1 00:00:20,440 --> 00:00:25,040 So, you know, Pastor, last week kicked off 2025 and the reigning 2 00:00:25,040 --> 00:00:32,479 church, and I want to follow up with talking concerning the 3 00:00:32,479 --> 00:00:36,320 reigning church. But what does the reigning 4 00:00:36,320 --> 00:00:40,360 church look like? What does the reigning church 5 00:00:40,360 --> 00:00:44,120 look like? Or we could say what are some of 6 00:00:44,120 --> 00:00:49,160 the characteristics of what a reigning church looks like in 7 00:00:49,160 --> 00:00:51,400 the earth? What are those characteristics? 8 00:00:51,400 --> 00:00:55,520 What should be seen from the church? 9 00:00:55,520 --> 00:00:58,600 And when I say the church, we know that we're talking about 10 00:00:58,600 --> 00:01:02,400 what the body of Christ. We are the church, we are the 11 00:01:02,400 --> 00:01:06,880 body of Christ. And so, you know, what does a 12 00:01:06,880 --> 00:01:11,040 reigning church look like? And you know, it's very 13 00:01:11,040 --> 00:01:15,240 important that we go through Scripture because we want to see 14 00:01:15,240 --> 00:01:20,200 what Scripture has to say about what the church is to look like 15 00:01:20,200 --> 00:01:23,400 today in the earth. And if we're going to walk in 16 00:01:23,600 --> 00:01:27,360 the fact that we're going to be participating in the church that 17 00:01:27,360 --> 00:01:31,000 is reigning in the earth until he returns. 18 00:01:31,000 --> 00:01:33,560 Amen. And what is this picture of the 19 00:01:33,560 --> 00:01:37,480 reigning church look like? And just I'm going to go over a 20 00:01:37,480 --> 00:01:39,320 few. I have 10 points. 21 00:01:39,320 --> 00:01:41,400 And yes, we're going to get through them because there's, 22 00:01:41,840 --> 00:01:44,000 there's not much to say about it. 23 00:01:44,000 --> 00:01:48,240 It's pretty self-explanatory. But there is one point, the last 24 00:01:48,240 --> 00:01:50,440 point that I really want to focus on. 25 00:01:51,200 --> 00:01:57,400 But we see that pastor used the Scripture out of Matthew 16 and 26 00:01:57,400 --> 00:02:00,800 verses 18 through 19. It says this. 27 00:02:00,800 --> 00:02:05,840 I also say to you that you are Peter and upon this rock I will 28 00:02:05,840 --> 00:02:12,360 build my church. And we know that Jesus is still 29 00:02:12,360 --> 00:02:17,960 building his church. The church is of Him, Amen. 30 00:02:17,960 --> 00:02:22,480 And he is still the one that should be building His church in 31 00:02:22,480 --> 00:02:26,200 the earth. He delegated that to what 32 00:02:27,960 --> 00:02:33,600 pastors, prophets, teachers, evangelist to be able to help 33 00:02:33,600 --> 00:02:36,480 him in the earth build his church. 34 00:02:36,480 --> 00:02:40,560 But he's still the one in complete authority in his 35 00:02:40,560 --> 00:02:41,720 building. Amen. 36 00:02:42,480 --> 00:02:45,800 And so that's very important that we recognize that. 37 00:02:45,800 --> 00:02:50,240 So he is still building his church and he says this and the 38 00:02:50,240 --> 00:02:54,120 gates of hates will not overpower it or the gates of 39 00:02:54,120 --> 00:02:59,640 hell will not overpower it. So it doesn't matter how dark 40 00:02:59,720 --> 00:03:01,600 the world gets. Come on. 41 00:03:01,600 --> 00:03:05,000 It doesn't matter the persecution that may come 42 00:03:05,000 --> 00:03:09,320 against the church or the people of God, or the fact that we want 43 00:03:09,320 --> 00:03:13,560 to stand up in the pulpit and still use the name of Jesus and 44 00:03:13,560 --> 00:03:17,800 still preach about the blood and still cast out demons. 45 00:03:17,800 --> 00:03:20,360 Come on. You know, just a month ago we 46 00:03:20,360 --> 00:03:24,120 had somebody leave the church because we were demonstrating 47 00:03:24,120 --> 00:03:26,960 casting out a demon. That's all right. 48 00:03:27,160 --> 00:03:30,720 I don't care. I'm going to do what Jesus said 49 00:03:30,720 --> 00:03:33,800 to do. People are being demonically 50 00:03:34,000 --> 00:03:36,600 tormented right now in the world. 51 00:03:36,600 --> 00:03:39,720 This is not just back when Jesus walked the earth. 52 00:03:40,000 --> 00:03:45,360 No, it is relevant and prevalent today, Amen. 53 00:03:46,960 --> 00:03:51,240 And evermore, evermore prevalent today. 54 00:03:51,720 --> 00:03:58,160 And so we're going to do what Jesus said we were to do as the 55 00:03:58,160 --> 00:04:01,720 church. We're not going to become 56 00:04:01,720 --> 00:04:06,720 traditional, come on, We're not going to become religious. 57 00:04:06,720 --> 00:04:12,040 We're going to actually be people that live by the word of 58 00:04:12,040 --> 00:04:13,440 God. Amen. 59 00:04:13,440 --> 00:04:19,600 And let that be the thing that we pulled our lives upon. 60 00:04:19,959 --> 00:04:24,480 And so he says the gates of hell will not overpower it. 61 00:04:24,480 --> 00:04:29,200 That means there's nothing in this earth that can come against 62 00:04:29,200 --> 00:04:33,080 the church that would cost stop the church. 63 00:04:34,160 --> 00:04:36,720 Nothing. Nothing. 64 00:04:36,720 --> 00:04:39,640 No government. I mean, look at China. 65 00:04:40,440 --> 00:04:43,080 Did it stop it? No. 66 00:04:44,320 --> 00:04:49,840 No, it didn't stop it. Nothing can stop the church 67 00:04:49,840 --> 00:04:54,440 because what happens because he gets himself within you and 68 00:04:56,800 --> 00:04:58,600 we're going to talk about that later. 69 00:04:59,120 --> 00:05:04,240 And so it can't overpower it. The only way that the enemy can 70 00:05:04,240 --> 00:05:10,800 overpower you is when you submit to him and yield to him and 71 00:05:10,800 --> 00:05:13,080 don't know who you are in Christ. 72 00:05:14,040 --> 00:05:18,400 This is the only way the enemy overpowers you, period. 73 00:05:18,480 --> 00:05:23,120 It's just the bottom line, OK. And then he goes on to say in 74 00:05:23,120 --> 00:05:28,200 verse 19 it says, I will give you, who is he giving the church 75 00:05:28,200 --> 00:05:31,880 right us the keys of the Kingdom of heaven. 76 00:05:32,280 --> 00:05:35,920 And whatever you bind on earth shall have been bound in heaven, 77 00:05:35,920 --> 00:05:40,320 and whatever you loose on earth shall have been loosed in 78 00:05:40,440 --> 00:05:46,160 heaven, so that nothing in this world has the power to overtake 79 00:05:46,160 --> 00:05:50,200 or overcome the church. And the church has been given 80 00:05:50,400 --> 00:05:54,240 all authority. Keys represent authority. 81 00:05:54,240 --> 00:06:00,320 He's been given us all authority to bind and to lose in the earth 82 00:06:00,320 --> 00:06:04,360 what needs to be done so we can bind up the things that the 83 00:06:04,400 --> 00:06:08,480 enemy is trying to act like he's going to come against the church 84 00:06:08,480 --> 00:06:10,800 with. We bind it up. 85 00:06:12,000 --> 00:06:15,240 We bind it up and say no in the name of Jesus. 86 00:06:15,240 --> 00:06:19,000 You can't do that here. Come on, you can't do that in my 87 00:06:19,000 --> 00:06:23,120 life, whatever the situation may be, because he's given us the 88 00:06:23,120 --> 00:06:27,160 authority, the church, Amen. And if you are a born again 89 00:06:27,160 --> 00:06:32,640 believer, then you are the church, you are the church, you 90 00:06:32,640 --> 00:06:38,080 are the body of Christ, Amen. And so we see that a reigning 91 00:06:38,080 --> 00:06:49,320 church here looks powerful. A reigning church, 92 00:06:49,320 --> 00:06:54,080 characteristics of a reigning church, is one that looks 93 00:06:54,240 --> 00:06:58,040 powerful. It is a powerful force in the 94 00:06:58,040 --> 00:07:00,360 earth. It is not pitiful. 95 00:07:00,520 --> 00:07:04,000 It is not pathetic. It is not beat down. 96 00:07:04,000 --> 00:07:06,240 Come on. It is not broke. 97 00:07:06,320 --> 00:07:08,960 Come on, the church is not broke. 98 00:07:08,960 --> 00:07:15,960 That's a good word. No, It's a powerful force in the 99 00:07:15,960 --> 00:07:19,000 earth. It is the most powerful force in 100 00:07:19,000 --> 00:07:23,080 the earth today. And that has to become your 101 00:07:23,080 --> 00:07:29,440 reality. It has to become your reality. 102 00:07:32,720 --> 00:07:35,720 If it's not your reality, this is the problem. 103 00:07:37,360 --> 00:07:42,840 It's got to become your reality. You have to receive the 104 00:07:42,840 --> 00:07:51,080 revelation of it, and this is the problem is that still in the 105 00:07:51,080 --> 00:07:55,760 earth most people do not want to see and have the revelation of 106 00:07:55,760 --> 00:07:59,720 what Christ is trying to get across in the body of Christ. 