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enjoy this week's message. Let's give the Lord
a big praise. Can we do that? Hallelujah. He
is good. Do you believe it? Amen. It doesn't
matter if you believe it or not. He's still good.
Amen. I want to just say thank you to Brad and
Jen for allowing me back again. They're brave
people. I thought for sure they're not going
to let me come back no more. But you do let Tony
come back. So I'm encouraged. I'm very encouraged.
And Tony's amazing. I love Tony so much. He's
one of my dearest friends and one of my weirdest
friends that I relate to very, very well. Amen.
I believe God's got a word for us this afternoon.
But as Tony said, men should be obedient to their
wives. He might not have said that. I would have
heard, though. I want to just tell you about
a couple books back there. Joanne, she makes
me do this stuff. I'm not very good at it. But
the best book we have back there is her book.
And it's called Rendezvous. And it's a 21 -day
encounter with the king. You've just come off
of a 21 -day fast. Some of you look better than
you did when you went into it. Amen. Praise the
Lord. So I encourage you to go get this book
and spend the next 21 days. with the Father in
a way that is just amazing. This is a very, very,
very good book. I have our new book out. It's
called Ancient Evils, Present Day Manifestations,
Volume 1, The Rise of the Ecclesia. And this
is a three -volume set that we're producing.
We were going to make it one book, but when I
got done with it, it was like 800 pages. And
I'm like, nobody's going to read that. That'll
be a doorstop for sure. So we broke them up into
three books. And this is volume one, The Rise
of the Ecclesia. And I really go into, in this
book, I go into what the church is supposed to
look like. And Pastor Brad wrote me a very kind
endorsement in the book. So if you buy it for
nothing else, get it for his endorsement. He
said this is one of the best books he's ever
read. No, I'm kidding. But I do appreciate his
endorsement in this. I'm going to talk a little
bit about some of this. I've had people ask me,
why did you name it Ancient Evil Present Day
Manifestations? I said, because we've got some
ugly stuff that's been around a long time that's
manifesting. And volume one, again, like I said,
is The Rise of the Ecclesia, which... I'm going
to talk a little bit about it because we're talking
about the prevailing church. Amen? Volume 2 is
called Exposing the Nephilim. Testing. My mic
went out, I think. And it's a subject that's
not talked about a lot at all, maybe in most
churches. But we break it down. And I'll tell
you what God told me to do. He told me to look
at all of the giants that were in the Bible and
to begin to look at what their name meant. One
of their names, one of the giants, there's over
22 giants in the scripture by name. One of them
is called Og. He was the original OG, as a joke.
His name means to reach across the border and
pull across illegally. Isn't that amazing? There's
another one, Goliath. Y 'all ever heard of Goliath?
Goliath, his name means one who exposes himself.
That's why when David said, who is this uncircumcised
Philistine? And he began to, the scripture tells
us that he defiled the armies of Israel and their
God. Am I right? So he didn't just do that by
talking. And David addressed him as who he was,
a man who was trying to say that the covenant
with Israel was not as strong as his uncircumcision.
This mic might need a battery change. So the
Lord said to me, he said, if you look at these
giants, you'll see that manifesting in our culture
today. So I go through all of those and we see
a lot of that stuff happening in our culture
today. And the Lord said, I want you to look
at who killed them and where they died. And I'll
give you strategy, give the church strategy,
how to begin to overcome these giants that are
in the land. And then the third volume is called
Winning the Seed War. And it has a lot to do
with imprecatory prayers. It took me a long time
to even say that word right. Redneck tongue struggle
with fancy words. But this book will help you,
I do believe. Chaon, a dear friend of mine, wrote
the foreword in this one. This book has been
our best -selling book of all times. It's probably
outsold all of our books two to one. It's called
The Gospel of the Kingdom, Dutch Sheets. And
Chuck Pierce wrote the forewords in those, in
this book. I wanted to subtitle it. But, you
know, when you're writing a book, you want to
listen to people that have written more books
and made more money at writing books than you
have. And I did that. I was talking to Dutch
about it. And I wanted to say my subtitle of
this book, The Gospel of the Kingdom, would be
Debunking Religion. And he said, if you want
any religious people to read it, don't name it
that. So I said, okay. But we do talk a lot about
detoxing from religion in this book. And I'm
very, very thankful for this book and how it's
helped people in their walk with the Lord. And
we believe that the kingdom of God is the most
important thing that we could give our attention
to. Why is that? It's because it's the only message
that Jesus preached. Amen. Jesus never preached
anything but the kingdom of God. And Tony did
a wonderful job today. Y 'all give Tony a big
hand. Hallelujah. Tony set me up. And I'm grateful.
Because I was worried how this was going to go
over. And I promise you, I won't be as offensive
today as Tony was this morning. But we're going
to get into it. I spent a lot of time praying
into this conference, Brad. And the last time
I was here, the Lord just began to speak so many
things about how special this congregation is.
How special this church is. God's overall plan
for this region. We understand that we don't
come to church. Right? Jesus never told you to
come to church. Told you to be the church. Big,
big difference. We got people going to church
in America, all over America, every Sunday morning
doing their religious duty. and leaving as weak
and compromised as they were when they came in.
