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Praise God. We're starting off today.
So let's just lift up holy hands to God, just worship him just
for a moment. Just set your mind on those
things which are above father, we just praise you today.
We bless you, Holy Spirit, we welcome you just flowing today.
Lord, we thank you for working in our lives, working in our
hearts Lord, working our circumstances are situations and
we just, thank you declare. This is the day the Lord has
made. We're going to rejoice and be
glad in it. Lord, we thank you that you go
before us and make the Crooked places straight. 8, we thank you
Lord. That you break in pieces the
gates of brass and cut asunder, the bars of iron and you just
bring forth blessings. And Lord we just praise you now
and Lord. We thank you said we're thirsty
just to come before you and drink.
And so we come and drink in of the Holy Spirit, and Holy
Spirit, we receive your right now.
No eating us, refreshing us, renewing us.
And Lord, you are our strength. So we declare ourselves strong
Victorious at overcoming this day, and we just Praise You.
Now, worship you and receive your will done.
Jesus name, amen! Amen, praise God.
Hallelujah, you can be seated. Amen.
Well, praise God. Anybody enjoying this Kingdom
rice. Is this good?
How. They'll Ouya.
And this morning we're going to just tie in and some things
you'll pastor always with sharing last night and talking
about who we are and what we are and how weird operating these
things have been a theme this week.
God is renewing within us. Who we are.
Our purpose. How to live in the, the
authority of the Kingdom. Amen.
Praise God. We're going to start today in
Luke's gospel. The first chapter, and I'm going
to, I'm just going to share some things and teach some things
today. I believe that will help you to
navigate through life and through this life and learn some
things about how to operate in your Authority as a kingdom,
believer, and find out that if there are certain things going
on, In your life, you're not missing it.
There's certain attacks going on in your life.
You're not in sin. Amen.
If things haven't broken loose yet, it doesn't mean that you're
not in faith. Okay, it just means that you're
living in this certain age that you're going to have to deal
with some of this stuff. Amen.
And so, what we're going to do is this if I was going to tie
dive just say, you know, one Kingdom with two ages,
hallelujah. Amen.
So here in Luke chapter 1, the Lord sends the Gable down.
We're going to pick it up in verse 30, and it says, then the
angel said to her, said to Mary, do not be afraid.
Mary for you, have found favor with God.
Behold, you will conceive. Conceive in your womb and bring
forth a son and shall call his name Jesus.
He will be great him and he will be called the son of the
highest. And the Lord God will give him
the Throne of his father David. And he will reign over the house
of Jacob forever and of his kingdom, there will be no end.
Now this is the Angel, Gabriel God's messenger, angel coming to
tell Mary what God is about to do.
And what he is saying, is this God is going to supernaturally
conceive in your womb, the son of the Living God, and he's
coming to be the Son of God in manifestation.
He's coming to be God back with you.
And his purpose is this. He's going to be a king.
He's going to rule over the throw, sit on the throne of
David. He's going to rule over the
house of Jacob and when he gets finished, his kingdom is going
to be so strong. So powerful and so mighty there
will be no end to it. Amen.
And we know the kingdom means Kings domain, or Dominion
Authority and Rule and so, therefore, he's saying, when the
son that you're going to conceive comes and God manifest
himself through the sun, he becomes the king, he's going to
set up his rule, his Reign, his Dominion forever and ever and
ever. And there's not going to be an
enemy that's going to be powerful enough to ever topple
his kingdom. Amen.
So He's saying this that the kingdom of God is going to be so
great. With this new King, sitting on
the throne, that they'll be no enemy that will ever be able to
overcome it. Praise God.
Now that's the kingdom. We're talking about.
Amen. Now in Luke's Gospel of the 16th
chapter. I want you to see something.
Here will tie this in in Luke chapter, 16 and verse 16.
We re down here in the Lord Jesus is speaking to the
Pharisees. He says the law of the Prophets
were until John told about John the Baptist since that time the
kingdom of God has been preached and everyone is pressing into
it. Now, the angel announces that
God's kingdom is coming back to humanity through a king being
born into the Earth. And then we don't hear much
about the kingdom until the Lord Jesus is baptized in the River
Jordan by John and he comes up out of the water and the Holy
Spirit comes down upon him and he's filled with the Holy
Spirit. John 3:34 says he received the
spirit of God without measuring other words.
He was fully baptized or anointed by the Holy Spirit.
And we know that because Luke chapter 4, then talks about he
then went in the power of the spirit and was led by the spirit
Into the Wilderness, a man. So Us begin to do this.
And so then we find out also that in John 1:29.
A John steps up whenever he sees the Lord Jesus coming.
And he says this Behold the Lamb of God that takes away the sin
of the world. So the angel Gabriel announced
to Mary, who her son was going to be.
And John was raised up by God to prepare the way for the son.
The Messiah, the king, and John on the River, Jordan looks up
and sees Coming and by the spirit of God says, Behold the
Lamb of God that takes away the sin of the world, here comes the
one. And here's the reason that the
children of Israel missed it is because they were looking for a
Conquering Hero to come in and just overcome Rome and set up
the kingdom and they were going to rule.
