Speaker 1: Let's start there. I want to talk about a government
Speaker 1: of peace, and specifically our place in that government of peace,
Speaker 1: and what Father has in mind in these days. For
Speaker 1: unto us, a child is born. This is the scripture
Speaker 1: we know as a Christmas scripture. We read it every
Speaker 1: year at Christmas time. You've heard me talking about it
Speaker 1: quite a bit over the last you know, several months,
Speaker 1: maybe the last year or so. For unto us, a
Speaker 1: child is born. To us, a son is given, and
Speaker 1: the government will be on his shoulders. Let's read it again.
Speaker 1: And the government will be on his shoulders, and the
Speaker 1: government will be on his shoulders, and he will be
Speaker 1: called wonderful counselor Mighty God, everlasting Father, Prince of Prince
Speaker 1: of Peace. Of the greatness of his government and peace,
Speaker 1: there will be no end or the King James says,
Speaker 1: of the increase, So I like increase actually better than
Speaker 1: the utter translations. It's true to the Hebrew. But it's
Speaker 1: also gives us a really good picture of what's happening
Speaker 1: with his government, right, his government and peace is that
Speaker 1: it's increasing. So of the increase there shall be no end.
Speaker 1: It's great, yes, it's great. But the picture is that
Speaker 1: it's an ever increasing government and ever increasing greatness. Okay,
Speaker 1: So he will reign on David's throne. This is kind
Speaker 1: of interesting. He will reign on David's throw everybody say
Speaker 1: David's throne and over his kingdom, establishing it, establishing and
Speaker 1: holding it up or upholding it with justice and righteousness
Speaker 1: from that time on and forever. So the implication is,
Speaker 1: and the way, you know, the way prophecy works is
Speaker 1: that something is stated as if it's done. So this
Speaker 1: was hundreds of years before Jesus came, but it's being
Speaker 1: stated as if it's done because the way the prophetic
Speaker 1: word works is that the word is sown as if
Speaker 1: it's done. So the word is sown by the prophet.
Speaker 1: But it's interesting that from the moment that it's fulfilled,
Speaker 1: he says that it will this will come to pass
Speaker 1: from that time on. In other words, from the moment
Speaker 1: of its fulfillment, it will come to pass from that
Speaker 1: time on and for ever. You can put it back
Speaker 1: up if you want, and forever. The zeal of the
Speaker 1: Lord Almighty will accomplish this. So this is interesting, right,
Speaker 1: God is God is working. We could say, you know,
Speaker 1: we can say this is this is a messianic passage.
Speaker 1: It's about what God's up to in time and in
Speaker 1: the earth. And we see that God is working to
Speaker 1: bring forth a government, and he's working to bring forth
Speaker 1: a government of peace or a government that results in peace,
Speaker 1: and the government a government that is on the shoulders
Speaker 1: of Jesus, right, on the shoulders of Jesus, meaning Jesus
Speaker 1: will shoulder government right. So what's interesting about this too, though,
Speaker 1: is that he's trying to give us a picture that
Speaker 1: the government can't be on, the government can't be on
Speaker 1: something else. Like for instance, when David wanted to bring
Speaker 1: the glory back to Israel, and this is after his
Speaker 1: seven years of reign over Hebron and then uh Over,
Speaker 1: you know, just part of Israel. Then after seven years
Speaker 1: then he was installed as the king over all. And
Speaker 1: when that happened, he said, I want I want the
Speaker 1: Ark here, And the ark was up at Obidiedam's house,
Speaker 1: and so they first went to bring the ark in.
Speaker 1: And when they went to bring the ark from Obidiedam's house,
Speaker 1: which there the ark was causing him to prosper greatly.
Speaker 1: And David was envious of the glory, right, and so
Speaker 1: but Unfortunately, he sought to bring the ark in the
Speaker 1: same way the Philistines got rid of the arc with
Speaker 1: with Oxen and the ark on a cart. Right, but
Speaker 1: the ark or the presence of the Lord can only
Speaker 1: be carried on the shoulders of the priest. The ark
Speaker 1: had to be carried on the shoulders of the priest,
Speaker 1: meaning that we carry the glory, we shoulder the glory.
