WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:10.760 Hey guys, how's it going? Good to see you all. Just let me get a bit set up here. 2 00:00:15.760 --> 00:00:21.440 Yeah, hope you guys are all doing well. I'm just gonna give a couple of minutes 3 00:00:21.440 --> 00:00:29.400 for a few more people to jump on board. Let me just sort this camera out a little bit better. 4 00:00:29.400 --> 00:00:39.440 Sorry. Awesome. So today we're going to be talking about, once I've got my camera sorted 5 00:00:39.440 --> 00:00:47.560 out a little bit better. We're gonna be, let's get the angle right there. There you go. We're 6 00:00:47.560 --> 00:00:53.160 gonna be talking about kingdom culture and the fifth pillar. We're gonna be talking about, 7 00:00:53.160 --> 00:00:59.920 I'm gonna be talking about where is the kingdom and how do you live in consistent connection 8 00:00:59.920 --> 00:01:06.880 with the access you have in Christ to the kingdom. Jesus said, repent for the kingdom 9 00:01:06.880 --> 00:01:14.520 of heaven is at hand. And you know, in other words, change the way you think because everything's 10 00:01:14.560 --> 00:01:19.320 different now. The kingdom is not far away anymore. The kingdom is right here. So I'm 11 00:01:19.320 --> 00:01:29.760 just gonna give a couple of minutes for some people to jump on board. Cheers. We'll probably 12 00:01:29.760 --> 00:01:38.920 kick this off in, I would say two minutes. And yeah, so hope you guys are good. Feel free to 13 00:01:38.920 --> 00:01:47.320 just drop a comment on who you are, where you're from, where you're tuned in from. If you're 14 00:01:47.320 --> 00:01:54.280 watching this later, then, then feel free to comment as I'm teaching. Feel free to ask any 15 00:01:54.280 --> 00:02:08.000 questions, add anything you want to add. And that is awesome. Yeah. Henry, good to see you. Awesome 16 00:02:08.000 --> 00:02:14.200 as I just said goodbye to my, my eldest daughter and my wife. They've gone down to Tauranga for my 17 00:02:14.200 --> 00:02:24.200 daughter's birthday. So that's pretty cool. Good stuff happening. Yep, yep, yep, yep, yep. Cool. 18 00:02:24.200 --> 00:02:39.640 All right. Well, um, just weighing up how long, uh, how long I want to wait for people to jump 19 00:02:39.640 --> 00:02:52.080 on board here. But, um, I'll, I'll, I'll tell you when I officially start. Awesome. Awesome. 20 00:02:52.080 --> 00:02:59.760 Awesome. Awesome. Awesome. Thank you, Jesus. Oh, father. Well, let me pray to begin. I'll pray. And 21 00:02:59.760 --> 00:03:08.960 then when I finished praying, we'll start. Jesus, you are good Lord. Jesus. We love you. I love you. 22 00:03:08.960 --> 00:03:15.520 God. Holy spirit. Thank you that you're here. Holy spirit. You're so good. Holy spirit. You're the 23 00:03:15.520 --> 00:03:22.960 best friend. Holy spirit. Thank you for your faithfulness. Thank you for your nearness. God, 24 00:03:22.960 --> 00:03:30.160 thank you for your encouragement. Thank you, God, that you're always with me, God. Thank you, God, 25 00:03:30.160 --> 00:03:36.320 for your favor. Thank you, God, for the inheritance. Thank you, God, for the abundance. 26 00:03:37.120 --> 00:03:41.600 God, we love you. We love you. We love you. We thank you for everything that you're doing. And 27 00:03:42.560 --> 00:03:46.400 right now, we thank you for everything you're doing around the world right now. 28 00:03:46.400 --> 00:03:49.840 We thank you for everything you're doing through this online school of sonship, 29 00:03:49.840 --> 00:03:55.040 through the embassy group. God, we thank you for everyone that's part of this group, part of this, 30 00:03:55.840 --> 00:04:04.800 uh, part of this, um, journey father with you. God, I thank you, God, that you're with us in 31 00:04:04.800 --> 00:04:13.280 every single step. God, thank you that your