He's going to be this mighty king.
But the John describes this new king, as the Lamb of God, that
takes away the sin of the world. Well what's the conflict here?
Jesus came the first time as the Lamb of God and as a king, who
would be set in a place where he would experience all the things
that you and I experience. Hebrews 2 says he's a high
priest and as a high priest, he's touched by the infirmities
that we go through. In the feelings, we go through,
he feels everything by because he's been tempted with
everything. As we were see, Jesus didn't
come to the Earth to be a totality.
Therrien. King that would just ruled by
with without Mercy or anything and just come in my way or the
highway. But Jesus came first to
experience all that man was having to experience and go
through. So when he said on his throne,
he would be a benevolent. Loving King, who would be
touched by, what we're going through and be there with a
sensitivity to help us to get through it.
How they lujah. Amen.
And that's the king. We have sitting on the throne
today. A king that cannot be touched.
By the feeling of our infirmities.
He meant, he is touched. He is moved.
He's Minister. He's there to love us and take
care of us. Praise God.
Now, the king is wrote was looking for from the Old
Testament. Prophets is about to return.
Hallelujah. Amen.
And when he returns this time, he will look like a king.
Praise God. But you've got to understand
something. Here, this church age or the
kingdom of God was introduced back to humanity.
Through Gabriel when he spoke to Mary and told her that the King
was coming. Amen.
After the baptism of John notice there in Luke 16, he said that
the law and the prophets were preached until John the Baptist
up until John came the law and the prophets.
Office were the message that was being preached but when John
comes along, John begins to prepare people for the king and
the kingdom of God. And so the kingdom of God began
to be priests with John and Jesus steps up.
And the very first message is that the Lord Jesus preaches.
After the baptism of John is the gospel of the Kingdom, meaning
what? The change?
Took place there, Hallelujah, the kingdom was introduced
through Gabriel but then the king himself.
Begin to bring it forth in the preaching of the Gospel.
Hallelujah. Now let me show you look in
Mark's gospel. The first chapter over here in
Mark chapter 1. The Lord Jesus begins.
His ministry will pick it up in verse 14.
And it says as yeah. Now after John was set was put
in prison. See, Jesus does.
Is Jesus came to Galilee what was he doing when he came to
Galilee preaching, the gospel of the message of the good news of
the kingdom of God and saying the time is fulfilled and the
kingdom of God is at hand, repent, and believe in the
gospel. Now, the Lord, not only
preaches, the gospel of the Kingdom, but the Lord, Jesus,
now, comes and tells you how to get into the kingdom.
Amen. And it begins with repentance.
Now, there's a difference in Repentance and remorse.
Amen. When Judas messed up and
realized he messed up, he was remorseful and went out and hung
himself. Remorseful means I'm sad.
I got caught, but if I could do it again, I probably would.
Amen. Repentance is not only a
Brokenness or sadness that you've done something wrong.
It's a revelation that you're wrong and it is a complete
withdrawal from that wrongness to turn to what is right.
What Jesus is teaching here in this when he says repent he
saying you need to turn from having rule over your own life
and trying to control it yourself and turn that rule and
roll over to me so that I now have rule I now have authority
in your Life and now I'm the one directing your steps.
So we can say like this when the Lord is preaching the gospel and
says, repent believe the gospel. He's saying quit being your own
King and make me your king. Amen.
Quit being your own God. Doing your own thing in your own
self and turn to me and let me become your God.
Let me begin to direct you. Let me begin to be your
strength. And he says, what you have to do
is this you have to go from being your own source to
believing the word that I have for you.
And operating according to the word that I give you.
That's how you get in the Kingdom.
How many of you found out? You just don't go.
Forward in a church service kneel down say God forgive me.
I'm really sorry. I did this and the best I can
and will live for you and your leave.
Nothing happened in your life. Jesus is saying you've come to
the place where you're so sick and tired of the way it is.
And you realize that we are doing is not going to get you
anywhere and you can't change it and you're tired of trying to be
the head and Lord and king of your own life, and you need
help. And Lord, I'm making a complete
turn from what I'm doing to you. I'm going to God.
Instead of being rebellious to, I'm going to be submissive to
you. I'm turning to you for help and
your will to be done in my life. That's true repentance.
And it takes commitment to because you drop down to verse
17. And whenever Jesus found that,
you know, he started calling the disciples, he says, then Jesus
said to them, follow me and I will make you to become Fishers
of Men and immediately left their Nets and followed him.
You know, you could tell it like this.
The Amplified says he said, follow me become my disciples
and I'll make you Fishers of Men.
Learn of me. In other words, make the
decision to commit yourself to me.
Walk after me, And learn of me become a disciple.
And when you do, I'll change your life from being A Life.
That's All About You To A Life. That's all about the kingdom and
me. Amen.
Because you'll become a fisher men, you'll become an influencer
to the world of the good news that I'm bringing to them that
they can now be saved from their sins to amen.
But notice you have to be a follower.
You have to what true repentance means.
I, my life is going to be changed from this day forward.
Amen. Whenever I repented and gave my
heart to the Lord, I did. So because I didn't like the
life I had, Didn't like what I was doing.