Speaker 1: The priests shoulder the glory, we bear up the burden
Speaker 1: of the glory. But it also means that there was
Speaker 1: like there was something sanctified about there was something special, sanctified,
Speaker 1: set apart and crazy cool about the priests and their
Speaker 1: relationship to the glory and to the ark. And the
Speaker 1: ark was significant to the glory of God. It's where
Speaker 1: the chairman was, It's the mercy seat, is where the
Speaker 1: glory of God would come in the tent of meeting
Speaker 1: and in the Holy of holies. Right. So we're given
Speaker 1: this picture though, and it's out of you know, first
Speaker 1: Chronicles fifteen. So the priests and the Levites consecrated themselves
Speaker 1: to bring up the Ark of the Lord, the God
Speaker 1: of Israel, and the Levites carried the arc of God
Speaker 1: on their shoulders with the pole as Moses had commanded.
Speaker 1: So so this is a sacred thing, It's a sacred works.
Speaker 1: And this is what Isaiah is seeing about the Christ.
Speaker 1: Isaiah is seeing this about the Christ, is that the
Speaker 1: government doesn't come in on a program. The government doesn't
Speaker 1: come in on legislation, or the government doesn't come in
Speaker 1: on a building. The government doesn't come in. You see
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. I mean, I'm just I'm thinking of
Speaker 1: things that could be. You know that we want the
Speaker 1: government to come in on The government only comes in
Speaker 1: on the sacredness of the shoulders of Jesus. The government
Speaker 1: of peace will increase as it increases on the shoulders
Speaker 1: of Jesus. Now, who are the shoulders of Jesus. Now
Speaker 1: they're in the room today. You are the shoulders of Jesus.
Speaker 1: You are the body of Christ. The body of Christ
Speaker 1: is the shoulders of Jesus. And so you know, we
Speaker 1: have to make this association because we've missed some stuff.
Speaker 1: And I want us hopefully by the Holy Spirit as
Speaker 1: he helps us to see things, and he's helping me
Speaker 1: to see that we've missed some things. Uh. And in
Speaker 1: the process of of like not making some of these associations.
Speaker 1: Then we have d shouldered government, and we've allowed we've
Speaker 1: allowed the government to be on the shoulders of the
Speaker 1: wicked instead of on the shoulders of the righteous. We've
Speaker 1: allowed the wicked the shoulder government instead of us taking
Speaker 1: the responsibility and shouldering government. So so this whole thing
Speaker 1: about the government be on his shoulders. He's giving us
Speaker 1: a picture. And the reader of Isaiah couldn't help but
Speaker 1: to have known first Caronicles fifteen and many other passages
Speaker 1: where the government where the glory would come in on
Speaker 1: the free. But now he's saying, oh, it's not just
Speaker 1: the glory, but it's also the government. Are you with me? So, meaning,
Speaker 1: in this case, the government is set apart for Yeshia,
Speaker 1: set apart for this man. He has a special calling
Speaker 1: and anointing to bring forth pure government in the earth.
Speaker 1: And so Jesus was bringing forth a government, not a
Speaker 1: government of this world, but a government nonetheless, a government
Speaker 1: of justice and righteousness, a government from above, a government
Speaker 1: that results in peace. And it's an extension of the
Speaker 1: throne of David. This is interesting. It's an extension of
Speaker 1: the throne of David. Now I want to say something here.
