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The, in these morning sessions, I want to unveil the mystery of
the Kingdom. The Mystery of the Kingdom I
have learned to discover this over my years, now 2009 was when
I was originally first introduced to the kingdom
message and I have noticed this in Believers that to whatever
degree the kingdom becomes revealed is what determines the
level of the Kingdom that you live.
So the capacity of Kingdom life, that you live will never exceed
the In of the mystery. I've watched people try to
inform themselves of the kingdom and have failed.
But the ones that grasp, the kingdom of God, are those that
yield to the Revelation capacity of the kingdom and there is a
mystery to the kingdom of God. And in John chapter 3, Jesus is
approached by a religious leader named Nicodemus.
And in verse 1, it says there was a man named Nicodemus, a
Jewish Religious leader, who was a Pharisee after dark one
evening. He came to speak with Jesus
Rabbi. He said we all know that God has
sent you to teach us your miraculous.
Signs are evidence that God is with you.
Your miraculous signs are evidence.
There proof that God is with you.
Notice that he's speaking number one that he's heard the teaching
and number two, he's seen the Natural and operation.
He's seen the signs and wonders. He's seen the Miracles.
He seen the demons, cast out, the body's healed, the bod dead
bodies raised. He's seen these wonderful size
that we know were exhibited through Jesus ministry on a
constant basis everywhere. He went, he was bringing Heaven
to Earth and he was revealing the supernatural into the
natural. He was making the Unseen seen.
And so he's able to see tangible evidence real time, real life
proof that God is with you. There's something different
about you. Don't, you know, our lives as
Kingdom citizens, ought to be distinguished.
There ought to be a contrast between our lives.
There ought to be a separation. There ought to be a Line in the
Sand. There ought to be something
differentiating you between the world, the way you respond to
Two challenges and issues on to be different than the way the
world responds. The way the world carries about
themselves, what they put their value and their interest, in
their opinions, and their agendas what they talk about.
Think about look at their attitudes and all these
different ways. We ought to be distinguished.
Amen. And so, he's recognizing this
about Jesus. There is something different
about you. And Jesus replies in verse 3.
This is where we're going to kind of camp and break this
down, and hopefully, over these next several weeks, really begin
to leave a deposit here. Jesus replied.
He said, I tell you the truth, unless you are born again.
Everyone say born again. You cannot see the kingdom of
God. Now, he's just identified of
heard your teachings. I've seen tangible proof, I've
seen the signs and wonders, I've seen the Miracles, I've
witnessed these things. I've been in the audience, I've
been a bystander. I've been able to stand back and
say, even in all, wow, there is something about this man.
Don't you know that happen multiple times in Jesus
ministry. Now people responded with all to
his teaching, who is this man that he ministers and teachers
with such Authority that they heave it?
Went to his own Hometown. In Mark chapter 6, the town of
Nazareth. And it says that they heard the
powerful teaching and that they saw the miracles signs and
wonders and yet still became offended and said, but isn't he
the Carpenter's son? Not only live with his brothers
and sisters, isn't he from Nazareth?
And they couldn't reconcile what he was doing with who he was in.
The natural says that they became offended because of their
unbelief. If it says he was able to do no
Mighty work there except heal a few sick people, the only
occurrence that we have where Jesus wasn't able to produce the
the signs and the wonders in the totality that he did.
In many other places says he healed, all kinds of sickness.
All kinds of does. He never came into a situation
where he wasn't able to perform and able to operate in the
Supernatural and the miraculous he was limited in this capacity.
Not because he was off that day. Not because he didn't have his
Wheaties, not because he would didn't wake up on the right side
of the bed because of their lack of receptivity to his ministry.
But yet they saw the Miracles and they heard the teachings.
There's this matter of hearing and seeing that Jesus
continually addresses in his ministry and that will find even
in the Epistles, Paul is addressing this matter of
hearing and seeing and it will either your hearing and seeing
will either increase or limit your ability to operate in the
kingdom of God. You're hearing in your seeing
will either increase or limit your ability to operate in the
kingdom of God? To what degree you are able to
hear to what degree you are. Able to see determines the
measure of the Kingdom, that will be exhibited in your life.
