WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.440 --> 00:00:02.879 Let's start there. I want to talk about a government 2 00:00:02.879 --> 00:00:10.400 of peace, and specifically our place in that government of peace, 3 00:00:11.759 --> 00:00:16.559 and what Father has in mind in these days. For 4 00:00:16.719 --> 00:00:19.120 unto us, a child is born. This is the scripture 5 00:00:19.160 --> 00:00:22.480 we know as a Christmas scripture. We read it every 6 00:00:22.559 --> 00:00:25.239 year at Christmas time. You've heard me talking about it 7 00:00:25.320 --> 00:00:28.399 quite a bit over the last you know, several months, 8 00:00:28.440 --> 00:00:31.960 maybe the last year or so. For unto us, a 9 00:00:32.079 --> 00:00:35.880 child is born. To us, a son is given, and 10 00:00:36.000 --> 00:00:45.840 the government will be on his shoulders. Let's read it again. 11 00:00:45.920 --> 00:00:52.079 And the government will be on his shoulders, and the 12 00:00:52.119 --> 00:00:57.759 government will be on his shoulders, and he will be 13 00:00:57.840 --> 00:01:06.159 called wonderful counselor Mighty God, everlasting Father, Prince of Prince 14 00:01:06.200 --> 00:01:10.400 of Peace. Of the greatness of his government and peace, 15 00:01:10.640 --> 00:01:14.599 there will be no end or the King James says, 16 00:01:14.640 --> 00:01:18.640 of the increase, So I like increase actually better than 17 00:01:18.719 --> 00:01:23.480 the utter translations. It's true to the Hebrew. But it's 18 00:01:23.560 --> 00:01:26.799 also gives us a really good picture of what's happening 19 00:01:26.840 --> 00:01:29.599 with his government, right, his government and peace is that 20 00:01:29.640 --> 00:01:34.319 it's increasing. So of the increase there shall be no end. 21 00:01:34.599 --> 00:01:39.200 It's great, yes, it's great. But the picture is that 22 00:01:39.280 --> 00:01:44.400 it's an ever increasing government and ever increasing greatness. Okay, 23 00:01:45.120 --> 00:01:49.640 So he will reign on David's throne. This is kind 24 00:01:49.640 --> 00:01:52.879 of interesting. He will reign on David's throw everybody say 25 00:01:52.959 --> 00:01:59.280 David's throne and over his kingdom, establishing it, establishing and 26 00:01:59.319 --> 00:02:04.359 holding it up or upholding it with justice and righteousness 27 00:02:04.400 --> 00:02:08.120 from that time on and forever. So the implication is, 28 00:02:08.360 --> 00:02:11.759 and the way, you know, the way prophecy works is 29 00:02:12.199 --> 00:02:18.280 that something is stated as if it's done. So this 30 00:02:18.599 --> 00:02:24.840 was hundreds of years before Jesus came, but it's being 31 00:02:25.000 --> 00:02:29.039 stated as if it's done because the way the prophetic 32 00:02:29.120 --> 00:02:33.560 word works is that the word is sown as if 33 00:02:33.599 --> 00:02:37.800 it's done. So the word is sown by the prophet. 34 00:02:37.800 --> 00:02:41.199 But it's interesting that from the moment that it's fulfilled, 35 00:02:41.639 --> 00:02:45.479 he says that it will this will come to pass 36 00:02:45.800 --> 00:02:49.560 from that time on. In other words, from the moment 37 00:02:50.000 --> 00:02:53.479 of its fulfillment, it will come to pass from that 38 00:02:53.599 --> 00:02:59.800 time on and for ever. You can put it back 39 00:02:59.840 --> 00:03:03.520 up if you want, and forever. The zeal of the 40 00:03:03.520 --> 00:03:09.520 Lord Almighty will accomplish this. So this is interesting, right, 41 00:03:10.039 --> 00:03:13.000 God is God is working. We could say, you know, 42 00:03:13.039 --> 00:03:16.400 we can say this is this is a messianic passage. 43 00:03:16.479 --> 00:03:21.159 It's about what God's up to in time and in 44 00:03:21.199 --> 00:03:23.800 the earth. And we see that God is working to 45 00:03:23.800 --> 00:03:28.520 bring forth a government, and he's working to bring forth 46 00:03:28.599 --> 00:03:33.120 a government of peace or a government that results in peace, 47 00:03:33.840 --> 00:03:38.000 and the government a government that is on the shoulders 48 00:03:38.039 --> 00:03:43.840 of Jesus, right, on the shoulders of Jesus, meaning Jesus 49 00:03:43.879 --> 00:03:50.840 will shoulder government right. So what's interesting about this too, though, 50 00:03:51.240 --> 00:03:53.680 is that he's trying to give us a picture that 51 00:03:54.439 --> 00:03:58.400 the government