1 00:00:12,000 --> 00:00:14,500 Thanks for checking out the anchor Faith, Message podcast 2 00:00:14,500 --> 00:00:15,900 from st. Augustine Florida. 3 00:00:16,400 --> 00:00:24,000 Now, enjoy this message. In my endeavoring. 4 00:00:25,300 --> 00:00:28,500 The, in these morning sessions, I want to unveil the mystery of 5 00:00:28,500 --> 00:00:31,700 the Kingdom. The Mystery of the Kingdom I 6 00:00:31,700 --> 00:00:37,500 have learned to discover this over my years, now 2009 was when 7 00:00:37,500 --> 00:00:40,000 I was originally first introduced to the kingdom 8 00:00:40,000 --> 00:00:46,600 message and I have noticed this in Believers that to whatever 9 00:00:46,600 --> 00:00:51,500 degree the kingdom becomes revealed is what determines the 10 00:00:51,500 --> 00:00:53,000 level of the Kingdom that you live. 11 00:00:53,000 --> 00:00:58,800 So the capacity of Kingdom life, that you live will never exceed 12 00:00:58,800 --> 00:01:03,300 the In of the mystery. I've watched people try to 13 00:01:03,300 --> 00:01:07,200 inform themselves of the kingdom and have failed. 14 00:01:07,800 --> 00:01:10,900 But the ones that grasp, the kingdom of God, are those that 15 00:01:11,600 --> 00:01:16,200 yield to the Revelation capacity of the kingdom and there is a 16 00:01:16,200 --> 00:01:21,600 mystery to the kingdom of God. And in John chapter 3, Jesus is 17 00:01:21,600 --> 00:01:25,700 approached by a religious leader named Nicodemus. 18 00:01:25,700 --> 00:01:29,100 And in verse 1, it says there was a man named Nicodemus, a 19 00:01:29,100 --> 00:01:33,200 Jewish Religious leader, who was a Pharisee after dark one 20 00:01:33,200 --> 00:01:35,100 evening. He came to speak with Jesus 21 00:01:35,700 --> 00:01:38,100 Rabbi. He said we all know that God has 22 00:01:38,100 --> 00:01:42,100 sent you to teach us your miraculous. 23 00:01:42,100 --> 00:01:46,600 Signs are evidence that God is with you. 24 00:01:47,300 --> 00:01:49,700 Your miraculous signs are evidence. 25 00:01:49,700 --> 00:01:52,300 There proof that God is with you. 26 00:01:52,300 --> 00:01:56,100 Notice that he's speaking number one that he's heard the teaching 27 00:01:57,200 --> 00:02:01,100 and number two, he's seen the Natural and operation. 28 00:02:01,100 --> 00:02:04,800 He's seen the signs and wonders. He's seen the Miracles. 29 00:02:04,800 --> 00:02:09,300 He seen the demons, cast out, the body's healed, the bod dead 30 00:02:09,300 --> 00:02:13,100 bodies raised. He's seen these wonderful size 31 00:02:13,100 --> 00:02:17,500 that we know were exhibited through Jesus ministry on a 32 00:02:17,508 --> 00:02:21,100 constant basis everywhere. He went, he was bringing Heaven 33 00:02:21,100 --> 00:02:23,700 to Earth and he was revealing the supernatural into the 34 00:02:23,700 --> 00:02:27,500 natural. He was making the Unseen seen. 35 00:02:28,800 --> 00:02:35,500 And so he's able to see tangible evidence real time, real life 36 00:02:35,600 --> 00:02:40,100 proof that God is with you. There's something different 37 00:02:40,100 --> 00:02:41,700 about you. Don't, you know, our lives as 38 00:02:41,700 --> 00:02:44,800 Kingdom citizens, ought to be distinguished. 39 00:02:45,600 --> 00:02:48,700 There ought to be a contrast between our lives. 40 00:02:48,700 --> 00:02:51,400 There ought to be a separation. There ought to be a Line in the 41 00:02:51,400 --> 00:02:53,500 Sand. There ought to be something 42 00:02:53,600 --> 00:02:58,200 differentiating you between the world, the way you respond to 43 00:02:58,300 --> 00:03:00,800 Two challenges and issues on to be different than the way the 44 00:03:00,800 --> 00:03:04,600 world responds. The way the world carries about 45 00:03:04,600 --> 00:03:07,700 themselves, what they put their value and their interest, in 46 00:03:07,700 --> 00:03:10,700 their opinions, and their agendas what they talk about. 47 00:03:10,700 --> 00:03:15,400 Think about look at their attitudes and all these 48 00:03:15,400 --> 00:03:17,200 different ways. We ought to be distinguished. 49 00:03:17,200 --> 00:03:20,300 Amen. And so, he's recognizing this 50 00:03:20,300 --> 00:03:22,900 about Jesus. There is something different 51 00:03:23,400 --> 00:03:28,000 about you. And Jesus replies in verse 3. 52 00:03:28,000 --> 00:03:30,100 This is where we're going to kind of camp and break this 53 00:03:30,100 --> 00:03:33,700 down, and hopefully, over these next several weeks, really begin 54 00:03:33,700 --> 00:03:35,700 to leave a deposit here. Jesus replied. 55 00:03:35,700 --> 00:03:40,600 He said, I tell you the truth, unless you are born again. 56 00:03:40,600 --> 00:03:46,100 Everyone say born again. You cannot see the kingdom of 57 00:03:46,100 --> 00:03:50,200 God. Now, he's just identified of 58 00:03:50,200 --> 00:03:56,700 heard your teachings. I've seen tangible proof, I've 59 00:03:56,700 --> 00:04:00,000 seen the signs and wonders, I've seen the Miracles, I've 60 00:04:00,000 --> 00:04:04,400 witnessed these things. I've been in the audience, I've 61 00:04:04,400 --> 00:04:07,600 been a bystander. I've been able to stand back and 62 00:04:07,600 --> 00:04:11,400 say, even in all, wow, there is something about this man. 63 00:04:11,500 --> 00:04:13,600 Don't you know that happen multiple times in Jesus 64 00:04:13,600 --> 00:04:17,100 ministry. Now people responded with all to 65 00:04:17,100 --> 00:04:20,700 his teaching, who is this man that he ministers and teachers 66 00:04:20,700 --> 00:04:23,100 with such Authority that they heave it? 67 00:04:23,200 --> 00:04:25,900 Went to his own Hometown. In Mark chapter 6, the town of 68 00:04:25,900 --> 00:04:29,200 Nazareth. And it says that they heard the 69 00:04:29,200 --> 00:04:34,100 powerful teaching and that they saw the miracles signs and 70 00:04:34,100 --> 00:04:38,200 wonders and yet still became offended and said, but isn't he 71 00:04:38,400 --> 00:04:41,600 the Carpenter's son? Not only live with his brothers 72 00:04:41,600 --> 00:04:44,700 and sisters, isn't he from Nazareth? 73 00:04:45,200 --> 00:04:49,200 And they couldn't reconcile what he was doing with who he was in. 74 00:04:49,200 --> 00:04:52,800 The natural says that they became offended because of their 75 00:04:52,800 --> 00:04:55,100 unbelief. If it says he was able to do no 76 00:04:55,100 --> 00:04:59,700 Mighty work there except heal a few sick people, the only 77 00:04:59,700 --> 00:05:04,100 occurrence that we have where Jesus wasn't able to produce the 78 00:05:04,100 --> 00:05:07,100 the signs and the wonders in the totality that he did. 79 00:05:07,100 --> 00:05:10,500 In many other places says he healed, all kinds of sickness. 80 00:05:10,500 --> 00:05:13,900 All kinds of does. He never came into a situation 81 00:05:13,900 --> 00:05:18,400 where he wasn't able to perform and able to operate in the 82 00:05:18,400 --> 00:05:21,800 Supernatural and the miraculous he was limited in this capacity. 83 00:05:23,200 --> 00:05:27,000 Not because he was off that day. Not because he didn't have his 84 00:05:27,000 --> 00:05:29,600 Wheaties, not because he would didn't wake up on the right side 85 00:05:29,600 --> 00:05:34,600 of the bed because of their lack of receptivity to his ministry. 86 00:05:35,700 --> 00:05:39,600 But yet they saw the Miracles and they heard the teachings. 87 00:05:39,600 --> 00:05:43,300 There's this matter of hearing and seeing that Jesus 88 00:05:43,300 --> 00:05:46,700 continually addresses in his ministry and that will find even 89 00:05:46,700 --> 00:05:50,100 in the Epistles, Paul is addressing this matter of 90 00:05:50,100 --> 00:05:57,700 hearing and seeing and it will either your hearing and seeing 91 00:05:57,700 --> 00:06:02,000 will either increase or limit your ability to operate in the 92 00:06:02,008 --> 00:06:06,400 kingdom of God. You're hearing in your seeing 93 00:06:07,500 --> 00:06:13,800 will either increase or limit your ability to operate in the 94 00:06:13,808 --> 00:06:18,500 kingdom of God? To what degree you are able to 95 00:06:18,500 --> 00:06:22,000 hear to what degree you are. Able to see determines the 96 00:06:22,000 --> 00:06:25,200 measure of the Kingdom, that will be exhibited in your life. 97 00:06:26,400 --> 00:06:28,300 And so what ministered, this message. 