Amen. Now, again, I just want to remind everybody,
I am an equal opportunity offender, and Brad
will fix all of this when I leave. All right?
Amen. Actually, I did watch. The last time I
was here, the Sunday following, I watched to
see if Brad had to correct anything, and I think
I was okay. I did okay. I get nervous. There's
a greater shift that we're going to have to take
in order to see our culture begin to be recaptured
by the heart of the Lord. I'm going to give you
some thoughts that I have in my mind. I do have
some inside thoughts. I'm going to try to keep
very quiet. But some of the thoughts that I have,
I want to just give to you today. One of them
is... that Jesus loves nations. Amen? And with
that thought in mind, I looked through the scripture
and I never found a place, never found a place
where we're supposed to get people into heaven.
This mic keeps going out. It's not in there.
There's nowhere in the scripture that we're told
to get people to heaven. We're told to get people
in the kingdom. Amen? Now, our Western theology
and eschatology has warped a lot of understanding
about the kingdom. And a lot of it says the kingdom
of God's coming when Jesus returns. Well, Mark
chapter 9 in verse 1, Jesus, red letters in your
Bible, Jesus says, that some of you that are
standing here today will not taste death until
you have seen the kingdom of God come in power.
That was 2 ,000 years ago. Jesus was addressing
people, saying the kingdom of God is at hand.
It's here, right? And my thought this morning
as I was praying into this, Brad, the Lord says,
I'm going to strengthen. The structure that I'm
giving you here in this house. And then Tony
started talking about structure. I leaned over
to Joanne. I said, he's getting all in my message
today. I don't know what to do. I said, pray
against him. Pray against him. She wouldn't do
it, Tony. I tried to get her to, but she wouldn't
do it. But I begin to just hear the Lord saying
structure has to shift. And what I'm going to
bring you this weekend when I have the opportunity
to do so, I believe is prophetic insight and
some apostolic strategy of how to increase the
manifestation of your assignment as an assembly.
Is that all right? Because your assignment here
is to get the kingdom of God into the earth.
Jesus said when you pray, Matthew chapter 6,
when you pray, pray this way. Kingdom of God
come. Will of God be done on earth as it is in
heaven. Amen? The way the Greek frames that there
is not a request. We're not asking God. God sends
your kingdom. It's actually out of our partnership
and our alignment with the Father, we are releasing
a decree that we discovered in his heart to get
what's in the unseen realm into the seen realm.
And it is a declaration, kingdom of God come.
Will of God be done in the earth as it is in
heaven. Hallelujah. Only a people that understand
their destiny is not in heaven can do that. Amen.
Our destiny is kingdom. I looked up the word
prevailing and I begin to hear the Lord say that
anything that is not part of a structure that
he created, he's not obligated to manifest himself
in it. Let me say that again. God is not obligated
to manifest himself in any structure he did not
create. Why is that important to know? Because
we've got a lot of religious structures that
we're trying to get God to come into. And if
God manifests himself in structures that he did
not create, then he's validating those structures
that he did not create. And he's allowing people
to stay in bondage inside those structures that
he did not create. So I said, Lord, what is this?
He said, it's the curse of the ziggurat. And
I said, whoa, where do we find that? We go all
the way back to the Tower of Babel. The Tower
of Babel was a ziggurat. It was a temple. It
wasn't this windy thing going up trying to get
to where God lives. That's what we were taught
in Sunday school. Well, at least in the Baptist
church we were where I grew up. But it is a temple.
It's a box that they build to house their gods.
And Nimrod built a ziggurat. and tried to get
Jehovah to move into it. Am I right, Tony? I'm
on the right track. And God said, I'm not coming
to live in your box. Glory. So God said, they're
doing something stupid down there. Let's go look
at it. Now y 'all have to understand, I use my
redneck paraphrase addition sometimes. Amen.
Tony can help interpret that if you need interpretation.
And God said, let's go look at it. Let's go watch
what they're doing. And he did. And he said,
this isn't good. Let's confuse their language.
And he confused their language and the progress
stopped because God will not allow man to build
him a place that he has to dwell under their
supervision. And that's what we've done with
Western Church. We've come to church and we have
done our stuff. We know what's going to happen
before it even happens in most places. Not here.
Those watching online are going to be blessed
by this. Y 'all are the amen corner. And we know
what to do. We know what's going to happen, when
it's going to happen, and how it's going to happen.
And we feel good about it and we put ourselves
into it. And then all of a sudden we're done.
We go home and we go back to life. And we've
got to divide between our meeting with God and
our meeting with the giants in the land. With
life. And if we're going to be a prevailing church,
we've got to be a people that operates out of
the structure, that our Father created. Let me
make a couple statements about that. Church,
Christianity, oh Lord, I'm gonna get in trouble,
is not supposed to be a religion. As a matter
of fact, nowhere in the Bible, nowhere in the
Word of God are you referred to in a positive
light as a Christian. God never referred to you
as a Christian. Hallelujah. It was a derogatory
term. So if God, the Father, never referred to
me as a Christian, why would I want to be identified
as a Christian? I know I'm giving you some stuff
that's a little bit weird. Just hang on. It's
going to work out. Don't sweat too much. Brad,
again, will fix this. So if father or his son,
Yeshua, never referred to us as Christians, could
the thing that we are taking on as our label
hinder us from actually becoming who he created
us to be? I'm not a Christian. I'm a son. See,
y 'all were nervous. I did that pause on purpose.