Didn't like way of felt. Didn't like what was going on?
Didn't like the actions. I was done.
I did and I'd realized I couldn't change it myself.
So I turned to the Lord and he changed it.
Hallelujah. Because whenever I gave my heart
to the Lord, I changed Kings because whether you like it or
not, you're either serving King Jesus or your servant King
devil. Because the Lord said, you're
either with me and Matthew, he said, you're either with me or
you're against me because there is no middle the road here.
You're even the kingdom of God. You're in the kingdom of
darkness. You either under the lordship
and King and Rule of the Lord Jesus Christ, are you under the
lordship of the devil? One of them is now directing
your path. Determining, what you have,
where you go and where you end up So I chose to go with the
winter. Hallelujah!
Amen. And I chose the Lord.
Jesus Christ. Praise God.
Now, you're right there. In, Mark, go to marks the tenth
chapter, and here's where we were setting this up to get to
praise God. Mark, chapter 10 and I'm sure
we, you know, the story and, but we're going to touch on a little
bit. We're going to begin in verse
17. Talk about the Rich, Young
Ruler. And it says this.
Now as he was going on the road, talking about the Lord Jesus.
There came. Came to him and knelt before him
and asked him sit and he said, good teacher.
What shall I do that? I may inherit eternal life.
So Jesus said to him, why do you call me good?
No one is good. But God alone but one that's
God. Now notice here, the Lord's.
Yeah, I want one who say that Lord knows this this this this
young man comes running to Jesus and he says, good Master.
What do I need to do to inherit eternal life?
Now, we think about an eternal life.
We think about living forever. But eternal life, here, Zoe the
god, kind of. How do I get the kind of life
you got How do I enter into a life?
That's greater than the life I've got.
And knows the Lord says, why do you call me?
Good. There's only one good and that's
God. The Lord is testing him.
He's coming to him and saying basically he's looking and
saying do you recognize me as God incarnate as the Son of God?
Who is one here? Who has come from God, or do you
recognize me just as another good teacher?
Are you sincerely? Wanting a change in your life by
looking to me as deity and as God as the Messiah or you coming
to me as a Good teacher that will just add to your profile
and help you in life. Because how you approach the
Lord is going to determine what you get from me.
When I came to the Lord Jesus Christ, I didn't come to a good
teacher. I didn't come to a historical
figure. I didn't come to somebody.
That's going to come back, someday.
I came to a living and Lord savior Redeemer, king of kings
and Lord. I came to, he became real, he
was God to me, hey, men Jesus out, he wasn't just good.
He's God. And so the Lord has is locating
where this man is. We're what's your mold is why
are you wanting this kind of life?
Because to give this life, you have to understand who I am
because this life flows out of me, you can't have this life
without him. Amen.
So it doesn't start with eternal life.
It starts with the one who gives eternal life Amen.
And so the Lord is teaching here and he's showing us.
So, Jesus said to him, why do you call me good?
No one is good. But one that is God.
You know, the Commandments? No, she didn't say do you.
He said, you know, so the Lord knows this guy in Amazing when
we come to the Lord, he already knows as we might as well get
honest. Amen.
Well Lord, you know I really believe in the Lord says no.
I really know you don't believe it.
So the Lord says this he looks and says, you know, the
Commandments do not commit adultery Do not murder, do not
steal, do not bear false, witness do not defraud, honor
your father and your mother and he answered and said to him,
teacher all these things I have kept from my youth.
Okay, Gordon knew that said, you know, these things and the young
man says I've done that. See, it's still all about him.
What do I do to get eternal life?
I've kept all these things. I've been successful, I've been
prosperous. I have a good standing in the
community. I have great potential because
I'm young and they tell me already.
I'm doing great things. I have done all of these things.
Notice it. He's still looking at himself,
he still, he still the center of his life.
Okay. So look what happens.
And Jesus looking at him loved him.
Everybody say Jesus loved him. The words of the Lord are going
to give to him are not words of being mad at him upset with him.
Trying to put him in his place. Jesus is speaking out of love.
Jesus loves this young man and Jesus is already seen into his
heart. Jesus knows everything is going
on his life. He's already set him up.
To have to make a decision. Amen.
So this read then, Jesus looking at him, loved him and said to
him. One thing you like man, the Lord
looked at me and said, love me said about 100 things.
You praise God, that's pretty good.
This guy. He said one thing you like,
here's, here's the, you could say it like this.
So the most important thing you lack, The one thing that's the
most important over you, keeping these Commandments.
You, prospering you've been having good standing in your
community, you trying to be a good person.
The most important thing you're lacking and here it is one thing
you like, go your way. So whatever you have and give to
the poor and you will have treasure in heaven, and come
take up the cross and follow me. But he was, he was sat at his
word and went away sorrowful for.
He had great possessions. And then Jesus looked around and
said to his disciples, how hard is it for those who have riches
to enter the kingdom of God? Hm.
Now let's read on because right now you think you know you can't
be rich and big Christian. Love people say that.
And then if we preach the poverty mentality, if you're
going to make Chris you have to suffer their life.
