WEBVTT 00:00:02.290 --> 00:00:05.250 Welcome to the Life Bible Church podcast. We 00:00:05.250 --> 00:00:07.669 want to thank you for joining us today and we 00:00:07.669 --> 00:00:10.169 hope you find today's sermon impacting as you 00:00:10.169 --> 00:00:12.689 listen to it wherever you are in your daily walk. 00:00:12.990 --> 00:00:15.929 To find service times and watch messages online, 00:00:16.190 --> 00:00:20.109 see our website at lifebiblechurch .org. Now, 00:00:20.129 --> 00:00:25.410 enjoy this week's message. Let's give the Lord 00:00:25.410 --> 00:00:30.480 a big praise. Can we do that? Hallelujah. He 00:00:30.480 --> 00:00:34.780 is good. Do you believe it? Amen. It doesn't 00:00:34.780 --> 00:00:36.560 matter if you believe it or not. He's still good. 00:00:38.020 --> 00:00:42.539 Amen. I want to just say thank you to Brad and 00:00:42.539 --> 00:00:46.320 Jen for allowing me back again. They're brave 00:00:46.320 --> 00:00:49.899 people. I thought for sure they're not going 00:00:49.899 --> 00:00:54.000 to let me come back no more. But you do let Tony 00:00:54.000 --> 00:00:58.079 come back. So I'm encouraged. I'm very encouraged. 00:00:59.580 --> 00:01:02.520 And Tony's amazing. I love Tony so much. He's 00:01:02.520 --> 00:01:06.400 one of my dearest friends and one of my weirdest 00:01:06.400 --> 00:01:13.340 friends that I relate to very, very well. Amen. 00:01:13.420 --> 00:01:15.900 I believe God's got a word for us this afternoon. 00:01:18.019 --> 00:01:21.219 But as Tony said, men should be obedient to their 00:01:21.219 --> 00:01:24.799 wives. He might not have said that. I would have 00:01:24.799 --> 00:01:28.010 heard, though. I want to just tell you about 00:01:28.010 --> 00:01:30.790 a couple books back there. Joanne, she makes 00:01:30.790 --> 00:01:33.870 me do this stuff. I'm not very good at it. But 00:01:33.870 --> 00:01:36.890 the best book we have back there is her book. 00:01:37.709 --> 00:01:41.629 And it's called Rendezvous. And it's a 21 -day 00:01:41.629 --> 00:01:44.250 encounter with the king. You've just come off 00:01:44.250 --> 00:01:47.250 of a 21 -day fast. Some of you look better than 00:01:47.250 --> 00:01:50.409 you did when you went into it. Amen. Praise the 00:01:50.409 --> 00:01:53.489 Lord. So I encourage you to go get this book 00:01:53.489 --> 00:01:58.099 and spend the next 21 days. with the Father in 00:01:58.099 --> 00:02:01.060 a way that is just amazing. This is a very, very, 00:02:01.120 --> 00:02:04.680 very good book. I have our new book out. It's 00:02:04.680 --> 00:02:08.180 called Ancient Evils, Present Day Manifestations, 00:02:08.180 --> 00:02:13.520 Volume 1, The Rise of the Ecclesia. And this 00:02:13.520 --> 00:02:16.960 is a three -volume set that we're producing. 00:02:17.479 --> 00:02:19.699 We were going to make it one book, but when I 00:02:19.699 --> 00:02:23.400 got done with it, it was like 800 pages. And 00:02:23.400 --> 00:02:25.300 I'm like, nobody's going to read that. That'll 00:02:25.300 --> 00:02:29.460 be a doorstop for sure. So we broke them up into 00:02:29.460 --> 00:02:32.539 three books. And this is volume one, The Rise 00:02:32.539 --> 00:02:36.340 of the Ecclesia. And I really go into, in this 00:02:36.340 --> 00:02:40.539 book, I go into what the church is supposed to 00:02:40.539 --> 00:02:44.659 look like. And Pastor Brad wrote me a very kind 00:02:44.659 --> 00:02:46.759 endorsement in the book. So if you buy it for 00:02:46.759 --> 00:02:51.300 nothing else, get it for his endorsement. He 00:02:51.300 --> 00:02:52.900 said this is one of the best books he's ever 00:02:52.900 --> 00:02:59.360 read. No, I'm kidding. But I do appreciate his 00:02:59.360 --> 00:03:01.800 endorsement in this. I'm going to talk a little 00:03:01.800 --> 00:03:04.159 bit about some of this. I've had people ask me, 00:03:04.199 --> 00:03:06.319 why did you name it Ancient Evil Present Day 00:03:06.319 --> 00:03:09.080 Manifestations? I said, because we've got some 00:03:09.080 --> 00:03:11.580 ugly stuff that's been around a long time that's 00:03:11.580 --> 00:03:15.580 manifesting. And volume one, again, like I said, 00:03:15.599 --> 00:03:19.099 is The Rise of the Ecclesia, which... I'm going 00:03:19.099 --> 00:03:20.819 to talk a little bit about it because we're talking 00:03:20.819 --> 00:03:25.479 about the prevailing church. Amen? Volume 2 is 00:03:25.479 --> 00:03:31.340 called Exposing the Nephilim. Testing. My mic 00:03:31.340 --> 00:03:37.259 went out, I think. And it's a subject that's 00:03:37.259 --> 00:03:41.159 not talked about a lot at all, maybe in most 00:03:41.159 --> 00:03:44.780 churches. But we break it down. And I'll tell 00:03:44.780 --> 00:03:47.680 you what God told me to do. He told me to look 00:03:47.680 --> 00:03:51.120 at all of the giants that were in the Bible and 00:03:51.120 --> 00:03:57.300 to begin to look at what their name meant. One 00:03:57.300 --> 00:03:59.139 of their names, one of the giants, there's over 00:03:59.139 --> 00:04:01.840 22 giants in the scripture by name. One of them 00:04:01.840 --> 00:04:08.240 is called Og. He was the original OG, as a joke. 00:04:11.120 --> 00:04:14.039 His name means to reach across the border and 00:04:14.039 --> 00:04:22.720 pull across illegally. Isn't that amazing? There's 00:04:22.720 --> 00:04:26.879 another one, Goliath. Y 'all ever heard of Goliath? 00:04:28.459 --> 00:04:31.740 Goliath, his name means one who exposes himself. 00:04:33.980 --> 00:04:39.120 That's why when David said, who is this uncircumcised 00:04:39.120 --> 00:04:44.480 Philistine? And he began to, the scripture tells 00:04:44.480 --> 00:04:50.319 us that he defiled the armies of Israel and their 00:04:50.319 --> 00:04:53.720 God. Am I right? So he didn't just do that by 00:04:53.720 --> 00:04:58.240 talking. And David addressed him as who he was, 00:04:58.339 --> 00:05:01.360 a man who was trying to say that the covenant 00:05:01.360 --> 00:05:05.160 with Israel was not as strong as his uncircumcision. 00:05:08.240 --> 00:05:13.740 This mic might need a battery change. So the 00:05:13.740 --> 00:05:15.660 Lord said to me, he said, if you look at these 00:05:15.660 --> 00:05:18.699 giants, you'll see that manifesting in our culture 00:05:18.699 --> 00:05:22.439 today. So I go through all of those and we see 00:05:22.439 --> 00:05:25.500 a lot of that stuff happening in our culture 00:05:25.500 --> 00:05:27.199 today. And the Lord said, I want you to look 00:05:27.199 --> 00:05:30.540 at who killed them and where they died. And I'll 00:05:30.540 --> 00:05:32.560 give you strategy, give the church strategy, 00:05:32.699 --> 00:05:35.639 how to begin to overcome these giants that are 00:05:35.639 --> 00:05:39.439 in the land. And then the third volume is called 00:05:39.439 --> 00:05:44.000 Winning the Seed War. And it has a lot to do 00:05:44.000 --> 00:05:47.240 with imprecatory prayers. It took me a long time 00:05:47.240 --> 00:05:51.060 to even say that word right. Redneck tongue struggle 00:05:51.060 --> 00:05:55.220 with fancy words. But this book will help you, 00:05:55.259 --> 00:05:57.959 I do believe. Chaon, a dear friend of mine, wrote 00:05:57.959 --> 00:06:02.040 the foreword in this one. This book has been 00:06:02.040 --> 00:06:04.500 our best -selling book of all times. It's probably 00:06:04.500 --> 00:06:08.029 outsold all of our books two to one. It's called 00:06:08.029 --> 00:06:10.430 The Gospel of the Kingdom, Dutch Sheets. And 00:06:10.430 --> 00:06:15.170 Chuck Pierce wrote the forewords in those, in 00:06:15.170 --> 00:06:19.029 this book. I wanted to subtitle it. But, you 00:06:19.029 --> 00:06:21.589 know, when you're writing a book, you want to 00:06:21.589 --> 00:06:23.589 listen to people that have written more books 00:06:23.589 --> 00:06:25.550 and made more money at writing books than you 00:06:25.550 --> 00:06:28.810 have. And I did that. I was talking to Dutch 00:06:28.810 --> 00:06:32.569 about it. And I wanted to say my subtitle of 00:06:32.569 --> 00:06:34.430 this book, The Gospel of the Kingdom, would be 00:06:34.430 --> 00:06:37.829 Debunking Religion. And he said, if you want 00:06:37.829 --> 00:06:39.889 any religious people to read it, don't name it 00:06:39.889 --> 00:06:44.730 that. So I said, okay. But we do talk a lot about 00:06:44.730 --> 00:06:49.670 detoxing from religion in this book. And I'm 00:06:49.670 --> 00:06:53.009 very, very thankful for this book and how it's 00:06:53.009 --> 00:06:56.870 helped people in their walk with the Lord. And 00:06:56.870 --> 00:07:01.449 we believe that the kingdom of God is the most 00:07:01.449 --> 00:07:04.310 important thing that we could give our attention 00:07:04.310 --> 00:07:09.259 to. Why is that? It's because it's the only message 00:07:09.259 --> 00:07:15.240 that Jesus preached. Amen. Jesus never preached 00:07:15.240 --> 00:07:19.879 anything but the kingdom of God. And Tony did 00:07:19.879 --> 00:07:22.699 a wonderful job today. Y 'all give Tony a big 00:07:22.699 --> 00:07:32.259 hand. Hallelujah. Tony set me up. And I'm grateful. 00:07:33.399 --> 00:07:35.540 Because I was worried how this was going to go 00:07:35.540 --> 00:07:37.800 over. And I promise you, I won't be as offensive 00:07:37.800 --> 00:07:44.300 today as Tony was this morning. But we're going 00:07:44.300 --> 00:07:46.939 to get into it. I spent a lot of time praying 00:07:46.939 --> 00:07:51.600 into this conference, Brad. And the last time 00:07:51.600 --> 00:07:54.899 I was here, the Lord just began to speak so many 00:07:54.899 --> 00:07:57.180 things about how special this congregation is. 00:07:57.699 --> 00:08:04.639 How special this church is. God's overall plan 00:08:04.639 --> 00:08:10.980 for this region. We understand that we don't 00:08:10.980 --> 00:08:15.000 come to church. Right? Jesus never told you to 00:08:15.000 --> 00:08:18.300 come to church. Told you to be the church. Big, 00:08:18.360 --> 00:08:20.959 big difference. We got people going to church 00:08:20.959 --> 00:08:25.660 in America, all over America, every Sunday morning 00:08:25.660 --> 00:08:29.589 doing their religious duty. and leaving as weak 00:08:29.589 --> 00:08:31.870 and compromised as they were when they came in. 00:08:32.750 --> 00:08:35.730 Amen. Now, again, I just want to remind everybody, 00:08:35.809 --> 00:08:39.269 I am an equal opportunity offender, and Brad 00:08:39.269 --> 00:08:43.149 will fix all of this when I leave. All right? 