kingdom is so wonderful, so beautiful and so 32 00:04:13.280 --> 00:04:20.000 glorious. God, thank you that we can see the evidence of your world all around us. And 33 00:04:20.000 --> 00:04:26.320 father, I pray that every person that tunes in to this live God, I pray that every person 34 00:04:26.880 --> 00:04:33.680 that tunes into, um, to this teaching would be so blessed. God, I pray that every person 35 00:04:34.320 --> 00:04:39.600 that tunes in with a now while it's live or later, God would feel the all encompassing 36 00:04:40.640 --> 00:04:45.280 enveloping of your presence in your kingdom around them. God, I pray that they would 37 00:04:45.280 --> 00:04:50.400 feel and they would engage with the atmosphere of heaven around them. God, I thank you for 38 00:04:50.960 --> 00:04:58.800 the fact that heaven is not shut, but heaven is open. God, I thank you for the fact that we have 39 00:04:58.800 --> 00:04:59.840 access. 40 00:05:00.000 --> 00:05:05.320 To the resources of the kingdom God, I thank you father for your agenda God 41 00:05:05.320 --> 00:05:11.220 I thank you that love has an agenda God. I think that you are love and love has an agenda God 42 00:05:11.220 --> 00:05:15.840 I thank you for what you're doing on planet earth. I thank you for what you're doing in our lives God 43 00:05:15.840 --> 00:05:22.280 I thank you for your will I thank you for your purposes and I thank you for a group of people who are hungry and 44 00:05:22.920 --> 00:05:24.420 engaged in 45 00:05:24.420 --> 00:05:26.680 The purpose for which you've sent them God 46 00:05:27.320 --> 00:05:29.320 And so father I thank you 47 00:05:30.160 --> 00:05:32.160 And I bless you right now 48 00:05:32.560 --> 00:05:34.640 And I just love you right now God 49 00:05:35.840 --> 00:05:37.840 Holy Spirit 50 00:05:38.360 --> 00:05:40.920 We're just gonna spend a couple more minutes just praying guys 51 00:05:41.360 --> 00:05:45.920 so feel free to join me if you're if you're tuned in if you're logged on feel free to just 52 00:05:46.680 --> 00:05:50.840 To just join me and a little bit of a little bit of karakia a little bit of prayer 53 00:05:51.360 --> 00:05:53.360 Shah rahmah kasih 54 00:06:23.360 --> 00:06:26.360 Piro ka tuya ti makalatia 55 00:06:27.840 --> 00:06:32.960 Jesus thank you Lord. Thank you Lord. Wow. All right guys. Well 56 00:06:35.240 --> 00:06:42.040 We're gonna get started on this sorry, I've got some no we're gonna get started in the session so 57 00:06:45.600 --> 00:06:47.600 Yeah, cool, all right 58 00:06:47.640 --> 00:06:52.760 So I'm gonna be talking to you guys about where is the kingdom the fifth pillar of 59 00:06:53.400 --> 00:06:55.400 kingdom culture and 60 00:06:55.720 --> 00:07:01.080 what I'm gonna really be talking about is is where the kingdom is which which might 61 00:07:03.360 --> 00:07:07.520 You know might not be necessarily a question that you're asking but it's a question that 62 00:07:09.000 --> 00:07:16.340 That by the end of this I think you'll find that it's a really really relevant question for everyone where where is the kingdom 63 00:07:16.580 --> 00:07:18.580 and 64 00:07:18.940 --> 00:07:20.940 How do you live in 65 00:07:21.340 --> 00:07:29.060 Constant connection to your inherit access when I say inherit access. Hey doc. How's it going? Thanks for saying hi 66 00:07:29.700 --> 00:07:31.380 Good to see you 67 00:07:31.380 --> 00:07:38.940 I mean you have an inheritance and part of your inheritance in Christ is that you have an you have inherited 68 00:07:40.180 --> 00:07:42.180 full access 69 00:07:42.220 --> 00:07:44.220 To the kingdom of God 70 00:07:45.060 --> 00:07:49.580 full access not just as a servant in the kingdom, not just as a as a 71 00:07:50.500 --> 00:07:51.780 peasant in the kingdom 72 00:07:51.780 --> 00:07:58.780 but full access as a prince as a son