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Now enjoy this message. But we want to be able to say
things that will cause you to grow.
Now with that, turn over to Second Peter Chapter 3.
This is not a shocking statement.
This is just repetition. In second Peter chapter 3,
starting in verse one, it says this is now beloved.
The 2nd letter Peter says I'm writing to you in which I am
stirring up your sincere mind by way of reminder or remembrance
depending on which translation you're reading.
Verse two says that you should remember.
Say, remember. Say remember.
Do you understand this is your biggest problem?
Come on husbands, how many times have you used this on your wife?
When she asked you, did you do something?
You said oh I forgot or I did not remember.
Come on now, just be honest. And multiple times this becomes
the excuse of most people. This is why I'm a little
skeptical when people come to to the church, whether it's through
Washington Treasure Harbor, Preschool, you know, the Cafe,
the church in general, whether it's some area ministry that
someone says, oh, I didn't know that.
No one told me that, that when I hear stuff like that, I'm
thinking Nah. They just chose not to remember
because I realize how much we actually communicate that when
someone acts like they're oblivious, I become a little
skeptical of that process. Just like husbands, our wives
are skeptical when we say, I don't remember you saying that.
Is that not what we've said? Yeah, I've said it on more than
one. I don't.
I don't remember you saying that.
And it usually follows with this.
But I did, Right. So again, our wives call that
selective hearing. We're only wanting to hear what
we want to hear, you know, And the rest of it, we tuned out,
you know, because all of a sudden, my wife turned into
Charlie Brown's teacher. Wah wah, wah, wah, wah
concerning that subject, but we do this with the Lord and Peter
was wise enough. I could go to a letter that Paul
wrote, writes to Timothy concerning this, but I'll stay
focused on this particular one that we are to remember.
He said that you should remember the word spoken beforehand by
the holy prophets and the commandments of our Lord and
Savior spoken by your apostles. So he's given reference here
that I'm trying to get you to remember something you've
already heard because what you've already heard has the
ability to keep you somewhere, strengthen you, grow you.
But if you're not remembering, in essence, Peter saying, I
don't need to tell you something new.
I need to remind you of something you already know.
Because what you already know you need to continue in.
And yet we've kind of have this psyche in our mindset if we
don't watch out as 'cause, you know, our public school system
has taught us this is that we, we study the night before a test
in order to pass the test with a passing grade.
That's all that matters. Just pass.
Then we do not remember that information because the test is
over. Let's go on to the next thing.
And as the teacher is talking, we're really not technically
listening, right? I mean, there's very few people
that are really studious. Let's just be honest.
And I was one of those people in high school.
I was not studious. I just happened to be able to
retain information. Well, OK, I could do that.
I mean, where I would have been if I had been really a studier
because some people can naturally do well.
Others they really study and still struggle because they, you
know, it's just not one of their expertise per SE in a particular
subject of what the case may be. But you know, many of us, we
were more concerned, and this is long before the social media
stuff that we have today. We were more concerned about
where our friends were and what was going in between class than
what was going on in class, which means then we're
conditioned when we get in church, the same thing.
You're more concerned about talking to that person in the
four year before service and after service.
Then you are about what's going on right now in service.
And then you only want to be able to talk about the the
issues or the subjects that we've ministered when the test
comes. Oh, now what?
Now what? It's test time.
Tomorrow it's a test. All of a sudden I'm being
attacked. There's a test.
OK, what do I need? I need a cram for the exam.
Then once it's over, what do we do?
We don't think about it anymore and we wait.
We don't think about sickness and disease.
We don't even talk over our bodies that were healthy and
healed. We have no cocktails.
It attacks. Then we cram.
We want to get past the test. We finally get past the test and
then we don't think about it anymore.
Same thing. We get financial straits.
We don't want to. We all of a sudden say what do
we do? We start being a giver.
We're doing what we need to do. Then all of a sudden we get past
that and we forget and we don't apply those principles.
Now when I say that we're talking about the majority of
people, but not at Anchor Fate Church.
At Anchor Fate Church, we are doers.
We'll talk about that a little bit more.
Verse three says no, this first of all, that in the last days
mockers will come and they're mocking, following after their
own lusts. So Peter is warning, listen, I
need to stir up your memory. I need you to remember things
you've already heard, because in the last days there are people
who will mock truth and they will try to turn truth to their
own lust. They'll try to convince you that
their truth will. It should be your truth because
they have a truth You can have, a truth they may not match, but
ultimately you should really come over to mine.
When anyone says this is my truth, it won't be long before
they're trying to convince you that their truth is truth
because nobody just accepts their personal truth.
They're trying to convince people that their personal truth
should be your truth because ultimately your truth and my
truth could be a conflict. However, Christ or the Holy
Spirit is the truth, He's the spirit of truth, period.
All right, so First Timothy 41, we use this at the beginning of
the year. I'm going to read out the good
God's Word translation. He says the Spirit says clearly
that in latter times some believers will desert the
Christian faith. They will follow spirits that
deceive, and they will believe the teachings of demons.