And so what ministered, this message.
Now, you know, going on 14, 15 years, I've heard it ministered
now for, for such time and it seems that, no matter how many
verses I use, no matter how much evidence, I bring no matter even
how much demonstration of the Kingdom, we can see in the
miraculous, if we don't understand these concepts of
hearing and seeing, We're going to completely miss the kingdom
of God. And we're going to be forced to
resort to a mere bystander. May be applauding a miracle, you
know, it's possible to see a miracle yet not be changed by
one. Get it leaves.
No mark on your life yet it leaves you as Pastor Ronnie just
said the same as you were before.
People go to church and hear Dynamic messages, people get to
see these signs and wonders many times we think.
Oh, if you would just give me a sign.
Oh, if I would just receive the healing in my bio.
If I would just have this Deliverance or few and heal my
marriage or restore this or deliver that, that I would, I
would believe you and I would follow you.
And I would see the king. Adam of God in totality of my
life, but that's just not a true statement.
You can't get much more tangible than Jesus.
Walking the Earth. The word becoming flesh dwelling
Among Us. You can't get more tangible,
then God putting himself in flesh and literally being
present on this planet and there are people Believers still
today. That think we would be better
off if Jesus came and walked the Earth and they don't have any
understanding that the spirit of God lives inside of you.
You haven't been Better than they had it.
We read the Bible and we wish we could see what Abraham saw.
We wish we can see what it moves its on.
We wish we could see what David song.
We Wish we can see with the disciples and the apostles saw
And you're going to get to heaven, you're going to ask
David what it was like to slay Goliath and you're going to ask
Moses what it was like to part the rivers and you're going to
ask you, you know, all these great prophets and and people
that God used throughout the word of God and they're going to
look at you say, I want to know what it was like to have the
Holy Spirit dwelling inside of you.
Jesus wasn't joking when he said, it's to your advantage
that I go, you're better off without me because now my spirit
can come and reside with you. The helper the comforter the
intercessor. The standby can come live and
dwell in abide with you and he will remain with you forever.
Jesus. Why do we look back on the past?
With greater fervor than we do. What is yet ahead in our future?
It's because we are hearing and we are seeing Jesus says that a
marker. A characteristic of a born again
person is this they see the kingdom of God.
I wonder if we use the term born again, the same way Jesus, used
it here in John chapter 3. This is what I've learned about
Christianity and religion. And even just church-going, this
is Kingdom rise, right? Right.
This is Kingdom rides where rising to another level.
We are coming up in our thinking.
We're coming out of just status quo and just barely look, here's
the thing. If the enemy can't keep you out
of the Kingdom, he will get you to live its lowest form
possible. He wants you to live at the
lowest entry level State possible.
And so what happens is what we fail to understand?
We usually redefined what we fail to understand, we'd usually
redefined we lower the standard of the term and I think Born
Again is one of those terms. There's many of them that
without the kingdom lens, without the kingdom framework
without seeing it. Through the lens of the kingdom
of God, we will redefine it and lower it down to praying a
Prayer of Salvation. Making entrance into a kingdom
only waiting as Pastor Rowdy said the entirety of Our Lives
until we die and go to be with him in heaven, only to find out
that we wasted a born-again life, A Renewed life, I redeemed
life, a restored life on the earth, having the same measure
the same capacity, The Same Spirit that raised Christ from
the dead dwelling in, you wasting away.
No, I Think Jesus had a different standard for this term
born again. Then you and I this word, c
means this. It means to know become aware
behold, understand and experience.
It means to know become aware behold, understand.
And experience the kingdom of God although invisible is made
known in the visible. Jesus prayed in Matthew chapter
6. Let's let your kingdom.
Come he never designed his kingdom to remain in the
invisible. It starts in The Invisible but
it ought to be transferred into the visible by Kingdom.
Citizens, that walk about daily bringing his will into this in
This realm into this world into this life.
You and I are confronted daily with opportunities, to bring the
Unseen into the seen you and I we are never at a shortage of
opportunities. To bring the kingdom to Earth.