98 00:06:28,300 --> 00:06:31,800 Now, you know, going on 14, 15 years, I've heard it ministered 99 00:06:32,200 --> 00:06:38,200 now for, for such time and it seems that, no matter how many 100 00:06:38,200 --> 00:06:44,000 verses I use, no matter how much evidence, I bring no matter even 101 00:06:44,000 --> 00:06:47,600 how much demonstration of the Kingdom, we can see in the 102 00:06:47,600 --> 00:06:51,100 miraculous, if we don't understand these concepts of 103 00:06:51,100 --> 00:06:57,100 hearing and seeing, We're going to completely miss the kingdom 104 00:06:57,100 --> 00:07:01,600 of God. And we're going to be forced to 105 00:07:01,600 --> 00:07:06,900 resort to a mere bystander. May be applauding a miracle, you 106 00:07:06,900 --> 00:07:11,000 know, it's possible to see a miracle yet not be changed by 107 00:07:11,000 --> 00:07:14,600 one. Get it leaves. 108 00:07:14,600 --> 00:07:18,300 No mark on your life yet it leaves you as Pastor Ronnie just 109 00:07:18,300 --> 00:07:20,400 said the same as you were before. 110 00:07:21,300 --> 00:07:27,000 People go to church and hear Dynamic messages, people get to 111 00:07:27,000 --> 00:07:29,600 see these signs and wonders many times we think. 112 00:07:29,600 --> 00:07:31,100 Oh, if you would just give me a sign. 113 00:07:31,100 --> 00:07:33,300 Oh, if I would just receive the healing in my bio. 114 00:07:33,300 --> 00:07:36,000 If I would just have this Deliverance or few and heal my 115 00:07:36,000 --> 00:07:38,900 marriage or restore this or deliver that, that I would, I 116 00:07:38,900 --> 00:07:41,600 would believe you and I would follow you. 117 00:07:41,600 --> 00:07:45,800 And I would see the king. Adam of God in totality of my 118 00:07:45,800 --> 00:07:47,800 life, but that's just not a true statement. 119 00:07:49,000 --> 00:07:51,300 You can't get much more tangible than Jesus. 120 00:07:51,300 --> 00:07:53,700 Walking the Earth. The word becoming flesh dwelling 121 00:07:53,700 --> 00:07:56,800 Among Us. You can't get more tangible, 122 00:07:56,800 --> 00:08:00,500 then God putting himself in flesh and literally being 123 00:08:00,500 --> 00:08:04,900 present on this planet and there are people Believers still 124 00:08:04,900 --> 00:08:06,800 today. That think we would be better 125 00:08:06,800 --> 00:08:09,600 off if Jesus came and walked the Earth and they don't have any 126 00:08:09,600 --> 00:08:12,900 understanding that the spirit of God lives inside of you. 127 00:08:13,100 --> 00:08:15,000 You haven't been Better than they had it. 128 00:08:17,800 --> 00:08:21,200 We read the Bible and we wish we could see what Abraham saw. 129 00:08:21,200 --> 00:08:23,100 We wish we can see what it moves its on. 130 00:08:23,100 --> 00:08:25,200 We wish we could see what David song. 131 00:08:25,200 --> 00:08:28,900 We Wish we can see with the disciples and the apostles saw 132 00:08:32,700 --> 00:08:34,299 And you're going to get to heaven, you're going to ask 133 00:08:34,299 --> 00:08:37,100 David what it was like to slay Goliath and you're going to ask 134 00:08:37,100 --> 00:08:39,799 Moses what it was like to part the rivers and you're going to 135 00:08:39,799 --> 00:08:45,400 ask you, you know, all these great prophets and and people 136 00:08:45,400 --> 00:08:47,700 that God used throughout the word of God and they're going to 137 00:08:47,708 --> 00:08:50,200 look at you say, I want to know what it was like to have the 138 00:08:50,200 --> 00:08:52,400 Holy Spirit dwelling inside of you. 139 00:08:55,900 --> 00:08:59,000 Jesus wasn't joking when he said, it's to your advantage 140 00:08:59,900 --> 00:09:05,300 that I go, you're better off without me because now my spirit 141 00:09:05,300 --> 00:09:08,500 can come and reside with you. The helper the comforter the 142 00:09:08,500 --> 00:09:12,500 intercessor. The standby can come live and 143 00:09:12,500 --> 00:09:15,300 dwell in abide with you and he will remain with you forever. 144 00:09:15,300 --> 00:09:19,900 Jesus. Why do we look back on the past? 145 00:09:21,300 --> 00:09:24,900 With greater fervor than we do. What is yet ahead in our future? 146 00:09:25,500 --> 00:09:30,600 It's because we are hearing and we are seeing Jesus says that a 147 00:09:30,600 --> 00:09:35,400 marker. A characteristic of a born again 148 00:09:35,400 --> 00:09:38,500 person is this they see the kingdom of God. 149 00:09:40,700 --> 00:09:47,600 I wonder if we use the term born again, the same way Jesus, used 150 00:09:47,600 --> 00:09:52,000 it here in John chapter 3. This is what I've learned about 151 00:09:52,000 --> 00:09:56,900 Christianity and religion. And even just church-going, this 152 00:09:56,900 --> 00:09:58,900 is Kingdom rise, right? Right. 153 00:09:58,900 --> 00:10:01,700 This is Kingdom rides where rising to another level. 154 00:10:01,700 --> 00:10:03,600 We are coming up in our thinking. 155 00:10:03,600 --> 00:10:07,300 We're coming out of just status quo and just barely look, here's 156 00:10:07,300 --> 00:10:09,400 the thing. If the enemy can't keep you out 157 00:10:09,400 --> 00:10:13,000 of the Kingdom, he will get you to live its lowest form 158 00:10:13,000 --> 00:10:17,000 possible. He wants you to live at the 159 00:10:17,000 --> 00:10:19,600 lowest entry level State possible. 160 00:10:21,700 --> 00:10:24,700 And so what happens is what we fail to understand? 161 00:10:24,700 --> 00:10:31,400 We usually redefined what we fail to understand, we'd usually 162 00:10:31,400 --> 00:10:35,500 redefined we lower the standard of the term and I think Born 163 00:10:35,500 --> 00:10:39,700 Again is one of those terms. There's many of them that 164 00:10:39,700 --> 00:10:42,900 without the kingdom lens, without the kingdom framework 165 00:10:42,900 --> 00:10:45,700 without seeing it. Through the lens of the kingdom 166 00:10:45,700 --> 00:10:50,000 of God, we will redefine it and lower it down to praying a 167 00:10:50,008 --> 00:10:54,100 Prayer of Salvation. Making entrance into a kingdom 168 00:10:54,200 --> 00:10:58,800 only waiting as Pastor Rowdy said the entirety of Our Lives 169 00:10:58,800 --> 00:11:03,000 until we die and go to be with him in heaven, only to find out 170 00:11:03,000 --> 00:11:08,700 that we wasted a born-again life, A Renewed life, I redeemed 171 00:11:08,700 --> 00:11:12,900 life, a restored life on the earth, having the same measure 172 00:11:12,900 --> 00:11:16,000 the same capacity, The Same Spirit that raised Christ from 173 00:11:16,000 --> 00:11:21,000 the dead dwelling in, you wasting away. 174 00:11:22,800 --> 00:11:26,500 No, I Think Jesus had a different standard for this term 175 00:11:26,600 --> 00:11:30,500 born again. Then you and I this word, c 176 00:11:30,500 --> 00:11:34,200 means this. It means to know become aware 177 00:11:35,200 --> 00:11:40,000 behold, understand and experience. 178 00:11:40,600 --> 00:11:47,300 It means to know become aware behold, understand. 179 00:11:48,200 --> 00:11:54,300 And experience the kingdom of God although invisible is made 180 00:11:54,300 --> 00:11:59,800 known in the visible. Jesus prayed in Matthew chapter 181 00:11:59,800 --> 00:12:02,100 6. Let's let your kingdom. 182 00:12:02,200 --> 00:12:05,900 Come he never designed his kingdom to remain in the 183 00:12:05,900 --> 00:12:08,900 invisible. It starts in The Invisible but 184 00:12:08,900 --> 00:12:12,100 it ought to be transferred into the visible by Kingdom. 185 00:12:12,100 --> 00:12:17,800 Citizens, that walk about daily bringing his will into this in 186 00:12:18,000 --> 00:12:21,500 This realm into this world into this life. 187 00:12:21,800 --> 00:12:26,000 You and I are confronted daily with opportunities, to bring the 188 00:12:26,000 --> 00:12:31,400 Unseen into the seen you and I we are never at a shortage of 189 00:12:31,400 --> 00:12:35,200 opportunities. To bring the kingdom to Earth. 