107 00:08:02,960 --> 00:08:08,040 Until revelation does not happen, until it becomes real to 108 00:08:08,040 --> 00:08:13,280 you, because it can be revealed to me, it can be real in my 109 00:08:13,280 --> 00:08:16,080 life. But you still don't make it real 110 00:08:16,080 --> 00:08:18,960 in yours. And we're here to get the 111 00:08:18,960 --> 00:08:24,240 reality within you so that you can make it real in your life. 112 00:08:24,800 --> 00:08:27,760 Amen. So that you can make it real in 113 00:08:27,760 --> 00:08:30,440 your life. The reigning Church is a 114 00:08:30,440 --> 00:08:36,360 powerful church. It's a powerful church and you 115 00:08:36,600 --> 00:08:39,679 are part of it. Those who have called on the 116 00:08:39,679 --> 00:08:43,200 name of the Lord, those who have made Jesus Christ their Lord and 117 00:08:43,200 --> 00:08:49,400 their Savior, listen, you are a part of a powerful force in the 118 00:08:49,440 --> 00:08:50,480 earth. Amen. 119 00:08:50,720 --> 00:08:53,200 Hallelujah. The next thing we see, a 120 00:08:53,200 --> 00:08:57,880 reigning church looks like is one of authority and dominion. 121 00:08:58,840 --> 00:09:04,000 A reigning church you will see people operating in authority 122 00:09:04,000 --> 00:09:06,600 and in dominion. Just like the fact that we 123 00:09:06,600 --> 00:09:10,120 recognize we've been given the keys of the Kingdom of God. 124 00:09:10,480 --> 00:09:15,320 So part of our authority and our dominion is to bind up and to 125 00:09:15,320 --> 00:09:19,440 loose things that are in the earth that belong to us, the 126 00:09:19,440 --> 00:09:23,280 territory that belongs to us, to take dominion over. 127 00:09:23,280 --> 00:09:26,160 Amen. And it's one of authority. 128 00:09:26,400 --> 00:09:30,640 It's one of power. It's one of dominion. 129 00:09:31,760 --> 00:09:35,880 People ought to look at your life and see that you have taken 130 00:09:35,880 --> 00:09:38,640 dominion over the things of this world. 131 00:09:40,160 --> 00:09:46,360 Not that you're still succumbed to it, but you've actually taken 132 00:09:46,360 --> 00:09:50,520 the power over things of this world and taken dominion over 133 00:09:50,520 --> 00:09:54,680 things that are trying to rule and reign in your life. 134 00:09:54,920 --> 00:10:01,200 Now read out of the amplified, verse 19 out of Matthew 16 out 135 00:10:01,200 --> 00:10:03,920 of the amplified. It says I will give you the keys 136 00:10:04,280 --> 00:10:08,480 and here it is authority of the Kingdom of heaven and whatever 137 00:10:08,480 --> 00:10:13,840 you bind, whatever you forbid and declare to be improper and 138 00:10:13,840 --> 00:10:19,400 unlawful on earth. Wow, unlawful on earth. 139 00:10:19,400 --> 00:10:22,920 You know, there's a lot of things happening in our earth 140 00:10:22,920 --> 00:10:26,240 that are unlawful. And he is waiting for the church 141 00:10:26,240 --> 00:10:31,120 to rise up and say no more. We're not going to allow that in 142 00:10:31,120 --> 00:10:33,120 our city. We're not going to allow all 143 00:10:33,120 --> 00:10:37,640 that come on in our nation. It is unlawful and I forbid it 144 00:10:37,640 --> 00:10:40,600 and I declare it and I take authority over it. 145 00:10:42,440 --> 00:10:45,840 So the reigning church is one of authority. 146 00:10:46,000 --> 00:10:49,760 It's one of dominion, Hallelujah. 147 00:10:50,240 --> 00:10:54,240 And it's one that knows its place and what we have to do for 148 00:10:54,240 --> 00:10:58,000 the church to be able to rise up and reign in the earth in this 149 00:10:58,000 --> 00:11:02,120 last day. A reigning church #3 this is 150 00:11:02,120 --> 00:11:03,320 number 3. Y'all good. 151 00:11:03,320 --> 00:11:05,360 See, I've already been moving through fast. 152 00:11:05,360 --> 00:11:10,200 See, a reigning church should have a spirit. 153 00:11:10,200 --> 00:11:14,040 This is very important. A reigning church should have a 154 00:11:14,040 --> 00:11:24,080 spirit of wisdom and revelation. A reigning church should have a 155 00:11:24,120 --> 00:11:30,480 spirit of wisdom and revelation. It should have instruction of 156 00:11:30,480 --> 00:11:36,040 divine truth. Come on, that is unknown and 157 00:11:36,160 --> 00:11:44,960 revealed to and by the Spirit. This is what every single one of 158 00:11:44,960 --> 00:11:49,280 us should be walking in. A spirit of wisdom and 159 00:11:49,280 --> 00:11:52,320 revelation. Revelation that has been 160 00:11:52,320 --> 00:11:58,760 revealed to us by the Spirit of how God needs us to operate in 161 00:11:58,760 --> 00:12:01,600 the earth as children of the living God. 162 00:12:02,000 --> 00:12:05,560 Listen, it is supreme intelligence. 163 00:12:07,400 --> 00:12:18,200 You think AI is something we have the creator of heaven and 164 00:12:18,200 --> 00:12:21,440 earth housed on the inside of us? 165 00:12:21,440 --> 00:12:26,160 Come on, glory to God, the Supreme Intelligence. 166 00:12:26,160 --> 00:12:31,960 Come on, the great I am, glory to God that has is all wisdom, 167 00:12:31,960 --> 00:12:36,520 Hallelujah, all power. Come on living on the inside of 168 00:12:36,520 --> 00:12:39,480 us. And it's time that we recognize 169 00:12:39,480 --> 00:12:46,080 it and get to the plate and say, I'm going to rise up and I'm 170 00:12:46,080 --> 00:12:51,000 going to quit letting this mediocre thinking keep me bound 171 00:12:51,400 --> 00:12:54,680 when I have the Supreme Intelligence living on the 172 00:12:54,680 --> 00:12:59,840 inside of me, a spirit of wisdom and revelation. 173 00:12:59,840 --> 00:13:02,880 There ought to be nothing that we can't do and we can't 174 00:13:02,880 --> 00:13:08,240 accomplish. How do nobodies? 175 00:13:10,080 --> 00:13:13,800 I mean, you know, I was thinking, and I don't care who 176 00:13:13,800 --> 00:13:17,320 your president is, who your president is not. 177 00:13:17,320 --> 00:13:23,080 I don't really care because my king is on the throne and no man 178 00:13:23,080 --> 00:13:25,720 can save us. They can only just help us out a 179 00:13:25,720 --> 00:13:30,320 little bit along the way. Anyway, I was thinking about 180 00:13:30,320 --> 00:13:33,160 this the other day. You know, when presidents come 181 00:13:33,160 --> 00:13:37,000 into the office because, you know, Monday's inaugural day. 182 00:13:37,000 --> 00:13:40,600 But anyway, when presidents come into the office and they begin 183 00:13:40,600 --> 00:13:45,160 to choose their cabinet and we know they, some of them will 184 00:13:45,160 --> 00:13:47,640 begin to have, you know, like Billy Graham. 185 00:13:47,640 --> 00:13:52,920 He has been a voice that has gone before tons of presidents 186 00:13:52,920 --> 00:13:56,960 and prayed or those that would be your faith counselors. 187 00:13:57,120 --> 00:14:02,960 And I'm thinking here's Billy Graham, a nobody that God raised 188 00:14:02,960 --> 00:14:06,400 up to sit. This is how our lives should be 189 00:14:07,440 --> 00:14:12,520 that God raised up to have supreme intelligence to be able 190 00:14:12,520 --> 00:14:17,720 to sit before president after president after president after 191 00:14:17,720 --> 00:14:21,600 president in our nation's, to be able to give them spiritual 192 00:14:21,600 --> 00:14:30,800 counsel from above, Supreme intelligence and wisdom. 193 00:14:33,040 --> 00:14:38,360 Our wisdom should not be of this world should not. 194 00:14:38,880 --> 00:14:42,560 That's what this means when you look up in the Greek supreme 195 00:14:42,560 --> 00:14:47,720 wisdom and revelation. It is divine, revealed things to 196 00:14:47,720 --> 00:14:54,720 us by the Spirit, and this wisdom is Supreme Intelligence 197 00:14:55,200 --> 00:15:00,240 used of the knowledge of the very diverse matters. 198 00:15:01,560 --> 00:15:06,880 No matter what the matter is. You can tap into not AI, but 199 00:15:06,880 --> 00:15:10,480 into the Supreme Intelligence of the world. 200 00:15:11,800 --> 00:15:16,160 It is not the World Wide Web that has Supreme Intelligence. 201 00:15:22,280 --> 00:15:25,120 And we have this living on the inside of us. 202 00:15:29,080 --> 00:15:32,360 We have this living on the inside of us. 203 00:15:32,680 --> 00:15:38,160 Supreme Intelligence, Why we acting stupid? 