Not in 2023. Not in the United States of
America, not in a day where every standard of the word is
challenge, question and degraded.
You and I have plenty of opportunities to make the
kingdom of God, known do our conversations through our
actions, through our attitude, through our responses.
Not just in the miraculous, but hey, even in the culture.
Culture, this is what culture is culture.
Is when action becomes reaction, I'll say that again, culture is
when action becomes reaction. Meaning it's the automatic
natural response and you and I have plenty of opportunities to
respond either by the culture of the world or by the culture of
the Kingdom. There's no shortage of
opportunities. It's not a matter of, if it's a
matter of will we, when we, how we demonstrate the kingdom of
God, in our lives, Nicodemus has seen the kingdom of God.
Demonstrated he's heard the kingdom of God ministered, and,
and taught dynamically. But yet Jesus makes this weird
statements in response unless you're born again.
You do not even have the capacity to see, to know, to
become aware, to behold, to understand or experience the
kingdom of God. Jesus is saying this, it should
be common for born-again believers.
To see, no demonstrate experience, behold the kingdom
of God in essence, it should be more natural for you to live
according to the kingdom than, according to the world.
Should be more natural to perceive things, according to
the kingdom of God. And the world's way of doing
things, the culture of the Kingdom should be your natural
response, that should not just be the action, it should be the
reaction. You know, one thing that was
telling three years ago was the church's reaction to a pandemic
to crisis to struggle to challenge to opposition.
Many Believers are only one crisis away from walking away
from everything. They say they stand on and
that's too much of a reality and that's why we have Kingdom rise
conferences. One crisis away.
You don't find about what someone's made of in Comfort.
You don't even know what you're made of until shot challenge
shows up. You don't even know what you got
until crisis, pulls. And makes a demand on what's
inside of you. We have a world today that will
give everything to live in Comfort.
Comfort and convenience are the name of the game.
Live as simple as quiet as, as, in the background in the shadows
is possible. When we are called to be taking
by violent Force, The kingdom suffers violence and the
violent. Take it by force.
We should be advancing and offensive church has become
defensive. We found ourselves shuttered up
indoors rather than bombarding. The gates of hell and tearing it
down, Matthew chapter, 16, Jesus mentions the church.
He says, you will attack the gates of hell and it cannot
Prevail against you. No weapon formed against you can
prosper. I am going to start preaching.
There might flip this thing around.
Amen. No, he's saying it should be
common tommen. Regular practice natural for the
believer. The born-again believer.
The truly, According To Jesus standard of Born Again.
To see, no experience, behold the kingdom of God, Jesus sets
the expectation that the Born Again, life should be marked by
a kingdom experienced. Jesus sets, the expectation that
the board again, life should be marked by a kingdom experience
and every time someone comes into contact with you, they come
in contact with the kingdom. Paul said I'm an ambassador for
chains ambassadors, don't have opinions.
Come on. If people are asking you, what
do you think about this and what do you think about that in your
still spewing your opinion? There might be more of the world
and you than the kingdom. This should be the natural
reaction. I'll tell you what my king says.
Got to be very careful with these things because we are
Kingdom ambassadors. Give him my opinion is worth as
much as yours. Nothing.
But my king, my Kings got a
word, my Kings got a law, my King has got a constitution, my
King has got a confident, like he's got an agreement, a binding
contract. So we got to order these things.
No, we got to understand that being born again, is an
invitation to discovery of what's ahead, not just realizing
what we've left behind. Say that again, being born
again, is an invitation into discovery of what's ahead.
Not just the realization of what we left behind.
Sobering thought. If you ask a Believer today, a
Christian. What have you been saved from?
Oh, they can tell you all kinds of stuff.
But if you ask that same believer, now what have you been
saved for? All of a sudden is crickets, or
you might get the typical answer.
Heaven. Take us all the way to the end.