And yeah then just live on the handouts that fall from Heaven,
okay? But let's let the Lord continued
on here. Let's don't break him off in his
sus and so, okay, then verse 23 again, then Jesus looked around
and said to his disciples, how hard is it for those who have
richest in the kingdom of heaven?
And his disciples were astonished at his word.
Now why would the disciples be astonished at his words?
If they didn't already were experiencing blessings in their
life? You know, if I'm poor and
Beatdown hungry, you know, I would have said yes.
That's right. Amen.
But you know, Peter had already gone out and got a boatload
sinking, net of fish tour. The market up.
I mean, they'd already taken that, you know, a few fish and a
few loaves of bread and broken fed over 5,000 people.
So, they were hurting, okay, and The Disciples of already seeing
that limb for God's a pretty good thing.
Because he Supernatural taking care of us.
So when they said it's hard to be rich and get in they went I
got a pretty nice cloak here and got a nice bowtie cuz I got to
and so they're just kind of like us today.
They jump to conclusions. Supposed to be poor Beatdown
dredging through life, living a Christianity.
But one day. Hallelujah.
When we get to heaven, what a day of rejoicing that will be
no, praise God. We should have rejoicing now.
He, man. But Jesus answered again and
said to them, he's going to explain it to him children.
How hard is it for those who trust in riches to enter the
kingdom of God? It's easier for a camel to go
through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the
kingdom of God. And they were greatly astonished
saying among themselves and who can be saved.
But Jesus looked at them and said with men, it is impossible
but not with God, for With God, all things are possible.
Now, the Lord brings us to the place and he's saying I will
never ask you to do. something that I would not give you the
ability to do If you come into the kingdom of God, is not all
that. You can do is what I can do for
you. And when I ask you to do
something, I'm going to do it with you and for you and through
you. And you'll never have to deal
with anything that ask you to do in your own strength or young
power. Your own might come on.
How many of you know, that you can't repent without that.
Repent of heart that the Lord gives you whenever you hear his
word and reveals himself to your faith is not of you.
Your faith comes to you through the word of God through your
relationship and fellowship that you have with the Lord Jesus
Christ. So God Romans 12:3 gives us
Faith to live by It had amazing, you saved by grace through faith
is the gift of God, is Not of Works.
Lest anyone should boast everybody says, all The Graces
gift. Will you?
Faith is against everything you get in this life?
It comes to your king. Hallelujah.
And the Lord is saying if you sit down and try to figure this
out in your head and try to do it in your own strength, you're
going to struggle, you're not going to make it but With God,
all things are possible. Amen.
And one is talking to this young man.
Is this? He said, when he says, you go
sell everything you have. And give to the poor and you do
this. He is basically saying to the
young man, you need to get rid of anything and everything that
would hinder you from submitting your entire life.
To me, do not let anything else have rule or any.
Kind of hold in your life if it does you're not completely
submitted to my room and so therefore if you really want to
experience the blessings of God, you cannot let something else be
Lord in your life. Amen.
So he's saying cleanse yourself, son from anything that would
dilute your commitment to me did get rid of anything that is
before me. Amen.
Come on now. And so the Lord is speaking to
us. What true repentance is
repentance is, I don't come to God with conditions.
And also, we now find the motive of the heart of this young man.
He wasn't coming to inherit the Kingdom or go move into the
camera. Move into the life of God.
He was coming to get another notch in his in his sword so
that he could show everybody what kind of a good person.
He was, it was about him. The folks, I want to tell you
something. The kingdom of God is not about
me. It's about Jesus.
Amen. And Pastor brought out last
night, I'm an ambassador of the Lord.
Paul said we are ambassadors. We had the privilege of taking
this word of reconciliation to the world and telling the people
but I don't go and tell them I can get them saved.
I don't go and tell them what I'm doing.
I don't go and tell them what I'm living.
I go and tell them what God wants or them to have on what
the kingdom. All about, I'm representing
Jesus. I don't speak on my behalf even
when I pray for the sick and minister to them.
Jesus said, in my name, they will lay hands on the sick and
they shall recover. You know, that means, that means
in my stead, in my place, in my behalf, doing it.
As if I was there myself, you lay your hands on him and my
name. And I'll step in and heal them
because you're representing me. And the Lord is trying to get
across this young man. Even the disciples are having a
little difficulty with it because they're attaching things
around here. And what they do with the
kingdom of God, and what the Lord is, trying to get them to
the places is, and he's saying those are just blessings of the
Kingdom. Those are just things I give you
to enjoy life work with you, but the true things that I have for
you. The kingdom of God, is the
relationship of walking with me, And knowing me and being a part
of me being a part of what I have and joining in with me to
bring the kingdom to others and having the joy of seeing lives
changed and harsh touch and said he shaking haleluya and so he's
ministering to the disciples here.
And so then he goes on, let's go down here and read again.
Verse 28, then Peter began to say to him.
We have left all and followed you We've left all followed you.
Now, a lot of times we take them we said well I've got to walk
away from everything I've got, I've got to give up my business
and go bit missionary someplace. Not unless the Lord told you to
Amen. Let's read it.