in the kingdom of your father you have full access so 73 00:07:59.500 --> 00:08:02.540 Now it's very it's all very well to have full access 74 00:08:02.540 --> 00:08:10.500 But it's a whole nother thing to live in the conscious constant connection to the inherent access that you've been given 75 00:08:11.460 --> 00:08:14.820 That's a different thing, I mean it's all very well to be given something 76 00:08:14.820 --> 00:08:21.260 But it's a whole nother thing to receive it and walk in it and so the purpose of what I'm talking about today really is 77 00:08:21.900 --> 00:08:29.220 To help and encourage you and to strengthen you in not just the knowledge that you have access 78 00:08:29.620 --> 00:08:35.220 But the how to and how to actually live in constant connection to the access that you already have 79 00:08:35.539 --> 00:08:38.340 So I really pray that this helps you. I pray that this 80 00:08:39.100 --> 00:08:46.020 Encourages you and of course this is the fifth pillar when I say pillar what I mean is these are foundational 81 00:08:48.340 --> 00:08:53.660 These are foundations to kingdom culture so from here we can build this session 82 00:08:53.660 --> 00:08:56.380 I mean I could I could preach probably a hundred messages 83 00:08:56.740 --> 00:09:01.580 Based out of this one message and the other four messages that I that I shared before 84 00:09:02.100 --> 00:09:06.620 This there'll be hundreds of messages that will come out of those messages, but these are like 85 00:09:07.260 --> 00:09:11.420 Foundations of the kingdom of God and of what of kingdom culture so 86 00:09:13.260 --> 00:09:17.700 Where is the kingdom and how to live in constant connection to your inherent access 87 00:09:17.900 --> 00:09:21.100 the first thing I want to say is this I wanted to share a a 88 00:09:22.740 --> 00:09:27.940 Hey, Jasmine good to see you. Thanks for saying hi so cool. Thanks for tuning in 89 00:09:28.580 --> 00:09:30.420 I 90 00:09:30.420 --> 00:09:35.060 Wanted to share a principle first of all and and then we're going to go into 91 00:09:35.700 --> 00:09:39.820 Into more of the answers to the questions the first thing I want to say is this I want to read a scripture 92 00:09:40.380 --> 00:09:44.420 Hebrews 11 verse 3 the whole of Hebrews 11 is amazing 93 00:09:44.420 --> 00:09:51.820 I'm just going to pull out one scripture from Hebrews 11, and it says this by faith. We understand that the world's 94 00:09:52.580 --> 00:09:57.020 Well this physical world the world's were prepared by the Word of God 95 00:09:58.460 --> 00:10:00.460 So this is the NIV 96 00:10:00.000 --> 00:10:08.220 version, so that what is seen was not made out of things which are visible. 97 00:10:08.220 --> 00:10:12.260 So that what is seen was not made of things that are visible. 98 00:10:12.260 --> 00:10:19.660 Some versions say that the visible was made from the invisible, that the natural was made 99 00:10:19.660 --> 00:10:20.660 from the spirit. 100 00:10:20.660 --> 00:10:27.140 In other words, the spirit came first and the flesh came second. 101 00:10:27.140 --> 00:10:31.300 The spirit comes first, the natural comes second. 102 00:10:31.300 --> 00:10:36.960 Everything that you see with these natural eyes came from a realm that you can't see. 103 00:10:36.960 --> 00:10:42.020 Everything that you see that is visible, that is material, that is matter, that is in this 104 00:10:42.020 --> 00:10:48.820 natural world, it came from a spiritual dimension, it came from the spirit world. 105 00:10:48.820 --> 00:10:49.820 Everything, everything. 106 00:10:49.820 --> 00:10:52.820 I mean, I could go into details on that. 107 00:10:52.820 --> 00:10:55.380 I'm looking right now behind me, there's a guitar on my wall. 108 00:10:55.380 --> 00:11:03.500 That guitar actually began as an idea, it began as something invisible. 