Now, I don't believe his Born Again citizens in the kingdom of
God. We should have a greater
realization of what we were set free from than what we've been
set free for Jesus came to point us forward, not just a mirror
Looking Backward. I'm thankful for the grace of
God, the mercy of God, the delivering power of God, the
Redemption of God, the restoration of God, I'm thankful
for the thing that he brought me out of Darkness into light, but
I want to know what's in the light.
He brought me out of death into life but I want to know what's
in life. I don't want to just be we are
more acquainted with what we got us out of.
No wonder it's so easy that we fall back into it.
We're more familiar with what he's delivered us from that.
What he's delivered us for and delivered us into.
We've gotta have a forward-thinking, born-again a
forward thinking. What am I pressing on to Ward?
I forget the things that I that lie behind, I'm pressing toward
the Mark, I'm pressing in. I'm enduring, I'm persevering
I'm pushing through, I'm overcoming No, we got to have
the standard that Jesus set for being born.
Again, there's a mystery of the kingdom of God.
He says, being born again, means that you can see the kingdom of
God Nicodemus responds in verse 4.
He says, what do you mean? How can an old man go back into
his mother's womb and be born again?
What a weird thing to say, like, even if you're thinking it just
thinking, he'll need to vocalize that far.
We don't you said the quiet part out loud, Nicodemus.
We don't need to say that the first five Jesus response.
I assure you he says this no one can enter everyone say, enter
the kingdom of God without being born of water and the spirit
humans can only reproduce human life but the holy spirit gives
birth to Spirit real life. He says this, don't be surprised
when I say you must be born again.
The wind blows wherever it wants just as you can hear the wind.
So we can hear something. But can't tell where it comes
from or where it is going. So you can't explain how people
are born of the spirit. And verse 9 Nicodemus is just
getting more confused through this conversation.
He says, how are these things possible?
I love Jesus response. You're a respected Jewish
teacher like your the elite. Your this is the top dogs, right
here. I shouldn't have to be
explaining this to you, but he's going deeper to show Nicodemus.
You haven't made any entrance at all that you've know and, you
know, and, you know, and you have filled your head with
knowledge. But you have failed to filled
your spirit with Revelation. And this is the thing about the
mystery of the kingdom of God. You cannot inform someone of the
Kingdom. You can only reveal the kingdom.
Matthew 16, Jesus proves this When he had the conversation
with the disciples who do men say that I am and the first few
answers gave him a lot of information.
Well you one of the prophets Elijah, maybe John the Baptist
but then Peter speaks up, right? But unction of the Holy Spirit,
he says what you are the Messiah, the Son of the Living
God. And Jesus quickly, lets them
know, flesh and blood has not told you this.
This is not something you were informed of this is something by
my Father in Heaven, through the spirit has revealed to you.
The mysteries of the kingdom are not informed.
They are revealed. The mysteries of the kingdom are
not discovered through information, they're discovered
through Revelation. And so if you lean on or if you
value the wrong things such as Nicodemus, you're going to find
yourself more and more perplexed.
You're going to find how is this possible?
How can these things be? And we know Believers that even
when we try to just cover the basics, just the surface stuff,
they get locked up because they're relying on information,
not Revelation by the Word of God.
There's a hearing and a seeing that we're going to find out.
Jesus says you have ears to hear but you don't hear you have eyes
to see but you don't see and we have to fix this problem in the
church. Otherwise we're going to keep.
Keep going through religious practice, go to our church
services, jerking Jiggle. Have our moments have are
emotional times but yet not be redeemed restored any different.
We're gonna not be changed in the brain and remain the same
churches full every weekend. They have people in
congregations that aren't gaining any advancement.
In the kingdom of God, they have resulted to Resort it to and
treat level Christianity. There is a kingdom that is the
threat to Darkness. There is a kingdom that is a
threat to the stronghold of the enemy.
There is a kingdom that will war against the gates of hell and
tear them down but it's not entry level.
It's not it's not waiting and standing by for Jesus to come
back to the clouds. It's not praying to Jesus.
Every time you have a problem, right?
Without recognizing I have the authority, I have the power.
My words, his word in my mouth is just as powerful as his words
in his mouth. I can speak to the thing.