Let me bring it out to you. So, Jesus answered and said,
assuredly, I say to you. There is no one who has left
house or brothers or sisters or father or mother or wife or
children or lands for my sake. And the gospels you did for my
sake in by 4:30 me and your commitment to me and the gospels
who shall not receive a hundredfold.
Now in this time houses and brothers and sisters and mothers
and children with lands and lands with persecutions and in
the age to come eternal life. Let's just sit like this, the
Lord Peter comes up to him and he says, Lord.
We have put everything we've got under your Authority.
Because they didn't leave their house.
Still had a house. Didn't leave their family, they
still had families. In fact, even after
Resurrection, Peter went fishing.
And and and that meant that I left my wife left, my kids left
my home and Stranded them just to go out and do things of God,
I would be wrong because the Bible teaches me that I'm to
love my wife and nurture. Her Bible teaches me time to be
a good parent to my children. Bible teaches me that I can't
even preach in the house of God, if I can't do that.
Know how to take care of my own home?
The Bible teaches me. If I don't take care of all
these things, I'm worse than an unbeliever.
So there's got to be something that's, that's missing here when
we say, I left house, and brother, and father, mother and
sisters brothers, and for your sake, and you'll receive 100
folder in this lifetime. Let's just sit like this.
Let's go back to the Rich Young Ruler.
What do you say? Take, and give everything you
got. And come follow me.
Lord, I make the commitment. That I will love you.
First more than I love my wife. I will love you first more than
I love my children. I love you first and more than I
love anything. I've got or anything that I'm
doing because see, if I love you more than I love my wife, then I
can love my wife. The way I'm supposed to.
Because then I'm going to cherish her and love her with
your love. And if I love my children after
I love you, then I'm going to be to them what you want me to be
and raise them up the way, they should be raised up and that's
what the Lord is saying. He say anything, you will
surrender to me and put me Lord over.
I'll make it a hundred times better than you could have if
you'd have done it yourself. I'm living proof folks.
I want to tell you something. Next few months bonding that
will celebrate 48 years, that we've been together.
Hallelujah. And we watch God, take us from
we didn't have anything when we came to the Lord.
I mean we you looked up the word poverty and have picture men
Bonnell beside Okay. We had very little of anything
and we just but but we had a commitment to the Lord Jesus
Christ that we were going to get it.
We didn't have a Bible with to go out and you heard start I use
S&H Green Stamps to get our first bible yet while y'all
don't know what it is. A Redemption story.
We found a Bible in a Redemption story.
I had a book of essays Green Stamps and took it and got us a
Bible That's first Bible. Whatever.
Wasn't raised to know anything in China.
I was raised to be a good person leaving God.
Amen. But we made a commitment to the
lordship of Jesus and when we first got married, we didn't do
much of anything. But I looked at her and I said,
we need to make this commitment to each other.
I said, You need to love me second and I need a love you.
S. You need love Jesus first.
And I needed love Jesus first because if Jesus is first in my
life than at put you in the position, you need to be in my
life and if and if I love and commit to Jesus first, then I
would have to break my walk with him before I could ever break my
commitment to you and I'm not going to break my commitment to
the Lord. Therefore you can trust me.
I'm never going to do you wrong. Tell me to do my wife wrong I
have to do my Lord wrong first and I'm not going to go against
my king. Amen.
And so we made that commitment and and in making that, praise
God. God has blessed us and prospered
us. And he's given us a hundred
times more than we could have ever experienced in our life.
If we did try to do it our own way.
The kingdom of God works. Because we have a benevolent
King who loves us and is touched by our infirmities.
And knows how to get us through those situations.
Praise God, and he's and, and what he's asking for us in this
hour, is to renew your commitment and consecration to
my lordship and my rule in your life because when you consecrate
everything, you've got into my hands, I'll make it better than
you could. And this is the thing to you
know, God blesses us with money and he started teaching me this
one. I went to Rhema We went to
Raymond, have anybody helping us.
And we went out there with no money, just enough to get the
first month paid for and get a rented, a, an apartment.
And so, you know, I was really needing some cash.
I walked into the front lobby there of the old Rooker,
Auditorium only had two buildings when I went there.
Hallelujah. But anyway, I walked in the
front lobby and somebody walked up and said praise the Lord
Brother Darryl I shook my hand and there's a twenty dollar
bill, the God is a good day. Hallelujah.
I stuck that twenty dollars in my pocket.
I got about 15 Steps. Heading towards the auditorium.
Somebody came as hey Darrell you got any money.
I went why and it was young lady said and I think her name was
Kate. Katie.
She yeah. She's about 20 dollars short of
having her tuition. We've raised up about except 20
you have any money and I still got my 20 in my hand in my
pocket. I'm thinking I was two steps
away from getting into the sanctuary.
Two steps away from my $20 been in my pocket Holly but
immediately my heart. I had that auction you.
So in her you give that's why I gave it to you.
Now I'm placed in the same position.
The Rich Young Ruler is in. Now, he may have had great
possessions but that $20 was a great possession at me at that
moment. And I've got a decision, do I
give it and trust my Lord and my king or do I keep it and trust
in me? Well thank God.