190 00:12:36,700 --> 00:12:43,200 Not in 2023. Not in the United States of 191 00:12:43,200 --> 00:12:48,600 America, not in a day where every standard of the word is 192 00:12:48,600 --> 00:12:51,200 challenge, question and degraded. 193 00:12:52,400 --> 00:12:55,100 You and I have plenty of opportunities to make the 194 00:12:55,100 --> 00:12:58,000 kingdom of God, known do our conversations through our 195 00:12:58,000 --> 00:13:01,000 actions, through our attitude, through our responses. 196 00:13:03,000 --> 00:13:06,300 Not just in the miraculous, but hey, even in the culture. 197 00:13:08,400 --> 00:13:10,500 Culture, this is what culture is culture. 198 00:13:10,500 --> 00:13:16,800 Is when action becomes reaction, I'll say that again, culture is 199 00:13:16,800 --> 00:13:20,700 when action becomes reaction. Meaning it's the automatic 200 00:13:20,700 --> 00:13:25,800 natural response and you and I have plenty of opportunities to 201 00:13:25,800 --> 00:13:29,900 respond either by the culture of the world or by the culture of 202 00:13:29,908 --> 00:13:33,200 the Kingdom. There's no shortage of 203 00:13:33,200 --> 00:13:38,100 opportunities. It's not a matter of, if it's a 204 00:13:38,100 --> 00:13:43,800 matter of will we, when we, how we demonstrate the kingdom of 205 00:13:43,800 --> 00:13:48,400 God, in our lives, Nicodemus has seen the kingdom of God. 206 00:13:48,400 --> 00:13:52,500 Demonstrated he's heard the kingdom of God ministered, and, 207 00:13:52,500 --> 00:13:57,100 and taught dynamically. But yet Jesus makes this weird 208 00:13:57,100 --> 00:14:01,100 statements in response unless you're born again. 209 00:14:02,700 --> 00:14:06,900 You do not even have the capacity to see, to know, to 210 00:14:06,900 --> 00:14:12,000 become aware, to behold, to understand or experience the 211 00:14:12,000 --> 00:14:15,500 kingdom of God. Jesus is saying this, it should 212 00:14:15,500 --> 00:14:19,000 be common for born-again believers. 213 00:14:20,000 --> 00:14:25,200 To see, no demonstrate experience, behold the kingdom 214 00:14:25,200 --> 00:14:30,600 of God in essence, it should be more natural for you to live 215 00:14:30,600 --> 00:14:33,700 according to the kingdom than, according to the world. 216 00:14:35,100 --> 00:14:38,400 Should be more natural to perceive things, according to 217 00:14:38,400 --> 00:14:41,900 the kingdom of God. And the world's way of doing 218 00:14:41,900 --> 00:14:46,000 things, the culture of the Kingdom should be your natural 219 00:14:46,000 --> 00:14:49,500 response, that should not just be the action, it should be the 220 00:14:49,500 --> 00:14:54,000 reaction. You know, one thing that was 221 00:14:54,000 --> 00:14:59,600 telling three years ago was the church's reaction to a pandemic 222 00:14:59,700 --> 00:15:04,200 to crisis to struggle to challenge to opposition. 223 00:15:04,800 --> 00:15:09,000 Many Believers are only one crisis away from walking away 224 00:15:09,000 --> 00:15:12,500 from everything. They say they stand on and 225 00:15:12,500 --> 00:15:16,000 that's too much of a reality and that's why we have Kingdom rise 226 00:15:16,000 --> 00:15:19,900 conferences. One crisis away. 227 00:15:20,400 --> 00:15:22,900 You don't find about what someone's made of in Comfort. 228 00:15:25,300 --> 00:15:27,700 You don't even know what you're made of until shot challenge 229 00:15:27,700 --> 00:15:30,300 shows up. You don't even know what you got 230 00:15:30,300 --> 00:15:33,800 until crisis, pulls. And makes a demand on what's 231 00:15:33,800 --> 00:15:39,800 inside of you. We have a world today that will 232 00:15:39,800 --> 00:15:42,500 give everything to live in Comfort. 233 00:15:44,100 --> 00:15:46,700 Comfort and convenience are the name of the game. 234 00:15:50,000 --> 00:15:55,100 Live as simple as quiet as, as, in the background in the shadows 235 00:15:55,100 --> 00:15:58,500 is possible. When we are called to be taking 236 00:15:58,500 --> 00:16:03,900 by violent Force, The kingdom suffers violence and the 237 00:16:03,900 --> 00:16:06,700 violent. Take it by force. 238 00:16:06,800 --> 00:16:09,600 We should be advancing and offensive church has become 239 00:16:09,600 --> 00:16:12,800 defensive. We found ourselves shuttered up 240 00:16:12,800 --> 00:16:16,300 indoors rather than bombarding. The gates of hell and tearing it 241 00:16:16,300 --> 00:16:19,300 down, Matthew chapter, 16, Jesus mentions the church. 242 00:16:19,300 --> 00:16:22,300 He says, you will attack the gates of hell and it cannot 243 00:16:22,300 --> 00:16:25,800 Prevail against you. No weapon formed against you can 244 00:16:25,800 --> 00:16:30,400 prosper. I am going to start preaching. 245 00:16:30,800 --> 00:16:32,400 There might flip this thing around. 246 00:16:33,900 --> 00:16:36,400 Amen. No, he's saying it should be 247 00:16:36,400 --> 00:16:41,100 common tommen. Regular practice natural for the 248 00:16:41,200 --> 00:16:43,700 believer. The born-again believer. 249 00:16:44,400 --> 00:16:48,400 The truly, According To Jesus standard of Born Again. 250 00:16:50,100 --> 00:16:55,900 To see, no experience, behold the kingdom of God, Jesus sets 251 00:16:55,900 --> 00:16:59,300 the expectation that the Born Again, life should be marked by 252 00:16:59,300 --> 00:17:04,000 a kingdom experienced. Jesus sets, the expectation that 253 00:17:04,000 --> 00:17:09,000 the board again, life should be marked by a kingdom experience 254 00:17:09,000 --> 00:17:11,400 and every time someone comes into contact with you, they come 255 00:17:11,400 --> 00:17:16,099 in contact with the kingdom. Paul said I'm an ambassador for 256 00:17:16,099 --> 00:17:18,000 chains ambassadors, don't have opinions. 257 00:17:20,200 --> 00:17:22,099 Come on. If people are asking you, what 258 00:17:22,099 --> 00:17:24,300 do you think about this and what do you think about that in your 259 00:17:24,300 --> 00:17:29,500 still spewing your opinion? There might be more of the world 260 00:17:29,500 --> 00:17:34,300 and you than the kingdom. This should be the natural 261 00:17:34,300 --> 00:17:36,300 reaction. I'll tell you what my king says. 262 00:17:39,200 --> 00:17:41,600 Got to be very careful with these things because we are 263 00:17:41,600 --> 00:17:46,300 Kingdom ambassadors. Give him my opinion is worth as 264 00:17:46,300 --> 00:17:49,500 much as yours. Nothing. 265 00:17:51,900 --> 00:17:55,600 Nothing. But my king, my Kings got a 266 00:17:55,608 --> 00:18:01,100 word, my Kings got a law, my King has got a constitution, my 267 00:18:01,100 --> 00:18:04,700 King has got a confident, like he's got an agreement, a binding 268 00:18:04,700 --> 00:18:08,800 contract. So we got to order these things. 269 00:18:11,500 --> 00:18:14,900 No, we got to understand that being born again, is an 270 00:18:14,900 --> 00:18:20,800 invitation to discovery of what's ahead, not just realizing 271 00:18:20,900 --> 00:18:26,600 what we've left behind. Say that again, being born 272 00:18:26,600 --> 00:18:30,200 again, is an invitation into discovery of what's ahead. 273 00:18:30,300 --> 00:18:33,300 Not just the realization of what we left behind. 274 00:18:35,600 --> 00:18:41,200 Sobering thought. If you ask a Believer today, a 275 00:18:41,200 --> 00:18:46,000 Christian. What have you been saved from? 276 00:18:46,800 --> 00:18:48,500 Oh, they can tell you all kinds of stuff. 277 00:18:51,800 --> 00:18:54,200 But if you ask that same believer, now what have you been 278 00:18:54,200 --> 00:19:01,400 saved for? All of a sudden is crickets, or 279 00:19:01,400 --> 00:19:03,700 you might get the typical answer. 