204 00:15:48,190 --> 00:15:54,270 Colossians 2-3 says this. In whom are hidden Talking of 205 00:15:54,270 --> 00:16:00,920 God, In whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and 206 00:16:00,920 --> 00:16:04,800 knowledge? The Church should be giving 207 00:16:04,840 --> 00:16:13,000 answers to the world, bringing answers to our community, 208 00:16:13,880 --> 00:16:18,160 bringing answers to the educational system, bringing 209 00:16:18,160 --> 00:16:24,120 answers come on to every sphere and sector of society. 210 00:16:24,360 --> 00:16:29,280 It ought to reign supreme above any other else's wisdom. 211 00:16:31,640 --> 00:16:38,840 I don't care who it is. And we ought to be bold enough 212 00:16:38,840 --> 00:16:42,040 to stand before Elon Musk and let him know you not the 213 00:16:42,040 --> 00:16:48,960 smartest cookie on the planet because we have a supreme 214 00:16:48,960 --> 00:16:55,600 intelligence on the inside. Come on, think about these 215 00:16:55,600 --> 00:16:58,680 things. Think about these things. 216 00:16:59,120 --> 00:17:01,920 This is what the church ought to be looking like. 217 00:17:03,520 --> 00:17:06,040 It's what the church ought to be acting like it. 218 00:17:06,280 --> 00:17:13,800 It's what the church ought to be producing, the reigning church. 219 00:17:13,800 --> 00:17:17,560 This is what we ought to be producing in the world. 220 00:17:19,400 --> 00:17:23,800 Hallelujah. Now let's look at Ephesians 221 00:17:23,800 --> 00:17:28,840 chapter 1. Ephesians chapter 1, 17 through 222 00:17:28,840 --> 00:17:32,400 23, it says that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, Ephesians 223 00:17:32,400 --> 00:17:35,000 obviously is talking about the Ephesians church. 224 00:17:35,000 --> 00:17:36,760 This is Paul writing to the church. 225 00:17:37,080 --> 00:17:40,520 These are prayers that we pray over our church, right? 226 00:17:40,520 --> 00:17:42,240 You and prayer and corporate prayer. 227 00:17:42,240 --> 00:17:44,240 You know, we pray these over our church. 228 00:17:45,360 --> 00:17:50,040 This is speaking to you, the body of Christ, the church. 229 00:17:52,520 --> 00:17:58,960 This is for us to become aware of, to know, to meditate on. 230 00:17:59,240 --> 00:18:03,160 Ephesians 117 through 23 says this, that the God of our Lord 231 00:18:03,200 --> 00:18:06,920 Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, say glory. 232 00:18:08,360 --> 00:18:10,600 Y'all going to keep saying this word in a minute. 233 00:18:10,600 --> 00:18:18,400 Say glory may give to you a what spirit of wisdom and revelation? 234 00:18:18,400 --> 00:18:27,880 Say a spirit of supreme intelligence in the knowledge of 235 00:18:27,880 --> 00:18:32,520 him. I pray that the eyes of your 236 00:18:32,520 --> 00:18:36,360 heart would be enlightened. This has been my prayer this 237 00:18:36,360 --> 00:18:40,040 year for this coming up year for the body of Christ. 238 00:18:41,200 --> 00:18:46,320 Oh that we would just get revelation. 239 00:18:46,800 --> 00:18:52,240 The the eyes of our understanding would wake up to 240 00:18:52,240 --> 00:19:00,520 what is on the inside of us, to what we are housing, to what we 241 00:19:00,520 --> 00:19:09,160 are carrying to the world. That the eyes of our heart would 242 00:19:09,160 --> 00:19:12,920 be enlightened. Revelation means that the light 243 00:19:13,200 --> 00:19:17,360 comes on enlightened, so that the revelation, knowledge or the 244 00:19:17,360 --> 00:19:21,560 light of God would come on in our hearts, so that you will 245 00:19:21,560 --> 00:19:26,600 know what is the hope of His calling and what are the riches 246 00:19:26,600 --> 00:19:33,240 of His. Say it again, Say it again, the 247 00:19:33,240 --> 00:19:46,760 riches of His glory. We are carriers of this glory of 248 00:19:46,760 --> 00:19:52,320 the Supreme Intelligence. Come on, the Supreme One on the 249 00:19:52,360 --> 00:19:56,520 inside of us that is full of all wisdom. 250 00:19:56,520 --> 00:20:02,560 So there are some riches of the glory of his inheritance in the 251 00:20:02,560 --> 00:20:06,720 Saints. There is some riches in His 252 00:20:06,720 --> 00:20:15,960 glory that belong to us Inheritance. 253 00:20:16,560 --> 00:20:19,400 Inheritance. It belongs to us. 254 00:20:19,800 --> 00:20:24,640 Come on, Say it belongs to me. Say it belongs to me. 255 00:20:25,680 --> 00:20:31,960 Oh Hallelujah, it belongs to me. And then verse 19 says this. 256 00:20:31,960 --> 00:20:37,200 And what is the surpassing greatness of His power towards 257 00:20:37,200 --> 00:20:41,560 us who believe here it is that power again. 258 00:20:41,840 --> 00:20:45,120 It's there. It's a great power that belongs 259 00:20:45,120 --> 00:20:46,760 to the church. Come on. 260 00:20:47,120 --> 00:20:50,200 And then he goes on to say, these are in accordance with His 261 00:20:50,200 --> 00:20:55,680 working of the strength of His might, which he brought about in 262 00:20:55,680 --> 00:21:00,960 Christ when he raised him from the dead and seated him at the 263 00:21:00,960 --> 00:21:05,400 right hand in heavenly places. Far above all rule, all 264 00:21:05,400 --> 00:21:08,360 authority. This is it, all power and 265 00:21:08,360 --> 00:21:12,360 dominion, in every name that is named, not only in this age, but 266 00:21:12,360 --> 00:21:15,400 also in the one to come. Come on, you know there is a one 267 00:21:15,400 --> 00:21:18,320 to come. This isn't the end of all 268 00:21:18,320 --> 00:21:21,880 things. Come on, there is a one to come, 269 00:21:21,880 --> 00:21:29,480 another age to come. And that's why he set eternity 270 00:21:29,480 --> 00:21:36,200 in the hearts of man. Every heart knows there's 271 00:21:36,200 --> 00:21:39,040 something beyond their existence. 272 00:21:43,440 --> 00:21:47,120 Every heart. I don't care if it is the 273 00:21:47,120 --> 00:21:55,800 hardest of hearts, they've only tried to cover it up to quit 274 00:21:55,800 --> 00:21:59,240 asking the questions. There's got to be more to life 275 00:21:59,240 --> 00:22:08,200 than this, because nothing in this world satisfies the heart 276 00:22:08,200 --> 00:22:16,720 of man except eternity. And he put all things in 277 00:22:16,720 --> 00:22:21,840 subjection under his feet, and he gave him his head over all 278 00:22:21,840 --> 00:22:24,360 things. What to the church? 279 00:22:24,760 --> 00:22:29,840 To the church, All power, all authority, everything come on. 280 00:22:29,840 --> 00:22:36,040 All authority and power is under the feet of the church because 281 00:22:36,040 --> 00:22:41,720 it's under his come on, under his feet, which his body, which 282 00:22:41,720 --> 00:22:48,600 is us, the church, the fullness of him who feels all and all. 283 00:22:50,080 --> 00:22:57,960 So a reigning church is a church that houses his presence, that 284 00:22:57,960 --> 00:23:03,640 houses his presence. It has riches come on of glory 285 00:23:03,640 --> 00:23:07,560 that belong to us. So a reigning church is going to 286 00:23:07,560 --> 00:23:12,040 be a Church of his presence. We're not going to squelch the 287 00:23:12,040 --> 00:23:17,400 presence of God. You know, many people squelch 288 00:23:17,400 --> 00:23:21,280 what I had to be obedient to do earlier. 289 00:23:25,240 --> 00:23:29,080 But see, your life means more to me than what anybody else 290 00:23:29,080 --> 00:23:41,860 thinks, because many churches squelch the presence of God and 291 00:23:41,860 --> 00:23:46,900 they will not let the presence of God dwell in the house that 292 00:23:46,900 --> 00:23:52,000 it belongs to. And so they don't want any of 293 00:23:52,000 --> 00:23:54,560 that Holy Spirit stuff happening. 294 00:23:54,560 --> 00:23:56,880 They don't want anyone to prophecy. 295 00:23:56,880 --> 00:23:59,160 Come on. They don't want anyone to cast 296 00:23:59,160 --> 00:24:01,920 out a demon. They don't want anybody to lay 297 00:24:01,920 --> 00:24:05,240 hands on the sick. They don't want anybody to speak 298 00:24:05,240 --> 00:24:13,720 in them their tongues. Come on, this is the truth. 299 00:24:15,200 --> 00:24:18,480 It's the truth. And it's the very thing that he 300 00:24:18,480 --> 00:24:23,840 said His church would house, the power in the presence of God, 301 00:24:24,240 --> 00:24:29,760 the riches of His glory. Come on, the riches of his glory 302 00:24:30,000 --> 00:24:34,080 there ought to be. When you talk about the presence 303 00:24:34,080 --> 00:24:40,240 of God that fills the house that is there in the church, listen. 304 00:24:40,240 --> 00:24:44,280 It ought to be producing an effect. 305 00:24:44,840 --> 00:24:50,240 Listen, the presence of God, this power of God is the change 306 00:24:50,240 --> 00:24:58,320 agent. We can speak, you can have the 307 00:24:58,320 --> 00:25:04,120 Word, but it's only when the Spirit gets a hold of it in our 308 00:25:04,120 --> 00:25:07,640 life that we allow the change to happen. 