I made a commitment to the lordship of Jesus and I just
pulled that 20 out and I said I got 20, they grabbed out of my
hands at all. That's great.
You'll be able to stay in school.
She got to pay it today and they ran in and gave her the money
and I looked in and she's up there dancing and praising
crying. And I rejoiced I went in sit
down after the service. Got up went out.
Hallelujah. Got my car and said Lord how it
was so great, but how am I going to get gas to get home?
Hallelujah. And it wasn't too long after
that, somebody came up and bought me a tank a guess.
How they though, you and took care of me.
And from that time on, I learned something that the Rich Young
Ruler didn't learn the Lord, never was asking me to give up
something. He was asking me to put myself
in a position. To get something.
He was wanting me to operate under his lordship and not under
the lordship of the enemy who was stealing, killing and
destroying. And he wanted me to learn to
trust that I have a king that is trustworthy good and kind and
cares for me and he wants to get me through.
Amen and since then, thank God, we've been able to give a whole
lot more Hallelujah because every time the Lord asks we've
done it. God's asked us to do certain
things. We've done it.
Praise God. Have we done a perfectly?
I know, but we've committed ourselves to follow the king.
Amen. Now, look, something here in.
Verse 30, we really want to touch on this for the next few
moments is so help you Nosy, says who shall receive a
hundredfold. Now in this time, everybody say,
in this time, houses and brothers, sisters and mothers,
and children, and lands with persecutions, and in the age to
come eternal life. Notice that the Lord talks about
two different ages, This time. And the age to come.
You understand, you gotta understand some folks.
The kingdom of God is broken up into two ages.
An age is a designated period of time.
And right now, you and I are living in the age of blessing
with persecution. You understand.
Now there is a cut and all of this has been in response to
answer the question. What must I do to inherit
eternal life or what must I do to get over into the fullness of
the life of God. Amen.
And Jesus says, you've got to commit your whole life to me and
he got to do this and he says and here's what I will do even
in this present age, I will bring to you a hundred times
better than what you can have. But the difference is, in this
present age, you're going to get the blessing with persecution.
And somebody says, well, why are we getting blessed with
persecution? What do you mean the two
different ages you have the age to come, which is the millennial
age and then you have the age that's right now, let me show
you this age this right now. Real quick lations 1:4 glaciers
chapter one. Look what the Apostle says over
here. See you got to understand the
age that you're living in, and then you'll understand how to
ruin to have dominion as a king of under the king.
Praise God. Glaciers won't.
Listen. Let's begin.
Actually in verse 3 and we'll read the verse 5.
He says grace to you and peace from God, the father, and our
Lord Jesus Christ. Now listen, who gave himself for
our sins, that he might Deliver Us from this present, evil age,
according to the will of our God.
God and Father to him be glory forever and ever.
Amen. Notice that Paul calls this
present age and evil age? Well, women brother died.
I thought we were living in the kingdom of God.
And Jesus came and brought Redemption.
Yes, he did. I thought we were supposed to
rule and Reign. We are.
But have you never ruled the even and when you're under
attack, and whenever things are going south Paul writes to the
Romans and he says, all this stuff is going on, yet, in all
these things, we are more than conquerors through him.
That loved us. What's that mean?
You? And I need to wake up and
realize we are not living in the age to come yet.
We're not living in the millennial age, this age began
An with the resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ because in
Ephesians chapter 2, he says this that when we were even dead
in sins and trespasses, God raised us up together with
Christ and seated Us in Heavenly places and brought Redemption to
us and that in the ages to come. We you know we he was chose His
blessings and and work in our lives.
Praise God. And so thank God.
Yes. We have been brought into the
kingdom age. But this age, you Got to
understand Galatians 3:13 and 14 says Christ hath redeemed us
from the curse of the law and that right becoming a curse for
us for it is written. Cursed, is everyone who hangs on
a tree, why that The Blessing of Abraham might come upon the
Gentiles that we might receive the promise of the spirit
through faith? And then he brings it to the
reality of my living at vitally in verse 29, it says, and if you
be Christ's then are ye Abraham's seed and heirs,
according to the promise. So even right now, we are
redeemed from the curse of the law but you need to understand
something though. We are redeemed from the curse
of the law. Jesus did not receive Jesus, did
not remove the curse from this age.
The curse of the Lost poverty sickness disease.
Are you listening to me? And all that stuff is still
here. Hebrews 2:14-15 says that Jesus
Christ took upon himself, the form of Flesh and Blood and came
and and through death destroyed him.
That had the power of death that is the devil.
So that those who were through fear of death were all their
lifetime subject, to bondage, could be delivered and set free.
Now, what's he mean? Destroyed him that had the power
of death. It means to render powerless or
take the authority away from. Jesus didn't do away with the
devil during this age. He still here.
Second Corinthians 4:4 says he still the God of this world and
he's blinding the minds of people that don't believe John
10. Jesus said in verse 10, he is
still the thief that's still in killing and destroying.
Amen. See a lot of times we get say,
we give her life to the Lord and we think everything's going to
be wonderful. And we're never going to have
another test or trouble or problem.
