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Now enjoy this message. So if you have your Bibles, turn
over to 1st John chapter 4. Last week we start we we started
to address a particular subject within the Bible that you know,
the more I studied, the more common knowledge there actually
is. I just think that people don't
take real time to study and as a result of that do not always
venture out to know what the Bible says.
But this is a pretty common held belief within the church world
from many other scholars. And so we're just kind of
catching up with a thought process that many know, but we
are able to see it in the light through the lens of the Kingdom.
And here's the thing, I'm going to read you some commentaries.
I normally do not do that because again, you know, most
commentaries sometimes will get slant towards their own personal
tradition, but it's. Amazing how accurate each
commentary is. And it makes me say, then why do
we not clearly see, but because of US understanding the Bible is
about a king, his Kingdom and his royal offspring.
When I read I'm like it's obvious that that's what this is
and there's no other way for the commentaries to conclude it but
this way. The problem is, is they only
based upon some scripture see it as a future event, not as a
event that is occurring today. Or we are in it now,
specifically in the realm of the spirit.
OK. In first John chapter 4 verse
one again, we kick launched out our year on the reigning spirit
and there's some context to that here.
So that's why I'm going to this passage of Scripture.
The beginning of first John 41 says, beloved, do not believe
every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are
from God. And so, you know, it's in these
last days as people are going to, you know, as the Bible say,
some will fall away from the faith, paying attention to
seducing spirits. And doctrines of demons, which
means the demons will roll out theology through the church
because there will become the the church.
And when I say the church, I'm not talking the one Jesus is
building. I'm talking about the one man is
titled as a church. That demons will, will roll out
theology through the minister because the minister's motive
for preaching is to entertain the hearer, because the hearer
is demanding to be tickled in their ears.
So the audience has determined, geez, the audience has
determined the substance that's coming from the minister, not
the minister is communicating what God wants to tell his
children. So the children are making the
demand that I want to hear something specific and give me
someone who gives me what I want to hear.
Now, that is always motivated from this thing called selfish
ambition. And the Bible tells us where
selfish ambition exists. Every form of evil is there,
which means then those churches, and I use that term loosely
because it's not the one Jesus is building, basically are
entertaining other spirits that are extremely intelligent beings
because they've been around longer than your lifespan.
And they have interacted with sinful humanity and a holy God
and his angels and his children longer than you've been alive.
So they have learned to perfect the way they communicate to you
so that it entices the thing that you have kept in your
being, which is selfish ambition where you're like, see, it is
OK, they're finally preaching what I want to hear.
All right. So he tells us there are other
spirits. We are not to believe every
spirit, but we are to determine whether it is from God.
And how do you know a spirit is from God?
Because it will only communicate the word rightly divided in
context to the whole. Canonization of scripture.
All right, it will not take things out of context.
All right. And again, if you are a true
studier of the Word, when you hear something and you begin to
dive to determine if it's so, if you take it from Genesis 11 to
Revelation 2221, meaning you're giving a context of the Bible,
it will either get stronger and prove truth or it will begin to
fall apart. And when I have found something
that starts to fall apart, I do not try to stop and quit it from
falling apart. I keep pushing to determine
because if it doesn't doesn't have a leg to stand on, it
doesn't have a leg to stand on, it does not have a leg to stand
on. And so it's better to let it
fall apart instead of, well, that's what I was believing.
You know how many traditions are kept in the church not because
their truth, but because they do not want it to fall apart, so
they stay away from the areas that make it fall apart.
All right. So again, you're not going to be
able to preach on the baptism of the Holy Spirit if you believe
it's of the devil because you've loud a theology of God by a
demon to come into your church and communicate that it went
away with the original disciples.
So you're going to have to stay away from certain places of the
Scripture because it will dismantle that thought.
Verse four goes on to say you are from God.
Are you from God? Come on, are you from God?
So you are from God, little children, and have overcome
them, meaning all the spirits that are not from God, because
greater is he who is in you than he who is in the world.
And again, we do not need to let that scripture become church
dogma or or cliche. Well, you know, no greater who
greater is he who's in me than he who's in the world.
Like it's just a quick talking point that you have no firm.
Persuasion or belief in. I mean, it should resonate like
greater is he who is in me, then he who's in the world and the
spirits that are attached to that spirit in the world.
I will never listen to those spirits because I have the
greater one. I have the reigning one and what
can man do to me? What could those spirits ever do
to me? I rule and reign.
I have the greater one that any circumstance I get in and things
that I hear, I'm like, that's all right.
I have the greater one. I have access to something
greater. We must keep this in
perspective. So we saw in Revelations 1/4
through six in dealing with something that again, answering
this particular question, John to the seven churches that are
in Asia. Grace to you, and peace from him
who is and who was and who is to come, and from the Seven.