Now in January we lost our year with the reigning spirit.
It's July, how are you raining? It's July, how are you raining?
Have you taken an assessment? Has the spirit in you been
raining and have you been raining because you have the
reigning spirit or has something already happened in February,
March, April, May, June that all of a sudden you're on the ropes,
you're entertaining other thoughts, you're thinking other
things. I would love to be able to just
teach a subject one time and it stick, but we understand that
just doesn't happen. However, unfortunately, when I
repeat subjects, if we don't hear right, then the reality,
the repetition of the subject isn't making anyone better
because again, we're conditioned.
I've already taken that test. I got to be.
I'm going on, give me something else, give me something else,
give me something else. Yet Peter's like, look, you need
to be reminded of what you already know because you're not
passionate about. Remember when you first heard
again, not picking on Sabrina, but she's already has this
little thought. And this is not negative, but
notice how she said when they said we've never heard it.
She goes, Oh, that's just now I understand she not downplaying
it, but for her I it's what I've heard and know now, as opposed
to Oh, you've never heard right, because it's not just the
Kingdom, it's the Kingdom. Oh, it's oh, you don't know the
Kingdom. Oh, you need to know the
Kingdom. You need to know the kingdom's
something. The kingdom's what it's all
about. It's what the whole Bible's
about. It's about a king, his Kingdom
and his royal offspring. It's an amazing thing.
His Kingdom. It's an amazing who God is as
the King of everything, how he saved our lives, brought us into
his Kingdom, made us his all seed us, is in heavenly places,
put his spirit in US. It's an amazing thing, this
Kingdom that we're in. But again, for you to take that
kind of attitude, you have to stir yourself up and remind
yourself of how amazing this Kingdom you're functioning in.
Because what can happen is is you can get so natural in a
supernatural sense that you don't even take in account how
awesome this really is. Amen.
So we need to ask ourselves again, coming back to the
reigning spirit, are we functioning with this reigning
spirit now? What does it mean to have the
reigning spirit again? Since we've started January,
we've had a lot of guests come in, new people.
There are more people coming in this summer.
Then, you know, it's a little deceiving because people are on
vacation. So, you know, we got some pretty
good amount of seats still. People are in and out.
But man, when this fall hits, all of a sudden everyone's going
to kind of come. And we traditionally speaking,
it just tends to happen in this way that when school hits right
after Labor Day, it's like everybody packs in and we're
going to have one of those spike services where it seemed like
everybody decided to, almost everybody decided to come to
church at the same time. That would be an amazing day.
But it still has not occurred. OK.
Now, with that being said, then you're going to be going, what?
Where did all these people? How did we get so crowded?
Well, people are cycling now. People are coming in, which
means there are people who are coming in that haven't heard
what you've heard. And if I do not say what you
know to them, because when I say Kingdom, for many you're like, I
got that. But for others, that's heaven
because for many of you, that's what it was.
You didn't realize the Bible's about a Kingdom.
You didn't realize it was about a literal government where the
king rules and reigns. But once we begin to break
things down properly, then we are reminded.
But I love to preach the Kingdom because the Kingdom will always
keep you in the position of lordship because it's easy when
you start to kind of let go of the Kingdom lens that you'll let
go of the lordship of Jesus and you'll fall back to, I love the
Savior because it exposes. We don't want to be told.
It exposes we don't want to be told what to do and even with
Jesus, Amen. Man, I'm telling you, it'd be
tough if Jesus was standing in a pulpit today, it'd be tough.
Notice what Jesus did not do. The rich on ruler came to him
and said, man, what do I got to do?
I mean, most past should be jumping.
Praise God, this is a wealthy guy.
He's coming to my church. He's got all this kind of
influence and he wants to know how to be born again.
Oh man, this is amazing. Jesus says sell everything you
have, give to the porn, Come follow me.
The guy hangs his head and leaves.
Most pastors would say, OK, what do you need to hear so I can
keep you? I'm sorry, maybe you know what?
I don't want it to be so hard that it's that you feel like you
can't accomplish this. So let's do baby steps.
Jesus never ran down the rich young ruler.
He never compromised his message.
He never went and said, and here's the crazy thing, the rich
young ruler could not be born again.
Yet he did not say, OK, let me give him a truth he can handle.
If you can't handle the simplicity of lordship, then
you're not handling anything in the church because as long as
your life is your own, then you're not going to access the
Kingdom. Say Amen anyway.
Hallelujah. And again, we are without
excuse. We have the reigning spirit.
This dispensation we're in is an amazing dispensation because
those that preceded us, other than Adam, the first Adam, we
are living in a fullness that no other generation other than Adam
and Eve have never lived in it. We are and there will be a
generation that will do more, will be in something more than
us and that is when Jesus returns to the earth and he
reigns on the earth where people will be born again, have the
Spirit of God within them and can physically see Jesus.
That's pretty amazing. We are in that one, ours is.
We live it by faith. We do not physically see Jesus,
but we know him by the Spirit. We know him by the Word.