I love the instance where you know, Jesus shows up in the
synagogue and a demon-possessed person shows up and comes down
and throws himself down at Jesus.
When the people gathered at the synagogue all the time.
Why didn't that demon possessed me and get cast out any other
time. Any other service?
Because it's not information, that's going to overthrow the
kingdom of darkness, its Revelation when you get this in
your spirit. Not just fill our notebooks and
fill our heads. We live Pete, we have people, we
have Christians today, full notebooks and empty lives Come
on, guys. We let the Bible tells us we're
going to Heap up for ourselves teachers, guys.
In these last days, we're not going to have a shortage of
teaching that we got more than this planet has ever had.
We've got every podcast and for you to every channel, every
radio station, every TV station. We got Christian television
networks. Not just the show.
We own the entire stinking Network.
Its Global going around, the world printing as much as we
want. But we've got way more, but I'm
concerned that we're doing far less.
I don't know that we're doing better with the overindulgence
that we have. Heard of the missionary took
bottles over to China, opened up the box, and they just throw
themselves, just ripping at the. Some of them were only
successful to get a page of the Bible and they would hold that
page, all wrinkled and crumpled for years reading the one page
of the Bible. I think sometimes we lose the
value when we have over too much easily, acquired, No, we've got
to gain a value for the things of the Kingdom.
Once again, we've got to turn, our hearing are seeing into
something more than just religious practice.
We've got to turn our hearing and are seeing more than just
sitting in a few look, checking our clocks.
We've got to turn our Hearing in are seeing more than just
jotting down, a few notes, but not applying the word, hiding
the word in my heart that I might not sin against you.
This Kingdom Rises, right? Let's look at this mystery.
Romans chapter 11. Give you a few verses here.
It's a mystery. How is it that we could be?
Have so much access. But yet, still miss what's right
in front of us. Romans 11:25, I do not desire
Brethren that you should be ignorant of this mystery.
Once a mystery lest you should be wise in your own opinion.
The blindness in part has happened to Israel until the
fullness of the Gentiles has come Paul writes.
I do not want you to be ignorant of this mystery Ephesians
chapter 1. Ephesians chapter 1 and verse 7.
In him, we have Redemption through his blood, the
Forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his
grace that he richly poured out on us with all wisdom and
understanding he made known to us.
Everyone say it, the mystery of his will according to his good
pleasure that he purposed in Christ as a plan, for the right
time to bring everything. Together in Christ, both things
in heaven and things on earth in him, Colossians chapter 1.
Colossians chapter 1. And verse 24, I now rejoice in
my sufferings for you, fill up in my flesh, what is lacking in
the afflictions of Christ? For the sake of his body, which
is the Church of which I became a minister according to the
stewardship from God, which was given to me for you to fulfill
the word of God, verse 26, the mystery, every once a mystery,
which has been hidden, That's interesting.
Why would he hide it? The mystery which has been
hidden from ages and from Generations.
But now has been revealed, not informed.
Revealed. Will say, well, if it's been
revealed, why don't we all see it?
Because you have to yield to Revelation yielding.
The Revelation is much different than yielding to information.
That's what we're going to dive into.
It says that it has now been revealed to his Saints, verse
27, to them. God, willed, to make known.
What's that? Tell me that I'm not missing the
Revelation because God's with holding something I'm not
missing the Revelation because God doesn't want me to see it
because he's playing this hide and go seek this cat and mouse
game of Catch Me. If You Can, you know, dangling,
it out and do not yet know, there's something on our end,
something on our part that either Clues Us in or keeps us
on the outside. Of this mystery.
God willed to make known what are the riches of the glory of
this mystery, among the Gentiles, which is Christ in.
You the hope of glory reading, this in the passion, translation
versus beginning with verse 25, this is the very reason I've
been made a minister by the authority of God and a servant
to his body so that in his detailed plan, I would fully
equip you It's the word of God. I'm so thankful of my legacy of
my Heritage attending. Rhema Bible training College,
when I did, and the value, they have for the word of God
understanding that we are developing ministers.