What does he refer to us at? He says we're sons
and daughters. That's what he calls us. He calls
us kings and lords. He calls us ambassadors.
Am I right? He calls us overcomers and more than
conquerors. That's what he calls us. That's the
identity we need to be wearing. But whenever
we wear the banner Christian and we meet other
people and they say, are you a Christian? We
say, yes. Their next question is, what kind of
Christian are you? Well, I'm a Pentecostal. Shun
die, run die, tie my bow tie. Hallelujah. You
know, or I'm charismatic, whatever it may be.
And we've got all these divisions of Christianity
that we've allowed ourselves to be identified
in that has made us complacent and weak. So who
are we? We're kingdom people. We are. indirect
relation to the King of Kings and the Lord of
Lords as sons and daughters. We've been set into
the earth as ambassadors representation from
the home country. Amen. To be here as diplomatic
representatives to cause the kingdoms of this
world to become the kingdoms of our God. Amen.
We've been placed here for a hostile takeover.
To do something that has happened throughout
every kingdom, every government in the world.
You saw a little bit of it a few weeks ago whenever
we went into Venezuela. It was a hostile takeover.
We had a regime change. Getting ready to happen
in Iran and probably a few other places on the
planet. Why is that? You as an ambassador. As
a king in the earth have been set here to unseat
unlawful authorities that have set their throne
up where the father's throne is supposed to be.
Amen. We're not here to coexist. We're not here
to get along. We're here to take over. We're
here to cause the kingdoms of this world to become
the kingdoms of our God. Amen. Prevailing, this
word is an amazing word. It means to gain. The
word prevailing or to prevail is not a defensive
word. It's an offensive word. Amen. Y 'all understand
that? Super Bowl's coming up here shortly. Amen.
I love guys that put conferences on Super Bowl
weekend. Hallelujah. It's amazing. Very brave.
It means to gain. It means ascendancy. In this
word, it means dominance. It means occupation
of a position of dominant power and influence.
We've heard lots of teaching, great teaching,
amazing teaching about the authority of the believer.
Our authority as individuals in our daily walk,
in our daily life. This is good. It's necessary.
It's important. But the Lord is doing something
very unique in our age, in the day that we live
in. He is shifting us from a place of only wanting
to walk out an individual assignment with individual
authority and moving us into a place of corporate
assignment and corporate authority. See, individual
anointings and individual assignments, we can
cast out devils, we can speak in new tongues.
If we drink any deadly thing, it shall not harm
us, right? We'll pick up serpents and all of
that type of stuff. That's good, but that's out
of Mark 16. That's about winning or getting the
family back. There's two commissions in the Bible.
Mark 16 and Matthew 28. We've identified Matthew
28 with Mark 16's definition and we quit doing
Matthew 28. Mark 16's about getting the family
back. Go win the loss. Get to harvest. That's
very important. And that's what most churches
focus on today. And they have this escape mentality
that, you know, well, let's just get everybody
saved. Let's get them to be a part of our church
because the Lord's coming any minute. Well, he's
been coming any minute for 2 ,000 years. And
people with futuristic eschatology, they set
dates and set dates and set dates and set dates
and set dates and set dates and set dates and
set dates and nothing ever happens. We need to
start paying attention to stuff that's not happening.
Maybe we need to reevaluate our eschatology.
I'm not going to get into eschatology today.
But we need to look, if they're always getting
it wrong, maybe the eschatology itself is wrong.
Hallelujah. This word prevail, prevailing. to
gain, to have dominance through strength or superiority.
That's what the church is supposed to look like.
Whenever Jesus birthed his church, Matthew chapter
18, I'm going to be reading out of the New American
Standard. Let's just look at that passage of
scripture, Matthew chapter 18. Verse 18. Let's
back up just a little bit. Excuse me, Matthew
16, 18. He said, I also say to you that you are
Peter and upon this rock I will build my church
and the gates of Hades will not overpower. Now,
many of you know Joanne and I lead Kingdom University.
And we tell people, we teach them in Kingdom
University, when you read the Bible, you need
to ask four important questions. Number one,
who's talking? How many know the one speaking
is very important? Number two, who they're talking
to, the audience is very important. Because he
wasn't always speaking to everybody, he was speaking
to somebody. Number three, I think, is probably
the most important question that we miss, and
it is what? did it mean in that culture? Then
number four, how do I take it and apply it to
my life? So many times, whenever we read the
scripture, we try to interpret through American
culture or Western culture or denominational
culture. And when we do that, just to be quite
frank, we get false doctrines. And these false
doctrines lead us down roads that cause us to
be weak and impotent. So we need to begin to
understand culture. So I tell people, when you're
reading the Old Testament, you need an ancient
Hebrew running around in your mind to kind of
help guide you and help you understand what it
means. That means you need to know Hebrew history.
When you're reading the New Testament, you need
to understand... the second temple period culture
in order to be able to know what they're saying.