00:08:43.490 --> 00:08:47.149 Amen. Actually, I did watch. The last time I 00:08:47.149 --> 00:08:48.929 was here, the Sunday following, I watched to 00:08:48.929 --> 00:08:52.509 see if Brad had to correct anything, and I think 00:08:52.509 --> 00:09:00.590 I was okay. I did okay. I get nervous. There's 00:09:00.590 --> 00:09:03.409 a greater shift that we're going to have to take 00:09:03.409 --> 00:09:10.649 in order to see our culture begin to be recaptured 00:09:10.649 --> 00:09:14.970 by the heart of the Lord. I'm going to give you 00:09:14.970 --> 00:09:18.629 some thoughts that I have in my mind. I do have 00:09:18.629 --> 00:09:20.009 some inside thoughts. I'm going to try to keep 00:09:20.009 --> 00:09:23.330 very quiet. But some of the thoughts that I have, 00:09:23.370 --> 00:09:26.830 I want to just give to you today. One of them 00:09:26.830 --> 00:09:36.419 is... that Jesus loves nations. Amen? And with 00:09:36.419 --> 00:09:40.379 that thought in mind, I looked through the scripture 00:09:40.379 --> 00:09:44.080 and I never found a place, never found a place 00:09:44.080 --> 00:09:49.179 where we're supposed to get people into heaven. 00:09:51.720 --> 00:09:56.259 This mic keeps going out. It's not in there. 00:09:57.159 --> 00:09:59.840 There's nowhere in the scripture that we're told 00:09:59.840 --> 00:10:03.600 to get people to heaven. We're told to get people 00:10:03.600 --> 00:10:09.919 in the kingdom. Amen? Now, our Western theology 00:10:09.919 --> 00:10:15.059 and eschatology has warped a lot of understanding 00:10:15.059 --> 00:10:18.379 about the kingdom. And a lot of it says the kingdom 00:10:18.379 --> 00:10:22.539 of God's coming when Jesus returns. Well, Mark 00:10:22.539 --> 00:10:25.519 chapter 9 in verse 1, Jesus, red letters in your 00:10:25.519 --> 00:10:28.240 Bible, Jesus says, that some of you that are 00:10:28.240 --> 00:10:31.759 standing here today will not taste death until 00:10:31.759 --> 00:10:34.220 you have seen the kingdom of God come in power. 00:10:34.899 --> 00:10:38.059 That was 2 ,000 years ago. Jesus was addressing 00:10:38.059 --> 00:10:41.519 people, saying the kingdom of God is at hand. 00:10:41.980 --> 00:10:48.059 It's here, right? And my thought this morning 00:10:48.059 --> 00:10:50.720 as I was praying into this, Brad, the Lord says, 00:10:50.860 --> 00:10:55.980 I'm going to strengthen. The structure that I'm 00:10:55.980 --> 00:10:59.600 giving you here in this house. And then Tony 00:10:59.600 --> 00:11:02.860 started talking about structure. I leaned over 00:11:02.860 --> 00:11:04.799 to Joanne. I said, he's getting all in my message 00:11:04.799 --> 00:11:07.460 today. I don't know what to do. I said, pray 00:11:07.460 --> 00:11:12.919 against him. Pray against him. She wouldn't do 00:11:12.919 --> 00:11:15.799 it, Tony. I tried to get her to, but she wouldn't 00:11:15.799 --> 00:11:24.759 do it. But I begin to just hear the Lord saying 00:11:24.759 --> 00:11:29.899 structure has to shift. And what I'm going to 00:11:29.899 --> 00:11:32.759 bring you this weekend when I have the opportunity 00:11:32.759 --> 00:11:37.500 to do so, I believe is prophetic insight and 00:11:37.500 --> 00:11:42.019 some apostolic strategy of how to increase the 00:11:42.019 --> 00:11:45.399 manifestation of your assignment as an assembly. 00:11:46.220 --> 00:11:50.519 Is that all right? Because your assignment here 00:11:50.519 --> 00:11:53.799 is to get the kingdom of God into the earth. 00:11:55.100 --> 00:11:58.059 Jesus said when you pray, Matthew chapter 6, 00:11:58.139 --> 00:12:00.679 when you pray, pray this way. Kingdom of God 00:12:00.679 --> 00:12:06.120 come. Will of God be done on earth as it is in 00:12:06.120 --> 00:12:11.379 heaven. Amen? The way the Greek frames that there 00:12:11.379 --> 00:12:16.240 is not a request. We're not asking God. God sends 00:12:16.240 --> 00:12:19.419 your kingdom. It's actually out of our partnership 00:12:19.419 --> 00:12:23.000 and our alignment with the Father, we are releasing 00:12:23.000 --> 00:12:26.860 a decree that we discovered in his heart to get 00:12:26.860 --> 00:12:29.980 what's in the unseen realm into the seen realm. 00:12:30.179 --> 00:12:33.399 And it is a declaration, kingdom of God come. 00:12:34.340 --> 00:12:37.379 Will of God be done in the earth as it is in 00:12:37.379 --> 00:12:43.399 heaven. Hallelujah. Only a people that understand 00:12:43.399 --> 00:12:49.159 their destiny is not in heaven can do that. Amen. 00:12:49.840 --> 00:12:54.299 Our destiny is kingdom. I looked up the word 00:12:54.299 --> 00:12:58.279 prevailing and I begin to hear the Lord say that 00:12:58.279 --> 00:13:05.460 anything that is not part of a structure that 00:13:05.460 --> 00:13:09.879 he created, he's not obligated to manifest himself 00:13:09.879 --> 00:13:15.799 in it. Let me say that again. God is not obligated 00:13:15.799 --> 00:13:19.419 to manifest himself in any structure he did not 00:13:19.419 --> 00:13:25.720 create. Why is that important to know? Because 00:13:25.720 --> 00:13:29.899 we've got a lot of religious structures that 00:13:29.899 --> 00:13:35.120 we're trying to get God to come into. And if 00:13:35.120 --> 00:13:38.279 God manifests himself in structures that he did 00:13:38.279 --> 00:13:41.039 not create, then he's validating those structures 00:13:41.039 --> 00:13:44.299 that he did not create. And he's allowing people 00:13:44.299 --> 00:13:48.940 to stay in bondage inside those structures that 00:13:48.940 --> 00:13:52.840 he did not create. So I said, Lord, what is this? 00:13:52.879 --> 00:13:58.210 He said, it's the curse of the ziggurat. And 00:13:58.210 --> 00:14:00.830 I said, whoa, where do we find that? We go all 00:14:00.830 --> 00:14:02.950 the way back to the Tower of Babel. The Tower 00:14:02.950 --> 00:14:05.870 of Babel was a ziggurat. It was a temple. It 00:14:05.870 --> 00:14:08.570 wasn't this windy thing going up trying to get 00:14:08.570 --> 00:14:10.409 to where God lives. That's what we were taught 00:14:10.409 --> 00:14:11.990 in Sunday school. Well, at least in the Baptist 00:14:11.990 --> 00:14:16.570 church we were where I grew up. But it is a temple. 00:14:16.830 --> 00:14:21.429 It's a box that they build to house their gods. 00:14:21.629 --> 00:14:25.879 And Nimrod built a ziggurat. and tried to get 00:14:25.879 --> 00:14:30.200 Jehovah to move into it. Am I right, Tony? I'm 00:14:30.200 --> 00:14:33.820 on the right track. And God said, I'm not coming 00:14:33.820 --> 00:14:42.320 to live in your box. Glory. So God said, they're 00:14:42.320 --> 00:14:44.440 doing something stupid down there. Let's go look 00:14:44.440 --> 00:14:48.620 at it. Now y 'all have to understand, I use my 00:14:48.620 --> 00:14:52.990 redneck paraphrase addition sometimes. Amen. 00:14:53.009 --> 00:14:55.330 Tony can help interpret that if you need interpretation. 00:14:56.649 --> 00:14:59.149 And God said, let's go look at it. Let's go watch 00:14:59.149 --> 00:15:00.789 what they're doing. And he did. And he said, 00:15:00.850 --> 00:15:02.870 this isn't good. Let's confuse their language. 00:15:02.990 --> 00:15:05.529 And he confused their language and the progress 00:15:05.529 --> 00:15:09.169 stopped because God will not allow man to build 00:15:09.169 --> 00:15:14.970 him a place that he has to dwell under their 00:15:14.970 --> 00:15:24.090 supervision. And that's what we've done with 00:15:24.090 --> 00:15:29.289 Western Church. We've come to church and we have 00:15:29.289 --> 00:15:32.649 done our stuff. We know what's going to happen 00:15:32.649 --> 00:15:34.389 before it even happens in most places. Not here. 00:15:34.570 --> 00:15:36.309 Those watching online are going to be blessed 00:15:36.309 --> 00:15:41.029 by this. Y 'all are the amen corner. And we know 00:15:41.029 --> 00:15:43.710 what to do. We know what's going to happen, when 00:15:43.710 --> 00:15:45.809 it's going to happen, and how it's going to happen. 00:15:45.850 --> 00:15:47.990 And we feel good about it and we put ourselves 00:15:47.990 --> 00:15:50.529 into it. And then all of a sudden we're done. 00:15:50.610 --> 00:15:52.710 We go home and we go back to life. And we've 00:15:52.710 --> 00:15:56.309 got to divide between our meeting with God and 00:15:56.309 --> 00:16:00.590 our meeting with the giants in the land. With 00:16:00.590 --> 00:16:05.429 life. And if we're going to be a prevailing church, 00:16:05.830 --> 00:16:10.610 we've got to be a people that operates out of 00:16:10.610 --> 00:16:16.169 the structure, that our Father created. Let me 00:16:16.169 --> 00:16:19.049 make a couple statements about that. Church, 00:16:19.070 --> 00:16:23.269 Christianity, oh Lord, I'm gonna get in trouble, 00:16:23.769 --> 00:16:32.990 is not supposed to be a religion. As a matter 00:16:32.990 --> 00:16:36.490 of fact, nowhere in the Bible, nowhere in the 00:16:36.490 --> 00:16:38.909 Word of God are you referred to in a positive 00:16:38.909 --> 00:16:43.200 light as a Christian. God never referred to you 00:16:43.200 --> 00:16:50.960 as a Christian. Hallelujah. It was a derogatory 00:16:50.960 --> 00:16:56.720 term. So if God, the Father, never referred to 00:16:56.720 --> 00:16:58.659 me as a Christian, why would I want to be identified 00:16:58.659 --> 00:17:03.559 as a Christian? I know I'm giving you some stuff 00:17:03.559 --> 00:17:05.779 that's a little bit weird. Just hang on. It's 00:17:05.779 --> 00:17:08.220 going to work out. Don't sweat too much. Brad, 00:17:08.420 --> 00:17:17.509 again, will fix this. So if father or his son, 00:17:17.690 --> 00:17:22.130 Yeshua, never referred to us as Christians, could 00:17:22.130 --> 00:17:26.750 the thing that we are taking on as our label 00:17:26.750 --> 00:17:32.170 hinder us from actually becoming who he created 00:17:32.170 --> 00:17:48.880 us to be? I'm not a Christian. I'm a son. See, 00:17:48.980 --> 00:17:50.720 y 'all were nervous. I did that pause on purpose. 