109 00:11:03.500 --> 00:11:09.300 It had to be created, it had to be manifested into the natural world. 110 00:11:09.300 --> 00:11:14.260 Everything that you see, whether it's man-made or whether it came from God, it came from 111 00:11:14.260 --> 00:11:15.260 the invisible. 112 00:11:15.260 --> 00:11:20.100 Now, okay, you got that? 113 00:11:20.100 --> 00:11:25.900 Everything that you see is kind of, or at least to some degree, and I'm not going to 114 00:11:25.900 --> 00:11:29.540 go into major detail on this, but this is true. 115 00:11:29.540 --> 00:11:37.940 Everything that you see is an incarnation to some degree of the spirit that it's from. 116 00:11:37.940 --> 00:11:40.980 Everything that you see has come from spirit. 117 00:11:40.980 --> 00:11:47.300 And everything that you see is an incarnation to some degree of the spirit that it's from. 118 00:11:47.300 --> 00:11:48.940 Let me give you some examples. 119 00:11:48.980 --> 00:11:53.380 Now, as I said, there's lots and lots to be said about this, and I'm just sort of touching 120 00:11:53.380 --> 00:11:55.020 on a principle here. 121 00:11:55.020 --> 00:11:59.780 But we were singing in church the other day, and I was singing a worship song. 122 00:11:59.780 --> 00:12:03.100 I should probably know this, but I think it was a Bethel worship song. 123 00:12:03.100 --> 00:12:08.540 And it was just a really, really amazing song, and my friend was leading it. 124 00:12:08.540 --> 00:12:13.780 And man, it was just, the words, it was amazing. 125 00:12:13.780 --> 00:12:19.820 Now, that song is in the physical realm. 126 00:12:19.820 --> 00:12:24.940 That song is something I can sing with physical words, with a physical voice box. 127 00:12:24.940 --> 00:12:26.700 Physical words have been written down. 128 00:12:26.700 --> 00:12:34.740 Physical notes have been composed and put together, guitar riffs, drum beats. 129 00:12:34.740 --> 00:12:39.420 It's all been put together, and it's been crafted and created into a physical song that 130 00:12:39.420 --> 00:12:43.700 can be grasped and held and seen and tasted and heard with our five senses. 131 00:12:43.700 --> 00:12:46.020 It's part of the physical world. 132 00:12:46.020 --> 00:12:51.300 And as I was singing that song, which is a physical manifestation, something visible, 133 00:12:51.300 --> 00:12:57.980 as we're singing that song, I could feel the life of God. 134 00:12:57.980 --> 00:13:01.300 I could feel the presence of the kingdom of God. 135 00:13:01.300 --> 00:13:02.940 I could feel the authority of the kingdom. 136 00:13:02.940 --> 00:13:07.220 I could feel the world of God around me as I was singing that song, and I realized in 137 00:13:07.220 --> 00:13:12.860 that moment, this song is hosting within it the life of God and the kingdom of God. 138 00:13:12.860 --> 00:13:18.060 This song is an incarnation. 139 00:13:18.060 --> 00:13:23.740 The spirit that it is enfleshing is the spirit of God. 140 00:13:23.740 --> 00:13:26.780 The kingdom that it is enfleshing is the kingdom of God. 141 00:13:26.780 --> 00:13:32.020 It is holding within it the kingdom that it's from. 142 00:13:32.020 --> 00:13:39.900 Another example is when I was young, and I thoroughly do not recommend this. 143 00:13:39.900 --> 00:13:44.780 When I was young, before I was a follower of Jesus, and when I was way too young to 144 00:13:44.780 --> 00:13:49.220 be watching movies like this, I watched a Stephen King movie called It. 145 00:13:49.220 --> 00:13:51.140 I think I was like eight years old or something like that. 146 00:13:51.140 --> 00:14:04.260 I watched It, and oh my goodness, that movie, again, Stephen King put time, energy, he enfleshed 147 00:14:04.260 --> 00:14:05.260 something. 148 00:14:05.260 --> 00:14:08.860 He incarnated something that he took from a spirit. 