Not just to fill a Pulpit, not just to answer a vocation, not
just to collect a paycheck, not just to gain an occupation or go
into Ministry. This was a calling Upon Our
Lives. This was an assignment that
Outrun it I'll never be satisfied, doing anything else?
But the power of it is in this, I fill this Pulpit.
I operate in my role as a pastor to equip people with the word of
God, equipping, the Saints for the work of ministry.
Not collecting a check. I'm not appeasing people.
I'm not saying things to, please.
People are gaining crowd. Keep a crowd, get a crowd, those
things, don't matter to me. I preach for one reason and one
reason alone by the authority of God, a servant to the body, that
is detailed plan. I would fulfill, I would fully
equip you with the word of God and that's what Paul said was
his mission. That was his assignment.
He says there is a Divine mystery. a secret surprise that
has been concealed from the world for Generations but now
it's being revealed unfolded and manifested for every holy
believer to experience living within you is the Christ who
floods you with the expectation of Glory this mystery of Christ
embedded Within In US becomes a Heavenly Treasure Chest, every
once a treasure chest of Hope, filled with the riches of Glory
for his people and God wants everyone to know it.
God wants everyone to know it. He wants.
You say that with me. Stay God wants me to know the
mystery. Say it again, say God wants me
to know the mystery, he's not hiding it from you, he's hiding
it for you. He's not withholding, you know.
Member that was the, the nature of the stake in Genesis chapter
3 questioning and challenging than Picture of God.
God is withholding something from did God.
Surely say. No, he knows that if you eat of
the fruit of that tree you'll become like him.
Knowing good. He's keeping something from you.
We've all either been in the state ourselves or know someone
that has been that has made this statement.
I know there's more come on. If that's you at any point in
your life, your walk with the Lord use you made the there's
got to be more, there's got to be more Pastor Daryl just said
that last night is own personal testimony, as a young college
student in Tennessee. That know, there's got to be
more than just good living by this life, trying to be as good
of a person as I can win as many people to Christ as I can.
There's gotta be more. And guess what God is saying?
There is more and I've hidden it for you and there is a way for
you to tap into the Revelation power.
So you won't just merely be informed of my kingdom.
You will be empowered in the Kingdom to literally walk it
out, demonstrate it live, it out.
But it's only going to come through revelation.
The word mystery literally means this the Greek word mystery
here, it means a secret thing. It means a hidden thing.
A secret thing, a hidden thing. We already made this statement
and mystery is not discovered through information, it is
discovered through revelation. And if I understand truly that
the degree of the Kingdom being exhibited in my life, the
capacity to which I live the kingdom life is directly,
directly correlates it is either enhanced or limited by my
ability to see this mystery than I want to go after this mystery
with everything that I have. I want to go after this mystery.
I don't ever want to come to church just going through the
motions. I don't ever want to sit in a
conference, listen to a podcast. Put the word of God on.
I never want to go into my daily devotion time with just casual
passive. Just trying to check a box and
get it done. I will never approach it.
That way, again, there's gonna have to be an urgency.
There's gonna have to be an intentionality.
There's gonna have to be a fervency about which we Honor
value in go after the word of God, it has to be a treasure.
It has to be a treasure Matthew chapter 13.
I'm going to Pace myself, because I've got three sessions
to build on this. He says, you can't even see the
kingdom of God unless you're born again.
Noting that being born again, ought to be marked by seeing
hearing and entering into his kingdom.
Matthew Chapter 13. The parable of the sower.
Jesus says that, if you don't understand this Parable, you
won't understand all the Parables.
Any other Parables, it's a very important concept and principle
and element that he's trying to help get across in how we
receive the word of God. And how we receive here, see
this mystery that we're talking about.
And up through verse 9, Jesus is talking to the multitudes, he's
talking to the multitudes and he makes a statement, you know,
regarding a soldier goes to, so the word of God, right?
We know that he sews the seed on four different types of ground.
This is Kingdom rise. I know that, you know, this, you
got the Stony ground, the thorny ground.
You got the one that starts to bring forth, but it gets, you
know, burned up by the sunlight and the elements and all those
things and then you got the good soil, the good ground now,
Becomes productive. It reaps the Harvest thirty
sixty, and a hundredfold, right? We know this.