00:17:54.660 --> 00:17:57.299 What does he refer to us at? He says we're sons 00:17:57.299 --> 00:18:01.339 and daughters. That's what he calls us. He calls 00:18:01.339 --> 00:18:07.200 us kings and lords. He calls us ambassadors. 00:18:08.339 --> 00:18:12.200 Am I right? He calls us overcomers and more than 00:18:12.200 --> 00:18:14.940 conquerors. That's what he calls us. That's the 00:18:14.940 --> 00:18:17.680 identity we need to be wearing. But whenever 00:18:17.680 --> 00:18:21.279 we wear the banner Christian and we meet other 00:18:21.279 --> 00:18:23.119 people and they say, are you a Christian? We 00:18:23.119 --> 00:18:25.220 say, yes. Their next question is, what kind of 00:18:25.220 --> 00:18:29.180 Christian are you? Well, I'm a Pentecostal. Shun 00:18:29.180 --> 00:18:35.140 die, run die, tie my bow tie. Hallelujah. You 00:18:35.140 --> 00:18:37.859 know, or I'm charismatic, whatever it may be. 00:18:39.819 --> 00:18:43.579 And we've got all these divisions of Christianity 00:18:43.579 --> 00:18:48.759 that we've allowed ourselves to be identified 00:18:48.759 --> 00:18:56.440 in that has made us complacent and weak. So who 00:18:56.440 --> 00:19:02.039 are we? We're kingdom people. We are. indirect 00:19:02.039 --> 00:19:05.039 relation to the King of Kings and the Lord of 00:19:05.039 --> 00:19:08.019 Lords as sons and daughters. We've been set into 00:19:08.019 --> 00:19:11.660 the earth as ambassadors representation from 00:19:11.660 --> 00:19:17.099 the home country. Amen. To be here as diplomatic 00:19:17.099 --> 00:19:21.880 representatives to cause the kingdoms of this 00:19:21.880 --> 00:19:25.980 world to become the kingdoms of our God. Amen. 00:19:26.380 --> 00:19:29.920 We've been placed here for a hostile takeover. 00:19:32.430 --> 00:19:35.970 To do something that has happened throughout 00:19:35.970 --> 00:19:38.750 every kingdom, every government in the world. 00:19:38.849 --> 00:19:41.809 You saw a little bit of it a few weeks ago whenever 00:19:41.809 --> 00:19:44.869 we went into Venezuela. It was a hostile takeover. 00:19:46.109 --> 00:19:50.329 We had a regime change. Getting ready to happen 00:19:50.329 --> 00:19:52.309 in Iran and probably a few other places on the 00:19:52.309 --> 00:19:58.200 planet. Why is that? You as an ambassador. As 00:19:58.200 --> 00:20:03.480 a king in the earth have been set here to unseat 00:20:03.480 --> 00:20:07.900 unlawful authorities that have set their throne 00:20:07.900 --> 00:20:10.160 up where the father's throne is supposed to be. 00:20:11.400 --> 00:20:14.779 Amen. We're not here to coexist. We're not here 00:20:14.779 --> 00:20:18.500 to get along. We're here to take over. We're 00:20:18.500 --> 00:20:22.119 here to cause the kingdoms of this world to become 00:20:22.119 --> 00:20:31.640 the kingdoms of our God. Amen. Prevailing, this 00:20:31.640 --> 00:20:35.740 word is an amazing word. It means to gain. The 00:20:35.740 --> 00:20:39.799 word prevailing or to prevail is not a defensive 00:20:39.799 --> 00:20:44.339 word. It's an offensive word. Amen. Y 'all understand 00:20:44.339 --> 00:20:47.299 that? Super Bowl's coming up here shortly. Amen. 00:20:47.440 --> 00:20:50.619 I love guys that put conferences on Super Bowl 00:20:50.619 --> 00:20:54.180 weekend. Hallelujah. It's amazing. Very brave. 00:20:57.000 --> 00:21:00.900 It means to gain. It means ascendancy. In this 00:21:00.900 --> 00:21:04.839 word, it means dominance. It means occupation 00:21:04.839 --> 00:21:09.579 of a position of dominant power and influence. 00:21:10.880 --> 00:21:13.420 We've heard lots of teaching, great teaching, 00:21:13.480 --> 00:21:16.940 amazing teaching about the authority of the believer. 00:21:17.200 --> 00:21:21.559 Our authority as individuals in our daily walk, 00:21:21.859 --> 00:21:24.259 in our daily life. This is good. It's necessary. 00:21:24.380 --> 00:21:27.210 It's important. But the Lord is doing something 00:21:27.210 --> 00:21:29.970 very unique in our age, in the day that we live 00:21:29.970 --> 00:21:34.309 in. He is shifting us from a place of only wanting 00:21:34.309 --> 00:21:38.849 to walk out an individual assignment with individual 00:21:38.849 --> 00:21:43.009 authority and moving us into a place of corporate 00:21:43.009 --> 00:21:48.250 assignment and corporate authority. See, individual 00:21:48.250 --> 00:21:51.970 anointings and individual assignments, we can 00:21:51.970 --> 00:21:54.349 cast out devils, we can speak in new tongues. 00:21:54.369 --> 00:21:57.710 If we drink any deadly thing, it shall not harm 00:21:57.710 --> 00:22:00.869 us, right? We'll pick up serpents and all of 00:22:00.869 --> 00:22:05.130 that type of stuff. That's good, but that's out 00:22:05.130 --> 00:22:08.450 of Mark 16. That's about winning or getting the 00:22:08.450 --> 00:22:12.789 family back. There's two commissions in the Bible. 00:22:12.990 --> 00:22:16.410 Mark 16 and Matthew 28. We've identified Matthew 00:22:16.410 --> 00:22:19.990 28 with Mark 16's definition and we quit doing 00:22:19.990 --> 00:22:24.710 Matthew 28. Mark 16's about getting the family 00:22:24.710 --> 00:22:26.869 back. Go win the loss. Get to harvest. That's 00:22:26.869 --> 00:22:29.089 very important. And that's what most churches 00:22:29.089 --> 00:22:33.059 focus on today. And they have this escape mentality 00:22:33.059 --> 00:22:35.920 that, you know, well, let's just get everybody 00:22:35.920 --> 00:22:37.920 saved. Let's get them to be a part of our church 00:22:37.920 --> 00:22:40.240 because the Lord's coming any minute. Well, he's 00:22:40.240 --> 00:22:45.299 been coming any minute for 2 ,000 years. And 00:22:45.299 --> 00:22:50.380 people with futuristic eschatology, they set 00:22:50.380 --> 00:22:52.640 dates and set dates and set dates and set dates 00:22:52.640 --> 00:22:54.819 and set dates and set dates and set dates and 00:22:54.819 --> 00:23:00.119 set dates and nothing ever happens. We need to 00:23:00.119 --> 00:23:02.740 start paying attention to stuff that's not happening. 00:23:05.460 --> 00:23:08.619 Maybe we need to reevaluate our eschatology. 00:23:09.640 --> 00:23:11.700 I'm not going to get into eschatology today. 00:23:13.299 --> 00:23:15.259 But we need to look, if they're always getting 00:23:15.259 --> 00:23:17.740 it wrong, maybe the eschatology itself is wrong. 00:23:20.099 --> 00:23:27.559 Hallelujah. This word prevail, prevailing. to 00:23:27.559 --> 00:23:32.119 gain, to have dominance through strength or superiority. 00:23:34.319 --> 00:23:37.039 That's what the church is supposed to look like. 00:23:39.119 --> 00:23:43.039 Whenever Jesus birthed his church, Matthew chapter 00:23:43.039 --> 00:23:47.480 18, I'm going to be reading out of the New American 00:23:47.480 --> 00:23:51.059 Standard. Let's just look at that passage of 00:23:51.059 --> 00:23:59.799 scripture, Matthew chapter 18. Verse 18. Let's 00:23:59.799 --> 00:24:03.319 back up just a little bit. Excuse me, Matthew 00:24:03.319 --> 00:24:09.539 16, 18. He said, I also say to you that you are 00:24:09.539 --> 00:24:12.259 Peter and upon this rock I will build my church 00:24:12.259 --> 00:24:19.240 and the gates of Hades will not overpower. Now, 00:24:19.240 --> 00:24:24.079 many of you know Joanne and I lead Kingdom University. 00:24:25.099 --> 00:24:28.299 And we tell people, we teach them in Kingdom 00:24:28.299 --> 00:24:30.920 University, when you read the Bible, you need 00:24:30.920 --> 00:24:33.859 to ask four important questions. Number one, 00:24:33.900 --> 00:24:37.140 who's talking? How many know the one speaking 00:24:37.140 --> 00:24:39.960 is very important? Number two, who they're talking 00:24:39.960 --> 00:24:43.859 to, the audience is very important. Because he 00:24:43.859 --> 00:24:46.359 wasn't always speaking to everybody, he was speaking 00:24:46.359 --> 00:24:49.880 to somebody. Number three, I think, is probably 00:24:49.880 --> 00:24:52.819 the most important question that we miss, and 00:24:52.819 --> 00:24:58.549 it is what? did it mean in that culture? Then 00:24:58.549 --> 00:24:59.910 number four, how do I take it and apply it to 00:24:59.910 --> 00:25:02.710 my life? So many times, whenever we read the 00:25:02.710 --> 00:25:05.569 scripture, we try to interpret through American 00:25:05.569 --> 00:25:08.690 culture or Western culture or denominational 00:25:08.690 --> 00:25:11.809 culture. And when we do that, just to be quite 00:25:11.809 --> 00:25:16.410 frank, we get false doctrines. And these false 00:25:16.410 --> 00:25:18.829 doctrines lead us down roads that cause us to 00:25:18.829 --> 00:25:22.410 be weak and impotent. So we need to begin to 00:25:22.410 --> 00:25:26.109 understand culture. So I tell people, when you're 00:25:26.109 --> 00:25:28.430 reading the Old Testament, you need an ancient 00:25:28.430 --> 00:25:31.789 Hebrew running around in your mind to kind of 00:25:31.789 --> 00:25:34.829 help guide you and help you understand what it 00:25:34.829 --> 00:25:36.910 means. That means you need to know Hebrew history. 00:25:37.750 --> 00:25:39.829 When you're reading the New Testament, you need 00:25:39.829 --> 00:25:43.769 to understand... the second temple period culture 00:25:43.769 --> 00:25:47.349 in order to be able to know what they're saying. 