280 00:19:05,400 --> 00:19:10,000 Heaven. Take us all the way to the end. 281 00:19:11,500 --> 00:19:14,600 Now, I don't believe his Born Again citizens in the kingdom of 282 00:19:14,600 --> 00:19:16,700 God. We should have a greater 283 00:19:16,700 --> 00:19:20,000 realization of what we were set free from than what we've been 284 00:19:20,000 --> 00:19:27,700 set free for Jesus came to point us forward, not just a mirror 285 00:19:27,700 --> 00:19:30,600 Looking Backward. I'm thankful for the grace of 286 00:19:30,600 --> 00:19:33,200 God, the mercy of God, the delivering power of God, the 287 00:19:33,200 --> 00:19:36,100 Redemption of God, the restoration of God, I'm thankful 288 00:19:36,100 --> 00:19:38,900 for the thing that he brought me out of Darkness into light, but 289 00:19:38,900 --> 00:19:40,500 I want to know what's in the light. 290 00:19:42,000 --> 00:19:44,500 He brought me out of death into life but I want to know what's 291 00:19:44,500 --> 00:19:46,300 in life. I don't want to just be we are 292 00:19:46,300 --> 00:19:49,300 more acquainted with what we got us out of. 293 00:19:49,700 --> 00:19:52,600 No wonder it's so easy that we fall back into it. 294 00:19:54,300 --> 00:19:57,600 We're more familiar with what he's delivered us from that. 295 00:19:57,600 --> 00:20:01,300 What he's delivered us for and delivered us into. 296 00:20:03,800 --> 00:20:07,800 We've gotta have a forward-thinking, born-again a 297 00:20:07,800 --> 00:20:11,200 forward thinking. What am I pressing on to Ward? 298 00:20:11,200 --> 00:20:15,800 I forget the things that I that lie behind, I'm pressing toward 299 00:20:15,800 --> 00:20:19,600 the Mark, I'm pressing in. I'm enduring, I'm persevering 300 00:20:19,600 --> 00:20:26,500 I'm pushing through, I'm overcoming No, we got to have 301 00:20:27,200 --> 00:20:29,600 the standard that Jesus set for being born. 302 00:20:29,600 --> 00:20:32,000 Again, there's a mystery of the kingdom of God. 303 00:20:32,000 --> 00:20:36,400 He says, being born again, means that you can see the kingdom of 304 00:20:36,400 --> 00:20:38,700 God Nicodemus responds in verse 4. 305 00:20:38,700 --> 00:20:43,800 He says, what do you mean? How can an old man go back into 306 00:20:43,800 --> 00:20:46,400 his mother's womb and be born again? 307 00:20:46,400 --> 00:20:50,900 What a weird thing to say, like, even if you're thinking it just 308 00:20:50,900 --> 00:20:55,300 thinking, he'll need to vocalize that far. 309 00:20:55,500 --> 00:20:59,000 We don't you said the quiet part out loud, Nicodemus. 310 00:20:59,000 --> 00:21:04,700 We don't need to say that the first five Jesus response. 311 00:21:06,500 --> 00:21:10,700 I assure you he says this no one can enter everyone say, enter 312 00:21:11,500 --> 00:21:16,900 the kingdom of God without being born of water and the spirit 313 00:21:16,900 --> 00:21:20,700 humans can only reproduce human life but the holy spirit gives 314 00:21:20,700 --> 00:21:25,300 birth to Spirit real life. He says this, don't be surprised 315 00:21:25,300 --> 00:21:28,900 when I say you must be born again. 316 00:21:30,400 --> 00:21:34,700 The wind blows wherever it wants just as you can hear the wind. 317 00:21:35,000 --> 00:21:39,600 So we can hear something. But can't tell where it comes 318 00:21:39,600 --> 00:21:43,900 from or where it is going. So you can't explain how people 319 00:21:43,900 --> 00:21:47,700 are born of the spirit. And verse 9 Nicodemus is just 320 00:21:47,700 --> 00:21:50,800 getting more confused through this conversation. 321 00:21:50,900 --> 00:21:53,800 He says, how are these things possible? 322 00:21:55,000 --> 00:21:57,900 I love Jesus response. You're a respected Jewish 323 00:21:57,900 --> 00:22:05,300 teacher like your the elite. Your this is the top dogs, right 324 00:22:05,300 --> 00:22:07,300 here. I shouldn't have to be 325 00:22:07,300 --> 00:22:12,700 explaining this to you, but he's going deeper to show Nicodemus. 326 00:22:12,700 --> 00:22:17,700 You haven't made any entrance at all that you've know and, you 327 00:22:17,700 --> 00:22:20,100 know, and, you know, and you have filled your head with 328 00:22:20,100 --> 00:22:21,600 knowledge. But you have failed to filled 329 00:22:21,600 --> 00:22:24,400 your spirit with Revelation. And this is the thing about the 330 00:22:24,400 --> 00:22:27,400 mystery of the kingdom of God. You cannot inform someone of the 331 00:22:27,400 --> 00:22:29,700 Kingdom. You can only reveal the kingdom. 332 00:22:30,600 --> 00:22:34,500 Matthew 16, Jesus proves this When he had the conversation 333 00:22:34,500 --> 00:22:37,300 with the disciples who do men say that I am and the first few 334 00:22:37,300 --> 00:22:39,400 answers gave him a lot of information. 335 00:22:41,700 --> 00:22:45,800 Well you one of the prophets Elijah, maybe John the Baptist 336 00:22:47,000 --> 00:22:50,200 but then Peter speaks up, right? But unction of the Holy Spirit, 337 00:22:50,200 --> 00:22:53,800 he says what you are the Messiah, the Son of the Living 338 00:22:53,800 --> 00:22:55,700 God. And Jesus quickly, lets them 339 00:22:55,700 --> 00:23:00,200 know, flesh and blood has not told you this. 340 00:23:00,600 --> 00:23:04,300 This is not something you were informed of this is something by 341 00:23:04,300 --> 00:23:09,200 my Father in Heaven, through the spirit has revealed to you. 342 00:23:10,100 --> 00:23:12,600 The mysteries of the kingdom are not informed. 343 00:23:12,600 --> 00:23:16,800 They are revealed. The mysteries of the kingdom are 344 00:23:16,800 --> 00:23:19,400 not discovered through information, they're discovered 345 00:23:19,400 --> 00:23:24,600 through Revelation. And so if you lean on or if you 346 00:23:24,600 --> 00:23:28,100 value the wrong things such as Nicodemus, you're going to find 347 00:23:28,100 --> 00:23:30,200 yourself more and more perplexed. 348 00:23:30,200 --> 00:23:32,300 You're going to find how is this possible? 349 00:23:32,300 --> 00:23:35,600 How can these things be? And we know Believers that even 350 00:23:35,600 --> 00:23:40,000 when we try to just cover the basics, just the surface stuff, 351 00:23:40,000 --> 00:23:43,000 they get locked up because they're relying on information, 352 00:23:43,000 --> 00:23:46,400 not Revelation by the Word of God. 353 00:23:47,200 --> 00:23:50,600 There's a hearing and a seeing that we're going to find out. 354 00:23:50,600 --> 00:23:55,200 Jesus says you have ears to hear but you don't hear you have eyes 355 00:23:55,200 --> 00:23:59,200 to see but you don't see and we have to fix this problem in the 356 00:23:59,200 --> 00:24:00,800 church. Otherwise we're going to keep. 357 00:24:00,800 --> 00:24:04,200 Keep going through religious practice, go to our church 358 00:24:04,200 --> 00:24:08,400 services, jerking Jiggle. Have our moments have are 359 00:24:08,400 --> 00:24:13,700 emotional times but yet not be redeemed restored any different. 360 00:24:13,700 --> 00:24:17,000 We're gonna not be changed in the brain and remain the same 361 00:24:20,200 --> 00:24:24,100 churches full every weekend. They have people in 362 00:24:24,100 --> 00:24:28,100 congregations that aren't gaining any advancement. 363 00:24:28,100 --> 00:24:33,000 In the kingdom of God, they have resulted to Resort it to and 364 00:24:33,000 --> 00:24:40,600 treat level Christianity. There is a kingdom that is the 365 00:24:40,600 --> 00:24:43,700 threat to Darkness. There is a kingdom that is a 366 00:24:43,700 --> 00:24:45,600 threat to the stronghold of the enemy. 367 00:24:45,700 --> 00:24:49,700 There is a kingdom that will war against the gates of hell and 368 00:24:49,700 --> 00:24:52,100 tear them down but it's not entry level. 369 00:24:55,500 --> 00:25:00,000 It's not it's not waiting and standing by for Jesus to come 370 00:25:00,000 --> 00:25:03,000 back to the clouds. It's not praying to Jesus. 371 00:25:03,000 --> 00:25:04,500 Every time you have a problem, right? 372 00:25:04,700 --> 00:25:08,100 Without recognizing I have the authority, I have the power. 373 00:25:08,100 --> 00:25:11,700 My words, his word in my mouth is just as powerful as his words 374 00:25:11,700 --> 00:25:14,000 in his mouth. I can speak to the thing. 375 00:25:16,000 --> 00:25:18,800 I love the instance where you know, Jesus shows up in the 376 00:25:18,800 --> 00:25:22,500 synagogue and a demon-possessed person shows up and comes down 377 00:25:22,500 --> 00:25:24,200 and throws himself down at Jesus. 