You say, Greg, well, this sounds very difficult.
It's not really difficult if you have all the
things you need to put the pieces together. See,
our Bible colleges today have taught us to read
this through an individual mindset when the entirety
of Scripture is a corporate mindset. The whole
thing. So it diverts us, it divides us, it derails
us, it causes us not to be able to accomplish
what he's called us to do. So Jesus said here,
he said that he was gonna build his church. Am
I right? Everybody say my church. Come on, with
enthusiasm. My church. He was not talking about
stained glass and steepled buildings. Amen. Now,
let me just give you a little bit of, Trouble.
The word church is not a good word when we look
at what Jesus was saying here in this passage
of Scripture. You've got to understand, all these
translations that came over the years, whether
they translated, many of our English translations
came out of the Masoretic text, and there was
lots of problems with that. In the translations,
and they move things around and switch words.
Can I just tell you where the word church goes
back to? Here's some homework for you. You can
go study this out. The word church goes all the
way back to a word, Circes. It goes back from
the English word church into the word Kirk, and
then it follows itself on back through several
other different pronunciations to the word Circes.
You know who Circes was? It was a false god.
Now, Greg, why do you talk like this? Well, if
we don't know, we don't know. But when we do
know, we can do right. Amen? We can shift some
things. So if church, the word church is not
the right word there, what would be the right
word for this particular place? In the Greek,
it's the word ekklesia, E -K -K -L -E -S -I -A,
ekklesia. And the word ekklesia, it means assembly.
Right? So, and I'm not talking about the assemblies
of God. Hallelujah. Or the assemblies of the
firstborn. That's Joanne grew up in a denomination
called the assemblies of the firstborn. I thought
it was a cult. It sounds cultish, but they were
pretty good people when you got to know them.
They did good with her. The word assembly, it
means. legislators, those that come together
to legislate. Not to make law, but to enact law.
See, again, you've got to bring culture into
it. When we think about our legislature, our
Congress, the legislators, we think about all
those thieves, I mean, those people that we elected
and sent to Washington, D .C. That's not what
they meant. They make law. The Senate or the
legislation, legislators, the ecclesia in Jesus'
day were those that were sent into a conquered
territory to begin to bring the culture of the
one that won the war. They were sent there. There
were five different elements of government that
were sent into a place. And the idea was not
to build buildings and gather people in buildings,
but it was to infiltrate every facet of the culture
of that conquered city with the culture of the
one that won the war. For example, Rome conquered
Israel. They conquered that whole region, that
whole territory, and they sent in an ecclesia
from Rome to steward that conquered territory.
So much so that they affected everything. They
affected the roads that they had. They affected
the way that buildings were built. And you go
to Israel today, you will not go see any type
of excavation or artifacts of Israeli buildings.
You'll see a wall. People say that's part of
the temple. It's not part of the temple. It's
a western wall. but most of what you will see
is Roman architecture. When you go through, you'll
see lots of Roman, a lot of the Romans were there.
It even goes to the point that whenever Jesus
asked them, he said, when they would ask him,
should they pay their taxes, which most Americans
like that question, should we or should we not?
He said, give me a denarii, give me a coin. He
said, whose face is on the coin, right? They
said, well, Caesar's. And he said, well, give
Caesar what belongs to him, but also make sure
you give God what belongs to him. Amen? So they'd
come in as an ecclesia and literally change the
economic structure of a nation to the point that
they were no longer using their coins except
in their religious structure, which had no value
in society. See, what we spend in our religious
structure has no value where it counts. The ecclesia,
the church, the legislative arm of heaven, we
are called to be cultural changers. And boy,
does Oregon have a job ahead of them. Hallelujah.
But y 'all got the right people to do it. It
just takes doing it. Jesus said, I'm going to
build my ecclesia. That means there were other
ecclesias that were in that region at that time.
Not churches as we identify them today, but governments.
Jesus took his disciples to Caesarea Philippi.
To make the statement, this was not just a field
trip that he put them on. He said, oh, by the
way, boys, let me tell you something about this
place. No, he said, in this passage, he said,
I'm going to birth my government in the earth
and the gates of hell will not overpower. Now,
many people say, well, the word it is there.
I'm going to build my church and the gates of
hell will not overpower it, my church. The word
it is not in the original text. When we read
that through western lenses, we say Jesus is
building a church that the devil will not be
able to come in and conquer us. Defensive mindset.
Jesus actually was saying that I'm going to build
an ecclesia. And this ecclesia that I build,
the world will not be able to overpower. Isn't
that good? So our authority and power is not
just in here amongst ourselves or whenever we
might feel like we're on an assignment to go
cast a devil out somewhere or heal the sick somewhere,
but we literally carry the dominant government
in the earth, in us, and everywhere we go, we
are the dominant government. Hallelujah. That
means Oregon can change like that. That means
the false thrones that have been set up in your
capital can begin to crumble and come down when
an ecclesia begins to gather together and legislate
what's in the Father's heart for your city, for
your region, and for your nation. Hallelujah.