We know we're alive unto God. We are new creature in Christ.
The Holy Spirit lives on earth. It's an amazing time to live.
In fact, man, those clouds of witnesses that are looking over
like if only I had had that, I was in the earth, if I had only
had that, if I had only been able to live in that capacity
that way. Oh, the advantages you have is
what they're saying, not. Oh, and the advantage is not you
can do anything sinful and it doesn't matter because Christ
paid the paid the price. That is not what they're saying.
They're saying you are alive to God.
We were not. You have the Holy Spirit in you
and upon you. We only had it upon the
prophets, the priests and the kings.
Us regular people never had it. And yet you have the spirit
within the spirit upon your spirit's changed.
You know your royalty, you know that you submitted to the King.
You have the third person of the Godhead on what is the problem?
How is sin even an issue? Because when you have a reigning
spirit like, hey, you're like, what issue?
Come on, what issue? What issue do we have?
We have no issues. Go ahead, look at you and say I
have no issues. We have no issues.
Jesus has destroyed your victim card, destroyed it, burned it,
crucified, nailed it to the cross, completely exposed it.
You are without excuse. And you know who else's victim
card he's? He's destroyed the ones that are
still outside his Kingdom. They don't have an excuse
either. He's like, I've wiped it all
out. So we need to carry our victor
card. Come on, we are victors.
What issue do we even have? We don't even have an issue
because when issues come, they have to go, man.
We have the reigning spirit. Hallelujah.
The Lord was intentional after the fall of Adam, because when
God made man in his image according to his likeness, He
gave him dominion or rule. But when Adam ate the fruit, he
should have never eaten. Because God said you want to
prove you love me, don't eat this one tree.
You can have the rest because I love you and I provided for you.
I do what I say, so I'm asking you to do what I say.
So don't eat this fruit, cause the day you eat you'll die.
And when Adam ate the fruit, death came into the earth.
He get he abdicated his rulership and throne.
He gave his dominion to the devil.
The devil received his dominion or his rule, but did not receive
his likeness. The devil did not transform into
the image of man, but he did receive his authority.
That's why the Bible says in 2nd Corinthians 4 four that he's
was, is considered the God of this world.
He's the the one who's in authority.
He's the one who is controlling the systems of the world, the
things of darkness. He is the leader, he is the
king. He is the king of of darkness.
He is the king of, of disobedience.
He is the father of lies. But God, I said, but God being
rich in his mercy, said my seed is corrupted because of the
first Adam. I'll have to bring another seed.
And we see this in Genesis chapter 3, verse 15.
The the amplified says it this way.
And I will put enmity, open hostility, say open hostility.
I mean, if you don't have open hostility towards the things of
the devil, this is a problem. He said.
I will put enmity, open hostility between you, that's
the serpent and the woman between your seed.
That's the offspring of the devil and her seed.
Notice it doesn't say seeds, it says seed.
He shall fatally bruise your head and you shall only bruise
his heel. Now I love this translation.
It says it this way really pretty awesome because it really
gives a great illustration of what Jesus is what is being done
in the the latter part of this first because again, when we
hear that he will crush your head, but you'll bruise his heel
and we always think a bruise in the heel is that you know, he
would he bore by his stripes. He bore sickness and disease.
You know the devil you know, put him on a cross.
That's the bruising. But really look at this context
is even more clear. This translation says that this
way I do not know what it is. It's the ABP plus and it means
this and hatred will be put between you and between the
woman between your seed and and be her seed.
He will heed, He will give heed to your head and you will give
heed to his heel. Now, this is really a great
illustration because in essence, he says when this is all said
and done, when you look up his, his heel will be on you.
In essence, you're going to give heed to his head.
He's the head, he's the Conqueror, he's the king of
kings. He's the one over you.
And guess where you'll be when he looks down, He'll see you up
underneath his feet. You'll be under his feet.
You'll be given heed to his head, his authority, his power,
his dominion. You'll be submitted, and you
know what you'll be to him. And when he looks at you and he
takes account of you, he'll see that you are far beneath my
feet. You have been whipped, stripped,
and I have received that, that which the first Adam lost.
Glory to God. So say the seed is coming, and
the seed has come. Galatians 316 says now the
promises were spoken to Abraham and to his seed.
He does not say to his seeds as referring to many, but rather to
one. And to your seed, that is, that
is, that is. Now Christ is not the last name
of Jesus Christ is the title of Jesus.
It is the Greek word that is equivalent to a Hebrew word,
which is Messiah. So when we say Messiah or we say
Christ, it means the same thing in its meaning.
It means the anointed one and his anointing.
But what does that mean? It means that God anoints his
kings. We see this description when man
rejected God in First Samuel chapter as their king, and they
wanted their own man king, a person they could see on the
earth. And the Lord says, give the
people what they want, Samuel, for they've not rejected you,
but they've rejected me as king. And when Samuel went and gave
them the person they were thinking of, they received a guy
by the name of Saul from the tribe of Benjamin.