Speaker 1: I want to say something that I think is important
Speaker 1: for us to meditate on, and just you know this
Speaker 1: in your meditation computer. But it's interesting that he has
Speaker 1: a twofold calling, and even that twofold calling is then
Speaker 1: passed on to us because in John twenty through twenty two,
Speaker 1: twenty twenty through twenty two, he says, as the Father
Speaker 1: he breathed on them, and he said, is the Father,
Speaker 1: as the Father sent me? Everybody say, as as the
Speaker 1: Father sent me, so so send I you. But there's
Speaker 1: this twofold calling calling on him, and we see John
Speaker 1: the revelator refer to it in Revelation one six. He
Speaker 1: says that we are kings and priests unto our God. Well,
Speaker 1: we see something here. That's what David was. David was
Speaker 1: the four type of Christ. Jesus is called the son
Speaker 1: of David. Now it says he's going to sit on
Speaker 1: david It's throne, but he also sets on the throne
Speaker 1: of Melkezedic, because the Book of Hebrews tells us that
Speaker 1: he stepped into the priestly throne of Melkezedic and his
Speaker 1: priestly ministry and the anointing of Glory and the ark
Speaker 1: of the Covenant and him shouldering because he is the
Speaker 1: priest that shoulders the glory. He is now the high
Speaker 1: priest that shoulders the glory. When we come to him,
Speaker 1: we come into the glory. We can't come we can't
Speaker 1: go to a synagogue now and come to the law
Speaker 1: and come into glory. We can't come to an ark
Speaker 1: that's no longer in a synagogue when we come to him,
Speaker 1: who was the center of that arc, who was the
Speaker 1: center of the mercy seat, when we come to him,
Speaker 1: he is now the one shouldering the glory because he
Speaker 1: is the high priest. So I want you to see
Speaker 1: this is kind of interesting where he's trying to give
Speaker 1: us a picture that he fulfills the throne of David,
Speaker 1: but he fulfills the throne also of Melkezedic. He was
Speaker 1: a priest and he was a king. He's called you
Speaker 1: to be a priest and a king. Now, what we've
Speaker 1: embraced as a church is we've embraced the priestly. We've
Speaker 1: embraced the priestly. We've taken responsibility for the church. We've
Speaker 1: taken responsibility for Bible school and education and seminaries and
Speaker 1: Bible understanding and leading people to Jesus and salvation and
Speaker 1: the gifts of the spirit and prayer. And we've taken
Speaker 1: responsibility for the priestly. We as a church have not
Speaker 1: taken responsibility for the kingly. Don't shout me down because
Speaker 1: I'm preaching good now, you know, let the conviction fall
Speaker 1: Glory to God. Spoke somebody and say he's preaching to you.
Speaker 1: So I want you to see this, that he in,
Speaker 1: that he's taken all. He's taken on both, but he's
Speaker 1: called us into both with him. That's the understanding of
Speaker 1: Revelation one six. When he calls us to be kings
Speaker 1: and priests, or he calls us kings and priests, it's
Speaker 1: a fulfillment of what he declared over us in John
Speaker 1: twenty twenty through twenty two, as the Father sent me.
Speaker 1: So now what we've done, we've grabbed the spiritual part. Oh,
Speaker 1: as the Father sent him. Okay, he's a he beats
Speaker 1: up devils and he heals the sick, and he preaches
Speaker 1: the good news of born of the spiritism. So we've
Speaker 1: grabbed one side of it, but we haven't grabbed the
Speaker 1: other side. That he came as a king, he came
Speaker 1: to bring a government it's a government of peace, it's
Speaker 1: an increasing government, and it's founded on a throne of
Speaker 1: justice and righteous. It's an extension of the throne of David.
Speaker 1: We haven't seen it, we haven't bought it. So half
Speaker 1: of us don't even vote. Half of Christians some statistics
Speaker 1: say half of Christians don't even vote. I just saw
Speaker 1: a thing in Pennsylvania, that a little thing dinner day
Speaker 1: where in Pennsylvania millions of the Christians didn't vote in
Speaker 1: the last election. This is happening all over our nation.
Speaker 1: Some of our churches have doctrines that we teach our
Speaker 1: people not to vote because God is sovereign, He's going
Speaker 1: to work it out. Don't even interfere with his sovereignty.
Speaker 1: He's going to pick the rulers. Don't you know He
Speaker 1: picks them through you. Don't you know the testimony of
Speaker 1: Jesus is the spirit of prophecy, and the testimony of
Speaker 1: Jesus is alive in you, so that you'll pick who
Speaker 1: he's picking. He's not going to pick who he's picking
Speaker 1: with somebody else. He's going to pick who he's picking
Speaker 1: through you. You are the sovereign expression of his sovereignty.