Spirits who are before His throne and from Jesus Christ the
faithful witness, the first born of the dead, the ruler of the
kings of the earth, to whom? To him who loves us and released
us from our sins by his blood. And he has made us to be a
Kingdom priest to his God and Father, to him be the glory and
the dominion forever and ever. Amen.
So Revelations tells us that there are these seven spirits
that are before Him, before His throne.
Is it literally seven different spirits or is it 1 spirit?
And these are the things that we are addressing.
Revelations 5-6 says it this way.
And I saw between the throne with the four living creatures,
and the holders of a lamb standing as if slain, having
seven horns and seven, seven eyes, which are the seven
spirits of God sent out into all the earth.
So the word, the number seven is the number of completion in the
Bible. And so really we could say it
this way, it is fullness, all right?
Jesus Christ is the fullness of the Father.
So really what the Scripture is telling us is that it's not that
there are seven different spirits.
It is one spirit that has seven attributes about.
Him and we're really addressing the Holy Spirit.
So again in our English language, and again for the
novice. Or casual Christian in their
learning. When they come across like this,
a lot of times they want to seem like they're intelligent.
They're seven spirits, you know? And then if they don't watch
out, if they don't study correctly, then they'll come up
with something kind of. Kooky to try to look like
they've developed some form of revelation.
Now most believers don't even go to the Book of Revelation
because they consider it too hard to understand.
And so, you know, we have allow a doctrine of demons.
I'm going to say it that way. To come into the church that has
infiltrated our minds and that is this.
Well, the Revelations, Revelation deals with the end.
It's going to take care of itself.
I don't. Need to understand it well the
Bible also says the minute you hold that and think that's from
God and that you can maintain that.
Position. The scripture also says my
people perish due to lack of knowledge.
So you're willfully saying that God's OK with you not to
understand the book, nor are you even going to investigate it
because it's too hard? Well, it's not too hard.
It is to be revealed. The problem is most of the time
when Saints start to study the Word, they don't actually go to
the scripture. They first go to the commentary.
OK. Which means then I don't know
anything, let me go to someone. OK, well honestly that's a
problem. Because if the first commentary
you go to isn't actually accurate that they they
themselves do not take the whole scripture in the right context,
then you can start developing a mindset that is inaccurate.
Let me say this, just because there is a difference of
writings concerning any subject doesn't make it confusing, it
just means someone's wrong. And it's amazing how we will
abandoned seeking ourselves and relieve ourselves of the
responsibility to seek just because enough people have
written on a subject that seemed to contradict them.
So we assume then it must be confusing.
No, someone may only have written that piece because their
lens set is wrong, which produce wrong conclusions.
That if you studied it yourself, you would be able to go back in
easily and say This is why this person's wrong.
But you understand, we don't want to say people are wrong,
people are wrong. It's OK.
That's not a negative. I'm thankful that God told me I
was. Wrong.
That the way that seemed right to me to be with to him was
death. That son, that's wrong.
I'm glad that he let me know son.
The only right is that I'm the way the truth and the life.
No man comes to the father but by me and Paul took this
position. He said now listen, I'm telling
you some things and if you don't agree with me, that's fine.
God will reveal to you that I'm right now.
He wasn't acting like I'm right and look at me and being
egotistical. What he was saying is the
revelation that I have is correct because the Spirit of
truth has revealed it. I know it according to scripture
back and forth. I know it is the reveal will of
God and if you have a different opinion, God is going to change
your mind. Amen.
So it's OK as a believer to take the position that when you're
right, you're right. And here's the thing, if you
have taken a position I'm right only to find out that maybe
you're wrong, then changing get to the right, it's OK.
I would much rather always seem firmly persuaded about something
then all then be lukewarm and vacillate as if I don't even
know. Which then shows all fake
humility. Well, you know, I just, his ways
are higher than our ways. His thoughts are high.
I just don't know, You know, I just really don't know.
I really don't know. The Bible says you can have the
mind of Christ. So again, you're really
willfully confessing. I refuse to be a seeker of his
Kingdom to know. And I'm just going to stay in
the dark, but I'm going to seem humble about it because God's
all knowing. Hallelujah.
So 7 is the word of completion. So in essence, what he is saying
here is he has the spirit that is perfect.
This is the. Perfect Spirit.
The Holy Spirit is perfect. The Holy Spirit never gets
anything wrong. Look to your neighbor and say
the Holy Spirit is never wrong. You know what?
That means that means when he starts talking to you about you.
Don't debate with him about it. I remember one time I was
spending a little, spending some time in prayer and I, the Holy
Ghost spoke to me as clear as day.