309 00:25:08,480 --> 00:25:12,240 It's the Spirit and the presence and the power of God that's the 310 00:25:12,240 --> 00:25:15,520 change agent. Remember in Genesis, this isn't 311 00:25:15,520 --> 00:25:19,320 in my notes in Genesis chapter 1, what happened? 312 00:25:19,520 --> 00:25:23,880 God was the Word. He was there in the beginning, 313 00:25:24,080 --> 00:25:27,600 and what happened? It says that the Spirit was 314 00:25:27,600 --> 00:25:33,560 hovering over the earth. See, This is why the Spirit is 315 00:25:33,560 --> 00:25:39,480 the change agent, because when he spoke the word, the Spirit, 316 00:25:39,480 --> 00:25:44,840 the power, the presence went into action to what? 317 00:25:44,840 --> 00:25:51,680 Create what we begin to see. And behold, said, let there be 318 00:25:51,680 --> 00:25:54,320 light. And the Spirit of God went into 319 00:25:54,320 --> 00:25:56,920 action to change it, to make it become light. 320 00:25:57,520 --> 00:26:00,440 He said let there be man, let there be animals. 321 00:26:00,560 --> 00:26:04,000 What happened? The Spirit of God went into 322 00:26:04,000 --> 00:26:06,760 action. The presence of God, the power 323 00:26:06,760 --> 00:26:11,920 of God is the change agent. So I'm telling you, when there 324 00:26:11,920 --> 00:26:15,160 is a church full of the presence, full of the power of 325 00:26:15,160 --> 00:26:19,560 God, there ought to be change happening in your life. 326 00:26:23,400 --> 00:26:28,760 It's the change. Agency ought to be change. 327 00:26:29,840 --> 00:26:33,200 You should never remain the same. 328 00:26:34,000 --> 00:26:39,200 Once you encounter the presence and the power of God, your life 329 00:26:39,320 --> 00:26:46,040 should forever be changed. And that's what a reigning 330 00:26:46,040 --> 00:26:49,320 church looks like. It houses the presence of God, 331 00:26:49,520 --> 00:26:54,960 the power of God, so that we can see the fullness of God, the 332 00:26:54,960 --> 00:26:58,920 riches of His glory manifesting among us. 333 00:26:59,920 --> 00:27:03,800 Oh Hallelujah. Now let's go to Ephesians 334 00:27:03,800 --> 00:27:07,760 chapter 4. Ephesians 411 through 16 is 335 00:27:07,760 --> 00:27:14,480 where we're going to see the next 4A reigning church is a 336 00:27:15,200 --> 00:27:20,320 mature church, and pastor taught extensively about that on last 337 00:27:20,320 --> 00:27:23,880 Sunday. So I really don't want to focus 338 00:27:23,880 --> 00:27:26,640 on that at all. Just to know that a reigning 339 00:27:26,640 --> 00:27:29,280 church is going to be a church that's mature. 340 00:27:30,160 --> 00:27:32,800 That's what he's talking about, that it would be filled up with 341 00:27:32,800 --> 00:27:36,360 the fullness of God. People would be mature, they'd 342 00:27:36,360 --> 00:27:41,520 be growing, they'd be producing the effect of the power of God 343 00:27:41,520 --> 00:27:44,880 and the presence of God is affecting their everyday life 344 00:27:44,880 --> 00:27:47,080 and you can see it evident in their life. 345 00:27:47,320 --> 00:27:51,360 Drug addicts ought to be, you know, come and claim because of 346 00:27:51,360 --> 00:27:54,080 the power and the presence of God in the church, Come on. 347 00:27:54,320 --> 00:27:56,920 And you see them go out and be able to overcome. 348 00:27:56,920 --> 00:27:59,000 Come on. Pornography ought to be falling 349 00:27:59,000 --> 00:28:00,160 off of people. Come on. 350 00:28:00,480 --> 00:28:03,360 This is the presence and the power of God. 351 00:28:03,640 --> 00:28:13,080 Come on, that can set a man free, totally free people 352 00:28:13,080 --> 00:28:17,760 growing and maturing. So Ephesians 411 through 16, it 353 00:28:17,760 --> 00:28:20,000 says this. And he gave gifts to the church, 354 00:28:20,920 --> 00:28:24,320 and they were varied. He himself appointed some 355 00:28:24,320 --> 00:28:28,600 apostles I'm reading out of the amplified special messengers 356 00:28:28,600 --> 00:28:31,840 representatives, some as prophets who will speak a 357 00:28:31,840 --> 00:28:35,720 message from God to the people, some as evangelists who will 358 00:28:35,720 --> 00:28:38,880 spread the good news of salvation, some as pastors, 359 00:28:38,880 --> 00:28:42,760 teachers, to be able to shepherd and to guide and instruct the 360 00:28:42,760 --> 00:28:45,880 flock. And he did this what? 361 00:28:46,160 --> 00:28:51,800 To fully equip and perfect the Saints, God's people, for the 362 00:28:51,800 --> 00:28:56,520 work of service, to build up the body of Christ, the Church. 363 00:28:57,000 --> 00:28:58,880 You see that? What is He? 364 00:28:59,200 --> 00:29:03,160 Here it goes. Until we all reach oneness in 365 00:29:03,160 --> 00:29:06,560 the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God growing 366 00:29:06,560 --> 00:29:10,680 spiritually to become a mature believer. 367 00:29:13,320 --> 00:29:18,720 His church will be producing mature believers. 368 00:29:20,920 --> 00:29:26,040 It will be producing a reigning church will produce mature 369 00:29:26,240 --> 00:29:29,800 believers. The next thing we see that a 370 00:29:29,800 --> 00:29:34,720 reigning church will produce is equipped Saints. 371 00:29:36,960 --> 00:29:43,960 Equipped Saints, I ought to be able to send you out into this 372 00:29:43,960 --> 00:29:47,360 community and you ought to be able to lay hands on the sick. 373 00:29:47,360 --> 00:29:51,040 You ought to be able to cast out demons in Walmart, and they need 374 00:29:51,040 --> 00:29:55,400 to be you need to be come on, laying hands on the sick. 375 00:29:55,560 --> 00:29:57,800 You need to be leading people to Christ. 376 00:29:57,800 --> 00:30:02,320 You ought to be equipped with who you are in Christ and the 377 00:30:02,360 --> 00:30:05,920 authority that you've been given so that when you're in your job, 378 00:30:06,080 --> 00:30:09,120 when you're talking to your coworker, you ought to know how 379 00:30:09,120 --> 00:30:11,840 to rightly divide the word of truth. 380 00:30:12,920 --> 00:30:17,080 You ought to be able to, you know, and I and I've, I've 381 00:30:17,080 --> 00:30:22,360 testified by people out in the community that every time they 382 00:30:22,360 --> 00:30:28,560 were on a cross, someone from Anchor, anchor faith, they say 383 00:30:28,560 --> 00:30:31,440 that man, they're full of the word. 384 00:30:32,160 --> 00:30:34,560 I mean, I felt like I needed to go back to Sunday school. 385 00:30:34,560 --> 00:30:39,720 You ought to, because that's what we want to produce. 386 00:30:42,800 --> 00:30:46,240 It's what we want to produce. To have a reigning church. 387 00:30:46,240 --> 00:30:49,640 Come on, an equipped church, a mature church. 388 00:30:50,640 --> 00:30:55,200 The next thing we see here, even in that Scripture, the same one 389 00:30:55,200 --> 00:30:59,520 in verse 13, it says until we all reach oneness in the faith, 390 00:31:00,760 --> 00:31:07,560 we ought to be 1 and united. A reigning church will be one of 391 00:31:07,560 --> 00:31:11,400 unity. One of unity. 392 00:31:12,040 --> 00:31:16,720 This is what a characteristic of a reigning church will look like 393 00:31:16,720 --> 00:31:21,800 is that we all are one. We know who we are, we know what 394 00:31:21,800 --> 00:31:27,440 we are supposed to be doing, and we know that we're going to 395 00:31:27,440 --> 00:31:32,600 unite with everyone and not try to bring any type of strife, 396 00:31:32,880 --> 00:31:38,000 division, discord, backbiting, gossip. 397 00:31:43,640 --> 00:31:49,520 Because what does that do? It brings disunity. 398 00:31:52,760 --> 00:31:57,280 And as the body of Christ, we should not be producing that. 399 00:31:57,600 --> 00:32:02,320 We should not want anything to harm the body of Christ, 400 00:32:04,160 --> 00:32:15,080 anything. And so let's read on verse 13 401 00:32:16,080 --> 00:32:19,160 until we all reach to oneness in the faith and the knowledge of 402 00:32:19,160 --> 00:32:22,240 the Son of God growing spiritually to become a mature 403 00:32:22,240 --> 00:32:24,400 believer. And I just want to say this side 404 00:32:24,400 --> 00:32:27,240 note because I hear the Holy Ghost saying it, if you are a 405 00:32:27,240 --> 00:32:33,360 gossip and if you are a backbiter, you are sowing 406 00:32:33,360 --> 00:32:41,640 discord. So arrest yourself and, and, and 407 00:32:41,640 --> 00:32:48,200 submit your tongue. Come on to the Spirit of God. 408 00:32:50,800 --> 00:32:55,800 And so and know this, that if you are gossiping and you are 409 00:32:55,800 --> 00:32:58,760 backbiting, it's proving that you're really not mature. 