378 00:25:26,000 --> 00:25:28,400 When the people gathered at the synagogue all the time. 379 00:25:30,200 --> 00:25:32,600 Why didn't that demon possessed me and get cast out any other 380 00:25:32,600 --> 00:25:34,800 time. Any other service? 381 00:25:37,900 --> 00:25:40,000 Because it's not information, that's going to overthrow the 382 00:25:40,000 --> 00:25:43,400 kingdom of darkness, its Revelation when you get this in 383 00:25:43,400 --> 00:25:46,100 your spirit. Not just fill our notebooks and 384 00:25:46,100 --> 00:25:48,700 fill our heads. We live Pete, we have people, we 385 00:25:48,700 --> 00:25:54,900 have Christians today, full notebooks and empty lives Come 386 00:25:54,900 --> 00:25:57,000 on, guys. We let the Bible tells us we're 387 00:25:57,000 --> 00:25:59,200 going to Heap up for ourselves teachers, guys. 388 00:25:59,200 --> 00:26:02,000 In these last days, we're not going to have a shortage of 389 00:26:02,000 --> 00:26:06,300 teaching that we got more than this planet has ever had. 390 00:26:06,300 --> 00:26:09,800 We've got every podcast and for you to every channel, every 391 00:26:09,800 --> 00:26:14,300 radio station, every TV station. We got Christian television 392 00:26:14,300 --> 00:26:16,200 networks. Not just the show. 393 00:26:16,200 --> 00:26:18,400 We own the entire stinking Network. 394 00:26:18,900 --> 00:26:21,800 Its Global going around, the world printing as much as we 395 00:26:21,800 --> 00:26:24,300 want. But we've got way more, but I'm 396 00:26:24,300 --> 00:26:26,400 concerned that we're doing far less. 397 00:26:29,800 --> 00:26:34,900 I don't know that we're doing better with the overindulgence 398 00:26:34,900 --> 00:26:41,000 that we have. Heard of the missionary took 399 00:26:41,000 --> 00:26:44,300 bottles over to China, opened up the box, and they just throw 400 00:26:44,300 --> 00:26:48,000 themselves, just ripping at the. Some of them were only 401 00:26:48,000 --> 00:26:51,100 successful to get a page of the Bible and they would hold that 402 00:26:51,100 --> 00:26:54,500 page, all wrinkled and crumpled for years reading the one page 403 00:26:54,500 --> 00:26:59,900 of the Bible. I think sometimes we lose the 404 00:26:59,900 --> 00:27:09,200 value when we have over too much easily, acquired, No, we've got 405 00:27:09,200 --> 00:27:11,600 to gain a value for the things of the Kingdom. 406 00:27:11,600 --> 00:27:17,700 Once again, we've got to turn, our hearing are seeing into 407 00:27:17,700 --> 00:27:20,400 something more than just religious practice. 408 00:27:20,700 --> 00:27:24,000 We've got to turn our hearing and are seeing more than just 409 00:27:24,000 --> 00:27:26,600 sitting in a few look, checking our clocks. 410 00:27:27,300 --> 00:27:29,600 We've got to turn our Hearing in are seeing more than just 411 00:27:29,600 --> 00:27:33,800 jotting down, a few notes, but not applying the word, hiding 412 00:27:33,800 --> 00:27:36,500 the word in my heart that I might not sin against you. 413 00:27:39,300 --> 00:27:44,100 This Kingdom Rises, right? Let's look at this mystery. 414 00:27:44,200 --> 00:27:48,000 Romans chapter 11. Give you a few verses here. 415 00:27:51,100 --> 00:27:55,500 It's a mystery. How is it that we could be? 416 00:27:58,000 --> 00:28:03,500 Have so much access. But yet, still miss what's right 417 00:28:03,500 --> 00:28:08,100 in front of us. Romans 11:25, I do not desire 418 00:28:08,100 --> 00:28:10,600 Brethren that you should be ignorant of this mystery. 419 00:28:10,600 --> 00:28:14,700 Once a mystery lest you should be wise in your own opinion. 420 00:28:14,700 --> 00:28:17,500 The blindness in part has happened to Israel until the 421 00:28:17,500 --> 00:28:20,800 fullness of the Gentiles has come Paul writes. 422 00:28:20,800 --> 00:28:24,600 I do not want you to be ignorant of this mystery Ephesians 423 00:28:24,600 --> 00:28:29,400 chapter 1. Ephesians chapter 1 and verse 7. 424 00:28:31,800 --> 00:28:34,300 In him, we have Redemption through his blood, the 425 00:28:34,300 --> 00:28:37,000 Forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his 426 00:28:37,000 --> 00:28:40,200 grace that he richly poured out on us with all wisdom and 427 00:28:40,200 --> 00:28:42,100 understanding he made known to us. 428 00:28:42,100 --> 00:28:46,500 Everyone say it, the mystery of his will according to his good 429 00:28:46,500 --> 00:28:50,700 pleasure that he purposed in Christ as a plan, for the right 430 00:28:50,700 --> 00:28:53,700 time to bring everything. Together in Christ, both things 431 00:28:53,700 --> 00:28:59,000 in heaven and things on earth in him, Colossians chapter 1. 432 00:29:01,400 --> 00:29:06,200 Colossians chapter 1. And verse 24, I now rejoice in 433 00:29:06,200 --> 00:29:09,400 my sufferings for you, fill up in my flesh, what is lacking in 434 00:29:09,400 --> 00:29:11,600 the afflictions of Christ? For the sake of his body, which 435 00:29:11,600 --> 00:29:14,200 is the Church of which I became a minister according to the 436 00:29:14,200 --> 00:29:21,200 stewardship from God, which was given to me for you to fulfill 437 00:29:21,300 --> 00:29:25,900 the word of God, verse 26, the mystery, every once a mystery, 438 00:29:26,500 --> 00:29:31,200 which has been hidden, That's interesting. 439 00:29:31,200 --> 00:29:35,000 Why would he hide it? The mystery which has been 440 00:29:35,000 --> 00:29:37,700 hidden from ages and from Generations. 441 00:29:37,700 --> 00:29:42,300 But now has been revealed, not informed. 442 00:29:43,400 --> 00:29:47,600 Revealed. Will say, well, if it's been 443 00:29:47,600 --> 00:29:49,100 revealed, why don't we all see it? 444 00:29:49,100 --> 00:29:53,000 Because you have to yield to Revelation yielding. 445 00:29:53,000 --> 00:29:57,000 The Revelation is much different than yielding to information. 446 00:29:59,500 --> 00:30:01,500 That's what we're going to dive into. 447 00:30:05,800 --> 00:30:09,400 It says that it has now been revealed to his Saints, verse 448 00:30:09,400 --> 00:30:12,600 27, to them. God, willed, to make known. 449 00:30:12,600 --> 00:30:14,600 What's that? Tell me that I'm not missing the 450 00:30:14,600 --> 00:30:18,800 Revelation because God's with holding something I'm not 451 00:30:18,800 --> 00:30:22,300 missing the Revelation because God doesn't want me to see it 452 00:30:22,600 --> 00:30:25,500 because he's playing this hide and go seek this cat and mouse 453 00:30:25,500 --> 00:30:28,400 game of Catch Me. If You Can, you know, dangling, 454 00:30:28,400 --> 00:30:32,600 it out and do not yet know, there's something on our end, 455 00:30:32,600 --> 00:30:37,800 something on our part that either Clues Us in or keeps us 456 00:30:37,800 --> 00:30:41,700 on the outside. Of this mystery. 457 00:30:42,300 --> 00:30:47,700 God willed to make known what are the riches of the glory of 458 00:30:47,700 --> 00:30:50,900 this mystery, among the Gentiles, which is Christ in. 459 00:30:50,900 --> 00:30:57,000 You the hope of glory reading, this in the passion, translation 460 00:30:57,000 --> 00:31:00,300 versus beginning with verse 25, this is the very reason I've 461 00:31:00,300 --> 00:31:03,300 been made a minister by the authority of God and a servant 462 00:31:03,300 --> 00:31:08,400 to his body so that in his detailed plan, I would fully 463 00:31:08,400 --> 00:31:14,800 equip you It's the word of God. I'm so thankful of my legacy of 464 00:31:14,800 --> 00:31:17,800 my Heritage attending. Rhema Bible training College, 465 00:31:18,100 --> 00:31:21,000 when I did, and the value, they have for the word of God 466 00:31:21,000 --> 00:31:23,600 understanding that we are developing ministers. 467 00:31:23,600 --> 00:31:28,000 Not just to fill a Pulpit, not just to answer a vocation, not 468 00:31:28,000 --> 00:31:33,600 just to collect a paycheck, not just to gain an occupation or go 469 00:31:33,600 --> 00:31:36,200 into Ministry. This was a calling Upon Our 470 00:31:36,200 --> 00:31:39,500 Lives. This was an assignment that 471 00:31:39,800 --> 00:31:43,800 Outrun it I'll never be satisfied, doing anything else? 472 00:31:45,300 --> 00:31:49,200 But the power of it is in this, I fill this Pulpit. 