can't be on, the government can't be on 52 00:03:58.800 --> 00:04:02.120 something else. Like for instance, when David wanted to bring 53 00:04:02.159 --> 00:04:06.719 the glory back to Israel, and this is after his 54 00:04:06.919 --> 00:04:11.479 seven years of reign over Hebron and then uh Over, 55 00:04:11.680 --> 00:04:15.319 you know, just part of Israel. Then after seven years 56 00:04:15.360 --> 00:04:19.199 then he was installed as the king over all. And 57 00:04:19.240 --> 00:04:22.360 when that happened, he said, I want I want the 58 00:04:22.480 --> 00:04:25.120 Ark here, And the ark was up at Obidiedam's house, 59 00:04:25.759 --> 00:04:28.639 and so they first went to bring the ark in. 60 00:04:29.240 --> 00:04:32.560 And when they went to bring the ark from Obidiedam's house, 61 00:04:32.600 --> 00:04:36.920 which there the ark was causing him to prosper greatly. 62 00:04:37.439 --> 00:04:41.120 And David was envious of the glory, right, and so 63 00:04:41.879 --> 00:04:46.079 but Unfortunately, he sought to bring the ark in the 64 00:04:46.120 --> 00:04:51.120 same way the Philistines got rid of the arc with 65 00:04:51.120 --> 00:04:55.720 with Oxen and the ark on a cart. Right, but 66 00:04:55.839 --> 00:04:59.399 the ark or the presence of the Lord can only 67 00:04:59.439 --> 00:05:03.439 be carried on the shoulders of the priest. The ark 68 00:05:03.600 --> 00:05:06.519 had to be carried on the shoulders of the priest, 69 00:05:06.639 --> 00:05:12.160 meaning that we carry the glory, we shoulder the glory. 70 00:05:12.720 --> 00:05:16.800 The priests shoulder the glory, we bear up the burden 71 00:05:17.040 --> 00:05:19.160 of the glory. But it also means that there was 72 00:05:19.720 --> 00:05:26.120 like there was something sanctified about there was something special, sanctified, 73 00:05:26.240 --> 00:05:30.160 set apart and crazy cool about the priests and their 74 00:05:30.199 --> 00:05:34.360 relationship to the glory and to the ark. And the 75 00:05:34.480 --> 00:05:37.040 ark was significant to the glory of God. It's where 76 00:05:37.079 --> 00:05:39.639 the chairman was, It's the mercy seat, is where the 77 00:05:39.639 --> 00:05:42.079 glory of God would come in the tent of meeting 78 00:05:42.120 --> 00:05:46.079 and in the Holy of holies. Right. So we're given 79 00:05:46.160 --> 00:05:48.519 this picture though, and it's out of you know, first 80 00:05:48.600 --> 00:05:51.879 Chronicles fifteen. So the priests and the Levites consecrated themselves 81 00:05:52.199 --> 00:05:54.399 to bring up the Ark of the Lord, the God 82 00:05:54.439 --> 00:05:57.160 of Israel, and the Levites carried the arc of God 83 00:05:57.279 --> 00:06:01.600 on their shoulders with the pole as Moses had commanded. 84 00:06:01.720 --> 00:06:05.639 So so this is a sacred thing, It's a sacred works. 85 00:06:06.079 --> 00:06:12.560 And this is what Isaiah is seeing about the Christ. 86 00:06:12.800 --> 00:06:16.480 Isaiah is seeing this about the Christ, is that the 87 00:06:16.519 --> 00:06:20.279 government doesn't come in on a program. The government doesn't 88 00:06:20.319 --> 00:06:26.800 come in on legislation, or the government doesn't come in 89 00:06:27.680 --> 00:06:30.120 on a building. The government doesn't come in. You see 90 00:06:30.120 --> 00:06:32.279 what I'm saying. I mean, I'm just I'm thinking of 91 00:06:32.319 --> 00:06:34.560 things that could be. You know that we want the 92 00:06:34.600 --> 00:06:37.959 government to come in on The government only comes in 93 00:06:38.079 --> 00:06:41.639 on the sacredness of the shoulders of Jesus. The government 94 00:06:41.680 --> 00:06:45.399 of peace will increase as it increases on the shoulders 95 00:06:45.399 --> 00:06:54.360 of Jesus. Now, who are the shoulders of Jesus. Now 96 00:06:54.360 --> 00:06:57.120 they're in the room today. You are the shoulders of Jesus. 97 00:06:57.600 --> 00:07:01.160 You are the body of Christ. The body of Christ 98 00:07:01.959 --> 00:07:07.920 is the shoulders of Jesus. And so you know, we 99 00:07:08.000 --> 00:07:10.600 have to make this association because we've missed some stuff. 100 00:07:10.879 --> 00:07:15.519 And I want us hopefully by the Holy Spirit as 101 00:07:15.519 --> 00:07:18.560 he helps us to see things, and he's helping me 102 00:07:19.600 --> 00:07:23.600 to see that we've missed some things. Uh. And in 103 00:07:23.920 --> 00:07:28.399 the process of of like not making some of these associations. 