See, if I was the devil, I've been accused a
few times. I'm not. Young -ass Joanne. But I
would try to convince the people of God that
it's all about them. And if I could convince
them it's all about them, then maybe I could
get them to focus on just themselves, their relationship
with God, how God's moving with them, how God's
ministering to them, how they're soaking in the
presence of God, how they're gathering together
to worship God. If I can get them to focus on
that, then I can keep them out of culture. Your
assignment is not in this building. Your assignment
is where you do life. It's on your job. It's
in your business. It's in your government. It's
you being a voice in the theater of your community
to be able to say, I hear what you're saying,
but here's what the king says. And can you believe
that we still have people, not here, I know it's
not here, but we still have people that call
themselves believers that still vote for people
that their platform is about killing babies?
Yeah. Well, Greg, you know, we got to keep the
church and the government separated. That's the
devil's plan. Because if the ecclesia gets into
government, he loses his domain. He loses his
stronghold. He loses his kingdom in that region.
But if there was a people brave enough and bold
enough to say, we don't care what it costs. We
don't care what the assignment is. We don't care
if we lose our life. We don't care if we lose
our money. If we're put in jail, we're in this
thing because we know we overcome by the blood
of the Lamb. We overcome by the word of our testimony.
And we love not our life even unto death. to
be something that's consistent it can't be a
good idea it has to become a lifestyle and the
lifestyle that's created out of the structure
of the kingdom of god is a governmental lifestyle
not a religious christian lifestyle it is a lifestyle
of kings does that make sense today see the answer
to your problems in your state and in your city
is in this room. It's not from heaven. It's in
this room. Amen. It means you've got to speak
up. Well, I might lose some friends. You need
to lose them anyway. If you can't win them, lose
them in a grand fashion. Amen. Let it be miraculously.
A spectacle beyond spectacles. Amen. Well, I
might lose my family. Same principle applies.
Red letters in your Bible says this. It says
that if you give up cattle and land, houses,
mothers and fathers, brothers and sisters, for
my namesake, for my kingdom, He said this. He
said, I will give it back to you a hundredfold
in this life. In this life. So what does that
mean? All of those people that leave your life
because of you standing for righteousness, they're
just seed for a harvest. God's gonna bring it
back. He's gonna bring people in your life. He's
gonna bring houses and land and cattle. Amen.
If he's bringing me cattle, I want red Angus.
They're good to eat. Hallelujah. I'm a meatitarian.
Thank you, Lord. We've become, we've been so
taught in the church to be so conscious. About
how other people think about us. And you know.
God forbid somebody think bad about me. It might
reflect bad on Christ. No. It'll probably reflect
good on Christ. He said don't. Jesus didn't make
himself a man of a reputation. But we're doing
it every day. We're trying to brand ourselves.
Especially preachers. Not none of us in the room.
Amen. But some online are going to really get
set free from this. I got a brand myself. The
only brand you need is the brand of the sun on
you. And if we're faithful to him, he'll open
doors for us. He'll cause the gift that he's
caused us to be, to be able to open doors in
the right places. The Lord says something to
Joanne and I this year. or last year rather,
for this year, he said, I don't want you accepting
invitations to preach. He said, I want you to
start accepting assignments. Oh, that wrecked
me, Brad. I'm like, that's a whole nother paradigm.
That's redneck for paradigm. Sorry about that.
I slipped back. Right? Young preachers, they're
looking for open doors. They're looking for places
to go preach. No, no, no, no. Let's don't do
that no more. That's the religious way to do
it. That's the way we were taught to do it. Let's
ask Father for where have you assigned me to
be today? Because if I can get in my assignment,
then I can get some fruit. Amen. And I can get
so much fruit that they'll look and say, this
must be God because look what he used to bring
fruit. If you look up in your Strong's Concordance,
The Foolish Things of Man to Confound the Wise,
my picture's there. I'm telling you, I want to
be in positions that there's no way people can
say, Greg did that out of his talent. Greg did
that out of his resources. Greg did that out
of this or that. They'll have to look and say,
that had to be God. That's what I want. That's
my heart's desire. But it's got to be in a structure
that he created. He did not create religion.
He created kingdom. Are you with me? He said,
I'm going to build my church and the gates of
Hades will not overpower. See, there in Caesarea
Philippi, where Jesus was standing, there were
two caves upon a hill. Those two caves were called
the gates of Hades, the gates of hell, or the
gates of the underworld. And Jews, along with
the pagans, would go in there and they would
sacrifice their babies to this god called Pan.
He was half man, half goat. And they would throw
their babies over this shelf that was in this
cave into a river that ran through the cave.
And if blood came out the other end, God wasn't
satisfied, so they had to do it over and over
again. This cave, these two caves, they were
on a very unique place. These caves were on the
mount called Mount Hermon. Say, Greg, what's
that got to do with anything? It's very important.
This is where... The 200 watchers fell. You say,
Greg, I don't know what that is. I got a book
back here called Seed Wars. It's not a plug really.
But we talk about those types of things. There
was a rebellion of the watchers, the sons of
God. They fell. They landed there on Mount Hermon.
They made a covenant with themselves that they
would lay with the daughters of men. And they
did. And the giant races were produced from that.