410 00:32:59,480 --> 00:33:03,080 Because a mature person knows I can keep my mouth shut and it 411 00:33:03,080 --> 00:33:05,080 doesn't even matter if I say this or not. 412 00:33:05,440 --> 00:33:09,920 Doesn't matter what I think, what my opinion is, you know, we 413 00:33:09,920 --> 00:33:12,640 have people call the church and say, well, what's your opinion 414 00:33:12,640 --> 00:33:15,960 about this? I don't have an opinion about 415 00:33:15,960 --> 00:33:19,960 that. I mean, really they call the 416 00:33:19,960 --> 00:33:22,640 church and want to know what's your opinion about this? 417 00:33:23,800 --> 00:33:29,200 Well, my only opinion is what the word of God says, and I have 418 00:33:29,200 --> 00:33:32,240 no opinion on the matter. Especially if you're trying to 419 00:33:32,240 --> 00:33:37,120 cause problems among the body, right? 420 00:33:38,520 --> 00:33:40,960 You got to know when a mature person knows. 421 00:33:40,960 --> 00:33:44,520 I don't need to respond to this. This is ridiculous. 422 00:33:45,280 --> 00:33:48,200 I don't have to say that I don't have to defend myself. 423 00:33:48,200 --> 00:33:50,560 I don't have to justify my behavior. 424 00:33:50,560 --> 00:33:53,520 I don't have to do any of these things because I know who I am 425 00:33:53,520 --> 00:33:56,640 in Christ. And, and, and words can you can 426 00:33:56,640 --> 00:34:00,800 be throwing your words out before the swine, pearls before 427 00:34:00,800 --> 00:34:05,320 the swine. Quick to hear, quick to hear. 428 00:34:05,320 --> 00:34:07,520 A mature person is quick to hear. 429 00:34:08,040 --> 00:34:11,080 I know y'all are not liking it, but I'm going to say it quick to 430 00:34:11,080 --> 00:34:17,480 hear and what that means. I'm going to be led by the 431 00:34:17,480 --> 00:34:21,480 Spirit and what I say when I open up my mouth, OK. 432 00:34:22,040 --> 00:34:27,520 And so a mature person will know this mature believer reaching to 433 00:34:27,520 --> 00:34:31,480 the measures of the fullness of Christ, manifesting his 434 00:34:31,480 --> 00:34:35,880 spiritual completeness and exercising our spiritual gifts 435 00:34:35,880 --> 00:34:40,280 in unity. You see that all of us have got 436 00:34:40,760 --> 00:34:43,800 been given spiritual gifts. And a mature person is saying, 437 00:34:43,800 --> 00:34:45,960 I'm not going to sit on my light. 438 00:34:45,960 --> 00:34:47,880 I'm not going to cover my bushel. 439 00:34:47,880 --> 00:34:50,080 I mean hide my light under the bushel. 440 00:34:50,360 --> 00:34:53,480 I know God's given me gifts to do things and I'm going to use 441 00:34:53,480 --> 00:34:55,800 it to serve the body. A mature person will do that, 442 00:34:55,800 --> 00:34:57,720 not just sit in the church and do nothing. 443 00:34:58,440 --> 00:35:04,920 Anyway, side note, I better get on the happy stuff over here, 444 00:35:05,760 --> 00:35:11,280 verse 14, so that we no longer are children or spiritually 445 00:35:11,280 --> 00:35:17,040 immature, tossed back and forth like ships on a stormy sea and 446 00:35:17,040 --> 00:35:20,280 carried about by every wind and shifting of doctrine, by the 447 00:35:20,280 --> 00:35:25,520 cunning trickery of unscrupulous men, by the deceitful scheming 448 00:35:25,520 --> 00:35:29,320 of people ready to do anything for personal profit. 449 00:35:29,600 --> 00:35:33,360 But what? Speaking the truth in love and 450 00:35:33,360 --> 00:35:36,880 all things, both our speech and our lives. 451 00:35:38,160 --> 00:35:42,000 It's not just about what you say, because you can say you 452 00:35:42,000 --> 00:35:45,880 love me all day long, but your actions say other things. 453 00:35:48,680 --> 00:35:51,720 OK, this is the amplified y'all might want to read it. 454 00:35:52,240 --> 00:35:57,800 And so he goes on to say this. It says both in our speech and 455 00:35:57,800 --> 00:36:00,400 our lives. Expressing His truth. 456 00:36:00,640 --> 00:36:06,680 Let us grow up in all things unto Him, following His example, 457 00:36:06,680 --> 00:36:12,320 who is the head, Christ from Him the whole body, the church, and 458 00:36:12,320 --> 00:36:16,920 it's all its various parts are joined and knitted firmly 459 00:36:16,920 --> 00:36:19,480 together. But whatever joint supplies, 460 00:36:19,680 --> 00:36:24,280 when every or when each part is working properly, causes the 461 00:36:24,280 --> 00:36:29,160 body to grow and mature, building itself up in what 462 00:36:29,400 --> 00:36:33,920 unselfish love. So a reigning church is not 463 00:36:33,920 --> 00:36:38,280 going to just be a Church of being one or unified. 464 00:36:38,280 --> 00:36:42,200 A reigning church will have God's love functioning and 465 00:36:42,200 --> 00:36:45,920 flowing within it that we love you enough. 466 00:36:46,240 --> 00:36:49,400 See, everybody wants to have the warm fuzzy feelings of love. 467 00:36:49,680 --> 00:36:54,360 But here he says how I love you is to speak the truth to you in 468 00:36:54,360 --> 00:36:58,640 love. And we know people don't always 469 00:36:58,640 --> 00:37:02,440 want to hear the truth. You can't handle the truth, 470 00:37:05,720 --> 00:37:09,640 that's why you got to know when to speak and when not. 471 00:37:10,880 --> 00:37:17,840 OK, so the whole goal is to only speak the truth into people's 472 00:37:17,840 --> 00:37:22,600 lives because we love you like God loves you anyway. 473 00:37:23,120 --> 00:37:27,600 A reigning church. A reigning church is one that is 474 00:37:27,600 --> 00:37:31,200 going to walk in love. And walking in love means 475 00:37:31,200 --> 00:37:33,440 sometimes I've got to speak the truth to you. 476 00:37:33,440 --> 00:37:39,000 And you may not want to hear it, right, But a glorious reigning 477 00:37:39,000 --> 00:37:44,920 church will look that way, full of love, all right? 478 00:37:45,320 --> 00:37:49,800 Not just loving the unlovable that comes in and welcoming the 479 00:37:49,800 --> 00:37:53,520 homeless. Yes, we do all that, but it's 480 00:37:53,520 --> 00:37:56,200 about also speaking the truth to you and love. 481 00:37:56,960 --> 00:38:02,160 OK, we do all that. But anyway, so the next thing 482 00:38:02,160 --> 00:38:05,680 that we want to look at is the reigning church is full of God's 483 00:38:05,680 --> 00:38:08,760 love, and this is God's love. This is not love is love. 484 00:38:08,760 --> 00:38:13,720 And whatever love you decide you want it to be, this is God's 485 00:38:13,760 --> 00:38:18,400 agape love, OK? This is what the church ought to 486 00:38:18,400 --> 00:38:23,760 be producing and ought to be. You ought to be able to see this 487 00:38:23,760 --> 00:38:27,600 in people's lives, that they love people, that they are there 488 00:38:27,600 --> 00:38:31,360 for people, that they want to encourage people, all of these 489 00:38:31,360 --> 00:38:32,400 things. OK. 490 00:38:32,640 --> 00:38:35,960 And you know, this is what a reigning church is going to look 491 00:38:35,960 --> 00:38:38,000 like. The next thing is a reigning 492 00:38:38,000 --> 00:38:42,800 church will look like a church that is always serving. 493 00:38:42,960 --> 00:38:47,560 And we have a serving church. Amen. 494 00:38:48,240 --> 00:38:53,160 You know, we have so many people that are serving that we decided 495 00:38:53,160 --> 00:38:56,480 this year we were going to get all of our servers together 496 00:38:56,480 --> 00:38:59,640 because we haven't done it and do a team rally. 497 00:38:59,640 --> 00:39:03,480 So y'all don't be freaking out. I heard y'all got this e-mail 498 00:39:03,480 --> 00:39:07,760 sent out from planning center and we talked about being, you 499 00:39:07,760 --> 00:39:10,800 know, it being at a team rally and it was going to be sports 500 00:39:10,800 --> 00:39:12,960 related. You don't have to play sports, 501 00:39:12,960 --> 00:39:17,720 guys, OK? It's the theme of what we are 502 00:39:17,720 --> 00:39:20,320 doing, OK? And pastor's going to be your 503 00:39:20,320 --> 00:39:22,160 coach. He's not going to make you get 504 00:39:22,160 --> 00:39:25,360 down and give him fifty OK, or run laps. 505 00:39:25,560 --> 00:39:30,040 It's all fun and games to show our appreciation because you 506 00:39:30,040 --> 00:39:35,400 know what, out of a Church of 700, we have over 400 people 507 00:39:35,400 --> 00:39:37,720 that are serving on a regular basis. 