Now, it wasn't audible, boys, but it was clear in my spirit,
you know, and I had taken some time to, to pray, you know, this
was when I was young, way younger ministry.
It was before I even moved here really young in ministry, you
know? And you know, I was not
purposeful about praying in the Spirit nor about prayer in
general, OK. I basically had the same
existence that 90 something percent of Christians have.
And how do you know? Just ask them to pray somewhere.
You go to public place. So why don't you pray?
It's amazing how quick they're like you go to place who wants
to pray? How is this?
Why are we not all? I'll do it because it's natural
for me to pray, right? A lot of times don't even ask
become like they ain't ready. I'll just pray.
You know, people who pray just start praying, right?
And people who don't pray when they're asked to pray are, you
know, like in school, you put your head down.
You don't want to teach her to see you and ask you to answer
that question. OK, but I'll never forget.
The Lord said if you spend as much time with your wife as you
do with me, you wouldn't be married very long.
Yeah, I'll never forget that. I'll never forget that.
What I didn't do is you're wrong, because he's never wrong.
He's perfect. He's perfect in everything he
says to us. The question is, will we just
yield and do it? Hallelujah.
Amen. Has he ever told you you were
lazy? He's told me before.
You're being lazy about that. I'm It's tempting to want to
read your resume, but what's he saying?
You have the capacity to do more and to make the excuse why you
can't is really not because you're busy or you're so full,
It's because you're actually being lazy.
He calls it like it is. Say Amen.
Anyway, all right, so let's identify the seven spirits that
obviously John wrote about when he saw this and it comes from a
prophecy. Do you understand?
Jesus Christ fulfilled a boatload of prophecies.
I don't have that number off the top of my head.
I think it was 300 and something that's very specific that he
fulfilled the chance for one person to fulfill a prophecy or
eight. I think statistically is like so
much So thank you, Holy Ghost for reminding me.
If, if for one person to fulfill eight of the prophecies written
about the Messiah is like taking a stack of of, of of dollars,
you know, the coin, the silver dollar, stacking them up one by
one, touching each other. It would be two feet high and
cover the whole state of Texas. Then you take one of those
silver dollars, paint it red, hide it, and you go and pull it
the first time. That is the statistic
probability of one person fulfilling only eight of the
prophecies written about the Messiah.
Jesus fulfilled over 300. Prophecies.
When he was on the planet and there are other prophecies still
to fulfill concerning his coming.
Are you hearing me? So Isaiah had prophecies
concerning Jesus, of which he has fulfilled some of Isaiah's
prophecies. However, John is seeing some
things that are beyond his lifetime and beyond the age he's
in. Isaiah prophesied and said this
verse one. He said then a shoot will spring
forth from the stem of Jesse and a branch from his roots will
bear fruit. Well has that happened?
Prophecy fulfilled to. The Spirit of the Lord will rest
upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of
counsel and strength, the spirit of knowledge and the fear of the
Lord. So those are the seven spirits.
Of the Lord, they're the seven spirits that are before His
throne. We have the spirit of the Lord.
We have the spirit of knowledge, the spirit or wisdom, excuse me,
the spirit of the Lord, the spirit of wisdom, the spirit of
understanding, the spirit of counsel, the spirit of strength,
the spirit of knowledge, and the spirit of the fear of the Lord.
Verse two has been fulfilled and we'll see that here in a minute.
Verse 3. But it goes on and we didn't
read this last week. And he will delight in the fear
of the Lord, and he will not judge by what he see, what his
eyes see, nor make a decision by what his ears hear.
But the righteous he will judge, but with righteousness he will
judge the poor, and decide with fairness for the afflicted of
the earth. He will strike the earth with
the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips he will
slay the wicked also. Righteousness will be the belt
about his loins, and faithfulness the belt around his
waist. Glory to.
God, what a picture of the King of Kings.
Of the one to come of this shoot that's going to spring forth
from the stem of Jesse and become a branch and bear fruit
aren't you glad he's bearing fruit today aren't you glad that
you're the fruit of him? Amen.
And so him, John, knowing this and understanding the writings
of Isaiah, when he saw this, he recognized these are the seven
spirits of. That are before the throne of
God, the Spirit of the Lord, the Spirit of wisdom, the Spirit of
understanding, the spirit of counsel, the Spirit of strength,
the Spirit of knowledge, and the spirit of the.
Fear of the Lord. How do we know that this has
been fulfilled? Isaiah 61 One again he
prophesied concerning this. What does it say?
You know what the Spirit of the Lord is?