But in John 16, Jesus said, in verse 33 in this world, in this
time you're going to have test trials, tribulations, struggles
and troubles but be of good cheer.
I have overcome the world. I have deprived it of its right
to overcome you and defeat you. Hallelujah.
See, when we talk about ruling and reigning, you have to know
the age, you're living in. You need to understand.
They're still opposition here. Jesus didn't remove all this
wickedness. He delivered us from it.
Hallelujah. And so, you know, if you don't
understand this age and what we're living in then when some
bad thing happens in your life, you think you're missing it.
You think you're not worthy? You think you don't have enough
Faith. You think that you?
What were you getting those thoughts?
The same stinkin Thinkin thought.
Give her. The devil is still here and he
can't, he can't just come in and take you down.
He has to talk you into submitting and agreeing with him
first B25. Peter than say, he is a lion
that roams about, he says he Is like a roaring lion who roams
about? Many.
What his biggest his Roar is much more worse than his bite.
That's what Jesus said. Take no thought saying, take no
worries. Thank saying don't be anxious.
Why those are the things of this age?
And whenever you give and God starts blessing, you get ready
persecutions coming. Why?
Because the devil wants you to feel like something's wrong
because you're getting blessed. Are you hearing me?
We need to know this age. We need to understand this
segment of time that we're living in that we are still
living in a lost world. We're still living in a world.
Where the kingdom of darkness is here.
We're still living in a world where there's a devil and their
demon forces that's why in Ephesians 6.
He says, to be strong in the Lord and the power of His might
put on the whole armor of God, so that you can resist and stand
steadfast Against the Wild schemes and plans of the devil.
Amen. Then he As listen, don't get
caught up in, fighting flesh, and blood and war with people
and things in there that your problem for the weapons of our
Warfare are not Mighty. There are not carnal but they're
Mighty through God, to the pulling down of the strongholds
and he says, if we don't wrestle against flesh and blood, but we
stand strong against principalities and powers and
rulers of darkness and wicked spirits.
And every High thing that's lifted up in heaven, as we bring
them down. Hallelujah?
Why? Because we are here to represent
the king of kings and Lord of lords and he gave us a
commission to take his kingdom and going to All the world and
change the nation's change people and deliver them from
this darkness. That the devil is trying to keep
them in and then he says in Hebrews, he says forsake, not
the assembling of yourselves. Why?
So you can be reminded every day that we're still living in a
loss. Dirty, stinking darkened world.
But we are delivered from all that dirty darkness and stinking
world. And we are to bring the Light of
Christ in the light of the kingdom of God, to all the
people and set her free. And so we come and exhort each
other and learn who we are in Christ and learn of the kingdom
of God and learn of our Authority and learn of the time
that we're living in. So that we walk out here, we are
not blind sided by some silly thing that the devil is trying
to defeat as well. Well, I got saved in this been
worse. Since I got safe.
Welcome to my world. The Lord didn't promise that
Rich Young Ruler Lord, he said follow me and to follow him.
What did the disciples do? They got?
They got persecuted. They got run out of towns.
I mean they had the same attacks against them that Jesus had
against himself. The Lord wasn't offering the
Rich. Young Ruler, a nice easy, Peezy
Weezy life. He was offering him a life
filled with authority and power that you could take losing
situations and turn them into victories that you could take
bad situations and turn them for good that you could walk in the
power of God, right? In the midst of all the attacks
of the enemy and walk right out of that fire, without being
singed. Touched A Hallelujah.
But you see, you have to understand this is the season
that we're living in. This is the time that we're
living in. But then here in over there, in
Luke's are marked 10:30 when the Lord continued on.
He said, you know, you're going to receive a hundredfold.
In other words, anything you put in my hands right now, even
though you've got an enemy that's resisting, you I'll make
it a hundred times better than you could have done without me.
I'll make your life a hundred times better.
How bless your family? I bless your home.
I'll bless the work of your hands.
You you sow and reap when everybody else is not. and when
they beat you and put you in jail, At midnight. when you
finally wake up and come to yourself, you look around and
say Jesus is still Lord less praising.
And right there, like Paul and Silas right there in that jab
midnight. You just start Prince, you'll
pray. And you'll praise why.
Because you know, the season, the time, the age of living in,
you know, what your purposes, you know, who you Lord Is, You
Know, Who You Came? Yeah, I've told this before,
but, you know, Paul and Silas, we're not praying to get out of
jail. No brother.
Don't, how can you say that? Well, I say that, because the
word says that No, no, yes, yes, read it.
And at midnight, Paul and Silas prayed and sang, Praises unto
God. And the prisoners heard them.
And while they were singing and praising, God the Earth Shook,
and the jail doors opened, the chains fell off and the guard
came in. It was going to fall on his
sword because he was entrusted with the keeping them.
And Paul says, do yourself, no harm.
We're still here now. They've been praying to get out,
brother. I'm going to tell you what soon
is that jailed opened up and those change fellow?
Boom. You would have seen nothing, but
a trail of dust with me. Praise God, I'm heading to the
nearest boat at the nearest dock to get off of this island.