508 00:39:38,320 --> 00:39:42,720 I would say we have a serving church, but I know we still need 509 00:39:42,720 --> 00:39:45,560 more because there's still so much more to do. 510 00:39:45,560 --> 00:39:49,000 So don't think we got so many that you can't know. 511 00:39:49,000 --> 00:39:51,040 We still need children's workers. 512 00:39:51,120 --> 00:39:54,440 Bless your hearts. And you know, I was just telling 513 00:39:54,440 --> 00:39:57,640 them the other day, I would love to be just sitting in that 514 00:39:57,640 --> 00:40:01,680 nursery rocking those babies and it would just satisfy my heart. 515 00:40:01,840 --> 00:40:05,480 Every single service I would sit in there, change those babies 516 00:40:05,480 --> 00:40:08,480 diapers and rock those babies because it would sure sometimes 517 00:40:08,480 --> 00:40:14,520 be better than being doing what I have to do because there's 518 00:40:14,520 --> 00:40:18,840 just only reason I'm doing this is because of what God has said 519 00:40:19,800 --> 00:40:22,400 and His grace. And his anointing. 520 00:40:22,480 --> 00:40:25,200 Amen. So anyway, we're going to have a 521 00:40:25,200 --> 00:40:28,720 fun time with y'all, not to scare y'all, OK? 522 00:40:29,080 --> 00:40:34,600 And free food and fun time and just showing our appreciation. 523 00:40:34,880 --> 00:40:37,520 So what did I say? A reigning church. 524 00:40:37,520 --> 00:40:41,240 Look, a serving church. Yes, you can see that because I 525 00:40:41,240 --> 00:40:45,240 read the scripture where he said in here about using our 526 00:40:45,240 --> 00:40:49,800 exercising our spiritual what gifts and unity. 527 00:40:50,200 --> 00:40:53,080 OK, that was in verse 13 as well. 528 00:40:53,080 --> 00:40:57,920 Look at all the things that are found in this Scriptures in 529 00:40:57,920 --> 00:41:04,280 Ephesians from 11 to 14. Now let's look at verse 16. 530 00:41:04,280 --> 00:41:09,280 There again it says from him the whole body, the church in all of 531 00:41:09,280 --> 00:41:13,280 its various parts. There it is joined, knitted 532 00:41:13,280 --> 00:41:17,240 firmly together. But what every joint supplies 533 00:41:17,240 --> 00:41:21,600 when each part is working properly, causes the body to 534 00:41:21,600 --> 00:41:25,760 grow and mature, building itself up in unselfish love. 535 00:41:26,000 --> 00:41:30,120 So when you bring your gifts to the table, when you decide 536 00:41:30,120 --> 00:41:34,120 you're going to serve and use the gifts that God has given 537 00:41:34,120 --> 00:41:38,120 you, the talents that God has given you, what are you doing? 538 00:41:38,120 --> 00:41:42,920 You are not only just being obedient to use your gift for 539 00:41:42,920 --> 00:41:46,280 God. Your gift is now affecting 540 00:41:46,280 --> 00:41:48,880 someone else's growth and maturity. 541 00:41:50,640 --> 00:41:54,000 It's building the church up, right. 542 00:41:54,480 --> 00:41:59,920 So again, your gift is now building someone else up so that 543 00:41:59,920 --> 00:42:03,360 they can begin to mature. It's the building up of the 544 00:42:03,360 --> 00:42:06,080 body. So when we come to serve, it's 545 00:42:06,080 --> 00:42:09,040 not just, oh, I'm serving because they need someone in the 546 00:42:09,040 --> 00:42:12,360 nursery. No, I'm serving so that actually 547 00:42:12,360 --> 00:42:16,640 a Mama can get up in here and actually learn who she is as a 548 00:42:16,640 --> 00:42:20,680 woman of God and a mom of God. And I can help nurture these 549 00:42:20,680 --> 00:42:24,880 children because as you can see from the video, they're learning 550 00:42:24,920 --> 00:42:27,840 who they are in Christ. These children, they're not just 551 00:42:27,840 --> 00:42:30,640 being babysat. I mean, I was driving in the 552 00:42:30,640 --> 00:42:31,640 car. Luna came. 553 00:42:31,640 --> 00:42:36,480 I was driving the other day after service and I had Luna in 554 00:42:36,480 --> 00:42:41,280 the car and Luna looked over at me and she said, now I said, I 555 00:42:41,280 --> 00:42:43,880 always say, now what did you learn in service? 556 00:42:43,880 --> 00:42:46,880 This is my granddaughter. What you learn in service today. 557 00:42:47,320 --> 00:42:52,920 Well, we talked about King Samuel, but I got some questions 558 00:42:52,920 --> 00:42:55,360 about him. This is what Luna's saying. 559 00:42:55,360 --> 00:42:56,920 I mean, does this sound like Luna? 560 00:42:58,080 --> 00:43:00,520 I've got some questions about him. 561 00:43:00,760 --> 00:43:05,480 And so I'm like, oh, geez, I'm going to have to get my scholar 562 00:43:05,480 --> 00:43:13,160 brain on here for a minute now. Samuel, you know, disobeyed God. 563 00:43:14,400 --> 00:43:17,360 Well, what did he do? You know, I mean, and she's 564 00:43:17,360 --> 00:43:21,640 asking me all these questions and I'm like Luna, you know, I 565 00:43:21,640 --> 00:43:23,960 really wanted to just hear Jesus. 566 00:43:27,680 --> 00:43:30,960 I preached that morning. So I was driving her and I was 567 00:43:30,960 --> 00:43:33,720 still up underneath the anointing and I'm just like 568 00:43:33,720 --> 00:43:38,080 crashed, you know, when you and y'all may not know, but yes, it 569 00:43:38,080 --> 00:43:41,120 is a real thing. And so I'm just sitting there 570 00:43:41,120 --> 00:43:44,520 driving, and I didn't really want to get into a full 571 00:43:44,520 --> 00:43:48,360 discourse about Samuel. I just wanted to hear her say 572 00:43:48,440 --> 00:43:51,280 Jesus because that's what they always usually say. 573 00:43:51,280 --> 00:43:54,880 What did you learn about in church today, Jesus, You know, 574 00:43:55,720 --> 00:44:01,600 Anyway, my brain hurt already. So we had this whole discussion 575 00:44:01,600 --> 00:44:05,760 about Samuel because she was just in her mind going on about 576 00:44:05,760 --> 00:44:08,080 all this stuff, and she was acting like this too. 577 00:44:08,080 --> 00:44:10,520 Now I just got some questions about Samuel. 578 00:44:12,080 --> 00:44:15,840 So what am I saying? We're teaching and getting the 579 00:44:15,840 --> 00:44:18,600 word of God in them. It's not a Bible story to her. 580 00:44:19,080 --> 00:44:21,960 It's real life. She she, she was saying, you 581 00:44:21,960 --> 00:44:24,800 know, Samuel disobeyed. What did he do? 582 00:44:25,440 --> 00:44:36,260 Because I don't want to do that. So last point, y'all holding on 583 00:44:38,340 --> 00:44:42,620 because this is the main event. Sorry. 584 00:44:44,380 --> 00:44:53,320 A reigning church is a glorious church, is a glorious church. 585 00:44:54,120 --> 00:44:58,760 A reigning church is a glorious church filled with his glory, 586 00:44:59,320 --> 00:45:04,320 filled with his power, filled with his presence, filled with 587 00:45:04,320 --> 00:45:07,480 his spirit. The reigning church, this 588 00:45:07,480 --> 00:45:10,000 glorious church, what does that mean? 589 00:45:10,160 --> 00:45:12,440 Glorious? It means honorable. 590 00:45:13,400 --> 00:45:17,360 Honorable. You know the church one day used 591 00:45:17,360 --> 00:45:23,280 to be honorable in a community. It's honorable. 592 00:45:23,280 --> 00:45:32,720 Holy, set apart a city on a hill, Come on for all the world 593 00:45:32,720 --> 00:45:36,800 to what? See, a reigning church should be 594 00:45:36,800 --> 00:45:42,440 a glorious church to where it is standing out in its community 595 00:45:42,640 --> 00:45:47,360 that people are seeing, seeing the glory of God. 596 00:45:47,360 --> 00:45:50,720 They're seeing the demonstrations of the power of 597 00:45:50,720 --> 00:45:55,480 God in people's lives. So much so that if we actually 598 00:45:55,480 --> 00:45:59,800 would look like the glorious church that he was building, we 599 00:45:59,800 --> 00:46:02,360 would not have to run people down. 600 00:46:03,280 --> 00:46:09,880 They would run to it because they run to the light. 601 00:46:12,680 --> 00:46:16,200 The glory, the glory ought to be seen. 602 00:46:16,320 --> 00:46:19,360 When people drive up on this property, they ought to 603 00:46:19,360 --> 00:46:24,480 encounter encounter the glory of God on this property. 604 00:46:24,480 --> 00:46:27,840 They ought to encounter the glory of God When they walk in 605 00:46:27,840 --> 00:46:30,200 this building. They ought to encounter the 606 00:46:30,200 --> 00:46:32,120 glory of God in our private school. 607 00:46:32,120 --> 00:46:36,040 They ought to encounter the glory of God in our preschool. 608 00:46:36,040 --> 00:46:41,560 Come on, they ought to encounter His glorious Church. 