Well, look at this, in verse 10, Verses 1 through 9, he gives the
parable verse 10 and the disciples came and said to him.
Why do you speak to them in parables?
Why do you speak to them in Parables?
This is Jesus response. He answered and said to them
because it has been given to you to know.
Here it is. The Mysteries.
Everyone say, Mysteries, the mysteries of the kingdom of
heaven, but watch this, he says, but to them, It has not to you.
It's been given the capacity to know the Mysteries what the
secret things. Those hidden things.
Those things that are not easily received easily just laying
around for anyone to come. Pick it up.
It's amazing that Jesus would draw a line here, the the
inclusive Jesus, right? The everybody's allowed, the all
accepting the all loving. Jesus draws, a line of says
there's an us and then there's a them and you have found your way
on the side of the US conversation.
He just got done preaching to a multitude.
A multitude could be thousands, tens of thousands of people and
his disciples Those closest to him.
Come and say, why do you talk to them in these parables?
Now for the longest time I preached and I understood it
this way and there's an element of truth to it.
That Jesus used Parables as a way to illustrate unseen things
and that's a true statements that teaching element.
But Jesus actually reveals a deeper thinking, a deeper
understanding of why these Parables were such a useful tool
to his. And he says this, I was actually
using a parable to conceal a thing to hide a thing.
To keep something a mystery. Again, this is the all inclusive
Jesus. Jesus wanted to get his message
out, he sure did but he was also careful of how he portrayed in
how he delivered it. And in such a way that unless
you desire to know you wouldn't know and this is this is what
Jesus did with Parables. If you don't want to know, I'll
make sure you don't know. And this is what we're going to
spend some time, just discovering.
If you don't want to know, he'll make sure you don't know.
And it's actually guys it's actually the mercy of God
because the second you know, you become accountable for what, you
know. It's actually him withholding
and saying I'm going to hold this back because I know you're
not ready to say, yes, you're not ready to yield, you're not
ready to respond in like manner. You're not even told his
disciples one time. There's one there's More things.
I would love to share with you. But you can't, it's my mercy
upon your life that I don't burn burden you with this and put
this upon you. When you can't bear these things
multitude can't bear it. But to you, he says to you, it's
been given To know the Mysteries to know the mystery.
Say that say I can know. The Mysteries say I will know
the mistress. He says in verse 12, here it is
for whoever has to him, more will be given And he will have
an abundance, doesn't that doesn't sound fair, does it?
He goes on to say, whoever does not have gets worse.
Even what he has will be taken. This is a very weird system.
The one that has Will be given more and it's very clear not
just to meet a threshold. He will have an abundance a
large Supply never in life. Would you like to live your
life, never lacking Revelation, knowing the will of God and
abundance. This is what we've been
preaching. All year at Valdosta Interfaith
Church Valdosta. This is the year of abundant
clarity. It's not just enough to get me
over not just barely cutting it or abundance of clay.
Am I right? Have we been ministering?
This guy. So my Valdosta people and in the
house we've been ministering, we will know clearly.
No no guessing. No wondering, no, hoping no
wishing taking a chance. We will know abundantly with
Clarity. The revealed will of God.
But to him, who doesn't have. The all-loving god.
That even what he doesn't have. Will be taken away.
It's a perplexing verse. It doesn't make sense.
If he doesn't have how can he do to, how can something be taken
away? What's he taking away?
If he doesn't have whoever has to him, more will be given, and
he will have abundance. Whoever does not have.
Even what he has will be taken away from him.
Therefore, you know, when you see the word, therefore, you got
to find out what it's there for. Therefore, I speak to them in
Parables because seeing they do not see and hearing they do not
hear you saying, I can't make it plain.
I can't just leave it on the surface.
He put it this way in another location.
He said I don't cast Pearls Before Swine, I don't take
something valuable. Meaning this, if you won't honor
the value, I'm not giving you a discount.
You ever try to buy someone something from someone where
they knew the value understood the worth of something and
they're not budging, they're not coming off.