Hallelujah, amen. But they're still sitting there.
now, while they still sitting there because they understand
the season Asia lived in, but they also understand that Jesus
said follow me, Go sell all you have and follow me.
So when they came into the kingdom, they ceased living
their Kingdom, they ceased being Kings over their lives and they
met Jesus king and Lord of their lives.
They gave him full Rule and they're trusting him that even
though the enemies came in like a flood Lord, I believe that
you're turning this thing around and what the devil meant for
bad. You're going to turn for my good
and and Paul never forgot his purpose.
His purpose was to go. Do what Jesus said, I'm going to
send you, and you're going to establish the kingdom.
All over this place. You're going to preach to the
Gentiles. You're going to reach the
nation's you're going. And so he is he is established a
church. it's right there, ladies house already and if he'd ran
out of there, what kind of example that have been He
understood there's a greater purpose here than me having some
Comforts right now. The purpose is I was sent here
to stablish the kingdom of God. I'm here representing my king
and if I run out that's the image they're going to have of
him. So I'm going to turn this thing
around so he just put it in God's hands and started praising
the Lord for his victory. Lord, shut that place, delivered
him out of it and then he goes to the jailers house, gets him
and his family. Safe, he cleans him up the next
day he makes the authorities. Come and apologize to him before
he leaves. I'm going to show you that the
kingdom of God is greater than the kingdom of darkness.
When you College eyes to me, then I'll consider leaving the
town. He went from the bottom to the
top from the tail to the Head. Amen.
Why? Because anything you give to me,
I'll give it back to you a hundredfold in this life with
some persecutions. But then the age to come, you
don't have a lot of time to touch on the HTM.
What's the age to come? It begins in the millennial
reign. It begins the millennial Reign.
When we inherit the fullness of life, that that when we get
blessed, we don't get persecuted.
Because the persecutors locked up Romans to Revelation 20 says
in the bottomless pit, And so we enter into the fullness of time
age of the Millennium. Amen.
The age to come and thank God. But you know it's a great about
the age to come. Let me show you something.
Look in Ephesians chapter one real quick.
Hallelujah. And I don't want to take too
much time, but how many of give me two more minutes.
Pray, praise God. Let me quickly share this with
you. It'll help you praise God in
Ephesians chapter 1. The Apostle Paul is writing to
the Church of Ephesus, gives them a prayer.
We're going to pick that prayer up down here in verse 17.
It says that the god of our Lord Jesus Christ, the father of
Glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and Revelation
in the knowledge of him. God wants to have a revelation
of him. The eyes of your heart, your
understanding being enlightened, that you may know what is the
hope of his calling, what is the riches of the glory of his
inheritance in the Saints and what is the exceeding greatness
of his power to Ward us who believe according to the working
of his mighty power? Which you worked in Christ when
he raised him from the dead, set him at his own right hand in the
Heavenly places far above all principality and power and might
and dominion. And every name that is named not
only in this age but also in that, which is to come Jesus is
Lord over all things in this age and in the age to come, but in
the age to come, there's going to be the fullness of life
without persecution. Somebody says, well, what does
that do for me? Now?
Hebrews chapter 6, and verse 5, or more closer with the
scripture, I was going to quote it to you, but you need to read
it Hebrews. Chapter 6 and verse 5. and if
you have tasted the good word of God and the powers of the age to
come, what's the powers of the age to come for healing for
deliverance for Prosperity, full Victory, full piece you over,
the Lord is saying to us, grab hold of this, even though, we're
living in this age. Now with persecutions where the
enemy still operating you and I can reach over into the age to
come. And when the sickness of this
age, tries to attack my body, I can reach over into the age of
to come and grab my healing. That's going to be full healing
and bring. Healing from the age to come
into the age. I'm in and receive my healing
from God. Hallelujah.
When the enemy comes in tries to steal my finances, I can reach
over into the age to come and grab my Prosperity.
That I'm going to have over and bring it into the age.
I'm in right now. Why?
Because I'm an ageless child of the Living.
God, I'm not restricted to ages. I'm living in this age but have
access to the next stage. Woo, Garita.
God. And when you get this Revelation
that you have access to the age to come, no wonder, you begin to
rule and reign as kings. And Priests on this earth right
now, no wonder your righteousness put you in a place
where you walk in your rights and Privileges and you walk and
tread upon serpents and scorpions and over all the power
of the enemy. No wonder your prayer moves
mountains and Shake cities and changes lives and delivers
people. No wonder when you pray and
agree with your wife, it comes to pass in your life.
No wonder when you shot him. Praise God.
Walls come down. Victories release angels dance.
Hallelujah. What?
Because you're stepping over into the age to come?
When Jesus has set his throne upon the Earth and he's ruling
and reigning with this? Hallelujah.
To Asia's the one Kingdom. And you and I have been given
access. To both ages.
Oh, Glory to God. So don't think it strange.
When you get persecuted tested or trial, just reach over into
these to come and grab the power.
God bring it right in your situation and drive that enemy
off. Amen.
Come on. Stand with me.
Praise God. Hallelujah.
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