What upon me? Because the Lord has anointed me
to bring good news to the afflicted, He has sent me to
bond up the broken hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives
and freedom to the prisoners. This is fulfilled in Luke 418
where Jesus opened up the scrolls of Isaiah open to this
place, read these particular words and then shut the book and
said, This is fulfilled before your eyes.
Hallelujah. So Jesus testifies that he has
of the seven spirits of God, which is the Holy Spirit.
I have the Spirit of the Lord upon me.
I said I have the Spirit of the Lord today.
I'm only going to address one of the seven spirits that are
outlined of the Holy Ghost today because it's really important
that I deal with one. Then we'll pair them up or maybe
group them in threes. I don't know.
We'll see as we move forward because they are very applicable
to us today. Say this applies to me.
Say this applies to me.
All right, because God has given you a greater spirit, He's
giving you a greater spirit. So then turning over to Acts
chapter 10, verse 23, again it was echoed or spoken concerning
Jesus. It says this, you know, of Jesus
of Nazareth, how God anointed him with the Holy Spirit and
with power man. And we're going to get some
revelation of this statement more so because the church has
done a really poor job because they do not know the Bible's
about a king, his Kingdom and his roll offspring.
They have hugged trees of his Kingdom instead of ministering
in the lens of his Kingdom and they have specialize certain
words and began to sensationalize certain aspects
of God and missing the whole thing, you know of Jesus of
Nazareth, How who God, how who? Who's God the Father?
How the Father anointed Jesus with the Holy Spirit, that is
the Trinity, the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.
How the Father anointed him with the Holy Spirit and with power
and how he went about doing good and healing all.
How many? Come on, how many?
How many? How many came down and got laid
hands on today? So how many should expect to
receive healing? All who are oppressed by the
devil, for God the Father was with him.
Jesus testifies that the Spirit of the Lord is upon me.
Here Acts the writer reminds us that he was anointed by the Holy
Ghost. It came upon him.
Look what it says in John chapter one verse 32 and 33.
This is the easy reading version.
It says then John said, I also do not know who the Messiah was,
meaning I didn't know who he was, but the one who sent me,
which is the Father by the Spirit to baptize with water
told me. So he heard this by the Spirit.
Because John is the greatest prophet, say the greatest
prophet, he was the greatest prophet.
And the anointing or the Holy Spirit would come upon the
prophet, the priest and the king.
So the Holy Spirit, when it came upon him, a tangible presence
and glory of God would come upon John.
And when that power or that anointing came on upon him, upon
him, it would leave. It would come, it would leave,
it would come, and when it come, it came.
It spoke to his Spirit and said to him, Now this he said, you
will see the Spirit come down. And what rest on a man?
It's going to rest. It's not going to come down and
come up and come down and come up.
It's going to come and it's going to stay.
I said it's going to stay. He said he is the one who will
baptize with the Holy Spirit. I have seen this happen, John
said. I saw the Spirit come down from
heaven like a dove and rest on this man and he was talking
about Jesus Christ. Come on, say Hallelujah,
Hallelujah. So the Spirit rested upon Jesus.
The Bible also declares in John 334 says this.
For he whom God has sent speaks the words of God, For he gives
the Spirit how? Without measure.
Which tells us when the Holy Spirit came upon or rested on
Jesus, the day John baptized him in the Jordan, and he came up
out of the water and the heavens opened up, the Spirit of God
came upon him and rested on him like a dove.
Then God the Father from heaven says, this is my Son, and whom
I'm well pleased. Again the Trinity, the Father.
The Son and the Holy. Spirit.
He anointed him, I said. He anointed him.
He fulfilled Isaiah's prophecy of his anointing, and that
anointing contained without measure, which means the perfect
completion of the Spirit and all that the Spirit of God has,
which are the seven spirits that are contained within the Holy
Ghost. Meaning the Spirit of the Lord,
the Spirit of wisdom, the Spirit of understanding, the Spirit of
counsel, the Spirit of strength, the Spirit of knowledge, and the
spirit of the fear of the Lord. Jesus was walking in the
perfection of this Holy Spirit upon him.
Hallelujah, Hallelujah. So Jesus acknowledges that this
Spirit of the Lord is upon him. Now this is really powerful
because you know this Scripture going to go back to Isaiah,
Isaiah had a lot to say about Jesus and him coming, and a lot
that he had to say about Jesus was always in the context of the
Messiah. Isaiah's teaching of him was
always the kingship. I said the kingship, although he
understood the king would be stricken smitten, he talked
about his form, that it would not be in such a stately that on
the outside we thought he was like the best looking thing
ever. He did not come like King
Absalom. King Absalom was a good looking
man, a good looking man. He did not come like this
gorgeous guy. In fact, if Jesus Walt, you
wouldn't even wreck. He is so common to look at.