00:25:47.450 --> 00:25:48.769 You say, Greg, well, this sounds very difficult. 00:25:49.470 --> 00:25:53.509 It's not really difficult if you have all the 00:25:53.509 --> 00:25:57.609 things you need to put the pieces together. See, 00:25:57.730 --> 00:26:00.410 our Bible colleges today have taught us to read 00:26:00.410 --> 00:26:05.450 this through an individual mindset when the entirety 00:26:05.450 --> 00:26:10.230 of Scripture is a corporate mindset. The whole 00:26:10.230 --> 00:26:15.049 thing. So it diverts us, it divides us, it derails 00:26:15.049 --> 00:26:17.470 us, it causes us not to be able to accomplish 00:26:17.470 --> 00:26:21.769 what he's called us to do. So Jesus said here, 00:26:21.990 --> 00:26:25.650 he said that he was gonna build his church. Am 00:26:25.650 --> 00:26:28.970 I right? Everybody say my church. Come on, with 00:26:28.970 --> 00:26:33.029 enthusiasm. My church. He was not talking about 00:26:33.029 --> 00:26:38.289 stained glass and steepled buildings. Amen. Now, 00:26:38.369 --> 00:26:42.210 let me just give you a little bit of, Trouble. 00:26:43.970 --> 00:26:50.430 The word church is not a good word when we look 00:26:50.430 --> 00:26:52.970 at what Jesus was saying here in this passage 00:26:52.970 --> 00:26:55.730 of Scripture. You've got to understand, all these 00:26:55.730 --> 00:26:59.130 translations that came over the years, whether 00:26:59.130 --> 00:27:02.650 they translated, many of our English translations 00:27:02.650 --> 00:27:06.569 came out of the Masoretic text, and there was 00:27:06.569 --> 00:27:10.920 lots of problems with that. In the translations, 00:27:11.000 --> 00:27:12.859 and they move things around and switch words. 00:27:13.240 --> 00:27:15.660 Can I just tell you where the word church goes 00:27:15.660 --> 00:27:17.119 back to? Here's some homework for you. You can 00:27:17.119 --> 00:27:19.819 go study this out. The word church goes all the 00:27:19.819 --> 00:27:26.759 way back to a word, Circes. It goes back from 00:27:26.759 --> 00:27:30.180 the English word church into the word Kirk, and 00:27:30.180 --> 00:27:32.619 then it follows itself on back through several 00:27:32.619 --> 00:27:35.599 other different pronunciations to the word Circes. 00:27:35.599 --> 00:27:38.579 You know who Circes was? It was a false god. 00:27:42.410 --> 00:27:45.690 Now, Greg, why do you talk like this? Well, if 00:27:45.690 --> 00:27:48.990 we don't know, we don't know. But when we do 00:27:48.990 --> 00:27:54.069 know, we can do right. Amen? We can shift some 00:27:54.069 --> 00:27:58.890 things. So if church, the word church is not 00:27:58.890 --> 00:28:02.890 the right word there, what would be the right 00:28:02.890 --> 00:28:06.509 word for this particular place? In the Greek, 00:28:06.509 --> 00:28:09.529 it's the word ekklesia, E -K -K -L -E -S -I -A, 00:28:09.730 --> 00:28:14.599 ekklesia. And the word ekklesia, it means assembly. 00:28:16.720 --> 00:28:19.299 Right? So, and I'm not talking about the assemblies 00:28:19.299 --> 00:28:22.339 of God. Hallelujah. Or the assemblies of the 00:28:22.339 --> 00:28:24.279 firstborn. That's Joanne grew up in a denomination 00:28:24.279 --> 00:28:26.460 called the assemblies of the firstborn. I thought 00:28:26.460 --> 00:28:28.799 it was a cult. It sounds cultish, but they were 00:28:28.799 --> 00:28:30.279 pretty good people when you got to know them. 00:28:33.019 --> 00:28:37.920 They did good with her. The word assembly, it 00:28:37.920 --> 00:28:43.640 means. legislators, those that come together 00:28:43.640 --> 00:28:49.960 to legislate. Not to make law, but to enact law. 00:28:50.160 --> 00:28:51.880 See, again, you've got to bring culture into 00:28:51.880 --> 00:28:53.680 it. When we think about our legislature, our 00:28:53.680 --> 00:28:56.519 Congress, the legislators, we think about all 00:28:56.519 --> 00:28:58.819 those thieves, I mean, those people that we elected 00:28:58.819 --> 00:29:04.059 and sent to Washington, D .C. That's not what 00:29:04.059 --> 00:29:08.349 they meant. They make law. The Senate or the 00:29:08.349 --> 00:29:13.450 legislation, legislators, the ecclesia in Jesus' 00:29:13.609 --> 00:29:16.650 day were those that were sent into a conquered 00:29:16.650 --> 00:29:21.789 territory to begin to bring the culture of the 00:29:21.789 --> 00:29:25.910 one that won the war. They were sent there. There 00:29:25.910 --> 00:29:29.809 were five different elements of government that 00:29:29.809 --> 00:29:33.420 were sent into a place. And the idea was not 00:29:33.420 --> 00:29:35.819 to build buildings and gather people in buildings, 00:29:35.880 --> 00:29:41.480 but it was to infiltrate every facet of the culture 00:29:41.480 --> 00:29:45.519 of that conquered city with the culture of the 00:29:45.519 --> 00:29:50.140 one that won the war. For example, Rome conquered 00:29:50.140 --> 00:29:52.180 Israel. They conquered that whole region, that 00:29:52.180 --> 00:29:56.359 whole territory, and they sent in an ecclesia 00:29:56.359 --> 00:29:59.799 from Rome to steward that conquered territory. 00:30:00.880 --> 00:30:03.160 So much so that they affected everything. They 00:30:03.160 --> 00:30:05.559 affected the roads that they had. They affected 00:30:05.559 --> 00:30:09.099 the way that buildings were built. And you go 00:30:09.099 --> 00:30:15.839 to Israel today, you will not go see any type 00:30:15.839 --> 00:30:21.619 of excavation or artifacts of Israeli buildings. 00:30:23.839 --> 00:30:27.640 You'll see a wall. People say that's part of 00:30:27.640 --> 00:30:28.819 the temple. It's not part of the temple. It's 00:30:28.819 --> 00:30:32.259 a western wall. but most of what you will see 00:30:32.259 --> 00:30:36.019 is Roman architecture. When you go through, you'll 00:30:36.019 --> 00:30:37.819 see lots of Roman, a lot of the Romans were there. 00:30:39.039 --> 00:30:44.660 It even goes to the point that whenever Jesus 00:30:44.660 --> 00:30:47.079 asked them, he said, when they would ask him, 00:30:47.079 --> 00:30:49.420 should they pay their taxes, which most Americans 00:30:49.420 --> 00:30:51.460 like that question, should we or should we not? 00:30:53.319 --> 00:30:55.920 He said, give me a denarii, give me a coin. He 00:30:55.920 --> 00:30:59.769 said, whose face is on the coin, right? They 00:30:59.769 --> 00:31:01.670 said, well, Caesar's. And he said, well, give 00:31:01.670 --> 00:31:04.670 Caesar what belongs to him, but also make sure 00:31:04.670 --> 00:31:08.829 you give God what belongs to him. Amen? So they'd 00:31:08.829 --> 00:31:12.950 come in as an ecclesia and literally change the 00:31:12.950 --> 00:31:16.690 economic structure of a nation to the point that 00:31:16.690 --> 00:31:19.670 they were no longer using their coins except 00:31:19.670 --> 00:31:24.329 in their religious structure, which had no value 00:31:24.329 --> 00:31:31.259 in society. See, what we spend in our religious 00:31:31.259 --> 00:31:37.720 structure has no value where it counts. The ecclesia, 00:31:37.920 --> 00:31:42.200 the church, the legislative arm of heaven, we 00:31:42.200 --> 00:31:47.319 are called to be cultural changers. And boy, 00:31:47.380 --> 00:31:50.160 does Oregon have a job ahead of them. Hallelujah. 00:31:50.940 --> 00:31:55.160 But y 'all got the right people to do it. It 00:31:55.160 --> 00:31:58.170 just takes doing it. Jesus said, I'm going to 00:31:58.170 --> 00:32:01.529 build my ecclesia. That means there were other 00:32:01.529 --> 00:32:06.509 ecclesias that were in that region at that time. 00:32:09.130 --> 00:32:13.190 Not churches as we identify them today, but governments. 00:32:14.890 --> 00:32:19.609 Jesus took his disciples to Caesarea Philippi. 00:32:20.369 --> 00:32:23.309 To make the statement, this was not just a field 00:32:23.309 --> 00:32:25.210 trip that he put them on. He said, oh, by the 00:32:25.210 --> 00:32:27.089 way, boys, let me tell you something about this 00:32:27.089 --> 00:32:29.509 place. No, he said, in this passage, he said, 00:32:29.549 --> 00:32:32.690 I'm going to birth my government in the earth 00:32:32.690 --> 00:32:39.150 and the gates of hell will not overpower. Now, 00:32:39.230 --> 00:32:41.730 many people say, well, the word it is there. 00:32:41.789 --> 00:32:43.950 I'm going to build my church and the gates of 00:32:43.950 --> 00:32:47.279 hell will not overpower it, my church. The word 00:32:47.279 --> 00:32:53.400 it is not in the original text. When we read 00:32:53.400 --> 00:32:56.460 that through western lenses, we say Jesus is 00:32:56.460 --> 00:32:59.240 building a church that the devil will not be 00:32:59.240 --> 00:33:03.039 able to come in and conquer us. Defensive mindset. 00:33:04.539 --> 00:33:07.900 Jesus actually was saying that I'm going to build 00:33:07.900 --> 00:33:12.369 an ecclesia. And this ecclesia that I build, 00:33:12.549 --> 00:33:20.970 the world will not be able to overpower. Isn't 00:33:20.970 --> 00:33:24.599 that good? So our authority and power is not 00:33:24.599 --> 00:33:28.039 just in here amongst ourselves or whenever we 00:33:28.039 --> 00:33:30.160 might feel like we're on an assignment to go 00:33:30.160 --> 00:33:32.720 cast a devil out somewhere or heal the sick somewhere, 00:33:32.960 --> 00:33:36.140 but we literally carry the dominant government 00:33:36.140 --> 00:33:40.579 in the earth, in us, and everywhere we go, we 00:33:40.579 --> 00:33:46.200 are the dominant government. Hallelujah. That 00:33:46.200 --> 00:33:51.119 means Oregon can change like that. That means 00:33:51.119 --> 00:33:53.799 the false thrones that have been set up in your 00:33:53.799 --> 00:33:57.039 capital can begin to crumble and come down when 00:33:57.039 --> 00:34:01.880 an ecclesia begins to gather together and legislate 00:34:01.880 --> 00:34:05.440 what's in the Father's heart for your city, for 00:34:05.440 --> 00:34:09.239 your region, and for your nation. Hallelujah. 