473 00:31:49,200 --> 00:31:54,200 I operate in my role as a pastor to equip people with the word of 474 00:31:54,200 --> 00:31:57,100 God, equipping, the Saints for the work of ministry. 475 00:32:01,500 --> 00:32:04,200 Not collecting a check. I'm not appeasing people. 476 00:32:04,200 --> 00:32:05,800 I'm not saying things to, please. 477 00:32:05,800 --> 00:32:11,200 People are gaining crowd. Keep a crowd, get a crowd, those 478 00:32:11,200 --> 00:32:14,900 things, don't matter to me. I preach for one reason and one 479 00:32:14,900 --> 00:32:18,400 reason alone by the authority of God, a servant to the body, that 480 00:32:18,400 --> 00:32:21,700 is detailed plan. I would fulfill, I would fully 481 00:32:21,700 --> 00:32:26,200 equip you with the word of God and that's what Paul said was 482 00:32:26,200 --> 00:32:28,100 his mission. That was his assignment. 483 00:32:28,100 --> 00:32:36,200 He says there is a Divine mystery. a secret surprise that 484 00:32:36,200 --> 00:32:43,200 has been concealed from the world for Generations but now 485 00:32:43,700 --> 00:32:49,400 it's being revealed unfolded and manifested for every holy 486 00:32:49,400 --> 00:32:54,900 believer to experience living within you is the Christ who 487 00:32:54,900 --> 00:33:00,200 floods you with the expectation of Glory this mystery of Christ 488 00:33:00,200 --> 00:33:04,500 embedded Within In US becomes a Heavenly Treasure Chest, every 489 00:33:04,500 --> 00:33:09,200 once a treasure chest of Hope, filled with the riches of Glory 490 00:33:09,200 --> 00:33:13,900 for his people and God wants everyone to know it. 491 00:33:15,200 --> 00:33:19,400 God wants everyone to know it. He wants. 492 00:33:19,400 --> 00:33:23,700 You say that with me. Stay God wants me to know the 493 00:33:23,700 --> 00:33:27,000 mystery. Say it again, say God wants me 494 00:33:27,800 --> 00:33:32,200 to know the mystery, he's not hiding it from you, he's hiding 495 00:33:32,200 --> 00:33:38,300 it for you. He's not withholding, you know. 496 00:33:38,300 --> 00:33:42,600 Member that was the, the nature of the stake in Genesis chapter 497 00:33:42,600 --> 00:33:46,000 3 questioning and challenging than Picture of God. 498 00:33:46,000 --> 00:33:48,400 God is withholding something from did God. 499 00:33:48,400 --> 00:33:53,100 Surely say. No, he knows that if you eat of 500 00:33:53,100 --> 00:33:55,500 the fruit of that tree you'll become like him. 501 00:33:56,300 --> 00:33:58,800 Knowing good. He's keeping something from you. 502 00:34:04,700 --> 00:34:08,000 We've all either been in the state ourselves or know someone 503 00:34:08,000 --> 00:34:10,400 that has been that has made this statement. 504 00:34:10,400 --> 00:34:14,300 I know there's more come on. If that's you at any point in 505 00:34:14,300 --> 00:34:17,000 your life, your walk with the Lord use you made the there's 506 00:34:17,000 --> 00:34:20,199 got to be more, there's got to be more Pastor Daryl just said 507 00:34:20,199 --> 00:34:23,800 that last night is own personal testimony, as a young college 508 00:34:23,800 --> 00:34:26,000 student in Tennessee. That know, there's got to be 509 00:34:26,000 --> 00:34:29,800 more than just good living by this life, trying to be as good 510 00:34:29,800 --> 00:34:33,400 of a person as I can win as many people to Christ as I can. 511 00:34:35,000 --> 00:34:39,900 There's gotta be more. And guess what God is saying? 512 00:34:39,900 --> 00:34:45,100 There is more and I've hidden it for you and there is a way for 513 00:34:45,100 --> 00:34:48,800 you to tap into the Revelation power. 514 00:34:48,800 --> 00:34:52,300 So you won't just merely be informed of my kingdom. 515 00:34:52,400 --> 00:34:55,699 You will be empowered in the Kingdom to literally walk it 516 00:34:55,699 --> 00:34:57,200 out, demonstrate it live, it out. 517 00:34:58,900 --> 00:35:00,900 But it's only going to come through revelation. 518 00:35:03,800 --> 00:35:06,900 The word mystery literally means this the Greek word mystery 519 00:35:06,900 --> 00:35:11,700 here, it means a secret thing. It means a hidden thing. 520 00:35:15,000 --> 00:35:19,900 A secret thing, a hidden thing. We already made this statement 521 00:35:19,900 --> 00:35:22,700 and mystery is not discovered through information, it is 522 00:35:22,700 --> 00:35:29,000 discovered through revelation. And if I understand truly that 523 00:35:29,000 --> 00:35:32,200 the degree of the Kingdom being exhibited in my life, the 524 00:35:32,200 --> 00:35:36,400 capacity to which I live the kingdom life is directly, 525 00:35:36,500 --> 00:35:40,700 directly correlates it is either enhanced or limited by my 526 00:35:40,700 --> 00:35:44,900 ability to see this mystery than I want to go after this mystery 527 00:35:44,900 --> 00:35:50,800 with everything that I have. I want to go after this mystery. 528 00:35:50,900 --> 00:35:54,000 I don't ever want to come to church just going through the 529 00:35:54,000 --> 00:35:56,000 motions. I don't ever want to sit in a 530 00:35:56,008 --> 00:35:59,000 conference, listen to a podcast. Put the word of God on. 531 00:35:59,000 --> 00:36:04,400 I never want to go into my daily devotion time with just casual 532 00:36:04,500 --> 00:36:07,100 passive. Just trying to check a box and 533 00:36:07,100 --> 00:36:09,100 get it done. I will never approach it. 534 00:36:09,100 --> 00:36:12,600 That way, again, there's gonna have to be an urgency. 535 00:36:12,600 --> 00:36:14,400 There's gonna have to be an intentionality. 536 00:36:14,500 --> 00:36:19,300 There's gonna have to be a fervency about which we Honor 537 00:36:19,300 --> 00:36:24,400 value in go after the word of God, it has to be a treasure. 538 00:36:27,100 --> 00:36:30,300 It has to be a treasure Matthew chapter 13. 539 00:36:32,700 --> 00:36:36,000 I'm going to Pace myself, because I've got three sessions 540 00:36:36,000 --> 00:36:42,700 to build on this. He says, you can't even see the 541 00:36:42,700 --> 00:36:45,600 kingdom of God unless you're born again. 542 00:36:46,200 --> 00:36:50,000 Noting that being born again, ought to be marked by seeing 543 00:36:50,000 --> 00:36:54,100 hearing and entering into his kingdom. 544 00:36:58,600 --> 00:37:02,100 Matthew Chapter 13. The parable of the sower. 545 00:37:02,400 --> 00:37:05,600 Jesus says that, if you don't understand this Parable, you 546 00:37:05,600 --> 00:37:06,900 won't understand all the Parables. 547 00:37:06,900 --> 00:37:11,800 Any other Parables, it's a very important concept and principle 548 00:37:11,900 --> 00:37:14,900 and element that he's trying to help get across in how we 549 00:37:14,900 --> 00:37:20,500 receive the word of God. And how we receive here, see 550 00:37:21,400 --> 00:37:23,800 this mystery that we're talking about. 551 00:37:24,600 --> 00:37:29,300 And up through verse 9, Jesus is talking to the multitudes, he's 552 00:37:29,300 --> 00:37:32,800 talking to the multitudes and he makes a statement, you know, 553 00:37:32,800 --> 00:37:36,100 regarding a soldier goes to, so the word of God, right? 554 00:37:36,100 --> 00:37:39,100 We know that he sews the seed on four different types of ground. 555 00:37:39,100 --> 00:37:42,300 This is Kingdom rise. I know that, you know, this, you 556 00:37:42,300 --> 00:37:44,900 got the Stony ground, the thorny ground. 557 00:37:44,900 --> 00:37:48,500 You got the one that starts to bring forth, but it gets, you 558 00:37:48,500 --> 00:37:51,100 know, burned up by the sunlight and the elements and all those 559 00:37:51,100 --> 00:37:54,000 things and then you got the good soil, the good ground now, 560 00:37:54,100 --> 00:37:57,200 Becomes productive. It reaps the Harvest thirty 561 00:37:57,200 --> 00:37:59,600 sixty, and a hundredfold, right? We know this. 562 00:38:00,500 --> 00:38:06,300 Well, look at this, in verse 10, Verses 1 through 9, he gives the 563 00:38:06,300 --> 00:38:10,200 parable verse 10 and the disciples came and said to him. 564 00:38:10,300 --> 00:38:13,400 Why do you speak to them in parables? 