He had no stately form about you're not going to go wow,
ladies, you would not go wow, that's a good looking man and
he's not he. He is not so good looking that
even a guy would go, now that's a good looking guy.
Most of you would just go by and if somebody said, what do you
think about Jesus? She'd be like, he's not my type.
Hallelujah. You know, now you may say, well,
why did the Lord make him not look so attractive?
Well, because of his actions, we're going to be so attractive
that then you add the natural appearance man, he was already
going to have problems when he walked and he did.
He's like, I know the hearts of man and they wanted to put him
on the throne that day and he had to he.
I'm not preaching this message. But I am seeing this message and
man, it sure will disrupt the church.
Jesus tried to not be famous. He worked extremely hard to not
be known and the more popular he he he became the more he began
to separate himself, not post more on social media.
Fact when he performed he didn't say man you need to post this he
would say. Don't tell anybody.
And all these people are trying to follow Jesus.
All right, That's another message.
Hallelujah. Now, I'm not saying there's
anything wrong with social media.
Social media is great. It has its IT has its platform,
but it's not for self promotion. OK, it's not for self promotion.
If you don't get a sense that man, we're glorifying God with
that, then shut it down. And you know it when you're when
you have when you start operating with the Holy Spirit
through his through the seven spirits that are that are
attached to who he has as one, then you'll begin to discern
seem like this person is always posting to try to give them
glory for what's going on and not God.
Don't take you long to figure that out.
All right, Isaiah Chapter 9, verse six.
You know this one, it says for a child will be born to us, a son
will be given to us and the government.
Oh, are you man, you're not ready for this.
Can you see it? Do you see it?
Do you already see it? Do you see it?
For a child will be born to us, a son will be given, and the
government will will what? What's it going to do?
The Holy Spirit will. Come on.
The government will rest on His shoulders, and His name will be
called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Eternal Father
Principe. There will be no end to the
increase of his government or of peace on the throne of David or
over His Kingdom to establish it, to uphold it with justice
and righteousness. From then on forevermore.
The zeal of the Lord will accomplish.
This is Isaiah 9. We jump over into Isaiah 11 and
we talk about this branch that comes out of the stem of Jesse
and that he will embody the the spirit of the Lord will come
upon him and the other six that follow after that.
And then it goes on and starts to declare verses 3-4 and five
of how he will rule as king. Amen.
Matthew Henry, commentator, says this in particular.
The spirit of government, by which he should be every way
fitted for the judgment which the Father has committed to him,
and given him authority to execute.
When we say the spirit of the Lord, we can equally say the
spirit of the government. That's shocking to most people
because again, we've been indoctrinated in our nation from
a letter that Thomas Jefferson wrote to a clergyman of a wall
of separation that would exist when they were writing the
Constitution that in essence, the government will never
mandate to the church who and how you are to believe.
We will never do that is what he was saying.
He never was saying So what you believe can never come into
government because if that were true then most of the writings
that they have you would have to tear down, which is why most
people are trying to tear it down and remove the name God
from everything that we have because Thomas never, in fact,
Thomas knew every person's belief will show up in
government. If you do not believe in a God,
then your government or its legislation will embody that
belief. This is why Thomas Jefferson
stripped in his Bible all of the miracles Jesus performed and
only included his social activity.
And he was concluding that if you just follow the social work
of Jesus, it is the perfect governing society where everyone
would have the right to pursue freedom, happy the pursuit of
happiness. We would be not at odds with one
another. He was concluding that the just
the general moral principles of governing that Jesus held can
create the perfect society. Why?
Because he's the King. The problem is man cannot do it,
especially our current government, because it removes
the necessary raw material, the necessary raw material that's
necessary in order for the Kingdom to manifest, and that is
the Holy Spirit and this element of Him, one of His attributes,
the Spirit of the Lord or the Spirit of government.
Only the Holy Spirit can rightly govern because the Holy Spirit
only does what the Son says, and the Son is the king, and where
the word of the King is, there's power.
But the Son doesn't do what he does.
He always does what the Father said, because the Father and the
Son are functioning like the original Adam was, to function
when God created the heavens and the earth.
I am the God of heaven, Adam, you are the God of this earth.
If you obey me, then you will live in a perfect society.
My Spirit is in you. I'll come down in the cool of
the day. There's no sin in your
environment as there's no sin in my environment.
So. Just show me you love me by
obeying me at my word, but if you don't, you'll die.
Be separated and that's what took place.
But when? Jesus came who's called the last
Adam. He has the record of the first
Adam and he says this is how the first Adam fell, failed.