There's no bargaining. There's no, if it's not that
valuable to you than pass you on by other, somebody will see the
Worthen. See when you discover your words
will stop giving people discounts, okay, Jesus knew the
worth He said I this is too valuable to just leave on the
surface. There's this, this is there's
too much worse than this. Just leave it laying around.
Casually for a casual, passerby to come by.
No, you're going to have to show some intentionality.
And if you have the urgency, you'll be given more and you'll
be, you'll have an abundance. but here's the thing, if you
don't have the want to Then even what you have will be taken
away. What does that mean?
That you'll even lose the capacity to hear If you want
here, then you'll eventually not even be able to hear.
And he describes this and he actually says this is actually
prophetically spoken by Isaiah. Verse 14.
Hearing you will hear and shall not understand.
Seeing you will see and not perceive for the hearts of this.
People have grown dull. That means not only, not only
that, you won't hear, you've lost the ability to hear.
The writer of Hebrews addresses. This is well.
He says, there's many more things that would love to bring
to you. Speak to you.
But you can't bear them because you have grown dull in your
hearing. Paul addressed.
This with the first current, the church in 1st Corinthians
chapter 3, many more things. I'd love to share with you.
I cannot speak to you as to spiritual.
But as to Babe's, Because you do not have the capacity to receive
what I want to deliver. It's not on me and I'm not
withholding it. But you do not, you do not have
the capacity to receive. So not only have you not, not
only do you not want to hear now?
You are losing the capacity to hear.
Even what you have will be taken away to him.
Who does not have Revelation, even what he has the capacity to
receive Revelation. He'll lose that too.
Well, and here, and try to connect it next week.
Romans chapter 10. We've read this verse time and
time again. But as usual, what we fail to
understand, we redefined it says, faith comes by hearing.
And hearing by the word of God. you know, I think that we have,
you know, not intentionally, But we tend to read it this way.
So, faith comes by hearing. I mean, I've preached it, that
way, if you hear the word, you'll stir up Faith.
Build up, faith in you That's not what it says.
It says, faith comes by hearing. But hearing or put it to you,
this way, the ability the capacity to hear.
That comes by the word of God. If I don't have a value for the
word, if I don't honor the word, if I don't have a urgency for
the word, I'll lose the ability to hear losing the ability to
hear. Look, I lose the capacity to
build my faith. You got to see the connection.
Faith comes by hearing, you can put a period there you build
faith, in, whatever you here. I can put Faith In God's word or
I can put Faith in CNN. I can put Faith In God's word.
I could put Faith in the doctor's report, I can put Faith
In God's word, or I could put Faith in the bank account,
whatever, you're entertaining your empowering.
So becomes a matter of what am I entertaining?
What am I keeping in front of me?
What do I treat? As valuable, as honorable as
worth my time and energy. I got a note, I'm not in my
church so I can say this. I got a few of our people but
two weeks ago, not yesterday but last Sunday got a note Monday
morning in the tithe and offering.
Got a little note. Pastor Mark, I love your
messages but once again you have gone over an hour and now I end
up leaving service bitter and offended rather than encouraged.
I will not be attending any longer.
Isn't that hilarious? First thing I thought was
apparently I didn't go long enough, you still didn't get it.
Needed to go another hour. No, it's when we learn to Value,
if you don't treat this as honorable don't waste your time,
don't waste mine. It's that simple.
I'd hate to waste your time. but just, as Paul said, in his
assignment, I'm commissioned to fully equip you with the word of
God, if it takes 32 minutes, if it takes 50 minutes, if it takes
an hour and 10 minutes, I ministered for over 2 hours in
Nicaragua and they hated it when I was done and I was only done
because I had to because we had to move on to the next day.
I go to a third world country, they'll sit on a lawn chair.
We got too comfortable in two convenient and we wonder why we
don't know the revealed will of God.
We wonder why we don't understand his purpose and his
plan. We underwent, I don't understand
why we don't see the demonstrations that Jesus all.
When you value the things, the way Jesus values it, you'll get
the results Jesus God, we'll finish tomorrow.
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