Speaker 1: You are the expression of his sovereignty. So you do nothing.
Speaker 1: His sovereignty doesn't even get expressed. That's Brian. I call
Speaker 1: these doctrines of demons. These are doctrines of demons that
Speaker 1: have infested the church. And this connectedness from the fullness
Speaker 1: of our calling. It's not just a gospel Sunday School calling.
Speaker 1: It's not just an evangelism food bank calling. We have
Speaker 1: a calling to govern the nations. We have a calling
Speaker 1: to lead the nations. Look at the craziness of Matthew
Speaker 1: twenty eight eighteen and nineteen. You know it is a
Speaker 1: great gospel calling, the craziness of Matthew twenty eight eighteen
Speaker 1: or nineteen. Then Jesus came to them and said, and
Speaker 1: if I'm getting loud, Gabriel, don't turn me down. Go
Speaker 1: ahead and give me plenty, even give me a little
Speaker 1: bit more, because I'll calm down if I think I'm loud.
Speaker 1: Otherwise who knows what? Well, you know, I don't want
Speaker 1: my voice to get harmed. I might have a third service.
Speaker 1: Then Jesus came to them and said, all authority in
Speaker 1: heaven and on earth in heaven, now this is him
Speaker 1: booting Satan out of heaven. We've talked about that in
Speaker 1: the past, Revelation twelve versus eleven, and following there was
Speaker 1: a war in heaven. The dragon was booted out, Satan
Speaker 1: was booted out. All authority has been given me in
Speaker 1: heaven and on earth. Therefore, go and make this disciples,
Speaker 1: Disciples are disciplined ones. Go and discipline the nations. Go
Speaker 1: and bring the nations under the disciplines of my governmental leadership.
Speaker 1: Go and bring the nations under my authority. He didn't
Speaker 1: just say go and save a few folks. He didn't
Speaker 1: just say go and lead a few to me. He
Speaker 1: didn't say go and just get a few folks born
Speaker 1: of the spirit. He said, go and discipline, Go and
Speaker 1: disciple all the nations, baptizing in them in the name
Speaker 1: of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit,
Speaker 1: teaching them to obey everything I've commanded you, and surely
Speaker 1: I'm with you even to the end of the age.
Speaker 1: Now I want you to see all authority has given
Speaker 1: me heaven and on earth. Right, all authority has given me.
Speaker 1: I'm sos to whind this up pretty soon, because we're
Speaker 1: gonna start cooking chicken. But I'm feeling like the large
Speaker 1: fellow going through a barbed by our fence. Just one
Speaker 1: more point and I'll be through. Authority. Listen. Authority is
Speaker 1: governmental talk. Authority over rulers. That's governmental talk. Why have
Speaker 1: we thought it's just gospel talk. I'm using the word
Speaker 1: gospel because we usually think of the word gospel as
Speaker 1: it pertains to preaching the good news. But the good
Speaker 1: news is also that nations are no longer under the
Speaker 1: dominion of Satan. It's not just people that are no
Speaker 1: longer under the dominion of Satan. Nations, counties, states, rules,
Speaker 1: rulers are no longer under the dominion of Satan. So
Speaker 1: he's given authority over rulers, authority over the earth, authority
Speaker 1: over mankind. This is governmental talk, not just preacher talk.
Speaker 1: Our schools and universities they shouldn't just have preaching degrees.
Speaker 1: We should have degrees in government and governmental leadership. And
Speaker 1: most of the people going into governmental leadership they go
Speaker 1: get a law degree. The how many lawyers that we
Speaker 1: have in the church. In our church, I think we
Speaker 1: have a big fat zero. I don't know one. We
Speaker 1: have one Sarah. We have Sarah. Are there others besides Sarah?
Speaker 1: I don't know. But we need this desperately. We need
Speaker 1: this desperately. Why have we despised the law? Why have
Speaker 1: we despised law degrees? Why have we despised law years?