565 00:38:14,900 --> 00:38:18,200 Why do you speak to them in Parables? 566 00:38:18,800 --> 00:38:22,500 This is Jesus response. He answered and said to them 567 00:38:23,100 --> 00:38:26,900 because it has been given to you to know. 568 00:38:26,900 --> 00:38:29,100 Here it is. The Mysteries. 569 00:38:29,100 --> 00:38:33,200 Everyone say, Mysteries, the mysteries of the kingdom of 570 00:38:33,200 --> 00:38:41,400 heaven, but watch this, he says, but to them, It has not to you. 571 00:38:41,900 --> 00:38:48,300 It's been given the capacity to know the Mysteries what the 572 00:38:48,300 --> 00:38:51,600 secret things. Those hidden things. 573 00:38:51,600 --> 00:38:56,800 Those things that are not easily received easily just laying 574 00:38:56,800 --> 00:38:59,100 around for anyone to come. Pick it up. 575 00:39:02,400 --> 00:39:05,700 It's amazing that Jesus would draw a line here, the the 576 00:39:06,200 --> 00:39:10,300 inclusive Jesus, right? The everybody's allowed, the all 577 00:39:10,300 --> 00:39:13,700 accepting the all loving. Jesus draws, a line of says 578 00:39:13,700 --> 00:39:19,400 there's an us and then there's a them and you have found your way 579 00:39:19,500 --> 00:39:22,400 on the side of the US conversation. 580 00:39:22,900 --> 00:39:25,100 He just got done preaching to a multitude. 581 00:39:25,100 --> 00:39:30,700 A multitude could be thousands, tens of thousands of people and 582 00:39:30,700 --> 00:39:33,100 his disciples Those closest to him. 583 00:39:33,100 --> 00:39:37,200 Come and say, why do you talk to them in these parables? 584 00:39:38,500 --> 00:39:41,800 Now for the longest time I preached and I understood it 585 00:39:41,900 --> 00:39:43,800 this way and there's an element of truth to it. 586 00:39:43,800 --> 00:39:48,700 That Jesus used Parables as a way to illustrate unseen things 587 00:39:48,900 --> 00:39:51,200 and that's a true statements that teaching element. 588 00:39:52,200 --> 00:39:55,900 But Jesus actually reveals a deeper thinking, a deeper 589 00:39:55,900 --> 00:40:01,100 understanding of why these Parables were such a useful tool 590 00:40:01,100 --> 00:40:03,900 to his. And he says this, I was actually 591 00:40:03,900 --> 00:40:10,700 using a parable to conceal a thing to hide a thing. 592 00:40:12,700 --> 00:40:20,300 To keep something a mystery. Again, this is the all inclusive 593 00:40:20,300 --> 00:40:24,200 Jesus. Jesus wanted to get his message 594 00:40:24,200 --> 00:40:28,800 out, he sure did but he was also careful of how he portrayed in 595 00:40:28,800 --> 00:40:32,300 how he delivered it. And in such a way that unless 596 00:40:32,300 --> 00:40:36,700 you desire to know you wouldn't know and this is this is what 597 00:40:36,700 --> 00:40:39,800 Jesus did with Parables. If you don't want to know, I'll 598 00:40:39,800 --> 00:40:49,100 make sure you don't know. And this is what we're going to 599 00:40:49,108 --> 00:40:52,100 spend some time, just discovering. 600 00:40:53,300 --> 00:40:56,400 If you don't want to know, he'll make sure you don't know. 601 00:40:56,500 --> 00:41:00,500 And it's actually guys it's actually the mercy of God 602 00:41:00,800 --> 00:41:04,500 because the second you know, you become accountable for what, you 603 00:41:04,500 --> 00:41:07,200 know. It's actually him withholding 604 00:41:07,200 --> 00:41:09,800 and saying I'm going to hold this back because I know you're 605 00:41:09,800 --> 00:41:12,900 not ready to say, yes, you're not ready to yield, you're not 606 00:41:12,900 --> 00:41:15,600 ready to respond in like manner. You're not even told his 607 00:41:15,608 --> 00:41:18,600 disciples one time. There's one there's More things. 608 00:41:18,600 --> 00:41:23,700 I would love to share with you. But you can't, it's my mercy 609 00:41:23,700 --> 00:41:27,800 upon your life that I don't burn burden you with this and put 610 00:41:27,800 --> 00:41:30,000 this upon you. When you can't bear these things 611 00:41:32,300 --> 00:41:37,400 multitude can't bear it. But to you, he says to you, it's 612 00:41:37,400 --> 00:41:41,900 been given To know the Mysteries to know the mystery. 613 00:41:41,900 --> 00:41:45,300 Say that say I can know. The Mysteries say I will know 614 00:41:45,300 --> 00:41:48,600 the mistress. He says in verse 12, here it is 615 00:41:48,600 --> 00:41:54,700 for whoever has to him, more will be given And he will have 616 00:41:54,700 --> 00:41:58,900 an abundance, doesn't that doesn't sound fair, does it? 617 00:41:59,500 --> 00:42:03,200 He goes on to say, whoever does not have gets worse. 618 00:42:04,300 --> 00:42:09,100 Even what he has will be taken. This is a very weird system. 619 00:42:12,100 --> 00:42:18,300 The one that has Will be given more and it's very clear not 620 00:42:18,300 --> 00:42:23,300 just to meet a threshold. He will have an abundance a 621 00:42:23,300 --> 00:42:27,900 large Supply never in life. Would you like to live your 622 00:42:27,900 --> 00:42:32,800 life, never lacking Revelation, knowing the will of God and 623 00:42:32,800 --> 00:42:35,300 abundance. This is what we've been 624 00:42:35,300 --> 00:42:38,900 preaching. All year at Valdosta Interfaith 625 00:42:38,900 --> 00:42:41,500 Church Valdosta. This is the year of abundant 626 00:42:41,500 --> 00:42:44,300 clarity. It's not just enough to get me 627 00:42:44,300 --> 00:42:48,100 over not just barely cutting it or abundance of clay. 628 00:42:48,100 --> 00:42:49,700 Am I right? Have we been ministering? 629 00:42:49,700 --> 00:42:51,900 This guy. So my Valdosta people and in the 630 00:42:51,900 --> 00:42:54,800 house we've been ministering, we will know clearly. 631 00:42:54,800 --> 00:42:57,800 No no guessing. No wondering, no, hoping no 632 00:42:57,800 --> 00:43:04,400 wishing taking a chance. We will know abundantly with 633 00:43:04,400 --> 00:43:08,000 Clarity. The revealed will of God. 634 00:43:09,800 --> 00:43:15,600 But to him, who doesn't have. The all-loving god. 635 00:43:16,800 --> 00:43:21,500 That even what he doesn't have. Will be taken away. 636 00:43:22,300 --> 00:43:27,000 It's a perplexing verse. It doesn't make sense. 637 00:43:28,000 --> 00:43:31,000 If he doesn't have how can he do to, how can something be taken 638 00:43:31,000 --> 00:43:34,800 away? What's he taking away? 639 00:43:34,800 --> 00:43:42,000 If he doesn't have whoever has to him, more will be given, and 640 00:43:42,000 --> 00:43:44,500 he will have abundance. Whoever does not have. 641 00:43:44,800 --> 00:43:48,400 Even what he has will be taken away from him. 642 00:43:48,900 --> 00:43:54,400 Therefore, you know, when you see the word, therefore, you got 643 00:43:54,400 --> 00:44:01,900 to find out what it's there for. Therefore, I speak to them in 644 00:44:01,900 --> 00:44:07,300 Parables because seeing they do not see and hearing they do not 645 00:44:07,300 --> 00:44:09,100 hear you saying, I can't make it plain. 646 00:44:10,300 --> 00:44:11,900 I can't just leave it on the surface. 647 00:44:11,900 --> 00:44:15,100 He put it this way in another location. 648 00:44:15,100 --> 00:44:19,200 He said I don't cast Pearls Before Swine, I don't take 649 00:44:19,200 --> 00:44:24,200 something valuable. Meaning this, if you won't honor 650 00:44:24,200 --> 00:44:27,900 the value, I'm not giving you a discount. 651 00:44:31,200 --> 00:44:34,300 You ever try to buy someone something from someone where 652 00:44:34,300 --> 00:44:37,200 they knew the value understood the worth of something and 653 00:44:37,200 --> 00:44:39,200 they're not budging, they're not coming off. 654 00:44:40,800 --> 00:44:44,600 There's no bargaining. There's no, if it's not that 655 00:44:44,600 --> 00:44:48,400 valuable to you than pass you on by other, somebody will see the 656 00:44:48,400 --> 00:44:51,400 Worthen. See when you discover your words 657 00:44:51,400 --> 00:45:00,000 will stop giving people discounts, okay, Jesus knew the 658 00:45:00,000 --> 00:45:04,400 worth He said I this is too valuable to just leave on the 659 00:45:04,400 --> 00:45:09,500 surface. There's this, this is there's 660 00:45:09,900 --> 00:45:13,400 too much worse than this. Just leave it laying around. 