00:34:10.920 --> 00:34:13.639 See, if I was the devil, I've been accused a 00:34:13.639 --> 00:34:18.489 few times. I'm not. Young -ass Joanne. But I 00:34:18.489 --> 00:34:22.630 would try to convince the people of God that 00:34:22.630 --> 00:34:26.909 it's all about them. And if I could convince 00:34:26.909 --> 00:34:31.050 them it's all about them, then maybe I could 00:34:31.050 --> 00:34:35.469 get them to focus on just themselves, their relationship 00:34:35.469 --> 00:34:39.110 with God, how God's moving with them, how God's 00:34:39.110 --> 00:34:41.630 ministering to them, how they're soaking in the 00:34:41.630 --> 00:34:44.010 presence of God, how they're gathering together 00:34:44.010 --> 00:34:47.429 to worship God. If I can get them to focus on 00:34:47.429 --> 00:34:54.820 that, then I can keep them out of culture. Your 00:34:54.820 --> 00:34:58.659 assignment is not in this building. Your assignment 00:34:58.659 --> 00:35:02.639 is where you do life. It's on your job. It's 00:35:02.639 --> 00:35:05.159 in your business. It's in your government. It's 00:35:05.159 --> 00:35:08.599 you being a voice in the theater of your community 00:35:08.599 --> 00:35:11.820 to be able to say, I hear what you're saying, 00:35:11.900 --> 00:35:16.719 but here's what the king says. And can you believe 00:35:16.719 --> 00:35:19.860 that we still have people, not here, I know it's 00:35:19.860 --> 00:35:22.619 not here, but we still have people that call 00:35:22.619 --> 00:35:26.099 themselves believers that still vote for people 00:35:26.099 --> 00:35:29.579 that their platform is about killing babies? 00:35:32.639 --> 00:35:38.460 Yeah. Well, Greg, you know, we got to keep the 00:35:38.460 --> 00:35:40.699 church and the government separated. That's the 00:35:40.699 --> 00:35:46.400 devil's plan. Because if the ecclesia gets into 00:35:46.400 --> 00:35:51.360 government, he loses his domain. He loses his 00:35:51.360 --> 00:35:55.599 stronghold. He loses his kingdom in that region. 00:35:57.039 --> 00:35:59.719 But if there was a people brave enough and bold 00:35:59.719 --> 00:36:02.960 enough to say, we don't care what it costs. We 00:36:02.960 --> 00:36:05.000 don't care what the assignment is. We don't care 00:36:05.000 --> 00:36:09.079 if we lose our life. We don't care if we lose 00:36:09.079 --> 00:36:11.519 our money. If we're put in jail, we're in this 00:36:11.519 --> 00:36:13.940 thing because we know we overcome by the blood 00:36:13.940 --> 00:36:17.039 of the Lamb. We overcome by the word of our testimony. 00:36:17.719 --> 00:36:28.800 And we love not our life even unto death. to 00:36:28.800 --> 00:36:31.340 be something that's consistent it can't be a 00:36:31.340 --> 00:36:36.719 good idea it has to become a lifestyle and the 00:36:36.719 --> 00:36:39.659 lifestyle that's created out of the structure 00:36:39.659 --> 00:36:43.420 of the kingdom of god is a governmental lifestyle 00:36:43.420 --> 00:36:47.619 not a religious christian lifestyle it is a lifestyle 00:36:47.619 --> 00:36:53.460 of kings does that make sense today see the answer 00:36:53.460 --> 00:36:57.099 to your problems in your state and in your city 00:36:57.099 --> 00:37:02.960 is in this room. It's not from heaven. It's in 00:37:02.960 --> 00:37:07.340 this room. Amen. It means you've got to speak 00:37:07.340 --> 00:37:09.139 up. Well, I might lose some friends. You need 00:37:09.139 --> 00:37:13.019 to lose them anyway. If you can't win them, lose 00:37:13.019 --> 00:37:21.679 them in a grand fashion. Amen. Let it be miraculously. 00:37:22.679 --> 00:37:27.219 A spectacle beyond spectacles. Amen. Well, I 00:37:27.219 --> 00:37:29.599 might lose my family. Same principle applies. 00:37:33.400 --> 00:37:35.940 Red letters in your Bible says this. It says 00:37:35.940 --> 00:37:42.480 that if you give up cattle and land, houses, 00:37:42.579 --> 00:37:48.440 mothers and fathers, brothers and sisters, for 00:37:48.440 --> 00:37:53.059 my namesake, for my kingdom, He said this. He 00:37:53.059 --> 00:37:57.179 said, I will give it back to you a hundredfold 00:37:57.179 --> 00:38:02.920 in this life. In this life. So what does that 00:38:02.920 --> 00:38:06.599 mean? All of those people that leave your life 00:38:06.599 --> 00:38:09.500 because of you standing for righteousness, they're 00:38:09.500 --> 00:38:14.280 just seed for a harvest. God's gonna bring it 00:38:14.280 --> 00:38:16.760 back. He's gonna bring people in your life. He's 00:38:16.760 --> 00:38:19.960 gonna bring houses and land and cattle. Amen. 00:38:20.000 --> 00:38:21.980 If he's bringing me cattle, I want red Angus. 00:38:21.980 --> 00:38:26.179 They're good to eat. Hallelujah. I'm a meatitarian. 00:38:30.300 --> 00:38:36.739 Thank you, Lord. We've become, we've been so 00:38:36.739 --> 00:38:42.320 taught in the church to be so conscious. About 00:38:42.320 --> 00:38:47.679 how other people think about us. And you know. 00:38:48.079 --> 00:38:51.000 God forbid somebody think bad about me. It might 00:38:51.000 --> 00:38:54.340 reflect bad on Christ. No. It'll probably reflect 00:38:54.340 --> 00:38:58.840 good on Christ. He said don't. Jesus didn't make 00:38:58.840 --> 00:39:02.340 himself a man of a reputation. But we're doing 00:39:02.340 --> 00:39:04.380 it every day. We're trying to brand ourselves. 00:39:06.619 --> 00:39:10.559 Especially preachers. Not none of us in the room. 00:39:11.599 --> 00:39:13.699 Amen. But some online are going to really get 00:39:13.699 --> 00:39:20.579 set free from this. I got a brand myself. The 00:39:20.579 --> 00:39:22.820 only brand you need is the brand of the sun on 00:39:22.820 --> 00:39:27.079 you. And if we're faithful to him, he'll open 00:39:27.079 --> 00:39:29.139 doors for us. He'll cause the gift that he's 00:39:29.139 --> 00:39:32.199 caused us to be, to be able to open doors in 00:39:32.199 --> 00:39:34.880 the right places. The Lord says something to 00:39:34.880 --> 00:39:37.679 Joanne and I this year. or last year rather, 00:39:37.840 --> 00:39:40.659 for this year, he said, I don't want you accepting 00:39:40.659 --> 00:39:44.260 invitations to preach. He said, I want you to 00:39:44.260 --> 00:39:48.940 start accepting assignments. Oh, that wrecked 00:39:48.940 --> 00:39:52.179 me, Brad. I'm like, that's a whole nother paradigm. 00:39:54.139 --> 00:39:56.099 That's redneck for paradigm. Sorry about that. 00:39:56.500 --> 00:40:03.960 I slipped back. Right? Young preachers, they're 00:40:03.960 --> 00:40:06.179 looking for open doors. They're looking for places 00:40:06.179 --> 00:40:08.619 to go preach. No, no, no, no. Let's don't do 00:40:08.619 --> 00:40:10.280 that no more. That's the religious way to do 00:40:10.280 --> 00:40:12.320 it. That's the way we were taught to do it. Let's 00:40:12.320 --> 00:40:14.920 ask Father for where have you assigned me to 00:40:14.920 --> 00:40:18.380 be today? Because if I can get in my assignment, 00:40:18.480 --> 00:40:21.860 then I can get some fruit. Amen. And I can get 00:40:21.860 --> 00:40:24.559 so much fruit that they'll look and say, this 00:40:24.559 --> 00:40:28.179 must be God because look what he used to bring 00:40:28.179 --> 00:40:33.099 fruit. If you look up in your Strong's Concordance, 00:40:33.099 --> 00:40:34.980 The Foolish Things of Man to Confound the Wise, 00:40:35.159 --> 00:40:40.079 my picture's there. I'm telling you, I want to 00:40:40.079 --> 00:40:42.980 be in positions that there's no way people can 00:40:42.980 --> 00:40:45.000 say, Greg did that out of his talent. Greg did 00:40:45.000 --> 00:40:47.559 that out of his resources. Greg did that out 00:40:47.559 --> 00:40:49.380 of this or that. They'll have to look and say, 00:40:49.460 --> 00:40:54.420 that had to be God. That's what I want. That's 00:40:54.420 --> 00:40:58.449 my heart's desire. But it's got to be in a structure 00:40:58.449 --> 00:41:00.769 that he created. He did not create religion. 00:41:00.989 --> 00:41:08.489 He created kingdom. Are you with me? He said, 00:41:08.510 --> 00:41:11.570 I'm going to build my church and the gates of 00:41:11.570 --> 00:41:18.090 Hades will not overpower. See, there in Caesarea 00:41:18.090 --> 00:41:22.010 Philippi, where Jesus was standing, there were 00:41:22.010 --> 00:41:26.289 two caves upon a hill. Those two caves were called 00:41:26.289 --> 00:41:30.730 the gates of Hades, the gates of hell, or the 00:41:30.730 --> 00:41:35.389 gates of the underworld. And Jews, along with 00:41:35.389 --> 00:41:37.670 the pagans, would go in there and they would 00:41:37.670 --> 00:41:41.010 sacrifice their babies to this god called Pan. 00:41:41.610 --> 00:41:47.230 He was half man, half goat. And they would throw 00:41:47.230 --> 00:41:50.809 their babies over this shelf that was in this 00:41:50.809 --> 00:41:53.510 cave into a river that ran through the cave. 00:41:54.389 --> 00:41:58.230 And if blood came out the other end, God wasn't 00:41:58.230 --> 00:42:00.250 satisfied, so they had to do it over and over 00:42:00.250 --> 00:42:07.590 again. This cave, these two caves, they were 00:42:07.590 --> 00:42:12.130 on a very unique place. These caves were on the 00:42:12.130 --> 00:42:18.289 mount called Mount Hermon. Say, Greg, what's 00:42:18.289 --> 00:42:19.889 that got to do with anything? It's very important. 00:42:20.030 --> 00:42:28.860 This is where... The 200 watchers fell. You say, 00:42:28.880 --> 00:42:30.360 Greg, I don't know what that is. I got a book 00:42:30.360 --> 00:42:33.340 back here called Seed Wars. It's not a plug really. 00:42:33.599 --> 00:42:35.500 But we talk about those types of things. There 00:42:35.500 --> 00:42:39.460 was a rebellion of the watchers, the sons of 00:42:39.460 --> 00:42:44.900 God. They fell. They landed there on Mount Hermon. 