104 00:07:28.920 --> 00:07:34.040 Then we have d shouldered government, and we've allowed we've 105 00:07:34.079 --> 00:07:36.720 allowed the government to be on the shoulders of the 106 00:07:36.720 --> 00:07:40.000 wicked instead of on the shoulders of the righteous. We've 107 00:07:40.040 --> 00:07:47.480 allowed the wicked the shoulder government instead of us taking 108 00:07:48.040 --> 00:07:55.439 the responsibility and shouldering government. So so this whole thing 109 00:07:55.480 --> 00:07:58.560 about the government be on his shoulders. He's giving us 110 00:07:58.560 --> 00:08:02.800 a picture. And the reader of Isaiah couldn't help but 111 00:08:02.959 --> 00:08:07.839 to have known first Caronicles fifteen and many other passages 112 00:08:07.920 --> 00:08:13.240 where the government where the glory would come in on 113 00:08:13.279 --> 00:08:15.199 the free. But now he's saying, oh, it's not just 114 00:08:15.560 --> 00:08:23.680 the glory, but it's also the government. Are you with me? So, meaning, 115 00:08:23.800 --> 00:08:26.639 in this case, the government is set apart for Yeshia, 116 00:08:26.759 --> 00:08:29.639 set apart for this man. He has a special calling 117 00:08:29.680 --> 00:08:34.440 and anointing to bring forth pure government in the earth. 118 00:08:34.919 --> 00:08:40.039 And so Jesus was bringing forth a government, not a 119 00:08:40.080 --> 00:08:43.159 government of this world, but a government nonetheless, a government 120 00:08:43.200 --> 00:08:46.519 of justice and righteousness, a government from above, a government 121 00:08:46.600 --> 00:08:49.679 that results in peace. And it's an extension of the 122 00:08:49.679 --> 00:08:52.399 throne of David. This is interesting. It's an extension of 123 00:08:52.440 --> 00:08:55.240 the throne of David. Now I want to say something here. 124 00:08:55.440 --> 00:08:57.720 I want to say something that I think is important 125 00:08:57.759 --> 00:09:00.320 for us to meditate on, and just you know this 126 00:09:00.399 --> 00:09:07.759 in your meditation computer. But it's interesting that he has 127 00:09:07.879 --> 00:09:13.799 a twofold calling, and even that twofold calling is then 128 00:09:14.000 --> 00:09:18.639 passed on to us because in John twenty through twenty two, 129 00:09:18.799 --> 00:09:22.240 twenty twenty through twenty two, he says, as the Father 130 00:09:22.919 --> 00:09:24.799 he breathed on them, and he said, is the Father, 131 00:09:25.240 --> 00:09:29.639 as the Father sent me? Everybody say, as as the 132 00:09:29.679 --> 00:09:33.600 Father sent me, so so send I you. But there's 133 00:09:33.600 --> 00:09:37.200 this twofold calling calling on him, and we see John 134 00:09:37.279 --> 00:09:41.320 the revelator refer to it in Revelation one six. He 135 00:09:41.440 --> 00:09:47.919 says that we are kings and priests unto our God. Well, 136 00:09:47.720 --> 00:09:52.039 we see something here. That's what David was. David was 137 00:09:52.600 --> 00:09:56.759 the four type of Christ. Jesus is called the son 138 00:09:56.840 --> 00:09:59.519 of David. Now it says he's going to sit on 139 00:09:59.720 --> 00:10:04.360 david It's throne, but he also sets on the throne 140 00:10:04.360 --> 00:10:08.240 of Melkezedic, because the Book of Hebrews tells us that 141 00:10:08.360 --> 00:10:14.440 he stepped into the priestly throne of Melkezedic and his 142 00:10:14.679 --> 00:10:18.360 priestly ministry and the anointing of Glory and the ark 143 00:10:18.440 --> 00:10:21.320 of the Covenant and him shouldering because he is the 144 00:10:21.320 --> 00:10:26.559 priest that shoulders the glory. He is now the high 145 00:10:26.559 --> 00:10:29.759 priest that shoulders the glory. When we come to him, 146 00:10:29.919 --> 00:10:33.919 we come into the glory. We can't come we can't 147 00:10:34.000 --> 00:10:36.480 go to a synagogue now and come to the law 148 00:10:36.840 --> 00:10:39.639 and come into glory. We can't come to an ark 149 00:10:39.720 --> 00:10:42.919 that's no longer in a synagogue when we come to him, 150 00:10:43.440 --> 00:10:46.879 who was the center of that arc, who was the 151 00:10:46.879 --> 00:10:49.120 center of the mercy seat, when we come to him, 152 00:10:49.519 --> 00:10:53.039 he is now the one shouldering the glory because he 153 00:10:53.240 --> 00:10:56.000 is the high