149 00:14:09.420 --> 00:14:16.220 That spirit that that movie is from is not the spirit of God, and it is not hosting the 150 00:14:16.220 --> 00:14:17.220 kingdom of God. 151 00:14:17.220 --> 00:14:27.300 That movie is expressing and promoting and embodying a kingdom that is not the kingdom 152 00:14:27.300 --> 00:14:31.140 of God and a spirit that is not the spirit of God. 153 00:14:31.140 --> 00:14:38.980 When I watched that movie, I realized that as the movie was playing into the room, the 154 00:14:38.980 --> 00:14:41.540 spirit of the room changed. 155 00:14:41.540 --> 00:14:48.100 The movie was from a spirit, and as I watched it, it was in a spirit. 156 00:14:48.100 --> 00:14:53.020 As I watched the movie and engaged in the movie, I came into that spirit, and it was 157 00:14:53.020 --> 00:14:54.020 a horrible spirit. 158 00:14:54.020 --> 00:14:55.500 In fact, it messed me up for years of my life. 159 00:14:55.500 --> 00:15:00.020 I didn't like Clowns, which is a movie about a... 160 00:15:00.000 --> 00:15:06.000 It's a clown that turns into a spider. It's freaky as. I didn't like clowns for nearly a decade after that movie. 161 00:15:10.000 --> 00:15:13.000 And so here's the truth. 162 00:15:14.000 --> 00:15:17.000 Every kingdom is spirit first. 163 00:15:18.000 --> 00:15:23.000 It is from and an incarnation of the spirit it serves. 164 00:15:24.000 --> 00:15:28.000 Every kingdom serves a spirit. Every kingdom is an embodiment of a spirit. 165 00:15:28.000 --> 00:15:35.000 And everything that you see in the natural world is from a kingdom of sorts. 166 00:15:36.000 --> 00:15:43.000 And so when we're talking about the kingdom of God, the kingdom of God is a kingdom that is first spirit. 167 00:15:44.000 --> 00:15:50.000 And that spiritual kingdom is manifesting into the natural world and taking dominion of this natural world. 168 00:15:50.000 --> 00:15:56.000 And bringing this natural world back into alignment with God's original purpose. 169 00:15:57.000 --> 00:16:01.000 With the kingdom of God's original purpose for His creation, for the cosmos. 170 00:16:02.000 --> 00:16:05.000 The cosmos is coming back into alignment with its original purpose and original identity. 171 00:16:06.000 --> 00:16:13.000 As the kingdom of God regains dominion and takes dominion of the earth and of all creation. 172 00:16:14.000 --> 00:16:18.000 So the kingdom of God is spirit first and it is flooding into the natural. 173 00:16:19.000 --> 00:16:26.000 And everything in the natural is from a kingdom. 174 00:16:27.000 --> 00:16:31.000 It's an incarnation. It's an expression of the kingdom it's from. 175 00:16:32.000 --> 00:16:34.000 It's an expression of the spirit that it serves. 176 00:16:35.000 --> 00:16:43.000 So kingdoms, this is the point, kingdoms originate from spirit. 177 00:16:44.000 --> 00:16:53.000 Kingdoms and the manifestation of kingdoms in the natural world, whatever kingdom you think of. 178 00:16:54.000 --> 00:16:56.000 I can think of multiple different kingdoms. 179 00:16:57.000 --> 00:17:08.000 Whether it's the kingdom of Cambodia or the kingdom of the British Empire or the kingdom of whatever. 180 00:17:09.000 --> 00:17:12.000 There's all sorts of different kingdoms in this world. 181 00:17:13.000 --> 00:17:14.000 And then there's the kingdom of God. 182 00:17:15.000 --> 00:17:17.000 And each kingdom is an expression of the spirit it serves. 183 00:17:18.000 --> 00:17:23.000 Whatever spirit you are serving is the kingdom that you're coming under. 184 00:17:24.000 --> 00:17:27.000 And the kingdom that you come under will flow through your life, will be expressed through your life. 185 00:17:28.000 --> 00:17:30.000 Felt through your life and embodied through your life. 186 00:17:31.000 --> 00:17:34.000 So kingdoms begin in spirit. 187 00:17:35.000 --> 00:17:38.000 So where is the kingdom of God? 188 00:17:38.000 --> 00:17:39.000 Where is the kingdom of God? 189 00:17:40.000 --> 00:17:41.000 Here's Romans 14, 17. 