00:42:44.960 --> 00:42:47.320 They made a covenant with themselves that they 00:42:47.320 --> 00:42:51.139 would lay with the daughters of men. And they 00:42:51.139 --> 00:42:56.820 did. And the giant races were produced from that. 00:42:57.019 --> 00:43:00.280 And all kind of wickedness began to fill the 00:43:00.280 --> 00:43:05.719 earth. This was going back to the Genesis chapter 00:43:05.719 --> 00:43:10.940 3 scenario to where whenever that crazy woman 00:43:10.940 --> 00:43:16.460 Eve deceived her husband. No, wait a minute. 00:43:16.500 --> 00:43:17.880 No, that's not the right place for that one. 00:43:18.679 --> 00:43:22.800 When Adam didn't take responsibility. It's all 00:43:22.800 --> 00:43:25.300 right, Tony. We're going to get out alive now. 00:43:25.380 --> 00:43:35.340 Hallelujah. And he ate the fruit. Why did God 00:43:35.340 --> 00:43:39.579 not say anything? Why did God not correct that 00:43:39.579 --> 00:43:43.989 woman? Very, very important. This has to do with 00:43:43.989 --> 00:43:47.269 the prevailing ekklesia. Why did he not correct 00:43:47.269 --> 00:43:50.010 Eve? Say, Eve, don't do that. Look, woman, go 00:43:50.010 --> 00:43:52.030 back and talk to Adam. Get this thing right. 00:43:52.110 --> 00:43:54.909 Why did he not do that? Because in Genesis chapter 00:43:54.909 --> 00:44:00.369 one, God said something so significant, so precise. 00:44:02.530 --> 00:44:10.489 He said, let them have authority. Dominion, radah 00:44:10.489 --> 00:44:12.869 is the word in Hebrew. Let them do kingdom. Let 00:44:12.869 --> 00:44:19.130 them be responsible for the earth. Isn't that 00:44:19.130 --> 00:44:21.789 amazing? You know what that means? That means 00:44:21.789 --> 00:44:28.250 God's not in control. Man, that's a saying that 00:44:28.250 --> 00:44:32.250 every church people use. God's in control. Actually, 00:44:32.269 --> 00:44:39.289 he's not. He's in charge. He put man in control. 00:44:41.030 --> 00:44:43.510 If God was in control, you'll have to blame him 00:44:43.510 --> 00:44:46.150 for every abortion, every murder, every rape, 00:44:46.190 --> 00:44:48.630 right? You'd have to blame him for every angry 00:44:48.630 --> 00:44:50.630 mother -in -law, all of that stuff you'd have 00:44:50.630 --> 00:44:54.750 to blame God for. But God is in charge. He can 00:44:54.750 --> 00:44:57.150 take control. He will take control again one 00:44:57.150 --> 00:45:00.670 day. But the word says that he created the earth 00:45:00.670 --> 00:45:02.510 for the sons of man and he created the heavens 00:45:02.510 --> 00:45:06.889 for himself. Now we have to understand if God, 00:45:07.659 --> 00:45:13.760 gave man control, God removed himself from the 00:45:13.760 --> 00:45:19.460 scenario of operations in the earth. That's why 00:45:19.460 --> 00:45:23.599 he didn't say anything whenever the act of rebellion 00:45:23.599 --> 00:45:28.860 and treason was taking place. See, the sin that 00:45:28.860 --> 00:45:31.440 Jesus came to die for was not your morality. 00:45:35.239 --> 00:45:38.219 We think that Jesus came to save me from drinking, 00:45:38.360 --> 00:45:41.860 dipping, smoking, chewing, dating girls that 00:45:41.860 --> 00:45:51.260 did those things. Right? But he didn't. It was 00:45:51.260 --> 00:45:54.960 the sin. It's plural. Excuse me, it's singular, 00:45:55.039 --> 00:45:57.119 not plural in the scripture. And it's one sin. 00:45:57.179 --> 00:46:02.760 It's the sin of rebellion. The sin of treason. 00:46:05.070 --> 00:46:06.969 You can't commit treason against a religion, 00:46:07.130 --> 00:46:10.570 but you can against a country. You can against 00:46:10.570 --> 00:46:13.550 a kingdom. Amen? And so what happened? What happened? 00:46:13.769 --> 00:46:17.190 How do we get so, our morals get so messed up? 00:46:17.230 --> 00:46:22.250 It's because we traded our passport that belonged 00:46:22.250 --> 00:46:24.530 to the kingdom of light to the kingdom of darkness 00:46:24.530 --> 00:46:26.570 back in the Garden of Eden. And when we did that, 00:46:26.670 --> 00:46:32.530 we took on the culture of that kingdom. And all, 00:46:32.840 --> 00:46:35.599 the fallen ones begin to train humanity in the 00:46:35.599 --> 00:46:39.099 culture of the kingdom of darkness. But when 00:46:39.099 --> 00:46:42.539 Yeshua came on the scene, hallelujah, when he 00:46:42.539 --> 00:46:45.380 died and rose again and ascended into heaven, 00:46:45.500 --> 00:46:48.860 he made a way for you to be repatriated into 00:46:48.860 --> 00:46:53.980 your home country. Hallelujah. Isn't that good? 00:46:54.639 --> 00:46:57.260 Now you can trade your passport from the kingdom 00:46:57.260 --> 00:46:59.699 of darkness back into the kingdom of light and 00:46:59.699 --> 00:47:04.199 you become sons and daughters. Jesus died for 00:47:04.199 --> 00:47:14.219 the sins of the world. That word world is tricky. 00:47:15.940 --> 00:47:20.400 It's the word cosmos. And it means structure. 00:47:21.489 --> 00:47:23.489 Order, governmental structure, governmental order. 00:47:23.590 --> 00:47:31.349 It doesn't mean humanity. Oops. Can I give you 00:47:31.349 --> 00:47:34.630 one more? See, Brad needs sermon material for 00:47:34.630 --> 00:47:36.389 the next month, so he's going to correct all 00:47:36.389 --> 00:47:39.769 of this stuff. I'm just giving him points to 00:47:39.769 --> 00:47:43.409 work out with y 'all. The most famous scripture 00:47:43.409 --> 00:47:46.210 in the Bible, John 3, 16, for God so loved the 00:47:46.210 --> 00:47:50.190 world. That he gave his only begotten son that 00:47:50.190 --> 00:47:51.750 whosoever believed in him would not perish but 00:47:51.750 --> 00:47:53.789 have everlasting life. For the son was not sent 00:47:53.789 --> 00:47:55.469 into the world to condemn the world that through 00:47:55.469 --> 00:47:59.110 him the world might be saved. That's the word, 00:47:59.110 --> 00:48:02.329 that word world again is the word cosmos and 00:48:02.329 --> 00:48:05.409 it means government or governmental structure 00:48:05.409 --> 00:48:09.809 or governmental order. It has nothing to do with 00:48:09.809 --> 00:48:14.570 humanity. But we preached it, God so loved you. 00:48:14.750 --> 00:48:18.570 Oh, glory. That he gave his only begotten son. 00:48:20.030 --> 00:48:21.630 Y 'all know how we preach it. We preach it hell 00:48:21.630 --> 00:48:25.190 hot, right? Seven ways to Sunday. We'll even 00:48:25.190 --> 00:48:27.449 hoop a little bit. They know what hooping is 00:48:27.449 --> 00:48:29.289 up here, Tony. I don't know if they know what 00:48:29.289 --> 00:48:32.809 that is. You should explain it. Well, I need 00:48:32.809 --> 00:48:36.309 a Hammond B3 with a listening speaker to help 00:48:36.309 --> 00:48:43.929 me with that. He loved order. He loved government. 00:48:45.929 --> 00:48:49.750 So much that he sent his son into the disorder, 00:48:49.949 --> 00:48:56.130 into a fallen government. And if anyone would 00:48:56.130 --> 00:48:58.829 believe in him, his assignment, his purpose, 00:48:58.889 --> 00:49:04.369 then they could switch countries and live eternally. 00:49:06.070 --> 00:49:12.269 Hallelujah. And then he says in verse 17, we 00:49:12.269 --> 00:49:15.559 never preach 17 because... Verse 16, if we preach 00:49:15.559 --> 00:49:16.980 it a certain way that we've been taught from 00:49:16.980 --> 00:49:19.619 Western ideology and philosophy, then we can 00:49:19.619 --> 00:49:21.139 get people in the altar and take pictures and 00:49:21.139 --> 00:49:27.320 it looks good. Verse 17 says, he did not send 00:49:27.320 --> 00:49:32.000 the son, his son, into the... Chaos or the disorder, 00:49:32.440 --> 00:49:37.059 so to destroy the disorder or to judge the governmental 00:49:37.059 --> 00:49:41.059 structure, but that through him, that structure, 00:49:41.159 --> 00:49:45.500 that order might be saved. Jesus did not come 00:49:45.500 --> 00:49:52.980 to get you. He came to get a kingdom so that 00:49:52.980 --> 00:49:55.980 he could then get you back into your rightful 00:49:55.980 --> 00:50:01.780 place. As citizens in the kingdom. See, it was 00:50:01.780 --> 00:50:05.059 never about heaven in the ether out there somewhere. 00:50:05.179 --> 00:50:08.559 It was about heaven in the earth. He came back 00:50:08.559 --> 00:50:11.760 to put in order what was out of order. He came 00:50:11.760 --> 00:50:17.119 to bring the kingdoms back under subjection to 00:50:17.119 --> 00:50:21.800 the most high God. Amen. He came to dethrone 00:50:21.800 --> 00:50:26.940 these fallen rebellious watchers. and to reinstitute 00:50:26.940 --> 00:50:31.539 his government in the earth so that his sons 00:50:31.539 --> 00:50:34.579 and his daughters could get back to doing what 00:50:34.579 --> 00:50:38.820 God's original intent was when he created man, 00:50:39.019 --> 00:50:42.139 and that was radahing, if I can say it that way, 00:50:42.280 --> 00:50:47.119 doing kingdom, having dominion in the earth. 00:50:48.739 --> 00:50:50.760 See, we've been trained. We gotta get out of 00:50:50.760 --> 00:50:52.320 here. He's coming one day. We're gonna get, it's 00:50:52.320 --> 00:50:53.960 gonna be in the sweet by and by. Hallelujah, 00:50:54.059 --> 00:50:57.099 one day. When the roll is called up yonder, I'll 00:50:57.099 --> 00:51:01.679 be there. I fly away, oh glory. What we've done, 00:51:01.699 --> 00:51:03.800 we've gotten a lot of our theology from our song 00:51:03.800 --> 00:51:08.719 book instead of his book. And we have missed 00:51:08.719 --> 00:51:13.780 it. Brad did not give you guys a theme for this 00:51:13.780 --> 00:51:17.500 conference just out of thin air. This is purpose. 00:51:18.699 --> 00:51:22.300 Thought through, prayed through. Hearing the 00:51:22.300 --> 00:51:26.239 Lord saying, I'm ready to raise up a prevailing 00:51:26.239 --> 00:51:31.280 church. A church that dominates in every sphere 00:51:31.280 --> 00:51:34.679 of society. And release the people that only 00:51:34.679 --> 00:51:37.199 need two or three in any sphere of influence. 