He didn't obey God, which we'll get to it probably in a week or
so, that the foundation of the other five spirits so sandwiched
between the spirit of the Lord and the last one mentioned,
which is the spirit of the fear of the Lord.
The rest are contained because we'll see that the Bible says
where the fear of the Lord exists.
Then wisdom oh y'all don't want to hear Jesus functions so tight
in the fear of the Lord. That's right that it gave him
access to everything else. The Holy Spirit had everything
else. So he recognized upon my
shoulders is the Kingdom, the spirit of the Lord, the Lord.
Lord is not a religious word anyway.
Lord means supreme in authority. Just by that definition alone.
You should understand that when God said in the beginning, when
he said, when the Holy Spirit came upon it said this is my
beloved son, in whom how God anointed him.
We know this through our teachings is that anointing is
what you do to a king. So in essence, he said, I have
given him the spirit of my government, of what is supreme
in authority for all mankind. He operates under that
principle. Yes, Hallelujah.
So every time Jesus says the Spirit of the Lord, he's saying
the spirit of the government, of the Kingdom, of the King's
dominion, of the King's reign, of the word of the King.
That's what is upon, That's what rests on me.
Hallelujah. Are you hearing me?
Isaiah 42? One says this.
Behold my Servant, whom I uphold, my chosen one, and whom
my soul delights. I shall put my spirit upon him.
He will bring forth what justice to the nation's.
One translation says Gentiles, but it might as well say nations
because in God's context you have Israel and the Gentiles,
you have his chosen covenant nation and then the rest of the
nations of the world. And yet Jesus was bringing
justice to the nation. In essence, to the shock of
Peter and others, is that God was opening up his kingship and
his government to go beyond the natural boundaries of.
Israel. Hallelujah.
Hallelujah, I said. Hallelujah.
John 522 says this, for not even the Father judges anyone, but He
has given all judgment to the Son.
Why? Because he has the spirit of the
Lord. Jump down a few verses to John
527 it says this. And he gave him authority to
execute what judgment? Because he is the Son of Man.
In essence, he says the government of my Kingdom in the
earth should have always rested upon man.
Let us make man in our image according to our likeness.
And let them rule have dominion. Over the fish of the sea, birds
of the sky, over all the cattle, over all the earth, over every
creepy thing that creeps on the earth.
In essence, let the spirit of the Lord or the government rest
upon man. So the Son of Man had the spirit
of the Lord or the spirit of His government rest on his
shoulders, of which he can execute judgement, and He is the
only righteous, true king. Come on, can I get an Amen?
Look what Isaiah 32 one through 5 says.
Man, there's so much about our king in Isaiah.
Isaiah, behold, a king will reign righteously, and Princess
will rule justly. Are we going to get to these
people here in a second? Come on, you know who those
Princess are? Do you know who those Princess
are? You are?
So a king will reign righteously.
Why? Because he has the Spirit of the
Lord. Each will be like a refuge from
the wind and a shelter from the storm.
Like streams of water in a dry country, like the shade of a
huge rock in a parched land. Oh, my gosh, my King.
Then the eyes of those who see will not be blinded, and the
ears of those who hear will listen.
The mind of the hasty will discern the truth, and the
tongue of the stammerers will hasten to speak clearly.
No longer will the fool be called noble, or the road be
spoken of as generous. Oh, man, we'll break that down
at another time. But you understand the King will
reign righteously. The aspect of the Holy Ghost
when he came upon Jesus was to bring him the government of God
through man again in the earth. The Expositor Bible writes this
to Christians. We have been accustomed by the
use of the word comforter to associate the Spirit only with
the gentle and consoling influences of heaven.
It may seem strange to find his energy identified with the stern
rigor of the magistrate. In essence, this guy, this
writer is saying we're so, so used to this soft spoken Jesus
and that the Spirit of God is soft spoken.
You know he. Speaks to our inner man, and he
does, I get that, but we only associate him this way.
However, the Holy Spirit has this aspect about him and that
is the administrator of Kingdom policy, a magistrate, One who?
Enacts the policies of the king of the Kingdom.
And he does it with great force. This is why the king has a sword
in his mouth. I said he has a sword in his
mouth. Again, is Jesus the Prince of
Peace? Yes.
But did he bring peace on the earth?
Only To those who have called on the name of the Lord, they can
function in peace. But to the rest, he's brought
the same sword. And this sword brings division,
it brings conflict. In fact, Jesus said, do you
think that I've come to bring peace?
I have not come to bring. Peace I have come to divide.
In essence, he said. I have come to make it crystal
clear. The fool let.
Me. Go back and see how they said
that. The fool that you keep calling
noble and the rogue you keep calling is generous.
I know their behavior. I see them for who they are
because I bring the standard of the Kingdom.