Speaker 1: Why have we Why have we turned that over to
Speaker 1: the world, And it's disabled us from shouldering some of
Speaker 1: what we're supposed to shoulder. Right, So we're supposed to
Speaker 1: go and disciple the nations right, teaching them nations how
Speaker 1: to establish government, teaching the nations how toment govern people
Speaker 1: in justice and in righteousness, in meekness, in humility, in grace,
Speaker 1: and truth. According to the principles of heaven. It's the
Speaker 1: Kingdom of Heaven. Yes, don't know how much more I
Speaker 1: need to say. Well, you know, in the you know,
Speaker 1: before came, governments were highly controlled by Satan. Even Satan
Speaker 1: was called the prince of the power of the air. Right,
Speaker 1: the monic actors, principalities and powers of wickedness were wielding
Speaker 1: power over governments and the state. And yes, sometimes God
Speaker 1: would intervene and sometimes God would judge. We see it
Speaker 1: in Daniel five. We see it in Daniel four, We
Speaker 1: see it in Daniel seven. We see a few times
Speaker 1: where God would step in and there would be a judgment.
Speaker 1: But many times, many times, what we see is these
Speaker 1: pagan religions, inspired and led by Satan's through sorcery and
Speaker 1: wit craft, were intimately tied to all of the nations.
Speaker 1: Egypt was under ten gods, and those are the gods
Speaker 1: that were judged in the plagues. The Promised Land was
Speaker 1: under seven unclean nations, all led by demon spirits, and
Speaker 1: those were all judged by God as they went in
Speaker 1: to dispossess the darkness. Right, even Israel was under darkness
Speaker 1: when the king them split into the two kingdoms after David.
Speaker 1: There were wicked kings as well as righteous kings. Josiah
Speaker 1: was great. Many of the kings were vile and unclean,
Speaker 1: like Ahab right Ahab and Jezebel. Jezebel was married to Aheb.
Speaker 1: This is a king over Israel. So even Herod look
Speaker 1: at Herod. Herod clearly perceived that the baby, the Christ Child,
Speaker 1: was a threat to his power and so ordered the
Speaker 1: killing of hundreds, if not thousands, of infants in order
Speaker 1: to stop this incursion. Matthew two, all of this stuff
Speaker 1: is happening, and it's a sign, it's a symbol, it's
Speaker 1: an insight for us. All to see that the nations
Speaker 1: were under unclean rule. But that is no longer to
Speaker 1: be the case. But it can't be the case. It
Speaker 1: can't be the case if we set back on our laurels,
Speaker 1: if all we have is prayer meetings, if all we
Speaker 1: do is evangelism, if all we do is preach the
Speaker 1: good news of being born the spirit, and do not
Speaker 1: engage in culture, and do not engage in government. Satan
Speaker 1: is glad to lead the world through a minority even
Speaker 1: though there's a majority, right, and he's glad to do
Speaker 1: it as a micro calls him in. You too, by
Speaker 1: the way, did you know that? I mean, you can
Speaker 1: get all sorts of happy with Jesus, all sorts of forgiven,
Speaker 1: But if you've got some unclean stuff in you that
Speaker 1: you don't drive out of you, he's glad to stay there.
Speaker 1: Doesn't matter if you shout and dance and saying and
Speaker 1: worship and pay tithe, you know what. He's glad to
Speaker 1: stay there until you confront him. So you've got a
Speaker 1: minority ruler inside of a majority spirit led person. It happens.
Speaker 1: It's happening in our nation. We have minority influences that
Speaker 1: are demonic seeking to lead the nation that is majority
Speaker 1: wanting righteousness. Why because the righteous are doing nothing. The
Speaker 1: righteous won't get involved, the righteous won't even vote, and
Speaker 1: then the righteous are confused that you wonder, well, I
Speaker 1: don't want to talk I don't want to talk about that.
Speaker 1: You know that. I don't want to talk about Republican
Speaker 1: or Democrat. I don't want to talk about that stuff.
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, let's not talk about that stuff.
Speaker 1: You know, you just be a Christocrat. Folks, read the platform.
