
They would run to it because they run to the light.
The glory, the glory ought to be seen.
When people drive up on this property, they ought to
encounter encounter the glory of God on this property.
They ought to encounter the glory of God When they walk in
this building. They ought to encounter the
glory of God in our private school.
They ought to encounter the glory of God in our preschool.
Come on, they ought to encounter His glorious Church.
It ought. You know what that means.
It ought to be well known and respected for its achievements.
The community ought to recognize this Church is doing some
things. This church is actually making
an effect in people's lives. When we send people to that
church, things are happening just like them.
The judge wanting us to write a curriculum?
Come on. For parents, when the judge is
asking the church, see, he's recognizing there's glory there.
There's things that are happening there.
They, I mean, these people, they're the real deal.
These people are making things happen in their community.
These people are changing people's lives.
Come on. So the glorious church that he
actually is returning for the glorious church that he's
returning for the church set apart also means holy and
sinless people ought to encounter the presence of God,
the glory of God, the power of God when they come in here that
sin should not be able to stand shouldn't be shouldn't be able
to stand up in the household of God and in the House of God.
People just living in their sin, especially believers living in
sin. It ought not be it ought not be.
Ephesians 5 and 27 says this, that he might present to himself
the church and what all of her say it again, having no spot or
wrinkled or any such thing, but that she would be holy and
blameless. Holy and blameless, spotless.
This is what he's returning for. Listen, he is not returning for
this world. He is not returning for all the
sinners. He's not returning for the lost.
He's returning for His beautiful, glorious church,
reigning church, His beautiful bride that he's been preparing
to be holy and separated and set apart for him so that he can
come receive her and set up his Kingdom.
Hallelujah, a glorious church, a glorious church.
Ephesians 14 says this. Just as in His love He chose us,
in Christ, He actually selected us for Himself as His own before
the foundations of the world, so that we would be holy, that is,
consecrated, set apart for Him, purpose driven and blameless in
His sight. In love He chose us to be a part
of His glorious body, to be a part of His church.
Every single one of us who have called on His name.
The Holy Spirit drew you in. The Holy Spirit chose you.
Come on, He called you to participate and be a part of His
glorious church that He is building in the earth.
And how can we not make a decision to not say, I will
completely consecrate myself to be set afar, set apart for His
purpose and for what He wants to do in my life in the earth?
It says Romans 323 says this. For we have all sinned, and we
came short of what? See, we came short of that
glory. You know what the I said the
glory is, is His presence. When Adam fell, the glory
departed. When Adam sinned and disobeyed
God, the presence of God, the glory of God departed from him.
And every since then he's been trying to get His presence back
in man, His glory back in man. Because He designed us to be
glorious. He designed us to house His
presence. That's why He would come down in
the tent. Come on, His glory was housed in
there. That's why he would come down in
the temple. But His greatest pleasure and
desire was to get man back fully into a place of housing the
presence and the glory of God within man again.
And that's why he says in Second Corinthians that we are now what
the temple of God, the temple of the Holy Spirit.
This is what He wanted for his man.
Isaiah 43, seven says this. Everyone that is called by my
name, I have created him for my glory.
I have formed him and I have made him.
I created him for my glory. I created him for my presence.
I created him. Oh, to house the presence of God
so that he would never have to be separated from us again.
The temple of the presence of God.
The temple of the Spirit. Look at, look at Second
Chronicles. I've only got, come on, three
more scriptures. Y'all can hold on, See a lot of
movement. Come on, press in, lean in.
We're almost done. Second Chronicles 511 through
14. It says this when the priest
came out of the holy place, for all the priests who were present
had sanctified themselves, separating themselves from every
unclean without regard to their assigned divisions.
All of the Levitical singers with their sons and relatives,
clothed in fine lemon linen with cymbals, harps, leers, were
standing at the East End of the altar, and with them the 120
priests blowing their trumpets in unison.
When the trumpets and singers were make were to make
themselves heard with one voice praising and thanking God, and
when they raised their voices accompanied by the trumpets and
the symbols and other instruments of music.
When they praise the Lord, saying for he is good and his
mercy and loving kindness endure forever.