661 00:45:13,400 --> 00:45:17,300 Casually for a casual, passerby to come by. 662 00:45:17,400 --> 00:45:20,100 No, you're going to have to show some intentionality. 663 00:45:22,700 --> 00:45:26,500 And if you have the urgency, you'll be given more and you'll 664 00:45:26,500 --> 00:45:31,200 be, you'll have an abundance. but here's the thing, if you 665 00:45:31,200 --> 00:45:36,200 don't have the want to Then even what you have will be taken 666 00:45:36,200 --> 00:45:37,200 away. What does that mean? 667 00:45:37,300 --> 00:45:46,100 That you'll even lose the capacity to hear If you want 668 00:45:46,100 --> 00:45:50,900 here, then you'll eventually not even be able to hear. 669 00:45:53,000 --> 00:45:56,200 And he describes this and he actually says this is actually 670 00:45:57,300 --> 00:46:01,800 prophetically spoken by Isaiah. Verse 14. 671 00:46:03,800 --> 00:46:06,600 Hearing you will hear and shall not understand. 672 00:46:07,700 --> 00:46:12,100 Seeing you will see and not perceive for the hearts of this. 673 00:46:12,100 --> 00:46:19,700 People have grown dull. That means not only, not only 674 00:46:19,700 --> 00:46:23,600 that, you won't hear, you've lost the ability to hear. 675 00:46:25,800 --> 00:46:27,900 The writer of Hebrews addresses. This is well. 676 00:46:30,500 --> 00:46:32,800 He says, there's many more things that would love to bring 677 00:46:32,800 --> 00:46:35,400 to you. Speak to you. 678 00:46:37,100 --> 00:46:41,200 But you can't bear them because you have grown dull in your 679 00:46:41,200 --> 00:46:43,600 hearing. Paul addressed. 680 00:46:43,600 --> 00:46:45,700 This with the first current, the church in 1st Corinthians 681 00:46:45,700 --> 00:46:48,800 chapter 3, many more things. I'd love to share with you. 682 00:46:48,800 --> 00:46:50,600 I cannot speak to you as to spiritual. 683 00:46:52,300 --> 00:46:56,700 But as to Babe's, Because you do not have the capacity to receive 684 00:46:56,700 --> 00:46:59,700 what I want to deliver. It's not on me and I'm not 685 00:46:59,700 --> 00:47:01,900 withholding it. But you do not, you do not have 686 00:47:01,900 --> 00:47:05,600 the capacity to receive. So not only have you not, not 687 00:47:05,600 --> 00:47:07,800 only do you not want to hear now? 688 00:47:07,800 --> 00:47:10,500 You are losing the capacity to hear. 689 00:47:11,700 --> 00:47:15,000 Even what you have will be taken away to him. 690 00:47:15,000 --> 00:47:19,600 Who does not have Revelation, even what he has the capacity to 691 00:47:19,608 --> 00:47:21,900 receive Revelation. He'll lose that too. 692 00:47:26,200 --> 00:47:28,800 Well, and here, and try to connect it next week. 693 00:47:28,900 --> 00:47:35,100 Romans chapter 10. We've read this verse time and 694 00:47:35,100 --> 00:47:39,800 time again. But as usual, what we fail to 695 00:47:39,800 --> 00:47:44,400 understand, we redefined it says, faith comes by hearing. 696 00:47:45,900 --> 00:47:53,800 And hearing by the word of God. you know, I think that we have, 697 00:47:54,400 --> 00:47:58,400 you know, not intentionally, But we tend to read it this way. 698 00:47:58,400 --> 00:48:01,900 So, faith comes by hearing. I mean, I've preached it, that 699 00:48:01,900 --> 00:48:05,200 way, if you hear the word, you'll stir up Faith. 700 00:48:05,200 --> 00:48:09,200 Build up, faith in you That's not what it says. 701 00:48:10,600 --> 00:48:16,400 It says, faith comes by hearing. But hearing or put it to you, 702 00:48:16,400 --> 00:48:20,300 this way, the ability the capacity to hear. 703 00:48:21,900 --> 00:48:27,400 That comes by the word of God. If I don't have a value for the 704 00:48:27,400 --> 00:48:31,400 word, if I don't honor the word, if I don't have a urgency for 705 00:48:31,400 --> 00:48:36,000 the word, I'll lose the ability to hear losing the ability to 706 00:48:36,000 --> 00:48:38,400 hear. Look, I lose the capacity to 707 00:48:38,400 --> 00:48:41,300 build my faith. You got to see the connection. 708 00:48:42,400 --> 00:48:45,300 Faith comes by hearing, you can put a period there you build 709 00:48:45,300 --> 00:48:50,000 faith, in, whatever you here. I can put Faith In God's word or 710 00:48:50,000 --> 00:48:53,500 I can put Faith in CNN. I can put Faith In God's word. 711 00:48:53,500 --> 00:48:56,400 I could put Faith in the doctor's report, I can put Faith 712 00:48:56,400 --> 00:48:58,400 In God's word, or I could put Faith in the bank account, 713 00:48:58,400 --> 00:49:00,700 whatever, you're entertaining your empowering. 714 00:49:05,900 --> 00:49:08,000 So becomes a matter of what am I entertaining? 715 00:49:08,900 --> 00:49:10,400 What am I keeping in front of me? 716 00:49:10,700 --> 00:49:14,000 What do I treat? As valuable, as honorable as 717 00:49:14,000 --> 00:49:19,900 worth my time and energy. I got a note, I'm not in my 718 00:49:19,900 --> 00:49:23,300 church so I can say this. I got a few of our people but 719 00:49:23,300 --> 00:49:27,900 two weeks ago, not yesterday but last Sunday got a note Monday 720 00:49:27,900 --> 00:49:30,300 morning in the tithe and offering. 721 00:49:32,600 --> 00:49:38,200 Got a little note. Pastor Mark, I love your 722 00:49:38,200 --> 00:49:44,300 messages but once again you have gone over an hour and now I end 723 00:49:44,300 --> 00:49:49,100 up leaving service bitter and offended rather than encouraged. 724 00:49:49,300 --> 00:49:51,000 I will not be attending any longer. 725 00:49:54,600 --> 00:49:58,600 Isn't that hilarious? First thing I thought was 726 00:49:58,600 --> 00:50:01,100 apparently I didn't go long enough, you still didn't get it. 727 00:50:03,300 --> 00:50:10,800 Needed to go another hour. No, it's when we learn to Value, 728 00:50:12,100 --> 00:50:14,400 if you don't treat this as honorable don't waste your time, 729 00:50:14,400 --> 00:50:17,300 don't waste mine. It's that simple. 730 00:50:18,000 --> 00:50:22,700 I'd hate to waste your time. but just, as Paul said, in his 731 00:50:22,700 --> 00:50:27,200 assignment, I'm commissioned to fully equip you with the word of 732 00:50:27,200 --> 00:50:32,500 God, if it takes 32 minutes, if it takes 50 minutes, if it takes 733 00:50:32,500 --> 00:50:37,700 an hour and 10 minutes, I ministered for over 2 hours in 734 00:50:37,700 --> 00:50:41,600 Nicaragua and they hated it when I was done and I was only done 735 00:50:41,600 --> 00:50:43,800 because I had to because we had to move on to the next day. 736 00:50:43,900 --> 00:50:46,600 I go to a third world country, they'll sit on a lawn chair. 737 00:50:50,100 --> 00:50:54,200 We got too comfortable in two convenient and we wonder why we 738 00:50:54,200 --> 00:50:56,000 don't know the revealed will of God. 739 00:50:56,400 --> 00:50:58,600 We wonder why we don't understand his purpose and his 740 00:50:58,600 --> 00:51:00,600 plan. We underwent, I don't understand 741 00:51:00,600 --> 00:51:02,800 why we don't see the demonstrations that Jesus all. 742 00:51:02,800 --> 00:51:06,400 When you value the things, the way Jesus values it, you'll get 743 00:51:06,400 --> 00:51:09,900 the results Jesus God, we'll finish tomorrow. 744 00:51:24,700 --> 00:51:26,900 Thank you so much for listening to this message. 745 00:51:26,900 --> 00:51:30,400 If you want more subscribe to our message podcast on iTunes, 746 00:51:30,400 --> 00:51:33,500 Google play Spotify and SoundCloud rating and leaving a 747 00:51:33,508 --> 00:51:35,600 comment and go a long way with helping our messages. 748 00:51:35,600 --> 00:51:38,400 Get better circulation. If you'd enjoy watching our 749 00:51:38,400 --> 00:51:41,100 weekend messages. Visit youtube.com forward slash 750 00:51:41,100 --> 00:51:43,900 anchor Faith, we'd love it. 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