But in order for him to be the king over God's nation, Israel,
Samuel had to anoint his head with oil, which is as a type and
shadow of the Holy Ghost, so that the anointing are the
presence of God. Because God is the one who has
the rightful place of dominion and authority over humans.
Man was never given that right. Man's dominion was always
limited to the things created on the earth, but not to humans
themselves. God is the ruler of man, so man
can never rule over another man unless God was involved.
God never intended it in the 1st place, but when Adam ate the
fruit, it became necessary in order to safeguard humanity.
Now he didn't need to do it for his nation, but they rejected
him and so he shows them the Spirit of God had to come upon
them in order for them to rule. Yet Solomon or Samuel or Saul,
excuse me, King Saul failed to stay in compliance with the
anointing he had. The anointing on him can be
disrupted if you do not obey the king.
That's why the prophet said God desires obedience more than.
Now let me just say this. The minute you obey, you've
already included a sacrifice. In fact, you cannot actually
have obedience outside of sacrifice.
But you can have sacrifice outside of obedience.
So well, how's that possible? The minute I obey God, I
sacrificed my will and my way of doing it.
But I can do sacrifices to try to get God's attention and not
be obeying Him at all. I can be doing principles, but
my heart is far from the process.
Are you hearing me? So the Lord's like I desire
obedience more than sacrifice. Are you hearing what I'm saying?
So the anointed one in his anointing, this is what happens
to kings. What did Jesus say in Luke?
He said the Spirit of the Lord is upon me, for he has anointed
me. And the Father, when he was
baptized in the Jordan and came up, the heavens opened up and
the Spirit of God came upon him. That was the anointing.
He didn't have natural oil being poured on him by John the
Baptist or any prophet of his time.
Although John was a prophet, He was the greatest prophet.
Actually Jesus said this no prophets as great as John, but
yet he's the least in the Kingdom of heaven.
Are you hearing me? So John did not pour oil on
Jesus head The the he didn't get a type and shadow.
He had the Holy Spirit come and he poured on him without
measure. And then the declaration from
the King of all creation, the Father him says, says, this is
my Son, in whom I am what? Well, please, this is the
announcement. Here's my son.
This is the King that is taking back dominion for humanity on
the earth. And did he do it?
Come on, did he do it? I said, did he do it?
Jesus understood He was the seed in John chapter 12 verse 23 and
25. The easy reader version says it
this way. Jesus said to them, The time has
come for the Son of man to receive his glory.
It is a fact that a grain. It is a fact that a grain of
wheat must fall to the ground and die before it can grow and
produce much more wheat. If it never dies.
It will never be more than a single seed if it never dies.
And here's the thing, if Jesus had not yielded himself to this,
he would have never died on the earth.
For the first Adam had a command from the Father.
You can eat from any tree of the garden, but of the tree of the
knowledge of good and evil, you shall not eat for the day.
Say the day. For the day you eat, you will
surely. So if Adam had never eaten the
fruit, where would he be today? So Adam had eternal life at
creation. He didn't need eternal life, He
was living eternal life. He stepped out of eternal life
and moved over into death. So if the first Adam had eternal
life, then the last Adam, a man who knew no sin because the
wages of sin is Jesus said I only do what the Father says.
Why? Because the first Adam did not
and he died. If I follow suit, death would
come to me, also me, then death to God.
But God only does his word because that's his character.
I said that's his character. So Jesus keeping his word could
have never. And if the devil would have
known this, he never would have put him on a cross, because we
would be seeing Jesus today. But Jesus has to die.
Why? Because a payment must be made
so that you can live again. I can live again, and all those
who preceded us can live again. Who have, who believed the day
would come that a seed would show up.
So Jesus says, listen, unless I die, I'll remain alone.
And at the end, at the bottom, is this.
The conclusion of this thought would be this.
Should Jesus had not died for our sins, then the Father could
have rightly judged all of humanity.
We would have been thrown into the lake of fire.
The prison system of the Kingdom justly and on the planet would
have been Jesus reigning by himself.
But God was obligated to make a way for man because he said, let
us make man in our image according to our likeness.
And even though a man destroyed that path by rebelling, God open
another path through a different seed.
And you've heard Pastor Roddy minister here, the King Khan.
Are you the king Khan? I said, are you the king Khan?
Are you the king Khan? Well, if you're the King Khan,
then that means you must reign and you have to remind yourself
you're reigning. And in this world, there's a lot
of stuff out there, but that's not what we focus on.
He goes on and says in verse 25, whoever loses the life they have
now or whoever loves the life they have now will lose it.
But whoever is willing to give up their life in this world will
keep it. They will have eternal life.
You have to choose daily to say I am not running after the
passions of this world and its pursuits.
You must abandoned those thoughts.
And I'm telling you, the Kingdom life is way different than the
American life or the American Dream.
And the American Dream is not part of the gospel.
We have to learn a whole new set.
But we have been conditioned to the American dream.
Good job, great benefits, nice house, great retirement, and so
many live this way. And in order for us to obtain
those four, we're going to have a great education.