And all kind of wickedness began to fill the
earth. This was going back to the Genesis chapter
3 scenario to where whenever that crazy woman
Eve deceived her husband. No, wait a minute.
No, that's not the right place for that one.
When Adam didn't take responsibility. It's all
right, Tony. We're going to get out alive now.
Hallelujah. And he ate the fruit. Why did God
not say anything? Why did God not correct that
woman? Very, very important. This has to do with
the prevailing ekklesia. Why did he not correct
Eve? Say, Eve, don't do that. Look, woman, go
back and talk to Adam. Get this thing right.
Why did he not do that? Because in Genesis chapter
one, God said something so significant, so precise.
He said, let them have authority. Dominion, radah
is the word in Hebrew. Let them do kingdom. Let
them be responsible for the earth. Isn't that
amazing? You know what that means? That means
God's not in control. Man, that's a saying that
every church people use. God's in control. Actually,
he's not. He's in charge. He put man in control.
If God was in control, you'll have to blame him
for every abortion, every murder, every rape,
right? You'd have to blame him for every angry
mother -in -law, all of that stuff you'd have
to blame God for. But God is in charge. He can
take control. He will take control again one
day. But the word says that he created the earth
for the sons of man and he created the heavens
for himself. Now we have to understand if God,
gave man control, God removed himself from the
scenario of operations in the earth. That's why
he didn't say anything whenever the act of rebellion
and treason was taking place. See, the sin that
Jesus came to die for was not your morality.
We think that Jesus came to save me from drinking,
dipping, smoking, chewing, dating girls that
did those things. Right? But he didn't. It was
the sin. It's plural. Excuse me, it's singular,
not plural in the scripture. And it's one sin.
It's the sin of rebellion. The sin of treason.
You can't commit treason against a religion,
but you can against a country. You can against
a kingdom. Amen? And so what happened? What happened?
How do we get so, our morals get so messed up?
It's because we traded our passport that belonged
to the kingdom of light to the kingdom of darkness
back in the Garden of Eden. And when we did that,
we took on the culture of that kingdom. And all,
the fallen ones begin to train humanity in the
culture of the kingdom of darkness. But when
Yeshua came on the scene, hallelujah, when he
died and rose again and ascended into heaven,
he made a way for you to be repatriated into
your home country. Hallelujah. Isn't that good?
Now you can trade your passport from the kingdom
of darkness back into the kingdom of light and
you become sons and daughters. Jesus died for
the sins of the world. That word world is tricky.
It's the word cosmos. And it means structure.
Order, governmental structure, governmental order.
It doesn't mean humanity. Oops. Can I give you
one more? See, Brad needs sermon material for
the next month, so he's going to correct all
of this stuff. I'm just giving him points to
work out with y 'all. The most famous scripture
in the Bible, John 3, 16, for God so loved the
world. That he gave his only begotten son that
whosoever believed in him would not perish but
have everlasting life. For the son was not sent
into the world to condemn the world that through
him the world might be saved. That's the word,
that word world again is the word cosmos and
it means government or governmental structure
or governmental order. It has nothing to do with
humanity. But we preached it, God so loved you.
Oh, glory. That he gave his only begotten son.
Y 'all know how we preach it. We preach it hell
hot, right? Seven ways to Sunday. We'll even
hoop a little bit. They know what hooping is
up here, Tony. I don't know if they know what
that is. You should explain it. Well, I need
a Hammond B3 with a listening speaker to help
me with that. He loved order. He loved government.
So much that he sent his son into the disorder,
into a fallen government. And if anyone would
believe in him, his assignment, his purpose,
then they could switch countries and live eternally.
Hallelujah. And then he says in verse 17, we
never preach 17 because... Verse 16, if we preach
it a certain way that we've been taught from
Western ideology and philosophy, then we can
get people in the altar and take pictures and
it looks good. Verse 17 says, he did not send
the son, his son, into the... Chaos or the disorder,
so to destroy the disorder or to judge the governmental
structure, but that through him, that structure,
that order might be saved. Jesus did not come
to get you. He came to get a kingdom so that
he could then get you back into your rightful
place. As citizens in the kingdom. See, it was
never about heaven in the ether out there somewhere.
It was about heaven in the earth. He came back
to put in order what was out of order. He came
to bring the kingdoms back under subjection to
the most high God. Amen. He came to dethrone
these fallen rebellious watchers. and to reinstitute
his government in the earth so that his sons
and his daughters could get back to doing what
God's original intent was when he created man,
and that was radahing, if I can say it that way,
doing kingdom, having dominion in the earth.
See, we've been trained. We gotta get out of
here. He's coming one day. We're gonna get, it's
gonna be in the sweet by and by. Hallelujah,
one day. When the roll is called up yonder, I'll
be there. I fly away, oh glory. What we've done,
we've gotten a lot of our theology from our song
book instead of his book. And we have missed
it. Brad did not give you guys a theme for this
conference just out of thin air. This is purpose.
Thought through, prayed through. Hearing the
Lord saying, I'm ready to raise up a prevailing
church. A church that dominates in every sphere
of society. And release the people that only
need two or three in any sphere of influence.
I'll send them in there. There an ecclesia will
be. And they will begin to change the culture.