priest. So I want you to see 154 00:10:56.080 --> 00:10:59.120 this is kind of interesting where he's trying to give 155 00:10:59.200 --> 00:11:02.600 us a picture that he fulfills the throne of David, 156 00:11:02.879 --> 00:11:06.919 but he fulfills the throne also of Melkezedic. He was 157 00:11:06.960 --> 00:11:10.399 a priest and he was a king. He's called you 158 00:11:10.480 --> 00:11:14.960 to be a priest and a king. Now, what we've 159 00:11:14.960 --> 00:11:19.639 embraced as a church is we've embraced the priestly. We've 160 00:11:19.679 --> 00:11:24.000 embraced the priestly. We've taken responsibility for the church. We've 161 00:11:24.240 --> 00:11:29.320 taken responsibility for Bible school and education and seminaries and 162 00:11:29.440 --> 00:11:33.519 Bible understanding and leading people to Jesus and salvation and 163 00:11:33.759 --> 00:11:36.720 the gifts of the spirit and prayer. And we've taken 164 00:11:36.799 --> 00:11:40.879 responsibility for the priestly. We as a church have not 165 00:11:41.080 --> 00:11:48.399 taken responsibility for the kingly. Don't shout me down because 166 00:11:48.399 --> 00:11:51.600 I'm preaching good now, you know, let the conviction fall 167 00:11:51.679 --> 00:11:55.440 Glory to God. Spoke somebody and say he's preaching to you. 168 00:12:00.320 --> 00:12:02.799 So I want you to see this, that he in, 169 00:12:02.960 --> 00:12:06.000 that he's taken all. He's taken on both, but he's 170 00:12:06.240 --> 00:12:11.399 called us into both with him. That's the understanding of 171 00:12:11.559 --> 00:12:15.399 Revelation one six. When he calls us to be kings 172 00:12:15.559 --> 00:12:18.279 and priests, or he calls us kings and priests, it's 173 00:12:18.279 --> 00:12:22.200 a fulfillment of what he declared over us in John 174 00:12:22.240 --> 00:12:26.360 twenty twenty through twenty two, as the Father sent me. 175 00:12:27.240 --> 00:12:29.799 So now what we've done, we've grabbed the spiritual part. Oh, 176 00:12:29.840 --> 00:12:33.039 as the Father sent him. Okay, he's a he beats 177 00:12:33.120 --> 00:12:36.480 up devils and he heals the sick, and he preaches 178 00:12:36.559 --> 00:12:43.320 the good news of born of the spiritism. So we've 179 00:12:43.360 --> 00:12:46.120 grabbed one side of it, but we haven't grabbed the 180 00:12:46.159 --> 00:12:49.399 other side. That he came as a king, he came 181 00:12:49.440 --> 00:12:53.000 to bring a government it's a government of peace, it's 182 00:12:53.039 --> 00:12:57.919 an increasing government, and it's founded on a throne of 183 00:12:58.559 --> 00:13:02.879 justice and righteous. It's an extension of the throne of David. 184 00:13:03.159 --> 00:13:05.480 We haven't seen it, we haven't bought it. So half 185 00:13:05.519 --> 00:13:12.120 of us don't even vote. Half of Christians some statistics 186 00:13:12.159 --> 00:13:14.919 say half of Christians don't even vote. I just saw 187 00:13:14.960 --> 00:13:18.159 a thing in Pennsylvania, that a little thing dinner day 188 00:13:18.200 --> 00:13:22.879 where in Pennsylvania millions of the Christians didn't vote in 189 00:13:22.879 --> 00:13:26.399 the last election. This is happening all over our nation. 190 00:13:26.840 --> 00:13:30.440 Some of our churches have doctrines that we teach our 191 00:13:30.519 --> 00:13:33.200 people not to vote because God is sovereign, He's going 192 00:13:33.240 --> 00:13:35.919 to work it out. Don't even interfere with his sovereignty. 193 00:13:35.960 --> 00:13:39.200 He's going to pick the rulers. Don't you know He 194 00:13:39.240 --> 00:13:42.679 picks them through you. Don't you know the testimony of 195 00:13:42.759 --> 00:13:45.879 Jesus is the spirit of prophecy, and the testimony of 196 00:13:45.960 --> 00:13:48.519 Jesus is alive in you, so that you'll pick who 197 00:13:48.519 --> 00:13:50.879 he's picking. He's not going to pick who he's picking 198 00:13:50.919 --> 00:13:52.840 with somebody else. He's going to pick who he's picking 199 00:13:53.000 --> 00:13:56.120 through you. You are the sovereign expression of his sovereignty. 200 00:13:57.559 --> 00:14:00.639 You are the expression of his sovereignty. So you do nothing. 201 00:14:00.720 --> 00:14:08.399 His sovereignty doesn't even get expressed. That's Brian. I call 202 00:14:08.480 --> 00:14:12.240 these doctrines of demons. These are doctrines of demons that 203 00:14:12.320 --> 00:14:17.000 have infested the church. And this connectedness from the fullness 204 00:14:17.039 --> 00:14:21.559 of our calling. It's not just a gospel Sunday School calling. 