And our world's not gotten better because of the education,
because of the university systems, has not gotten better,
has only grown worse. I mean, they have become highly
educated. Thieves, criminals, backbiters,
gossipers, slanderers, mockers. Yeah.
And yet we want to pursue their lifestyles.
When you actually have the reigning spirit, you actually
have the life they want. I don't want to live in such a
way that they're like, well, you look like the rest of the world,
but it's like, how are you like that?
That they're not confused with the possessions I could have
because God has caused me to prosper.
But there will be something more tangible about my life that they
would be like. You're different, Come on, are
you different? The Bible calls you peculiar,
actually, and you need to stay in the box of peculiar.
Now, I'm not talking some of you just being weird for weird's
sake. Quit being weird for weird's
sake. We're talking peculiar in a holy
sake. Some of y'all can identify with
my statement when we're talking about some things there, you
know, don't be weird for the sake of weird.
Be peculiar because you're not of this world because you have a
reigning spirit in you. Amen.
Come on, what's Romans 811 say? Can I remind you today, But if
the latter part, but if the I mean the beginning, but if the
spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells.
If conditional statement, which means you have to do what's
necessary, can I just say it this way?
Do not get offended because God requires you to do something.
Now let me just say it this way and do not get upset because God
requires you actually to do a lot.
I don't get to pick what God is requiring me to do or bring down
a truth because I'm not comfortable with that truth.
And I do it a different way because my heart's there to do
it that way. Now here's the thing, if your
heart's not in it, it doesn't matter what you do.
Heart is always the the the component that has to be there.
But you understand you're not in the Kingdom of God unless you
believe with your heart, confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord.
That's the requirement. It's the call.
But we know that people will say, but Lord, didn't we
prophecy in your didn't we cast a didn't we?
And he's going to say depart from me.
I never knew you workers of lawlessness, meaning you did
actions that were contrary to what I was saying.
Yet you're saying you're mine. But I know you're not mine.
So there's a requirement for salvation.
A requirement for you to believe with all your heart that Jesus
Christ came, died on the cross, His blood was spilled for your
wrong transgression, your wrongdoing.
It paid the price once and for all.
And you must believe in your heart and confess it with your
mouth. Jesus is supreme and authority.
He is my Lord. I follow him with everything.
And then he says, now you're going to love me, love me this
way. You love me with all your heart,
all your soul, all your mind, all your strength.
And if you love me, you'll keep my word now.
Well, my heart, I just think it's really what my heart is.
And you know, my heart is to love him with all my spirit, but
my soul is optional because I like to keep some of my
thinking. And as far as, you know, how
often I physically manifest in his presence called his church,
you know, that's really up to me.
It's whatever my what's in my heart.
It's not what was in your heart. It's what his word is.
And you need to get your heart right with His word.
Are you supposed to forgive others?
Then you got to get your heart right.
Well, you know what, in this situation, you know I'm just,
what do you mean? You're just get your heart right
with His word. And then I could go on a list of
things, a list of things that He says we are to do and yet we
don't feel like it's our heart to do.
So it must not mean that what he's saying we don't have to do,
because really all that matters is what's in our heart.
Well, you need to have His word hidden in your.
OK, Are we clear? Not yet.
But I'm for those who have ears, let them.
But if the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead
dwells in you, this is an amazing thing.
I said. This is amazing.
Death could not hold you down. So how in the world will we live
substandard life in the Spirit on the planet and say that the
Holy Spirit's only ability is to remind us we're children of God
so that when we die, we go to heaven?
But he really has no other power concerning any other issues of
the world. He definitely can save us from
our sin. The blood of Jesus can do that.
But as far as overcoming obstacles, offenses, failures,
you know, forgiveness, giving all kinds of things, he can't do
that. We're just glad we're going to
go to heaven when we die. He can't stop sickness and
disease on the planet the Spirit went think of.
We don't even think about this. Jesus was never separated from
the Father. Never.
I mean, I don't even know how to describe this.
There's really no tangible way to describe this.
None. I mean, we freak out over a
missed meal. Our stomach starts and we're
like, I got to get some food, but we had to get me some.
I mean, we'll change emotionally, right?
Like we got to get some food. This ain't, I am not handling
this right here. Well, then we just call them
food. Jesus is separated from the
Father for the first time ever. And we like, well, it was only
three days. Well, I could say that to you if
you don't eat for three days, but most of the time it's like
we got to get some food. I mean, you, that was three
hours ago, and you've experienced that feeling and fed
that feeling multiple times. But yeah, here's the Lord.
Never. I mean, how long does three days
seem? I don't know.
But in the process, he must believe that somebody's coming
to get me. My deliverance is coming.
And did he come? I said, did he come?
He broke him out. Now, when the Holy Spirit comes,
it's jailbreak, Tom, right? I mean, he'll bust out everyone
that is wrongfully accused at this point.