Hallelujah. Come on, say Amen.
And you want him to be here. I mean, Jesus is not a pushover.
Jesus is not being duped. It's amazing how many people
think they're putting one over Jesus.
It's not happening. It's amazing of how many of
your, you know how your own children are.
How many parents do I have in here?
Have you? You know, when your kids think
they got something on you, they put something over on you and
you're like, I know what's happening, right?
Right. They put one over you.
I mean, you know, the the first time that you go to correct your
child and they're like, let's pray.
I need to ask you, you're like, oh, that's so sweet.
Wow, that's so sweet. They're doing it.
You know, they revert over to what they know to do because
they've been taught. And then it you're like so
enthralled that they would go to God, you're like, wow in the
world. Could I even spank the child
now? Or, you know, go any further
correction, let's just deal with this.
But then they realized that Ave. keeps me from this.
Come on. And then you're like, you know,
I've told you before when I decided one time I just wanted
to talk back to my mom. I use this technique, You know,
I would say things to her and then I would throw this two
letter, you know, this phrase to her.
Just kidding. I'm just kidding.
And I don't mean it. I'm kidding.
No disrespect to you. This is just a joke.
And if it's just a joke, we can laugh about it, right?
Well, I probably did it three or four times.
Then my mom called me on it. She says no, you're not kidding.
You actually mean it, but you're following up with a.
Just kidding. If you do it again, you're going
to get this, this, this, this, this.
I mean, it was not this. It was.
It's going to at least hit the five, right?
One to include a weapon and if anywhere on the five it include
dad got to be a part of the spanking process.
That's the problem. That is a problem that was
problematic. OK.
That was real deal because I could handle my mom's weapons at
some point. My dad's Nah I just as soon it
never occurs. Not because he beat me.
He was just stronger. There's something about a father
correcting. So husbands, don't let your
wives do it all. Be a man.
Show yourself a man and. Correct, your children, all
right. Praise the Lord, and when
necessary, the avenue that brings training.
It's called the glutus maximus, right?
Hallelujah. Isaiah chapter 2, verses 2
through 4 says this. Now it will come about that in
the last days. Oh, I love this.
This just gets me jacked. It will come about in the last
days, the mountain of the house. And now we're talking mountain.
We're talking government. We're not talking about a real
physical mountain. We're talking about a
government. So in essence, the government of
the Lord or the Lord and his government, the Kingdom will be
established as the what Chief of the mountains?
I will be raised above the. Hills and all the nations will
stream to it, and many people will come and say, come, let us
go before the mountain of the Lord, let us go to the Kingdom,
let us go to. The King of Kings.
To the House of the God of Jacob, which is Israel.
That's why Israel and I don't care what conflicts happening
today, people, Israel will not be overtaken.
They're going to have conflict. They're going to be bombarded.
In fact, there's going to come a time that they're going to
invade half of it. But before they take over the
city Jerusalem, Jesus will show back up physically in the
planet. The king will not let Israel be
taken. It will never happen ever again.
Ever. OK, that he they says, let us
come to the mountain of the Lord, to come to the House of
the God of Jacob, that he may what teach us concerning his
ways, that we may walk in his past.
For the law will go forth from Zion, and the word of the Lord
from Jerusalem, and he will judge between the nations, and
will render decisions for many people.
And they will hammer their swords into plowshares and their
Spears into pruning hooks. Nation will not lift up sword
against nation, and never again will they learn war.
Wow, can somebody say Amen? Only Jesus can establish peace.
On Earth. So your ideal, as much as you
want it, man, we just want to have peace on earth.
So you're a follower of Jesus. That what you're telling me
you're doing the Kingdom cause? Because if you're not doing the
Kingdom cause, all of your peace efforts are futile.
But man, they raise a lot of money from the world and they
deceive a lot of people. All right.
So notice that they want to run to the Kingdom and learn of its
ways. You know what's amazing is that
you can run and learn of its ways.
Now when you come to Zion, Zion is not only Jerusalem, but it's
also a type and shadow of His church.
And in this current dispensation, as a king use of
the king, you should want to run to the House of the Lord,
because again, the Spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him.
A child will be born, a son will be given, and the government
shall rest on his shoulders. The shoulders are contained in
the body. Jesus is the head of the church.
So we are the ambassadors who are assembling together to hear
from the home country through the gifts He has given the
Church to train us in the ways of His Kingdom so that we can be
the highest of all mountains right now.
The what? Oh y'all, the one you
understand. Delegates are going to hit
Chicago this week so that they can get in rooms and talk about
how their policies, their view, their vision for this nation,
how they can take it over and cause the mountain called the
United States of America to be in their image.