00:51:37.460 --> 00:51:39.739 I'll send them in there. There an ecclesia will 00:51:39.739 --> 00:51:42.440 be. And they will begin to change the culture. 00:51:45.019 --> 00:51:47.980 What if people in your business world, your business 00:51:47.980 --> 00:51:52.449 realm, stop stealing from you? What if your employees 00:51:52.449 --> 00:51:56.610 stop stealing from you? What if you stop, no, 00:51:56.750 --> 00:51:59.710 for those online, what if you stop stealing from 00:51:59.710 --> 00:52:05.320 your employer? What if the culture was not, you'd 00:52:05.320 --> 00:52:07.539 have to tell people to watch their mouths or 00:52:07.539 --> 00:52:11.360 don't bring these demonic things in here. What 00:52:11.360 --> 00:52:14.840 if there was a ekklesia, a legislative group 00:52:14.840 --> 00:52:18.139 of people that went into every sphere of society 00:52:18.139 --> 00:52:22.719 in Harrisburg or in Oregon or in our nation and 00:52:22.719 --> 00:52:25.599 said, now we're going to be the cultural changers. 00:52:25.619 --> 00:52:28.820 We're going to set the atmosphere of what's allowed 00:52:28.820 --> 00:52:34.349 to operate here and what's not. I believe we're 00:52:34.349 --> 00:52:37.829 at that place. There's a maturing church. There's 00:52:37.829 --> 00:52:40.750 a remnant church that God is raising up that's 00:52:40.750 --> 00:52:44.010 saying we've had enough. We've had enough. We've 00:52:44.010 --> 00:52:47.590 had enough of demonic ideas and demonic people 00:52:47.590 --> 00:52:50.630 trying to change our nation into being something 00:52:50.630 --> 00:52:56.010 God never created it to be. But what we're gonna 00:52:56.010 --> 00:52:59.409 have to do is take responsibility. We're gonna 00:52:59.409 --> 00:53:05.099 have to begin to say, all right, We see what 00:53:05.099 --> 00:53:07.599 you're doing and here's what the king says about 00:53:07.599 --> 00:53:11.300 this. I was interviewed one time by The Economist 00:53:11.300 --> 00:53:14.679 magazine. They came all the way to Franklin, 00:53:14.780 --> 00:53:18.659 Tennessee to see a redneck because he'd been 00:53:18.659 --> 00:53:23.300 talking about government and the church. And 00:53:23.300 --> 00:53:25.500 the lady, when she sat down to interview me, 00:53:25.599 --> 00:53:27.880 one of her first questions was, Greg, what's 00:53:27.880 --> 00:53:35.400 your opinion on... Same -sex marriage. I said, 00:53:35.420 --> 00:53:41.059 you mean queers marrying one another? I did. 00:53:42.539 --> 00:53:46.940 I wasn't there to get along. I said, I don't 00:53:46.940 --> 00:53:50.320 have an opinion. She said, how can you not have 00:53:50.320 --> 00:53:51.860 an opinion? You're a preacher. You're supposed 00:53:51.860 --> 00:53:54.610 to have an opinion. I said, ma 'am. If I was 00:53:54.610 --> 00:53:56.909 religious, I could have opinion, but I'm a kingdom 00:53:56.909 --> 00:53:59.869 man, so I'm not afforded an opinion. I can only 00:53:59.869 --> 00:54:08.250 tell you what the king says. See, when we lose 00:54:08.250 --> 00:54:14.489 our opinions and we only say what he says, we 00:54:14.489 --> 00:54:17.630 get the weight and the results of his words. 00:54:19.710 --> 00:54:25.300 Amen. When we see these crooked politicians that 00:54:25.300 --> 00:54:29.260 are trying to lie and cheat and steal and we 00:54:29.260 --> 00:54:31.579 don't address them out of our anger, let me tell 00:54:31.579 --> 00:54:33.380 you, that's hard to do, especially for a redneck 00:54:33.380 --> 00:54:37.219 boy. Help me, hallelujah. If I had hair, it'd 00:54:37.219 --> 00:54:42.460 all fall out. But we see this wickedness and 00:54:42.460 --> 00:54:44.519 we want to address it with a righteous anger. 00:54:44.619 --> 00:54:46.699 No, no, all you got to do is say what the king 00:54:46.699 --> 00:54:49.420 said and these people begin to lose their authority. 00:54:50.570 --> 00:54:52.969 They begin to lose their positioning. They begin 00:54:52.969 --> 00:54:57.070 to lose their influence. Why? Because their kabod, 00:54:57.090 --> 00:55:00.150 Tony talked about that, their doctor, their glory, 00:55:00.250 --> 00:55:03.230 their weight and their influence begins to shift 00:55:03.230 --> 00:55:08.250 out of their control and the weight and the glory, 00:55:08.429 --> 00:55:11.489 the influence of God begins to come in. Why? 00:55:11.630 --> 00:55:13.530 Because that's what it says in Psalms. Who is 00:55:13.530 --> 00:55:17.630 this king of glory? The Lord God Almighty. Who? 00:55:17.820 --> 00:55:20.239 Who is this one that is trained, fills the temple? 00:55:20.460 --> 00:55:23.679 Who is this one that steps in and all of the 00:55:23.679 --> 00:55:26.900 angels take notice of him? All creation bows 00:55:26.900 --> 00:55:31.320 to him. That's when we begin to see the difference. 00:55:31.380 --> 00:55:39.019 See, cultural change is up to the ecclesia. I'm 00:55:39.019 --> 00:55:46.300 closing. Some of y 'all look hungry. So what's 00:55:46.300 --> 00:55:53.239 the problem? The problem is, again, not y 'all, 00:55:53.320 --> 00:56:01.880 those online. The problem is we've had a weak, 00:56:01.880 --> 00:56:09.920 compromised church. That's the problem. The root 00:56:09.920 --> 00:56:15.500 of the problem is a weak and compromised pulpit. 00:56:17.099 --> 00:56:23.050 Y 'all hear me? A weak, compromised pulpit. The 00:56:23.050 --> 00:56:27.690 most influential voice in any community is the 00:56:27.690 --> 00:56:32.909 pulpit. Above everything, why we teach, we train, 00:56:32.989 --> 00:56:36.769 we're a gift. The five -fold gifts are actually 00:56:36.769 --> 00:56:39.489 not ministries. We've been calling what we do 00:56:39.489 --> 00:56:41.650 ministry. We're not in ministry. We're in equipping. 00:56:42.650 --> 00:56:45.670 And our equipping is to equip you to do the work 00:56:45.670 --> 00:56:50.409 of the ministry. Amen? Ministry is not casting 00:56:50.409 --> 00:56:53.349 out devils and raising the dead. That's not ministry. 00:56:53.449 --> 00:56:55.530 That's not ministry at all. Ministry is a governmental 00:56:55.530 --> 00:56:58.670 term. And you and I, family, we actually, we've 00:56:58.670 --> 00:57:01.289 been at a disadvantage in America because we 00:57:01.289 --> 00:57:04.070 don't use language, kingdom language a lot. We 00:57:04.070 --> 00:57:06.449 don't use that a lot. But ministry has to do 00:57:06.449 --> 00:57:09.429 with directly what we have as, you know, we have 00:57:09.429 --> 00:57:12.130 departments, Department of Defense, or the war 00:57:12.130 --> 00:57:14.309 now. I like that better. That's stronger. Department 00:57:14.309 --> 00:57:18.320 of War. Department of education, department of 00:57:18.320 --> 00:57:20.940 finance. We have secretaries that run those things, 00:57:21.000 --> 00:57:24.420 but in a kingdom, it's the ministry of war. It's 00:57:24.420 --> 00:57:27.079 the ministry of finance. It's the ministry of 00:57:27.079 --> 00:57:29.280 education and they're run by ministers. So kingdom 00:57:29.280 --> 00:57:33.760 language is saying to us here that we as the 00:57:33.760 --> 00:57:39.400 gifts of Yeshua. To his ecclesia, our responsibility 00:57:39.400 --> 00:57:43.619 is not to be a minister or a ministry, but our 00:57:43.619 --> 00:57:47.780 responsibility is to teach you how to do governmental 00:57:47.780 --> 00:57:51.539 business in the sphere of influence, the ministry 00:57:51.539 --> 00:57:55.019 that he's given you as a minister of the king. 00:57:55.940 --> 00:58:01.400 Woo, hallelujah. Does that make sense? But here's 00:58:01.400 --> 00:58:03.000 what's happened. You know, we're fatty people, 00:58:03.219 --> 00:58:06.519 not F -A -T -T -Y, but F, it sounds the same 00:58:06.519 --> 00:58:15.000 redneck tongue. Fad, fatty, we like fads. There 00:58:15.000 --> 00:58:18.440 you go. Same pronunciation, different spelling. 00:58:22.219 --> 00:58:31.019 The fad in the church today is kingdom. Everything's 00:58:31.019 --> 00:58:33.059 kingdom. Kingdom, kingdom, kingdom, kingdom, 00:58:33.159 --> 00:58:35.039 kingdom, kingdom, kingdom. But what we have, 00:58:35.219 --> 00:58:38.280 Tony, is we have kingdom language without kingdom 00:58:38.280 --> 00:58:43.300 revelation. And when you have kingdom language 00:58:43.300 --> 00:58:46.320 without kingdom revelation, you have religion 00:58:46.320 --> 00:58:49.800 in another dialect. That's all you got. That 00:58:49.800 --> 00:58:52.559 make sense? You've just got religion. We talk 00:58:52.559 --> 00:58:54.900 it, but we have no idea what it means. We've 00:58:54.900 --> 00:58:57.420 got to find out what did Jesus actually mean 00:58:57.420 --> 00:58:59.179 when he said, I'm going to build my Ecclesia. 00:58:59.260 --> 00:59:02.400 When I'm bringing the government of God, the 00:59:02.400 --> 00:59:05.539 government of heaven back into the earth, I came 00:59:05.539 --> 00:59:11.340 to die and save a governmental structure. The 00:59:11.340 --> 00:59:16.300 word save there, it means to recover, to restore, 00:59:16.340 --> 00:59:21.900 and to preserve. He came to recover the government. 00:59:22.099 --> 00:59:25.179 He came to restore the government. And he came 00:59:25.179 --> 00:59:28.119 to preserve the government. The prophet Daniel 00:59:28.119 --> 00:59:32.530 said to his kingdom, there will be no end. Isaiah 00:59:32.530 --> 00:59:35.550 said that the government will be upon his shoulder, 00:59:35.610 --> 00:59:40.710 not the salvation, not the crusaders or the crusades 00:59:40.710 --> 00:59:43.329 we will do. No, no, no. The government will be 00:59:43.329 --> 00:59:46.489 upon his shoulders and his kingdom will have 00:59:46.489 --> 00:59:50.050 no end. Not his religion, his kingdom, his government. 