Now, one is Jesus. The rest were rightfully
accused. However, they were believing for
redemption and they were in a whole nother holding block of
the prison. And as a result of that, they
were given a pardon. And he took them all out that
day. I said he took them all out that
day. So the Holy Spirit not just only
resurrected Jesus, he resurrected a whole captive of
captivity, pulls them out, and then he is going to dwell in
you. Yeah.
Come on. Hallelujah.
I mean, you understand Abraham has been dead for a long time.
I mean, separated from the planet, he is away from God.
He is in paradise. He's in the grave.
He is there and the Holy Spirit's like, I got you, let's
go. I mean, what situation you in?
I mean, we're talking thousands of thousands of years that
Abraham's like I'm getting out today.
I mean, what you've got going on that the Holy Ghost in you can't
get you out. How are you not raining?
I mean, you're not waiting on the Holy Ghost.
He's in you the one who's able to raise any dead situation is
in you. I wish it was a Hallelujah man
first John 4/17. He says by this love is
perfected with us so that we may have confidence in the day of
judgment, because as he is so also our where where right here
on the planet. As He is, so are we.
Well, what is He now? He's raised up, seated in
heavenly places. He's sitted at the right hand of
the Father. We are raised up and seated with
Him as He reigned in this life when He walked on the earth.
We get to reign in this life as we walked in the earth because
we're children of the King. We are royalty.
We are royal bloodline. I mean, my gosh, whatever's
going on in the planet really don't matter to us now.
We're going to do our part, but we can always rejoice.
I have the reigning spirit. I'm alive unto God.
I have the Holy Spirit. I have the one who conquers
death, hell and the grave in me. He's in me.
Wow, what a revelation every day.
I mean, how does this not make you Jack excited now if all you
want to do is barely get along? The only reason this doesn't
make a believer excited is because #1A believer doesn't
know who they are. They believe the religion of
Jesus, and they just want to know where they're going to go
when they die, and they want the grace to cover them so they can
live sinful yet still go. That's called the Esau effect
and the Esau wants the blessing without the responsibility, does
not want the accountability of the position or the birthright.
He didn't care about his birthright.
There are many coming and saying Lord, come into my heart and
save me. They don't care about their
birthright. They want the blessing and that
is not going to hell because Esau, when he does not get the
blessing, although he still received an inheritance, had
this in his heart the whole time after he cried to his father.
Many are crying to the father while on the inside saying I
can't believe they did that to me.
Oh Lord, bless me, bless me, bless me.
Lord, heal me, help me get that promotion.
I tell you, that person over there, I just can't stand them.
I don't even know why they're coming to this church.
That's called Esau. And it says he sought for
repentance in tears but could not.
Because the minute dad says, son, I've given it to your
older, to your younger brother, he leaves the room saying when
dad dies, I'm going to kill my brother.
Now why does he want to kill him?
So he can take the blessing? 1st Corinthians 316 says this.
Do you not know that you are the temple of God and that the
Spirit of God dwells in you? Do you not know that?
I mean, really, this should become a scripture We should
probably put on our refrigerators.
This is the scripture we need to put ourselves in remembrance
because you know, when you're in the house and you want to, you
know, do things fleshly, do you not remember that you're the
temple of the Holy Ghost? When you're at work, man, you
want to go off. Do you not know that you are the
temple of the Holy Ghost right now?
Because the seed doesn't function this way.
He has a reigning spirit. He has something else he can tap
into or she can tap into. But again, the problem is, do
you not know Paul writing to the church?
Do you not know that you are the temple of the Spirit of God,
temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwells within you?
Well, it's because James becomes our problem.
James 122 to 25 God's Word translation says it this way,
says do what God's word, do what God's word says.
Don't merely listen to it or you will fool yourselves.
If someone listens to God's Word but doesn't do what it says, he
is like a person who looks at his face in a mirror, studies
his features, goes away, and immediately forgets what he
looks like. However, the person who
continues to study God's perfect teachings that make people free
and who remains committed to them will be blessed.
People like that don't merely listen and forget.
They actually do what God's teachings say.
They actually do it. I said, well, how's this apply
to me? You're in this room, you're
hearing what I'm saying. You know how you should respond
in situations. Yet when you leave, do you do it
his way? Because the temple of you're the
temple of the Holy Ghost, and the Spirit of God dwells in you,
and he's talking to your spirit the only way the Kingdom would
do it. And do you yield to that, or do
you yield to your flesh? I've been around some people in
the 20 years I've planted Anchor Faith Church, and I've seen them
thinking they have forgotten who they are because what you're
saying now is not from Scripture.
You are justified. And it's amazing how believers
will do like the world does. They will put Pretty Little
words to talk about nasty things.
You know what a buzzword is to believers right now?
Passion, which really should be flesh because a person can be
passionate about something, but if it's fleshly, it's fleshly.
That's just fleshly, right? So we use these little terms,
you know, to try to, you know. Well, and then why do we say
this? We're really good at this one.
Well, the Lord knows my heart. You bet He does.
Now at the end of the day, you
can be here and you can say, well, I mean, if you want to
have a stance on anything in the natural, I'll always take you to
Scripture because I have no opinion in the matter.