205 00:14:21.799 --> 00:14:25.039 It's not just an evangelism food bank calling. We have 206 00:14:25.159 --> 00:14:29.440 a calling to govern the nations. We have a calling 207 00:14:29.720 --> 00:14:37.320 to lead the nations. Look at the craziness of Matthew 208 00:14:37.600 --> 00:14:40.200 twenty eight eighteen and nineteen. You know it is a 209 00:14:40.200 --> 00:14:44.039 great gospel calling, the craziness of Matthew twenty eight eighteen 210 00:14:44.080 --> 00:14:47.360 or nineteen. Then Jesus came to them and said, and 211 00:14:47.759 --> 00:14:49.960 if I'm getting loud, Gabriel, don't turn me down. Go 212 00:14:50.000 --> 00:14:52.559 ahead and give me plenty, even give me a little 213 00:14:52.600 --> 00:14:55.240 bit more, because I'll calm down if I think I'm loud. 214 00:14:57.240 --> 00:14:59.440 Otherwise who knows what? Well, you know, I don't want 215 00:14:59.440 --> 00:15:01.759 my voice to get harmed. I might have a third service. 216 00:15:04.879 --> 00:15:07.279 Then Jesus came to them and said, all authority in 217 00:15:07.320 --> 00:15:12.720 heaven and on earth in heaven, now this is him 218 00:15:12.799 --> 00:15:15.200 booting Satan out of heaven. We've talked about that in 219 00:15:15.200 --> 00:15:18.840 the past, Revelation twelve versus eleven, and following there was 220 00:15:18.919 --> 00:15:23.480 a war in heaven. The dragon was booted out, Satan 221 00:15:23.759 --> 00:15:26.240 was booted out. All authority has been given me in 222 00:15:26.279 --> 00:15:33.639 heaven and on earth. Therefore, go and make this disciples, 223 00:15:34.720 --> 00:15:40.519 Disciples are disciplined ones. Go and discipline the nations. Go 224 00:15:40.559 --> 00:15:48.879 and bring the nations under the disciplines of my governmental leadership. 225 00:15:49.360 --> 00:15:54.120 Go and bring the nations under my authority. He didn't 226 00:15:54.159 --> 00:15:56.039 just say go and save a few folks. He didn't 227 00:15:56.120 --> 00:15:58.440 just say go and lead a few to me. He 228 00:15:58.480 --> 00:16:01.879 didn't say go and just get a few folks born 229 00:16:01.879 --> 00:16:05.200 of the spirit. He said, go and discipline, Go and 230 00:16:05.399 --> 00:16:09.159 disciple all the nations, baptizing in them in the name 231 00:16:09.200 --> 00:16:11.000 of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, 232 00:16:11.440 --> 00:16:16.759 teaching them to obey everything I've commanded you, and surely 233 00:16:16.759 --> 00:16:19.679 I'm with you even to the end of the age. 234 00:16:21.679 --> 00:16:24.000 Now I want you to see all authority has given 235 00:16:24.039 --> 00:16:28.000 me heaven and on earth. Right, all authority has given me. 236 00:16:28.679 --> 00:16:30.600 I'm sos to whind this up pretty soon, because we're 237 00:16:30.600 --> 00:16:36.960 gonna start cooking chicken. But I'm feeling like the large 238 00:16:37.000 --> 00:16:39.159 fellow going through a barbed by our fence. Just one 239 00:16:39.200 --> 00:16:46.840 more point and I'll be through. Authority. Listen. Authority is 240 00:16:46.919 --> 00:16:52.639 governmental talk. Authority over rulers. That's governmental talk. Why have 241 00:16:52.679 --> 00:16:58.240 we thought it's just gospel talk. I'm using the word 242 00:16:58.240 --> 00:17:00.919 gospel because we usually think of the word gospel as 243 00:17:00.960 --> 00:17:03.080 it pertains to preaching the good news. But the good 244 00:17:03.159 --> 00:17:05.839 news is also that nations are no longer under the 245 00:17:05.880 --> 00:17:10.200 dominion of Satan. It's not just people that are no 246 00:17:10.240 --> 00:17:14.720 longer under the dominion of Satan. Nations, counties, states, rules, 247 00:17:15.519 --> 00:17:21.119 rulers are no longer under the dominion of Satan. So 248 00:17:21.240 --> 00:17:24.680 he's given authority over rulers, authority over the earth, authority 249 00:17:24.680 --> 00:17:28.640 over mankind. This is governmental talk, not just preacher talk. 250 00:17:31.160 --> 00:17:37.079 Our schools and universities they shouldn't just have preaching degrees. 