What they, the Republican Party has already done theirs.
Now the Democrat are doing theirs and they're saying we
will. This is the image of our
mountain. We want it to look like this.
But right now we are assembling together and we can say we
actually are on the highest mountain.
We actually have the mountain that will rise above the
Republican mountain, above the Democratic mountain, above any
other mountain that could ever above China's mountain, above
Russia's mountain, above Europe's mountain mountain.
You are on the highest mountain. And the only reason why that
mountain is not showing itself more is because people are
complacent with going to heaven when they die.
They're. Going to say the Spirit of the
Lord is upon them and know nothing about his Kingdom.
Well, if the Spirit of the Lord is upon you, then as a good
ambassador you would run to Zion and learn of His ways.
And those who are you know as well as I do you ready for this.
Alexander McLaren said these words.
The prophet saw not all the wonders of perfect human
character which that indwelling spirit would bring to the
realization in him, but what he saw was indispensable to the
perfect King, and was at all events an arc of the mighty
circle of perfection which has now been revealed in the life of
Jesus. The possibilities of humanity
under the influence of the Divine Spirit are revealed here
no less than the actuality of the Messiah's character.
What Jesus is, he gives to his subjects.
To become by the indwelling in them of the spirit of life,
which was in Him in essence. God has empowered us with the
same Spirit. The same spirit.
And what has the church done? The church has only They only
want to see the Holy Spirit if they even welcome me.
They only want to see him as. The gentle talker, the
comforter. Because we're in so much trouble
down here, you know, we're really just center saved by
grace. It's tough, it's hard, but you
know, I know that I'm going to go to heaven when I die.
And he comforts me because, you know, we're going to get out one
day. He comforts me.
Or they recognize that there's a language and they come not
really for the power, but more for the language.
But then when they get the language they want the.
Gifts that are associated with it.
So the Holy Spirit now is really about the gifts and they just
don't want tongues and interpretation.
They really want the gifts of the power.
When we say power, we're talking about the miraculous things that
take place, the gifts of faith, the gift of faith, the gifts of
healing and the working of miracles.
Those gifts that will raise the dead, that will cause blind eyes
to see, that will call lame to walk.
I mean, we're like, we want this or we want that word of
knowledge so that we are really no more in motive different than
those who listen to other spirits and we call them
fortune. Tellers because that's but when
we read that the spirit of the Lord look how God anointed Jesus
of Nazareth who went around doing good right how God
anointed him with the Holy Spirit and power.
The word power there dunamis it still, it has the context
because we understand that the spirit of the Lord is the spirit
of his government. In essence, when he was
anointed, it was a King's anointing and he was anointed
with the Holy Spirit and power or authority.
Because the minute you get up underneath the King's anointing,
then the other aspects are part of that comes with the authority
of the government of God. And what he's saying is he's
saying. Christ the King, who had
perfection of the Spirit without measure, will give to us in
measure, meaning we can now aspect of which those seven
spirits of the Holy Spirit can begin to function in and through
us, because the same Spirit that raised Christ from the dead
lives in US and comes upon us. It rests on us.
It does not withdraw itself. We have that particular power,
and if we'll follow its leading, then we have access, because
what we actually have is the authority of the believer first,
or the mandate of kingship. We've been given back rulership
in the earth to represent the king who sits on the throne of
which we've been assigned in his same sea, because we've been
raised up and seated together with him in Christ.
Which means then, according to first Timothy 6:15, which he
will bring about his proper time, right?
He who is blessed and only sovereign, the King of and the
Lord of. So when the Spirit of the Lord
came upon you, it was to give you the power and the authority
of a king. You are God's government in the
earth. In essence, you are the final
say on the matter. You are.
And when Jesus was in the earth, He was the final say on the
matter. I said He was the final say on
the matter because we'll see in Scripture because He had access
to wisdom and understanding when people came towards him and says
this woman was caught in adultery.
The spirit of understanding, when he was in a room and all of
a sudden there were people in the corner and a guy comes
through the roof. That's lame.
Because of the spirit of understanding, he could say, why
do you say to yourself, because I have the spirit.
I have the final say on this thing.
I have the final say on the because I the spirit of the
government is upon me. The final say in the earth is
mine. I said the spirit of the Lord is
upon me. The spirit of government is a
The final say is mine. The final say is mine.
The final say is yours. Cancer doesn't have the final
say. Your bank account doesn't have
the final say. Your current, current trial
doesn't have the final say, but because you have the greater
Spirit, you have the Holy Spirit.
You hold him, house him, He's rests on you.
You have access to the final say.
Of the Kingdom of God in the earth.
Let's pray. Father, we love you and we honor
you. We thank you.
You're the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords.
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