609 00:46:43,360 --> 00:46:45,480 It ought. You know what that means. 610 00:46:46,200 --> 00:46:52,600 It ought to be well known and respected for its achievements. 611 00:46:54,120 --> 00:46:58,000 The community ought to recognize this Church is doing some 612 00:46:58,000 --> 00:47:01,360 things. This church is actually making 613 00:47:01,360 --> 00:47:05,400 an effect in people's lives. When we send people to that 614 00:47:05,400 --> 00:47:09,160 church, things are happening just like them. 615 00:47:09,240 --> 00:47:12,800 The judge wanting us to write a curriculum? 616 00:47:12,800 --> 00:47:16,920 Come on. For parents, when the judge is 617 00:47:16,920 --> 00:47:26,440 asking the church, see, he's recognizing there's glory there. 618 00:47:26,480 --> 00:47:28,320 There's things that are happening there. 619 00:47:28,320 --> 00:47:30,880 They, I mean, these people, they're the real deal. 620 00:47:30,880 --> 00:47:33,760 These people are making things happen in their community. 621 00:47:33,760 --> 00:47:36,680 These people are changing people's lives. 622 00:47:36,680 --> 00:47:40,840 Come on. So the glorious church that he 623 00:47:40,840 --> 00:47:47,240 actually is returning for the glorious church that he's 624 00:47:47,240 --> 00:47:52,760 returning for the church set apart also means holy and 625 00:47:52,760 --> 00:47:58,800 sinless people ought to encounter the presence of God, 626 00:47:58,800 --> 00:48:02,760 the glory of God, the power of God when they come in here that 627 00:48:02,760 --> 00:48:12,920 sin should not be able to stand shouldn't be shouldn't be able 628 00:48:12,920 --> 00:48:17,440 to stand up in the household of God and in the House of God. 629 00:48:18,760 --> 00:48:25,400 People just living in their sin, especially believers living in 630 00:48:25,400 --> 00:48:29,160 sin. It ought not be it ought not be. 631 00:48:29,400 --> 00:48:34,840 Ephesians 5 and 27 says this, that he might present to himself 632 00:48:34,840 --> 00:48:44,280 the church and what all of her say it again, having no spot or 633 00:48:44,280 --> 00:48:50,160 wrinkled or any such thing, but that she would be holy and 634 00:48:50,280 --> 00:48:57,760 blameless. Holy and blameless, spotless. 635 00:48:57,760 --> 00:49:01,480 This is what he's returning for. Listen, he is not returning for 636 00:49:01,480 --> 00:49:04,320 this world. He is not returning for all the 637 00:49:04,320 --> 00:49:07,640 sinners. He's not returning for the lost. 638 00:49:07,640 --> 00:49:10,960 He's returning for His beautiful, glorious church, 639 00:49:11,160 --> 00:49:16,560 reigning church, His beautiful bride that he's been preparing 640 00:49:18,040 --> 00:49:23,800 to be holy and separated and set apart for him so that he can 641 00:49:23,800 --> 00:49:28,040 come receive her and set up his Kingdom. 642 00:49:29,440 --> 00:49:33,840 Hallelujah, a glorious church, a glorious church. 643 00:49:33,840 --> 00:49:38,240 Ephesians 14 says this. Just as in His love He chose us, 644 00:49:38,240 --> 00:49:43,840 in Christ, He actually selected us for Himself as His own before 645 00:49:43,840 --> 00:49:48,120 the foundations of the world, so that we would be holy, that is, 646 00:49:48,120 --> 00:49:53,920 consecrated, set apart for Him, purpose driven and blameless in 647 00:49:53,920 --> 00:49:59,600 His sight. In love He chose us to be a part 648 00:49:59,600 --> 00:50:03,160 of His glorious body, to be a part of His church. 649 00:50:03,720 --> 00:50:06,560 Every single one of us who have called on His name. 650 00:50:06,880 --> 00:50:10,880 The Holy Spirit drew you in. The Holy Spirit chose you. 651 00:50:11,520 --> 00:50:15,240 Come on, He called you to participate and be a part of His 652 00:50:15,240 --> 00:50:17,880 glorious church that He is building in the earth. 653 00:50:18,240 --> 00:50:23,840 And how can we not make a decision to not say, I will 654 00:50:24,680 --> 00:50:31,240 completely consecrate myself to be set afar, set apart for His 655 00:50:31,240 --> 00:50:35,960 purpose and for what He wants to do in my life in the earth? 656 00:50:36,320 --> 00:50:40,200 It says Romans 323 says this. For we have all sinned, and we 657 00:50:40,200 --> 00:50:45,400 came short of what? See, we came short of that 658 00:50:45,400 --> 00:50:47,440 glory. You know what the I said the 659 00:50:47,440 --> 00:50:53,600 glory is, is His presence. When Adam fell, the glory 660 00:50:53,600 --> 00:50:57,080 departed. When Adam sinned and disobeyed 661 00:50:57,080 --> 00:51:02,120 God, the presence of God, the glory of God departed from him. 662 00:51:02,400 --> 00:51:07,560 And every since then he's been trying to get His presence back 663 00:51:07,560 --> 00:51:13,880 in man, His glory back in man. Because He designed us to be 664 00:51:13,880 --> 00:51:17,080 glorious. He designed us to house His 665 00:51:17,080 --> 00:51:23,720 presence. That's why He would come down in 666 00:51:23,720 --> 00:51:28,600 the tent. Come on, His glory was housed in 667 00:51:28,600 --> 00:51:31,680 there. That's why he would come down in 668 00:51:31,680 --> 00:51:36,280 the temple. But His greatest pleasure and 669 00:51:36,280 --> 00:51:44,960 desire was to get man back fully into a place of housing the 670 00:51:44,960 --> 00:51:48,800 presence and the glory of God within man again. 671 00:51:49,360 --> 00:51:54,080 And that's why he says in Second Corinthians that we are now what 672 00:51:54,320 --> 00:52:00,680 the temple of God, the temple of the Holy Spirit. 673 00:52:00,920 --> 00:52:04,920 This is what He wanted for his man. 674 00:52:04,920 --> 00:52:10,360 Isaiah 43, seven says this. Everyone that is called by my 675 00:52:10,360 --> 00:52:15,640 name, I have created him for my glory. 676 00:52:18,040 --> 00:52:20,960 I have formed him and I have made him. 677 00:52:21,400 --> 00:52:25,560 I created him for my glory. I created him for my presence. 678 00:52:25,760 --> 00:52:31,840 I created him. Oh, to house the presence of God 679 00:52:33,520 --> 00:52:38,200 so that he would never have to be separated from us again. 680 00:52:38,760 --> 00:52:41,160 The temple of the presence of God. 681 00:52:41,160 --> 00:52:43,320 The temple of the Spirit. Look at, look at Second 682 00:52:43,320 --> 00:52:46,240 Chronicles. I've only got, come on, three 683 00:52:46,240 --> 00:52:50,600 more scriptures. Y'all can hold on, See a lot of 684 00:52:50,600 --> 00:52:53,960 movement. Come on, press in, lean in. 685 00:52:56,840 --> 00:53:01,800 We're almost done. Second Chronicles 511 through 686 00:53:01,800 --> 00:53:04,880 14. It says this when the priest 687 00:53:04,880 --> 00:53:08,440 came out of the holy place, for all the priests who were present 688 00:53:08,440 --> 00:53:12,160 had sanctified themselves, separating themselves from every 689 00:53:12,160 --> 00:53:16,560 unclean without regard to their assigned divisions. 690 00:53:16,560 --> 00:53:21,520 All of the Levitical singers with their sons and relatives, 691 00:53:21,520 --> 00:53:25,960 clothed in fine lemon linen with cymbals, harps, leers, were 692 00:53:25,960 --> 00:53:30,760 standing at the East End of the altar, and with them the 120 693 00:53:30,760 --> 00:53:33,680 priests blowing their trumpets in unison. 694 00:53:33,920 --> 00:53:37,560 When the trumpets and singers were make were to make 695 00:53:37,560 --> 00:53:42,760 themselves heard with one voice praising and thanking God, and 696 00:53:42,760 --> 00:53:47,000 when they raised their voices accompanied by the trumpets and 697 00:53:47,000 --> 00:53:49,600 the symbols and other instruments of music. 698 00:53:49,760 --> 00:53:53,560 When they praise the Lord, saying for he is good and his 699 00:53:53,560 --> 00:53:56,520 mercy and loving kindness endure forever. 700 00:53:56,760 --> 00:54:03,040 Then the House of the Lord was filled with a cloud, so that the 701 00:54:03,040 --> 00:54:07,160 priest could not even remain standing to minister, because 702 00:54:07,160 --> 00:54:12,360 the cloud for the glory, the brilliance of the Lord filled 703 00:54:12,360 --> 00:54:21,360 the House of God. And we now are those houses, we 704 00:54:21,360 --> 00:54:26,600 are now those that have this treasure, he says in Second 705 00:54:26,600 --> 00:54:32,280 Corinthians chapter 4, This treasure hidden, Come on in 706 00:54:32,280 --> 00:54:36,280 earthen vessels. We house the presence, the 707 00:54:36,280 --> 00:54:40,920 power, and the glory of God. That's why when people see us, 708 00:54:40,920 --> 00:54:44,440 they ought to see us shining like Moses when he went up on 709 00:54:44,440 --> 00:54:47,520 the mountain. Come on, they ought to not see 710 00:54:47,520 --> 00:54:51,240 our faces frowning. They not ought to not see our 711 00:54:51,240 --> 00:54:56,400 faces crunched up, you know, and, and, and oppressed. 