251 00:17:37.119 --> 00:17:41.559 We should have degrees in government and governmental leadership. And 252 00:17:41.680 --> 00:17:44.000 most of the people going into governmental leadership they go 253 00:17:44.039 --> 00:17:46.359 get a law degree. The how many lawyers that we 254 00:17:46.400 --> 00:17:49.599 have in the church. In our church, I think we 255 00:17:49.680 --> 00:17:52.240 have a big fat zero. I don't know one. We 256 00:17:52.359 --> 00:17:56.599 have one Sarah. We have Sarah. Are there others besides Sarah? 257 00:17:56.920 --> 00:18:00.599 I don't know. But we need this desperately. We need 258 00:18:00.599 --> 00:18:04.359 this desperately. Why have we despised the law? Why have 259 00:18:04.440 --> 00:18:07.359 we despised law degrees? Why have we despised law years? 260 00:18:07.400 --> 00:18:10.599 Why have we Why have we turned that over to 261 00:18:10.759 --> 00:18:16.799 the world, And it's disabled us from shouldering some of 262 00:18:16.880 --> 00:18:21.920 what we're supposed to shoulder. Right, So we're supposed to 263 00:18:21.960 --> 00:18:26.720 go and disciple the nations right, teaching them nations how 264 00:18:26.759 --> 00:18:31.079 to establish government, teaching the nations how toment govern people 265 00:18:31.920 --> 00:18:37.400 in justice and in righteousness, in meekness, in humility, in grace, 266 00:18:37.559 --> 00:18:42.039 and truth. According to the principles of heaven. It's the 267 00:18:42.160 --> 00:18:53.000 Kingdom of Heaven. Yes, don't know how much more I 268 00:18:53.000 --> 00:18:59.480 need to say. Well, you know, in the you know, 269 00:18:59.519 --> 00:19:04.319 before came, governments were highly controlled by Satan. Even Satan 270 00:19:04.440 --> 00:19:06.200 was called the prince of the power of the air. Right, 271 00:19:06.680 --> 00:19:10.559 the monic actors, principalities and powers of wickedness were wielding 272 00:19:11.279 --> 00:19:16.480 power over governments and the state. And yes, sometimes God 273 00:19:16.480 --> 00:19:19.119 would intervene and sometimes God would judge. We see it 274 00:19:19.119 --> 00:19:21.359 in Daniel five. We see it in Daniel four, We 275 00:19:21.400 --> 00:19:23.720 see it in Daniel seven. We see a few times 276 00:19:23.720 --> 00:19:25.960 where God would step in and there would be a judgment. 277 00:19:26.880 --> 00:19:31.559 But many times, many times, what we see is these 278 00:19:32.240 --> 00:19:37.279 pagan religions, inspired and led by Satan's through sorcery and 279 00:19:37.319 --> 00:19:41.599 wit craft, were intimately tied to all of the nations. 280 00:19:41.680 --> 00:19:44.440 Egypt was under ten gods, and those are the gods 281 00:19:44.480 --> 00:19:47.240 that were judged in the plagues. The Promised Land was 282 00:19:47.319 --> 00:19:51.000 under seven unclean nations, all led by demon spirits, and 283 00:19:51.039 --> 00:19:54.240 those were all judged by God as they went in 284 00:19:54.400 --> 00:19:58.920 to dispossess the darkness. Right, even Israel was under darkness 285 00:19:59.279 --> 00:20:02.480 when the king them split into the two kingdoms after David. 286 00:20:02.759 --> 00:20:05.799 There were wicked kings as well as righteous kings. Josiah 287 00:20:05.920 --> 00:20:10.200 was great. Many of the kings were vile and unclean, 288 00:20:10.440 --> 00:20:14.119 like Ahab right Ahab and Jezebel. Jezebel was married to Aheb. 289 00:20:14.319 --> 00:20:18.000 This is a king over Israel. So even Herod look 290 00:20:18.000 --> 00:20:22.119 at Herod. Herod clearly perceived that the baby, the Christ Child, 291 00:20:22.200 --> 00:20:24.160 was a threat to his power and so ordered the 292 00:20:24.240 --> 00:20:27.559 killing of hundreds, if not thousands, of infants in order 293 00:20:27.640 --> 00:20:31.640 to stop this incursion. Matthew two, all of this stuff 294 00:20:31.720 --> 00:20:34.799 is happening, and it's a sign, it's a symbol, it's 295 00:20:34.839 --> 00:20:38.000 an insight for us. All to see that the nations 296 00:20:38.079 --> 00:20:42.640 were under unclean rule. But that is no longer to 297 00:20:42.759 --> 00:20:46.440 be the case. But it can't be the case. It 298 00:20:47.079 --> 00:20:51.119 can't be the case if we set back on our laurels, 299 00:20:51.200 --> 00:20:54.359 if all we have is prayer meetings, if all we 300 00:20:54.440 --> 00:20:58.240 do is evangelism, if all we do is preach the 301 00:20:58.279 --> 00:21:01.559 good news of being born the spirit, and do not 302 00:21:01.839 --> 00:21:10.039 engage in culture, and do not engage in government. Satan 303 00:21:10.279 --> 00:21:14.400 is glad to lead the world through a minority even 304 00:21:14.440 --> 00:21:18.839 though there's a majority, right, and he's glad to do 305 00:21:18.839 --> 00:21:20.519 it as a micro calls him in. You too, by 306 00:21:20.519 --> 00:21:23.880 the way, did you know that? I mean, you can 307 00:21:24.559 --> 00:21:27.759 get all sorts of happy with Jesus, all sorts of forgiven, 308 00:21:27.839 --> 00:21:30.519 But if you've got some unclean stuff in you that 309 00:21:30.599 --> 00:21:33.119 you don't drive out of you, he's glad to stay there. 