Speaker 1: Democrats are killing babies. Hello, they had an abortion clinic
Speaker 1: at their convention. Come on, let's wake up. Republican platform
Speaker 1: is embracing God. Democrats want nothing to do. It's become
Speaker 1: pretty clear if we got to fight about that. When
Speaker 1: you haven't read the platform, you have not read the platform.
Speaker 1: You probably even haven't even read the Constitution or the platform.
Speaker 1: This is your nation. You're a citizen here, Rise up,
Speaker 1: wake up, take responsibility, start shouldering this nation. Shoulder the nation.
Speaker 1: It's your nation. Shoulder the nation. Shoulder the nation. Read
Speaker 1: the platform, Read the platform. If you can read those
Speaker 1: two platforms and come away and tell me you're still confused,
Speaker 1: then I need to get some medication. For you. You
Speaker 1: need medication. The defeat of demonic powers is not through
Speaker 1: evangelism alone. It's not through salvation's alone. It's not through
Speaker 1: church services or revivals alone. The righteous must take their
Speaker 1: place and shoulder government. And we're going to do that
Speaker 1: until it's fulfilled. Until Revelation eleven is totally fulfilled. Then
Speaker 1: the seventh Angel sounded and there were voices in heaven saying,
Speaker 1: the kingdoms of this world have become the kingdoms of
Speaker 1: our Lord and his Christ, and he shall reign forever
Speaker 1: and ever. Now, by the way, you notice that is
Speaker 1: written in present tents though it hadn't happened. Why because
Speaker 1: it was the prophetic release. It's the very thing we
Speaker 1: need to say as a prophetic release, because as we
Speaker 1: come into agreement with what God has said through the prophet,
Speaker 1: then it releases the power of God for us to
Speaker 1: begin to see it to come to pass. But you'll
Speaker 1: notice again, it's government talk the kingdoms of this world,
Speaker 1: not the churches of this world, not the synagogues of
Speaker 1: this world. The limitation of the Gospel is not on
Speaker 1: churches or synagogues. There is no lid on the church.
Speaker 1: The church, the ecclesia is to rule and reign in
Speaker 1: both religious and governmental spheers both priest and king. Priest
Speaker 1: and king Christ King. Wow, we have a superior kingdom.
Speaker 1: We'recalled to bring that kingdom into government. We can't do
Speaker 1: that by hiding. We can't do that by disdaining the call.
Speaker 1: I have to ask you, you know, as this is
Speaker 1: hitting us, and as this is washing over us the church,
Speaker 1: because God's saying this, not just at noon horizon, He's
Speaker 1: saying this all over in the church. He's saying this
Speaker 1: as a prophetic release over the church. I have to
Speaker 1: ask what is our hindrance? What is our hindrance? Right?
Speaker 1: Stand with me this morning? What is our hindrance? Well,
Speaker 1: Jesus said this kingdom. He said, my kingdom is not
Speaker 1: of this world. Well, theologians have distorted and perverted that
Speaker 1: word to make us think that we aren't to be
Speaker 1: involved in government or in kingdom business. But he didn't
Speaker 1: mean that. He meant I'm not supposed to remain. He
Speaker 1: was being asked of the king. This is crucifixion time.
Speaker 1: He's being asked, are you a king? And he said,
Speaker 1: my kingdom is not of this world, meaning I'm not
Speaker 1: supposed to remain here as an earthly leader, asserting physical
Speaker 1: leadership in a third dimensional body. But he did agree,
Speaker 1: as you say, I'm a king, but I'm just not
Speaker 1: going to stay here because it's not of this world.
Speaker 1: It's not of a third dimensional realm, nor is it
Speaker 1: of the world's system. But he is a king. He's
Speaker 1: a king, Isaiah declared it. How about this one, we
Speaker 1: know our citizenship is in heaven. Well, appreciers have distorted
Speaker 1: that one, perverted that one, and made us think that
Speaker 1: as long as we're going to heaven, it's good. We
Speaker 1: don't have to mess with things on earth. No. No,
Speaker 1: what that means is, I don't derive my acceptance from you,
Speaker 1: worth from you. I don't derive my resource from you.