712 00:54:56,400 --> 00:55:00,760 Come on, they ought to see us glowing with the glory of God 713 00:55:00,760 --> 00:55:06,800 upon our life in the plight of God shining through us. 714 00:55:07,880 --> 00:55:13,360 And it's only going to happen if we recognize it and have 715 00:55:13,360 --> 00:55:16,920 revelation that I'm a carrier of his glory. 716 00:55:17,360 --> 00:55:21,720 And he always going to happen if we'll get into his presence like 717 00:55:21,720 --> 00:55:26,200 Moses did when he went up on the mountain for 40 days and had to 718 00:55:26,520 --> 00:55:30,680 hide his face when he came down because the glory of God was 719 00:55:30,680 --> 00:55:34,600 just so shining on his life. Come on, isn't that what you 720 00:55:34,600 --> 00:55:37,240 want your life to look like and represent? 721 00:55:37,440 --> 00:55:40,600 That everywhere you go people see the glory on you? 722 00:55:40,600 --> 00:55:44,640 Come on, everywhere they go, everywhere you go, that you're 723 00:55:44,640 --> 00:55:48,440 bringing the presence of God. I bring the presence of God 724 00:55:48,440 --> 00:55:52,120 almost daily into Black Molly, and they know it and they're 725 00:55:52,120 --> 00:55:59,800 getting it. Hallelujah. 726 00:56:01,000 --> 00:56:10,080 We're carriers of the greatest thing on the planet and he's 727 00:56:10,080 --> 00:56:16,680 coming back for this glorious church that has all of these 728 00:56:16,680 --> 00:56:21,840 things operating in our lives. Come on, 2nd Corinthians 318. 729 00:56:21,840 --> 00:56:24,360 Listen, you think you don't think you're supposed to be 730 00:56:24,360 --> 00:56:26,520 glowing? Look at this 2nd Corinthians 731 00:56:26,520 --> 00:56:29,920 318. It says this and we all with 732 00:56:29,920 --> 00:56:36,840 unveiled face continually seen as in a mirror, the glory, say 733 00:56:36,840 --> 00:56:46,600 the glory of the Lord, the glory of the Lord, and you are 734 00:56:46,600 --> 00:56:51,520 progressively being transformed into His image. 735 00:56:51,760 --> 00:56:57,440 Here it is. Here it is from 1° of glory to 736 00:56:57,440 --> 00:57:05,560 another, from 1° of glory to another. 737 00:57:05,760 --> 00:57:10,040 This glory ought to be multiplying in your life. 738 00:57:10,480 --> 00:57:13,400 It ought to be increasing in your life. 739 00:57:13,760 --> 00:57:17,880 Listen, one that is growing spiritually, one that is 740 00:57:17,880 --> 00:57:21,600 maturing, one that is allowing God to equip them. 741 00:57:21,840 --> 00:57:26,520 You ought to see a progression of your life coming from 742 00:57:26,520 --> 00:57:35,520 brokenness into gloriousness. From 1°. 743 00:57:35,680 --> 00:57:38,680 What does that mean? From 1° of glory? 744 00:57:38,680 --> 00:57:42,960 To another degree, that means the presence and the actual 745 00:57:43,160 --> 00:57:46,600 power of God ought to be increasing in your life. 746 00:57:47,680 --> 00:57:51,800 The anointing of God that is in your life ought to be 747 00:57:51,800 --> 00:57:54,760 increasing. You should not, I'm telling you, 748 00:57:55,160 --> 00:58:01,680 you should not be the same old, same old as you were last year. 749 00:58:04,560 --> 00:58:11,120 If His power and presence is increasing in your life, it 750 00:58:11,120 --> 00:58:14,880 ought to be evident. People are like, she's got a new 751 00:58:14,880 --> 00:58:18,040 step on her. You know, I never heard. 752 00:58:18,040 --> 00:58:20,520 I don't even hear her complaining like she used to 753 00:58:20,520 --> 00:58:25,320 complain. Oh, I don't even see her having 754 00:58:25,320 --> 00:58:31,960 an emotional little breakdown like she used to because they're 755 00:58:31,960 --> 00:58:36,520 recognizing you're getting into the glory. 756 00:58:39,840 --> 00:58:44,120 You know what I recognize? She ain't bringing another guy 757 00:58:44,120 --> 00:58:49,840 up in this church. She actually might know she's 758 00:58:49,840 --> 00:58:55,360 the beloved and he loves her before any other man can love 759 00:58:55,360 --> 00:58:58,760 her. Oh, because I recognize, come 760 00:58:59,040 --> 00:59:07,040 on, every year being changed from the presence and the power 761 00:59:07,040 --> 00:59:12,400 of God increasing in my life, going from 1° of glory to 762 00:59:12,400 --> 00:59:17,480 another Hallelujah. Y'all are not even as more 763 00:59:17,480 --> 00:59:19,440 exciting. Y'all ought to be running around 764 00:59:19,440 --> 00:59:23,520 this church acting like I'm a Houser of the glory of God. 765 00:59:23,800 --> 00:59:27,640 I'm a carrier of His power and His presence. 766 00:59:27,640 --> 00:59:33,080 Come on and see, you don't have revelation of it, but we're 767 00:59:33,080 --> 00:59:35,160 going to get it because I'm praying for you. 768 00:59:37,640 --> 00:59:41,680 This has been my prayer for the church this year, that they'll 769 00:59:41,680 --> 00:59:47,000 actually get a revelation of what they're carrying. 770 00:59:47,800 --> 00:59:49,880 Because when you have a revelation of what you're 771 00:59:49,880 --> 00:59:55,280 carrying, nothing else, nothing else is going to hinder you and 772 00:59:55,280 --> 00:59:56,680 stop you. Come on. 773 00:59:58,160 --> 01:00:00,320 Nothing else. Glory to God. 774 01:00:00,320 --> 01:00:07,440 Last Scripture, Revelation. Well, last scripture that has 775 01:00:07,600 --> 01:00:12,640 seven verses included. Sorry. 776 01:00:14,280 --> 01:00:17,120 I just realized it wasn't just one scripture. 777 01:00:17,760 --> 01:00:20,320 Y'all know me I don't ever just read 1 scripture. 778 01:00:21,280 --> 01:00:24,360 Revelations y'all. I am the amplified Bible right? 779 01:00:25,760 --> 01:00:30,000 Revelations 21 one through 8. This is our last scriptures. 780 01:00:30,600 --> 01:00:33,960 It says this. And then I saw a new heaven and 781 01:00:33,960 --> 01:00:37,360 a new earth, for the 1st heaven and the first earth have passed 782 01:00:37,360 --> 01:00:40,080 away, vanished, and there was no longer any sea. 783 01:00:40,360 --> 01:00:44,000 And I saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down out of 784 01:00:44,000 --> 01:00:50,640 heaven from God, arrayed like a bride adorned for her husband. 785 01:00:50,640 --> 01:00:56,280 Come on, He is preparing his glorious bride in this last day, 786 01:00:56,520 --> 01:00:59,480 His reigning church. He's preparing her. 787 01:00:59,680 --> 01:01:03,120 And she's going to look out of this world. 788 01:01:03,960 --> 01:01:08,360 She's going to be the knockout. Come on, she's going to be the 789 01:01:08,360 --> 01:01:16,600 one everybody wish they had. This pride that's being 790 01:01:16,600 --> 01:01:19,960 prepared. I don't know what you're looking 791 01:01:19,960 --> 01:01:24,800 at, but I'm looking at the word of God to see because I cannot 792 01:01:24,800 --> 01:01:31,920 let my eyes deceive me. And it says in verse 3. 793 01:01:32,080 --> 01:01:35,280 And then I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, see, the 794 01:01:35,280 --> 01:01:42,080 Tabernacle of God is among men, and he will live among them, and 795 01:01:42,080 --> 01:01:46,760 they will be his people, and God himself will be them as their 796 01:01:46,760 --> 01:01:49,360 God. And he will wipe away every tear 797 01:01:49,360 --> 01:01:52,120 from every hour. There will no longer be death. 798 01:01:52,120 --> 01:01:55,720 There will no longer be sorrow and anguish, crying or pain. 799 01:01:56,360 --> 01:02:01,320 All the former older things have passed away and he, he who sits 800 01:02:01,320 --> 01:02:08,480 on the throne said, behold, I am making all things new. 801 01:02:08,480 --> 01:02:10,760 Come on this, say it to your feet. 802 01:02:11,320 --> 01:02:14,360 This is the cry of my heart this year. 803 01:02:14,720 --> 01:02:17,680 Oh that he is making all things new. 804 01:02:17,880 --> 01:02:22,080 Come on, that we would look like this glorious church, this 805 01:02:22,080 --> 01:02:27,720 reigning church that is on display for the world to see. 806 01:02:28,880 --> 01:02:31,480 And our lives, lives will be proof. 807 01:02:31,760 --> 01:02:36,840 It will be evidence of the power and the presence and the glory 808 01:02:36,840 --> 01:02:39,240 of God within each and every one of our lives. 809 01:02:40,560 --> 01:02:44,280 That when they see you, they see the glory.