00:59:52.829 --> 00:59:56.289 Luke chapter 4 verse 5, it says the enemy led 00:59:56.289 --> 00:59:58.789 him up to a high place, showed him all of the 00:59:58.789 --> 01:00:03.489 religions of the world, right? No, all the kingdoms 01:00:03.489 --> 01:00:06.570 of the world. He showed him all of the kingdoms 01:00:06.570 --> 01:00:09.889 of the world and his glory, his weight, his influence, 01:00:10.010 --> 01:00:12.989 and said, if you'll bow down and worship me, 01:00:13.210 --> 01:00:16.670 I'll give you what you came for. I'll give you 01:00:16.670 --> 01:00:19.010 all of these kingdoms. Now, the word world there 01:00:19.010 --> 01:00:22.309 is not the word cosmos. The word world there 01:00:22.309 --> 01:00:25.710 is the word oikos, which means family or the 01:00:25.710 --> 01:00:28.389 house that holds the family, the family unit. 01:00:28.550 --> 01:00:31.480 And the devil was telling him, look, I know you've 01:00:31.480 --> 01:00:35.139 come after your family's kingdoms, but if you 01:00:35.139 --> 01:00:38.000 want them, just kneel and worship before me and 01:00:38.000 --> 01:00:41.159 I'll give you what you came for. And Jesus said 01:00:41.159 --> 01:00:44.880 what? He said, it is written, you worship the 01:00:44.880 --> 01:00:46.840 Lord your God and serve him only. Do you know 01:00:46.840 --> 01:00:50.559 what that word worship means? It's not this. 01:00:52.340 --> 01:00:54.619 It's not smoke machines and preachers in skinny 01:00:54.619 --> 01:01:00.719 jeans. Hallelujah. That's not what it is. The 01:01:00.719 --> 01:01:04.980 word worship literally means, look it up, it 01:01:04.980 --> 01:01:11.219 means to kiss the ring. Kiss the ring. The root 01:01:11.219 --> 01:01:13.679 of that, it means to kneel or to take a knee 01:01:13.679 --> 01:01:21.099 and to kiss a ring. So worship is about an expression 01:01:21.099 --> 01:01:26.639 of loyalty and submission to one who lords over 01:01:26.639 --> 01:01:32.230 you. What was Satan's goal? I'm gonna exalt my 01:01:32.230 --> 01:01:35.349 throne above his throne. I'm gonna be like the 01:01:35.349 --> 01:01:41.550 most high. Wrong answer. That was his goal. If 01:01:41.550 --> 01:01:43.829 I could get the son of God to worship me, then 01:01:43.829 --> 01:01:45.829 I've achieved my goal. I'll give you the kings, 01:01:45.929 --> 01:01:48.429 all the glory, all the dominion that comes with 01:01:48.429 --> 01:01:50.989 it. Yeshua, if you'll just kneel and kiss my 01:01:50.989 --> 01:01:53.750 ring, I'll give you what you came for. And Jesus 01:01:53.750 --> 01:01:56.730 said, buddy, there's only one ring I'm kissing. 01:01:58.349 --> 01:02:01.110 There's only one I'm kneeling before and that 01:02:01.110 --> 01:02:04.949 is the most high. I am not kissing your old nasty 01:02:04.949 --> 01:02:06.630 ring. No telling where your hands have been. 01:02:08.170 --> 01:02:15.070 I added that in there. So if we're going to have 01:02:15.070 --> 01:02:22.070 a prevailing, dominating, advancing church, we're 01:02:22.070 --> 01:02:25.929 going to have to get it from the structure that 01:02:25.929 --> 01:02:33.000 he created. which is kingdom. Amen? Luke chapter 01:02:33.000 --> 01:02:39.659 12. It's a mirror of Matthew chapter 6, verse 01:02:39.659 --> 01:02:46.320 32. It says, verse 33, it says, seek first the 01:02:46.320 --> 01:02:48.760 kingdom of God and all these things be added 01:02:48.760 --> 01:02:52.340 unto you. In Luke, Matthew adds the word and 01:02:52.340 --> 01:02:56.320 his righteousness. But then the last verse of 01:02:56.320 --> 01:03:01.639 Luke 12, it says, do not fear, little flock. 01:03:03.360 --> 01:03:09.400 Isn't that good? Can I give you a hint? If Jesus 01:03:09.400 --> 01:03:11.659 says do not fear, there's going to be opportunity 01:03:11.659 --> 01:03:17.619 to fear. Right? Do not fear, little flock, for 01:03:17.619 --> 01:03:22.420 it is the Father's good pleasure to give you 01:03:22.420 --> 01:03:28.489 the... the nation, the country, the kingdom. 01:03:30.690 --> 01:03:36.269 See, when Jesus died and he rose again, he restored 01:03:36.269 --> 01:03:43.590 what Adam lost. Jesus was the last Adam. He restored 01:03:43.590 --> 01:03:48.429 that and then he said to us, go get my family 01:03:48.429 --> 01:03:54.039 back in Mark 16, in Matthew 28. he said to us, 01:03:54.079 --> 01:04:00.579 he said, go disciple nations. Wow. Get the family, 01:04:00.679 --> 01:04:06.480 disciple nations. We have a responsibility as 01:04:06.480 --> 01:04:11.880 the ecclesia to disciple our nation. That means 01:04:11.880 --> 01:04:14.619 we are the influencers. It is the one that is 01:04:14.619 --> 01:04:20.400 influenced. Does this make sense today? The beautiful 01:04:20.400 --> 01:04:24.130 part about it is you have, part of the government 01:04:24.130 --> 01:04:29.949 in you. You have the governor of the government 01:04:29.949 --> 01:04:36.730 in you. His name is Holy Spirit. Amen. He lives 01:04:36.730 --> 01:04:41.570 in you. And the kingdom is in you. Wherever the 01:04:41.570 --> 01:04:44.289 governor is, there's representation of the kingdom. 01:04:44.869 --> 01:04:48.960 Isn't that good? See, whenever a nation turns 01:04:48.960 --> 01:04:53.059 a territory over to the people and they establish 01:04:53.059 --> 01:04:56.900 a sovereign nation, the governor that that dominating 01:04:56.900 --> 01:04:59.079 nation had in there, he has to leave. He has 01:04:59.079 --> 01:05:02.579 to lower his flag and he has to go. Why is that? 01:05:02.739 --> 01:05:07.090 Because now a new government's coming in. Whenever 01:05:07.090 --> 01:05:10.550 you get born again and Holy Spirit comes to live 01:05:10.550 --> 01:05:15.909 in you, you've got the governor of the home country 01:05:15.909 --> 01:05:20.409 living in you to now teach you the culture of 01:05:20.409 --> 01:05:24.630 the home country, but also to activate you in 01:05:24.630 --> 01:05:28.170 your assignment of causing the kingdoms of this 01:05:28.170 --> 01:05:31.510 world to become the kingdoms of our God and his 01:05:31.510 --> 01:05:35.170 Christ. You're the most dangerous thing on the 01:05:35.170 --> 01:05:38.639 planet. Look at somebody and tell them, you're 01:05:38.639 --> 01:05:45.659 the most dangerous thing on the planet. Isn't 01:05:45.659 --> 01:05:51.780 that good? I want you to stand with me. Hallelujah. 01:05:54.059 --> 01:05:58.320 I know it's a lot. But you're made for this. 01:05:59.820 --> 01:06:02.699 This shift that Brad's been talking about, that 01:06:02.699 --> 01:06:06.789 Tony talked about, is not just a deeper. Walk 01:06:06.789 --> 01:06:10.889 with God. It's a more dangerous walk with God. 01:06:15.750 --> 01:06:19.510 So Father, today I just pray that you give us 01:06:19.510 --> 01:06:23.969 ears to hear what Holy Spirit is saying to us. 01:06:26.309 --> 01:06:28.849 You'd give us what Tony talked about today out 01:06:28.849 --> 01:06:31.929 of Ephesians chapter 1 and verse 17. Father, 01:06:31.969 --> 01:06:38.329 you would give us wisdom and revelation. Help 01:06:38.329 --> 01:06:41.090 us Father to understand that what Yeshua did 01:06:41.090 --> 01:06:43.869 for us was not all about us. It was about him 01:06:43.869 --> 01:06:48.090 and his kingdom. We just get to be a part of 01:06:48.090 --> 01:06:53.130 it. And I'm thankful for that Lord. Father I 01:06:53.130 --> 01:06:58.170 pray that this. This ecclesia that you have in 01:06:58.170 --> 01:07:01.829 Oregon here, Father, would begin to make this 01:07:01.829 --> 01:07:06.230 shift in a way that we would begin to see the 01:07:06.230 --> 01:07:12.190 state of Oregon literally change. That, Father, 01:07:12.269 --> 01:07:18.110 those that hate you that are ruling in this state 01:07:18.110 --> 01:07:24.409 would find themselves unseated. Lord, your word 01:07:24.409 --> 01:07:27.989 says that whenever the kings of the earth plot 01:07:27.989 --> 01:07:32.489 together to overthrow you, Psalms 2, you say 01:07:32.489 --> 01:07:37.849 that you sit in the heaven and you laugh. Laugh 01:07:37.849 --> 01:07:44.130 over Oregon, I pray. Let your joy begin to pour 01:07:44.130 --> 01:07:48.710 over this state. Use this ecclesia. Give them 01:07:48.710 --> 01:07:51.630 influence, Father. Give them weight in this state. 01:07:51.789 --> 01:07:56.050 Father, begin to give them favor. Give them laborers 01:07:56.050 --> 01:07:57.929 for all you've called them to do. Give them favor. 01:07:57.969 --> 01:08:01.389 Open doors in every facet of culture that they 01:08:01.389 --> 01:08:05.210 can begin to commission and send apostolically, 01:08:05.349 --> 01:08:09.550 Lord, people into every sphere of society to 01:08:09.550 --> 01:08:13.010 begin to shift and change it to look like heaven. 01:08:16.720 --> 01:08:20.720 Father, I'm asking today for boldness. You'd 01:08:20.720 --> 01:08:22.279 give them boldness. You'd give them strength. 01:08:22.399 --> 01:08:24.520 You'd give them a fresh and filling of Holy Spirit. 01:08:24.739 --> 01:08:28.039 Father, you'd cause them to be able to see, Lord, 01:08:28.239 --> 01:08:30.979 in dimensions they've not yet seen into yet. 01:08:31.359 --> 01:08:34.399 And they would begin to be known as those that 01:08:34.399 --> 01:08:39.640 govern from their seat in heaven, manifesting 01:08:39.640 --> 01:08:43.810 it in the earth. So, Father, we bless this ecclesia. 01:08:43.810 --> 01:08:47.130 We bless Brad and Jen and all of their leadership. 01:08:47.310 --> 01:08:50.329 We bless, Father, those that are connected here. 01:08:50.449 --> 01:08:54.010 And we thank you they are shifting into a place 01:08:54.010 --> 01:08:58.250 of dominance, into a place of kingdom that they've 01:08:58.250 --> 01:09:03.630 never been in before. Deep calls to deep. So, 01:09:03.710 --> 01:09:06.829 Father, we thank you for this. In the mighty 01:09:06.829 --> 01:09:34.500 name of Yeshua, we pray. Amen. If you are in 01:09:34.500 --> 01:09:37.359 need of prayer, send us a text message at 541 01:09:37.359 --> 01:09:42.239 -625 -1365. We would love to pray with you.