What if people in your business world, your business
realm, stop stealing from you? What if your employees
stop stealing from you? What if you stop, no,
for those online, what if you stop stealing from
your employer? What if the culture was not, you'd
have to tell people to watch their mouths or
don't bring these demonic things in here. What
if there was a ekklesia, a legislative group
of people that went into every sphere of society
in Harrisburg or in Oregon or in our nation and
said, now we're going to be the cultural changers.
We're going to set the atmosphere of what's allowed
to operate here and what's not. I believe we're
at that place. There's a maturing church. There's
a remnant church that God is raising up that's
saying we've had enough. We've had enough. We've
had enough of demonic ideas and demonic people
trying to change our nation into being something
God never created it to be. But what we're gonna
have to do is take responsibility. We're gonna
have to begin to say, all right, We see what
you're doing and here's what the king says about
this. I was interviewed one time by The Economist
magazine. They came all the way to Franklin,
Tennessee to see a redneck because he'd been
talking about government and the church. And
the lady, when she sat down to interview me,
one of her first questions was, Greg, what's
your opinion on... Same -sex marriage. I said,
you mean queers marrying one another? I did.
I wasn't there to get along. I said, I don't
have an opinion. She said, how can you not have
an opinion? You're a preacher. You're supposed
to have an opinion. I said, ma 'am. If I was
religious, I could have opinion, but I'm a kingdom
man, so I'm not afforded an opinion. I can only
tell you what the king says. See, when we lose
our opinions and we only say what he says, we
get the weight and the results of his words.
Amen. When we see these crooked politicians that
are trying to lie and cheat and steal and we
don't address them out of our anger, let me tell
you, that's hard to do, especially for a redneck
boy. Help me, hallelujah. If I had hair, it'd
all fall out. But we see this wickedness and
we want to address it with a righteous anger.
No, no, all you got to do is say what the king
said and these people begin to lose their authority.
They begin to lose their positioning. They begin
to lose their influence. Why? Because their kabod,
Tony talked about that, their doctor, their glory,
their weight and their influence begins to shift
out of their control and the weight and the glory,
the influence of God begins to come in. Why?
Because that's what it says in Psalms. Who is
this king of glory? The Lord God Almighty. Who?
Who is this one that is trained, fills the temple?
Who is this one that steps in and all of the
angels take notice of him? All creation bows
to him. That's when we begin to see the difference.
See, cultural change is up to the ecclesia. I'm
closing. Some of y 'all look hungry. So what's
the problem? The problem is, again, not y 'all,
those online. The problem is we've had a weak,
compromised church. That's the problem. The root
of the problem is a weak and compromised pulpit.
Y 'all hear me? A weak, compromised pulpit. The
most influential voice in any community is the
pulpit. Above everything, why we teach, we train,
we're a gift. The five -fold gifts are actually
not ministries. We've been calling what we do
ministry. We're not in ministry. We're in equipping.
And our equipping is to equip you to do the work
of the ministry. Amen? Ministry is not casting
out devils and raising the dead. That's not ministry.
That's not ministry at all. Ministry is a governmental
term. And you and I, family, we actually, we've
been at a disadvantage in America because we
don't use language, kingdom language a lot. We
don't use that a lot. But ministry has to do
with directly what we have as, you know, we have
departments, Department of Defense, or the war
now. I like that better. That's stronger. Department
of War. Department of education, department of
finance. We have secretaries that run those things,
but in a kingdom, it's the ministry of war. It's
the ministry of finance. It's the ministry of
education and they're run by ministers. So kingdom
language is saying to us here that we as the
gifts of Yeshua. To his ecclesia, our responsibility
is not to be a minister or a ministry, but our
responsibility is to teach you how to do governmental
business in the sphere of influence, the ministry
that he's given you as a minister of the king.
Woo, hallelujah. Does that make sense? But here's
what's happened. You know, we're fatty people,
not F -A -T -T -Y, but F, it sounds the same
redneck tongue. Fad, fatty, we like fads. There
you go. Same pronunciation, different spelling.
The fad in the church today is kingdom. Everything's
kingdom. Kingdom, kingdom, kingdom, kingdom,
kingdom, kingdom, kingdom. But what we have,
Tony, is we have kingdom language without kingdom
revelation. And when you have kingdom language
without kingdom revelation, you have religion
in another dialect. That's all you got. That
make sense? You've just got religion. We talk
it, but we have no idea what it means. We've
got to find out what did Jesus actually mean
when he said, I'm going to build my Ecclesia.
When I'm bringing the government of God, the
government of heaven back into the earth, I came
to die and save a governmental structure. The
word save there, it means to recover, to restore,
and to preserve. He came to recover the government.
He came to restore the government. And he came
to preserve the government. The prophet Daniel
said to his kingdom, there will be no end. Isaiah
said that the government will be upon his shoulder,
not the salvation, not the crusaders or the crusades
we will do. No, no, no. The government will be
upon his shoulders and his kingdom will have
no end. Not his religion, his kingdom, his government.