310 00:21:33.400 --> 00:21:35.599 Doesn't matter if you shout and dance and saying and 311 00:21:35.640 --> 00:21:38.319 worship and pay tithe, you know what. He's glad to 312 00:21:38.359 --> 00:21:40.680 stay there until you confront him. So you've got a 313 00:21:40.759 --> 00:21:45.400 minority ruler inside of a majority spirit led person. It happens. 314 00:21:45.759 --> 00:21:50.240 It's happening in our nation. We have minority influences that 315 00:21:50.319 --> 00:21:54.880 are demonic seeking to lead the nation that is majority 316 00:21:54.920 --> 00:22:00.759 wanting righteousness. Why because the righteous are doing nothing. The 317 00:22:00.839 --> 00:22:05.839 righteous won't get involved, the righteous won't even vote, and 318 00:22:05.880 --> 00:22:08.319 then the righteous are confused that you wonder, well, I 319 00:22:08.359 --> 00:22:10.200 don't want to talk I don't want to talk about that. 320 00:22:10.559 --> 00:22:12.359 You know that. I don't want to talk about Republican 321 00:22:12.480 --> 00:22:14.359 or Democrat. I don't want to talk about that stuff. 322 00:22:14.400 --> 00:22:16.440 I mean, you know, let's not talk about that stuff. 323 00:22:16.599 --> 00:22:20.240 You know, you just be a Christocrat. Folks, read the platform. 324 00:22:21.240 --> 00:22:27.799 Democrats are killing babies. Hello, they had an abortion clinic 325 00:22:28.039 --> 00:22:34.240 at their convention. Come on, let's wake up. Republican platform 326 00:22:34.720 --> 00:22:39.440 is embracing God. Democrats want nothing to do. It's become 327 00:22:39.480 --> 00:22:41.960 pretty clear if we got to fight about that. When 328 00:22:41.960 --> 00:22:46.000 you haven't read the platform, you have not read the platform. 329 00:22:46.359 --> 00:22:50.039 You probably even haven't even read the Constitution or the platform. 330 00:22:50.079 --> 00:22:53.240 This is your nation. You're a citizen here, Rise up, 331 00:22:53.319 --> 00:23:06.279 wake up, take responsibility, start shouldering this nation. Shoulder the nation. 332 00:23:06.519 --> 00:23:12.359 It's your nation. Shoulder the nation. Shoulder the nation. Read 333 00:23:12.400 --> 00:23:15.000 the platform, Read the platform. If you can read those 334 00:23:15.000 --> 00:23:18.160 two platforms and come away and tell me you're still confused, 335 00:23:18.480 --> 00:23:22.200 then I need to get some medication. For you. You 336 00:23:22.279 --> 00:23:34.759 need medication. The defeat of demonic powers is not through 337 00:23:34.839 --> 00:23:39.359 evangelism alone. It's not through salvation's alone. It's not through 338 00:23:39.480 --> 00:23:44.920 church services or revivals alone. The righteous must take their 339 00:23:45.079 --> 00:23:55.559 place and shoulder government. And we're going to do that 340 00:23:55.640 --> 00:23:59.400 until it's fulfilled. Until Revelation eleven is totally fulfilled. Then 341 00:23:59.440 --> 00:24:02.279 the seventh Angel sounded and there were voices in heaven saying, 342 00:24:02.640 --> 00:24:07.079 the kingdoms of this world have become the kingdoms of 343 00:24:07.119 --> 00:24:09.920 our Lord and his Christ, and he shall reign forever 344 00:24:09.960 --> 00:24:13.039 and ever. Now, by the way, you notice that is 345 00:24:13.119 --> 00:24:17.480 written in present tents though it hadn't happened. Why because 346 00:24:17.519 --> 00:24:21.319 it was the prophetic release. It's the very thing we 347 00:24:21.359 --> 00:24:23.519 need to say as a prophetic release, because as we 348 00:24:23.559 --> 00:24:27.119 come into agreement with what God has said through the prophet, 349 00:24:27.400 --> 00:24:30.160 then it releases the power of God for us to 350 00:24:30.200 --> 00:24:32.880 begin to see it to come to pass. But you'll 351 00:24:32.920 --> 00:24:36.839 notice again, it's government talk the kingdoms of this world, 352 00:24:36.960 --> 00:24:39.720 not the churches of this world, not the synagogues of 353 00:24:39.759 --> 00:24:42.559 this world. The limitation of the Gospel is not on 354 00:24:42.680 --> 00:24:46.920 churches or synagogues. There is no lid on the church. 