Speaker 1: I don't derive my value from you. I'm tapped into
Speaker 1: something higher and out of my citizenship. I'm called to
Speaker 1: bring that reality to this place, out of my citizenship,
Speaker 1: out of the resource of heaven, the joy of heaven,
Speaker 1: the affirmation of Heaven, the identity of a son of Heaven.
Speaker 1: It's not to shirk our responsibility. That's a perversion of preaching.
Speaker 1: That's a doctrine of demons that causes us to hear
Speaker 1: or read some of these scriptures. Well, I'm just a pilgrim. Well,
Speaker 1: I'm just passing through. Well, this world is not my home.
Speaker 1: Perse corinteen seven, I'm just passing through. Well, our lives
Speaker 1: are but a vapor James, Chapter four. These have been
Speaker 1: preached in a way that's perverted our mind and kept
Speaker 1: us from shouldering the very thing that he called us
Speaker 1: to shoulder. So we have to shed every excuse, heads bowed,
Speaker 1: eyes closed, all across this auditorium. I'm asking you to
Speaker 1: shed every single excuse this morning. Listen to this while
Speaker 1: you shed that excuse, while you pray. I want you
Speaker 1: to pray over yourself. I'm going to read you two passages.
Speaker 1: Then we got to close. How many thinks I can
Speaker 1: do it? I don't know. I don't know. I don't
Speaker 1: know that Chapter five looks real good. Peter and the
Speaker 1: other apostles said we must obey God rather than man.
Speaker 1: Oh boy, that's a good one too. I don't know
Speaker 1: I should read that one. But here's listen to Daniel too.
Speaker 1: This is where we're going in the time of those kings.
Speaker 1: This is the Roman Empire. The God of Heaven will
Speaker 1: set up a kingdom that will not be destroyed. It
Speaker 1: will never be destroyed, nor will be left to another people.
Speaker 1: It will crush all those kingdoms and bring them to
Speaker 1: an end, but itself will endure forever. This is the
Speaker 1: meaning of the vision of the rock cut out of
Speaker 1: a mountain, not by human hands, a rock that broke
Speaker 1: the iron, bronze, the clay of the silver, and the
Speaker 1: golden pieces. The Great God has shown the king what
Speaker 1: will take place in the future. Listen to Daniel seven.
Speaker 1: In my vision and night I looked, and there before
Speaker 1: me was one like a son of man, coming with
Speaker 1: the clouds of heaven. And he approached the Ancient of
Speaker 1: days and was led into his presence by the way.
Speaker 1: This is the ascension. We're not looking forward to this.
Speaker 1: We're living on the other side of this. And he
Speaker 1: was given authority, glory, and sovereign power that all the
Speaker 1: nations and peoples of every language would worship him. His
Speaker 1: dominion is an everlasting dominion that will not pass away,
Speaker 1: and his kingdom is one that will never be destroyed. Church,
Speaker 1: he's talking about government. He's talking about government. The Gospel
Speaker 1: is a gospel that affects our hearts, and it builds
Speaker 1: us into and that clacea, and that it influence serves
Speaker 1: our culture, and we shoulder the government that brings an
Speaker 1: increase of peace, and it's built on a foundation of
Speaker 1: justice and righteousness. And there's no rep there's no way,
Speaker 1: there's no way to substitute that with any other thing.
Speaker 1: Nothing can substitute that. Hands up this morning, Father, say
Speaker 1: it with me, Father, I forsake can renounce the shirking
Speaker 1: of government, confusion over government, disdaining involvement in government, not
Speaker 1: listening to the call to government. I acknowledge today even
Speaker 1: as I'm called to the priestly ministry of Jesus. I'm
Speaker 1: called to the kingly ministry of Jesus. I am the
Speaker 1: body of Christ, and I shoulder his priestly ministry in
Speaker 1: this earth, a ministry of reconciliation. And I shoulder the
Speaker 1: kingly ministry of Jesus in this earth, a ministry of peace.
Speaker 1: I receive it right now in Jesus' name. And everybody said,
Speaker 1: give him a thank offering this morning, Give him a
Speaker 1: thank offering, Give him a thank offering.