Then the House of the Lord was filled with a cloud, so that the
priest could not even remain standing to minister, because
the cloud for the glory, the brilliance of the Lord filled
the House of God. And we now are those houses, we
are now those that have this treasure, he says in Second
Corinthians chapter 4, This treasure hidden, Come on in
earthen vessels. We house the presence, the
power, and the glory of God. That's why when people see us,
they ought to see us shining like Moses when he went up on
the mountain. Come on, they ought to not see
our faces frowning. They not ought to not see our
faces crunched up, you know, and, and, and oppressed.
Come on, they ought to see us glowing with the glory of God
upon our life in the plight of God shining through us.
And it's only going to happen if we recognize it and have
revelation that I'm a carrier of his glory.
And he always going to happen if we'll get into his presence like
Moses did when he went up on the mountain for 40 days and had to
hide his face when he came down because the glory of God was
just so shining on his life. Come on, isn't that what you
want your life to look like and represent?
That everywhere you go people see the glory on you?
Come on, everywhere they go, everywhere you go, that you're
bringing the presence of God. I bring the presence of God
almost daily into Black Molly, and they know it and they're
getting it. Hallelujah.
We're carriers of the greatest thing on the planet and he's
coming back for this glorious church that has all of these
things operating in our lives. Come on, 2nd Corinthians 318.
Listen, you think you don't think you're supposed to be
glowing? Look at this 2nd Corinthians
318. It says this and we all with
unveiled face continually seen as in a mirror, the glory, say
the glory of the Lord, the glory of the Lord, and you are
progressively being transformed into His image.
Here it is. Here it is from 1° of glory to
another, from 1° of glory to another.
This glory ought to be multiplying in your life.
It ought to be increasing in your life.
Listen, one that is growing spiritually, one that is
maturing, one that is allowing God to equip them.
You ought to see a progression of your life coming from
brokenness into gloriousness. From 1°.
What does that mean? From 1° of glory?
To another degree, that means the presence and the actual
power of God ought to be increasing in your life.
The anointing of God that is in your life ought to be
increasing. You should not, I'm telling you,
you should not be the same old, same old as you were last year.
If His power and presence is increasing in your life, it
ought to be evident. People are like, she's got a new
step on her. You know, I never heard.
I don't even hear her complaining like she used to
complain. Oh, I don't even see her having
an emotional little breakdown like she used to because they're
recognizing you're getting into the glory.
You know what I recognize? She ain't bringing another guy
up in this church. She actually might know she's
the beloved and he loves her before any other man can love
her. Oh, because I recognize, come
on, every year being changed from the presence and the power
of God increasing in my life, going from 1° of glory to
another Hallelujah. Y'all are not even as more
exciting. Y'all ought to be running around
this church acting like I'm a Houser of the glory of God.
I'm a carrier of His power and His presence.
Come on and see, you don't have revelation of it, but we're
going to get it because I'm praying for you.
This has been my prayer for the church this year, that they'll
actually get a revelation of what they're carrying.
Because when you have a revelation of what you're
carrying, nothing else, nothing else is going to hinder you and
stop you. Come on.
Nothing else. Glory to God.
Last Scripture, Revelation. Well, last scripture that has
seven verses included. Sorry.
I just realized it wasn't just one scripture.
Y'all know me I don't ever just read 1 scripture.
Revelations y'all. I am the amplified Bible right?
Revelations 21 one through 8. This is our last scriptures.
It says this. And then I saw a new heaven and
a new earth, for the 1st heaven and the first earth have passed
away, vanished, and there was no longer any sea.
And I saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down out of
heaven from God, arrayed like a bride adorned for her husband.
Come on, He is preparing his glorious bride in this last day,
His reigning church. He's preparing her.
And she's going to look out of this world.
She's going to be the knockout. Come on, she's going to be the
one everybody wish they had. This pride that's being
prepared. I don't know what you're looking
at, but I'm looking at the word of God to see because I cannot
let my eyes deceive me. And it says in verse 3.
And then I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, see, the
Tabernacle of God is among men, and he will live among them, and
they will be his people, and God himself will be them as their
God. And he will wipe away every tear
from every hour. There will no longer be death.
There will no longer be sorrow and anguish, crying or pain.
All the former older things have passed away and he, he who sits
on the throne said, behold, I am making all things new.
Come on this, say it to your feet.
This is the cry of my heart this year.
Oh that he is making all things new.
Come on, that we would look like this glorious church, this
reigning church that is on display for the world to see.
And our lives, lives will be proof.
It will be evidence of the power and the presence and the glory
of God within each and every one of our lives.
That when they see you, they see the glory.