190 00:17:42.000 --> 00:17:51.000 For the kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness, peace and joy in Holy Spirit. 191 00:17:52.000 --> 00:17:53.000 Where is the kingdom? 192 00:17:54.000 --> 00:17:59.000 The kingdom is in the Holy Spirit and the kingdom is from the Holy Spirit. 193 00:18:00.000 --> 00:18:03.000 Without the Holy Spirit on earth there is no kingdom. 194 00:18:03.000 --> 00:18:09.000 Kingdoms start from spirit and they are taken from spirit and they are expressed into the natural world. 195 00:18:10.000 --> 00:18:15.000 Manifested into the natural world so that they can have their influence and take their dominion in the natural world. 196 00:18:16.000 --> 00:18:23.000 There is no greater kingdom than the kingdom of God and the kingdom of God is in the spirit and from the spirit. 197 00:18:24.000 --> 00:18:25.000 Where is the kingdom? It's in the spirit. 198 00:18:26.000 --> 00:18:28.000 Everywhere the kingdom is expressed there is the spirit. 199 00:18:29.000 --> 00:18:33.000 Everywhere the kingdom is expressed on earth, everywhere the kingdom is manifested on earth, 200 00:18:34.000 --> 00:18:41.000 that is an embodiment of the spirit and the Holy Spirit can be felt and experienced in that expression. 201 00:18:42.000 --> 00:18:43.000 Like when I was singing the worship song the other day, 202 00:18:44.000 --> 00:18:52.000 singing that song and as I was singing the words I found myself experiencing the person of the Holy Spirit, 203 00:18:53.000 --> 00:18:54.000 the person of the Father, the person of the Son, 204 00:18:54.000 --> 00:18:58.000 the person of the Son because the words I was singing were actually an incarnation. 205 00:18:59.000 --> 00:19:02.000 They were an embodiment that were originally taken from the Holy Spirit. 206 00:19:03.000 --> 00:19:08.000 They were expressed from the Holy Spirit and the Holy Spirit came with the words. 207 00:19:09.000 --> 00:19:11.000 It was never separate from the words. They were an embodiment of the spirit. 208 00:19:12.000 --> 00:19:16.000 So where is the kingdom of God? The kingdom of God is in the spirit. 209 00:19:16.000 --> 00:19:18.000 And that's why Jesus says in Acts chapter 1 and 2, 210 00:19:19.000 --> 00:19:28.000 He says, I am growing, my appreciation of these two chapters in the Bible 211 00:19:29.000 --> 00:19:34.000 and of this moment in history are increasing day by day. 212 00:19:35.000 --> 00:19:38.000 I realize that I'm still only seeing the tip of the iceberg. 213 00:19:39.000 --> 00:19:42.000 This is way more significant than I think it is 214 00:19:42.000 --> 00:19:49.000 and I think it's probably the most significant part of the entire Bible. 215 00:19:50.000 --> 00:19:53.000 This is very, very significant. 216 00:19:54.000 --> 00:19:59.000 And again, I say this and what I'm about to say, I say in complete acknowledgement 217 00:20:00.000 --> 00:20:06.120 That, man, I am only seeing a fraction of what there is to be seen. 218 00:20:06.120 --> 00:20:10.480 And when I say I've only seen a fraction of what there is to be seen, I'm looking hard. 219 00:20:10.480 --> 00:20:15.040 I'm looking at this right now and saying, God, open my eyes to see, because I want to 220 00:20:15.040 --> 00:20:16.040 see more. 221 00:20:16.040 --> 00:20:21.040 There's so much glory in these two chapters in the Bible, Acts chapter 1 and 2. 222 00:20:21.040 --> 00:20:26.880 Jesus says, guys, don't leave Jerusalem until you receive the promise of the Father. 223 00:20:26.880 --> 00:20:35.280 I know I've got you prepared to extend the kingdom of God, to extend the kingdom of heaven 224 00:20:35.280 --> 00:20:36.280 over the earth. 