Luke chapter 4 verse 5, it says the enemy led
him up to a high place, showed him all of the
religions of the world, right? No, all the kingdoms
of the world. He showed him all of the kingdoms
of the world and his glory, his weight, his influence,
and said, if you'll bow down and worship me,
I'll give you what you came for. I'll give you
all of these kingdoms. Now, the word world there
is not the word cosmos. The word world there
is the word oikos, which means family or the
house that holds the family, the family unit.
And the devil was telling him, look, I know you've
come after your family's kingdoms, but if you
want them, just kneel and worship before me and
I'll give you what you came for. And Jesus said
what? He said, it is written, you worship the
Lord your God and serve him only. Do you know
what that word worship means? It's not this.
It's not smoke machines and preachers in skinny
jeans. Hallelujah. That's not what it is. The
word worship literally means, look it up, it
means to kiss the ring. Kiss the ring. The root
of that, it means to kneel or to take a knee
and to kiss a ring. So worship is about an expression
of loyalty and submission to one who lords over
you. What was Satan's goal? I'm gonna exalt my
throne above his throne. I'm gonna be like the
most high. Wrong answer. That was his goal. If
I could get the son of God to worship me, then
I've achieved my goal. I'll give you the kings,
all the glory, all the dominion that comes with
it. Yeshua, if you'll just kneel and kiss my
ring, I'll give you what you came for. And Jesus
said, buddy, there's only one ring I'm kissing.
There's only one I'm kneeling before and that
is the most high. I am not kissing your old nasty
ring. No telling where your hands have been.
I added that in there. So if we're going to have
a prevailing, dominating, advancing church, we're
going to have to get it from the structure that
he created. which is kingdom. Amen? Luke chapter
12. It's a mirror of Matthew chapter 6, verse
32. It says, verse 33, it says, seek first the
kingdom of God and all these things be added
unto you. In Luke, Matthew adds the word and
his righteousness. But then the last verse of
Luke 12, it says, do not fear, little flock.
Isn't that good? Can I give you a hint? If Jesus
says do not fear, there's going to be opportunity
to fear. Right? Do not fear, little flock, for
it is the Father's good pleasure to give you
the... the nation, the country, the kingdom.
See, when Jesus died and he rose again, he restored
what Adam lost. Jesus was the last Adam. He restored
that and then he said to us, go get my family
back in Mark 16, in Matthew 28. he said to us,
he said, go disciple nations. Wow. Get the family,
disciple nations. We have a responsibility as
the ecclesia to disciple our nation. That means
we are the influencers. It is the one that is
influenced. Does this make sense today? The beautiful
part about it is you have, part of the government
in you. You have the governor of the government
in you. His name is Holy Spirit. Amen. He lives
in you. And the kingdom is in you. Wherever the
governor is, there's representation of the kingdom.
Isn't that good? See, whenever a nation turns
a territory over to the people and they establish
a sovereign nation, the governor that that dominating
nation had in there, he has to leave. He has
to lower his flag and he has to go. Why is that?
Because now a new government's coming in. Whenever
you get born again and Holy Spirit comes to live
in you, you've got the governor of the home country
living in you to now teach you the culture of
the home country, but also to activate you in
your assignment of causing the kingdoms of this
world to become the kingdoms of our God and his
Christ. You're the most dangerous thing on the
planet. Look at somebody and tell them, you're
the most dangerous thing on the planet. Isn't
that good? I want you to stand with me. Hallelujah.
I know it's a lot. But you're made for this.
This shift that Brad's been talking about, that
Tony talked about, is not just a deeper. Walk
with God. It's a more dangerous walk with God.
So Father, today I just pray that you give us
ears to hear what Holy Spirit is saying to us.
You'd give us what Tony talked about today out
of Ephesians chapter 1 and verse 17. Father,
you would give us wisdom and revelation. Help
us Father to understand that what Yeshua did
for us was not all about us. It was about him
and his kingdom. We just get to be a part of
it. And I'm thankful for that Lord. Father I
pray that this. This ecclesia that you have in
Oregon here, Father, would begin to make this
shift in a way that we would begin to see the
state of Oregon literally change. That, Father,
those that hate you that are ruling in this state
would find themselves unseated. Lord, your word
says that whenever the kings of the earth plot
together to overthrow you, Psalms 2, you say
that you sit in the heaven and you laugh. Laugh
over Oregon, I pray. Let your joy begin to pour
over this state. Use this ecclesia. Give them
influence, Father. Give them weight in this state.
Father, begin to give them favor. Give them laborers
for all you've called them to do. Give them favor.
Open doors in every facet of culture that they
can begin to commission and send apostolically,
Lord, people into every sphere of society to
begin to shift and change it to look like heaven.
Father, I'm asking today for boldness. You'd
give them boldness. You'd give them strength.
You'd give them a fresh and filling of Holy Spirit.
Father, you'd cause them to be able to see, Lord,
in dimensions they've not yet seen into yet.
And they would begin to be known as those that
govern from their seat in heaven, manifesting
it in the earth. So, Father, we bless this ecclesia.
We bless Brad and Jen and all of their leadership.
We bless, Father, those that are connected here.
And we thank you they are shifting into a place
of dominance, into a place of kingdom that they've
never been in before. Deep calls to deep. So,
Father, we thank you for this. In the mighty
name of Yeshua, we pray. Amen. If you are in
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