355 00:24:47.799 --> 00:24:51.160 The church, the ecclesia is to rule and reign in 356 00:24:51.440 --> 00:24:58.880 both religious and governmental spheers both priest and king. Priest 357 00:24:58.920 --> 00:25:09.240 and king Christ King. Wow, we have a superior kingdom. 358 00:25:10.000 --> 00:25:12.559 We'recalled to bring that kingdom into government. We can't do 359 00:25:12.640 --> 00:25:17.000 that by hiding. We can't do that by disdaining the call. 360 00:25:17.319 --> 00:25:19.680 I have to ask you, you know, as this is 361 00:25:19.720 --> 00:25:23.039 hitting us, and as this is washing over us the church, 362 00:25:23.640 --> 00:25:26.119 because God's saying this, not just at noon horizon, He's 363 00:25:26.160 --> 00:25:28.880 saying this all over in the church. He's saying this 364 00:25:28.920 --> 00:25:31.519 as a prophetic release over the church. I have to 365 00:25:31.599 --> 00:25:35.720 ask what is our hindrance? What is our hindrance? Right? 366 00:25:35.880 --> 00:25:41.119 Stand with me this morning? What is our hindrance? Well, 367 00:25:41.240 --> 00:25:43.880 Jesus said this kingdom. He said, my kingdom is not 368 00:25:43.960 --> 00:25:47.799 of this world. Well, theologians have distorted and perverted that 369 00:25:48.559 --> 00:25:51.880 word to make us think that we aren't to be 370 00:25:51.960 --> 00:25:58.480 involved in government or in kingdom business. But he didn't 371 00:25:58.519 --> 00:26:03.400 mean that. He meant I'm not supposed to remain. He 372 00:26:03.559 --> 00:26:06.640 was being asked of the king. This is crucifixion time. 373 00:26:06.839 --> 00:26:10.480 He's being asked, are you a king? And he said, 374 00:26:12.160 --> 00:26:16.119 my kingdom is not of this world, meaning I'm not 375 00:26:16.119 --> 00:26:19.200 supposed to remain here as an earthly leader, asserting physical 376 00:26:19.279 --> 00:26:23.079 leadership in a third dimensional body. But he did agree, 377 00:26:23.759 --> 00:26:27.079 as you say, I'm a king, but I'm just not 378 00:26:27.119 --> 00:26:29.640 going to stay here because it's not of this world. 379 00:26:29.680 --> 00:26:32.039 It's not of a third dimensional realm, nor is it 380 00:26:32.240 --> 00:26:37.000 of the world's system. But he is a king. He's 381 00:26:37.039 --> 00:26:41.640 a king, Isaiah declared it. How about this one, we 382 00:26:41.680 --> 00:26:44.440 know our citizenship is in heaven. Well, appreciers have distorted 383 00:26:44.480 --> 00:26:46.880 that one, perverted that one, and made us think that 384 00:26:46.920 --> 00:26:48.559 as long as we're going to heaven, it's good. We 385 00:26:48.599 --> 00:26:51.279 don't have to mess with things on earth. No. No, 386 00:26:51.319 --> 00:26:57.599 what that means is, I don't derive my acceptance from you, 387 00:27:00.519 --> 00:27:02.880 worth from you. I don't derive my resource from you. 388 00:27:05.000 --> 00:27:10.480 I don't derive my value from you. I'm tapped into 389 00:27:10.519 --> 00:27:14.480 something higher and out of my citizenship. I'm called to 390 00:27:14.480 --> 00:27:19.880 bring that reality to this place, out of my citizenship, 391 00:27:20.160 --> 00:27:22.839 out of the resource of heaven, the joy of heaven, 392 00:27:22.880 --> 00:27:26.039 the affirmation of Heaven, the identity of a son of Heaven. 393 00:27:28.079 --> 00:27:32.599 It's not to shirk our responsibility. That's a perversion of preaching. 394 00:27:32.960 --> 00:27:36.160 That's a doctrine of demons that causes us to hear 395 00:27:36.319 --> 00:27:39.680 or read some of these scriptures. Well, I'm just a pilgrim. Well, 396 00:27:39.720 --> 00:27:42.839 I'm just passing through. Well, this world is not my home. 397 00:27:42.920 --> 00:27:47.440 Perse corinteen seven, I'm just passing through. Well, our lives 398 00:27:47.480 --> 00:27:51.119 are but a vapor James, Chapter four. These have been 399 00:27:51.240 --> 00:27:55.519 preached in a way that's perverted our mind and kept 400 00:27:55.599 --> 00:27:58.559 us from shouldering the very thing that he called us 401 00:27:58.599 --> 00:28:06.160