But I can give you God's reproductive right standard.
I can do that. I can do that.
I can give it to you. We use terms like sexual
freedom. That's not in the Kingdom.
There's only one sexual freedom. It's between a husband and a
wife in the covenant, a marriage.
Everything else is considered sin.
They he doesn't even call it. There is words like fornication.
It's not called making love to the one you love outside.
It's called fornication, and if you're sleeping with someone
outside the covenant of your marriage, it's called adultery.
These are the terms that guide you, but we don't want to use
those terms because we want to use terms that seem less.
They're softer. Now, here's the problem.
I understand that the world is going to make decisions that
line with sin, and the Bible is very clear in the last days, the
last. These are doctrines of demons.
People in the last days, they're going to pretty words up to make
them seem like they're less. But the reality is we'll never
fix anything until we get to the root.
It's called sin, and there's only one answer to sin, Jesus.
There's only one answer to sin, Jesus.
Now the problem is, is that when you talk about Kingdom stuff,
they try to put you in a box so that you look like you're
against everyone. I'm not against anyone.
People can make mistakes. People are going to live away.
I'm not surprised when people are in sin, especially sinners.
And but I can say, you know what, Jesus paid the price and
you can receive forgiveness. And not only can you receive
forgiveness for anything that you've done contrary to the
Kingdom, but then he'll put a spirit in you, a new one that
looks like him and acts like him.
Then he'll put his own spirit in you.
And then you will be free from having to make the do those
choices ever again. But we come to church, we hear,
and then we walk out and forget what we look like In essence.
Do you not know that you are the temple of God and that the
Spirit of God lives within you? John 1714 says this.
He said I've given them your word and the world has hated
them because they are not of the world.
Even as I'm not of the world, I do not ask you to take them out
of the world, but to keep them from the evil. 1 They are not of
the world. Even as I'm not of the world,
Sanctify them in the truth. Your word is truth.
As You sent me into the world, I also sent them into the world.
For their sake I sanctify myself that they themselves may also be
sanctified in truth. I do not ask on behalf of these
alone, but for those who also who believe in Me through their
word, that they may all be what One, even as You, Father, are in
me and I in You, that they may also be in us, so that the world
may believe that you sent me the glory which you have given me.
I've given to them the glory I said, the glory that you've
given me. I've given to them that they may
be what One just as we are one. I am them and you and Me, that
they may be perfected in unity, so that the world may know that
you sent me and love them even as you have loved me.
So he's saying, listen, I know they're in this world, but they
get to function like I do because as I was, so are they.
Now that we've given them my spirit, now that they have the
glory that I have, what is the glory he has?
The Holy Spirit came upon him. He was made perfect.
I mean, he was God in the flesh. Then we are a new creature in
Christ. We become a child of God.
Once we make Jesus our Lord, we are new species of being in the
spirit. Our spirit man is without sin
like Jesus. Then the Holy Spirit comes upon
us and anoints us like it anointed Jesus and we get to
rule and reign in this life just like he did.
But Jesus functioned as a king on the earth and reigned and had
the reigning spirit about him because he only did what the
Father says. And he said that's why we're
one. And he's saying now that I've
given them the new spirit in their in their spirit, they're a
new spirit. Then I've given them the Holy
Ghost that lives in them and comes upon them.
Then they can be one like me and you and do exactly what I say so
that when they're in the earth, everyone would say you have a
reigning spirit about you. How is it that you're in a world
you're not even of? How do you function like this
instead of being captivated by our old thought life?
We don't think like that anymore.
What's it say in First Corinthians 212?
The amplifier says now we have not received the Spirit that
belongs to the world, but the Holy Spirit who's from God-given
to us, that we might realize and comprehend and appreciate the
gifts of divine favor and blessing so freely and lavishly
bestowed on us by God. Y'all doing all right because
you know what I am not. Well that you would have
Democratic and Republican talking points more than the
word of God should not be your lifestyle.
You need to know the Kingdom. You need to know the Kingdom.
But we have not the Bible. Basic English says it this way,
but we have not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which
comes from God, so that we may have knowledge of the things
which are freely given to us. Do you have the spirit of the
world? Do you have the spirit of the
world? No.
Do you have the Spirit of God? Amen.
So the Spirit of God doesn't think like the spirit of the
world. In fact, the contemporary
English version says it this way.
But God has given us His spirit. That's why we don't think the
same way that the people of this world think, because God's word
is renewing our minds. I said He is renewing our minds.
He's renewing our minds, living in a different way.
He's redeemed us from the curse of the law.
He's given us the reigning spirit so that we do not
function, process. We're not emotional in the
flesh. Our emotions side with the
spirit. When our flesh says cry, we jump
in the spirit and and walk in joy.
When our flesh laughs at evil and things done wrong, our
spirit mourns and we allow our emotions to go to mourning.
Then we're grieved at the things that grieve the spirit.
We do not rejoice in unrighteousness, but we rejoice
with the truth because we have the reigning spirit.
Timothy 17 says this Young's literal translation for God did
not give you a spirit of, but of and of and of sound mind.
You have power, love and of sound mind.
And what's happening is, is because we aren't listening to
the Word, we're not allowing the Word to renew our minds, then
the deceptions of the enemy are trying to pull us away.
As we read that, those of Christian faith are going to
fall away and listen to seducing spirits and doctrines of demons
because the world will use terms that will seem positive, but
they're actually death. I'm not condemning people
because if I did all of you be condemned, the majority of you
were fornicators, you were adulterers, some were
homosexuals. All of us did things that were
displeasing to the Kingdom of God.
But God, I said, but God. And it would be a, it would be
malpractice if we did not communicate the standard of the
Kingdom. Now, at the end of the day, you
can do like you do your doctor when the doctor says you have
cancer. Now, for most people, they just
believe that doctor right out the gate, especially if it's a
family doctor, someone who has helped them through the law all
the while, help them with their health and stuff.
And they usually don't question that.
But man, when it comes to the church and you have a pastor
that's helped you walk through trials and all of a sudden say,
man, your thoughts are cancerous right now, I'm going to go get a
second opinion. Go get one.
Go find another church and get the other opinion because you
can probably find a pastor that doesn't want to talk to you
about your cancer and let you die in your cancer and then at
your funeral say, oh, you know, they really love the Lord.
All the while I knew that they had offended what they were
offended with someone and it had a root of bitterness and it's
ultimately what killed them. But I can't say that that's even
if they know it. It's amazing.
We don't argue with our dentist. We don't argue with our doctor.
We don't argue with our we may argue with our boss some, but
usually those other, you know, mechanics, those things, we tend
to take their word at face value, But then the one that
prays for you spends time giving the word to you.
Then when they're like, man, hey, this is this action is not
right. Then all of a sudden we get
super spiritual. You're on the same plane.
That's not a reigning spirit. First John 44 last Scripture is
this you are from God, little children, and have overcome
them. What have you done?
Come on, what have you done? Because greater is he who was in
you than he who was in. First of all, for most
believers, most, they'll live their whole Christian life never
dealing with the devil. Most will live their whole
Christian life never dealing with the devil, because they
never overcome their personal flesh.
And the devil doesn't have to come see you when you let your
flesh win. Never has to come see you
because you were his seed. I said you were his seed.
You were his seed in the spirit. You performed your that function
in your soul realm through the way you thought, behaved, acted,
spoke. You performed it in your
physical body by the things you put in it and the things you did
with it. But God, when the call to come
into the Kingdom came, you got to the cross with your body,
your soul, and your spirit. And you said, I want to come in.
And Jesus says you can, but the spirits in you, the spirit in
you cannot. So in order for you to go
through the threshold of the door, and Jesus is the door, he
said, I'm going to shove that spirit out of you.
And the minute you enter and I'm going to put a new one in it,
then I'm going to put my spirit in it.
But the problem is you're bringing in remnants that were
from that other seed. It's still in your mind, it's in
your emotions, it's in your decision making, and it's even
screaming in your body. But the spirit I've put in you
is way more powerful than the remnants of those seeds.
Way more powerful that if you yield to it, Oh my gosh, it will
clean up your mind quicker than you could even imagine.
It will get your body right and restore your body like never
before. But you've got to yield.
You have to yield to the spirit. You have to allow the spirit to
reign in you. You have to do it.
And he says, now listen, you overcome, because even when the
devil comes attacking you, clean yourself, spirit, our soul and
body. And the devil starts to show
back up. Won't matter.
It won't matter because I could do you like I did my own son.
I led him into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil because
in him was the ability to conquer him.
The whole it was never even a fight.
I said it was never even a fight because he had the reigning
spirit. He could always stop the enemy
at the temptation and never let him pass the temptation stage.
And that's what you possess. You possess the same spirit that
can cause you to never pass the temptation stage of the enemy's
attacks. Never.
The temptation comes. I got that.
I'll take that thought. It's gone.
I beat it up, throw it out. I can run it.
I can run its course. I get it out of here.
It doesn't own me. I do not have to do it.
Are you hearing me? Amen.
I don't have to follow that way. I don't have to live that way.
I have the reigning spirit. I've been delivered.
I take every thought of the when The deceptive thoughts, the
seducing thoughts, the doctrines of demons, the twisting of the
Word all. I can take them all captive.
I can cast them down. I clearly hear the Spirit of the
Lord. I hear the Word of God.
I have the clarity. I'm not subject to it.
I'm not one. Cities that are going to be
moved to the wayside fall away. I have the reigning spirit.
I've done the work. I do the work.
I cast down my thoughts. I crucify my flesh.
I submit to the Word. I have the reigning spirit.
And it was powerful enough to raise up God.
Anything dead in my life, He can resurrect it to life.
He can resurrect my thoughts. He can resurrect my body.
He can resurrect anything so that I live the fullness of
Christ and reign in this life right now.
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