225 00:20:36.280 --> 00:20:37.720 I know I've prepared you. 226 00:20:37.720 --> 00:20:42.120 I've got you to pray prayers like, your will be done, your kingdom come on earth as it 227 00:20:42.120 --> 00:20:43.120 is in heaven. 228 00:20:43.120 --> 00:20:48.000 I know that I've prepared you and I've shown you what it looks like when the kingdom comes. 229 00:20:48.000 --> 00:20:49.960 I've shown you how to express the kingdom. 230 00:20:49.960 --> 00:20:51.000 I've taken you with me. 231 00:20:51.000 --> 00:20:52.000 I've shown you the ropes. 232 00:20:52.000 --> 00:20:53.000 You've healed the sick. 233 00:20:53.000 --> 00:20:55.000 You've cast out demons. 234 00:20:55.000 --> 00:20:56.640 You've expressed the Spirit of God. 235 00:20:57.400 --> 00:20:58.720 You've expressed the kingdom of God with me. 236 00:20:58.720 --> 00:21:05.080 But this is what I want to say to you guys, I have left you with a burning purpose, with 237 00:21:05.080 --> 00:21:11.280 burning desire to express the kingdom, but do not leave Jerusalem until you've received 238 00:21:11.280 --> 00:21:14.760 the promise of the Father, which is the baptism in the Holy Spirit. 239 00:21:14.760 --> 00:21:20.160 Don't leave without the Spirit, but when you receive the Spirit, you will be my witnesses 240 00:21:20.160 --> 00:21:26.120 in Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria, and to the ends of the earth. 241 00:21:26.400 --> 00:21:30.560 You might have heard me say this before, but the context of that is these guys have been 242 00:21:30.560 --> 00:21:44.040 in Jesus's ministry school, like a three-year full-time, living with, seven days a week, 243 00:21:44.040 --> 00:21:52.000 24 hours a day, ministry school, where they have been learning from God in the flesh. 244 00:21:52.000 --> 00:21:58.280 And in that context, God in the flesh says to them, Jesus Christ says to them, guys, 245 00:21:58.280 --> 00:22:06.400 I've trained you for three years, 24-7, the best training you'll ever receive, but you 246 00:22:06.400 --> 00:22:10.840 still are useless until you receive the Holy Spirit. 247 00:22:10.840 --> 00:22:11.840 Why? 248 00:22:11.840 --> 00:22:17.560 Because until you receive the Holy Spirit, you're not in the kingdom and the kingdom 249 00:22:17.560 --> 00:22:19.600 is not in you. 250 00:22:19.600 --> 00:22:22.800 The kingdom of God is not outside the Spirit. 251 00:22:22.800 --> 00:22:26.640 The kingdom of God is in the Spirit. 252 00:22:26.640 --> 00:22:31.840 And Jesus said, I want you in the Spirit, but more than that, I want the Spirit in you. 253 00:22:31.840 --> 00:22:37.120 I want the kingdom to get in you so that when you start to speak words and when you start 254 00:22:37.120 --> 00:22:42.800 to express your life to the world around you, your life becomes a living embodiment, a living 255 00:22:42.800 --> 00:22:48.480 incarnation, a living expression, a living manifestation of the kingdom of God that is 256 00:22:48.480 --> 00:22:53.040 not just alive around you, but that is living from within you because there is a wellspring 257 00:22:53.040 --> 00:22:54.480 of life springing up within you. 258 00:22:54.480 --> 00:22:59.480 There are rivers of living water flowing from you when the Holy Spirit comes inside you. 259 00:22:59.480 --> 00:23:04.960 So don't leave until you've received the baptism in the Holy Spirit. 260 00:23:04.960 --> 00:23:14.320 That's why Paul in Acts 19, he rocks up at an Ephesus and he hasn't seen these guys and 261 00:23:14.320 --> 00:23:22.160 he's like, meeting these guys and he's, you know, there's only one question that he asks 262 00:23:22.160 --> 00:23:23.400 and it's this. 263 00:23:23.400 --> 00:23:25.360 It's the big question. 264 00:23:25.360 --> 00:23:27.080 There's no other question to ask. 265 00:23:27.080 --> 00:23:29.960 This is the question. 266 00:23:29.960 --> 00:23:34.760 It's the emphasis that Jesus left with the disciples before he left. 267 00:23:34.760 --> 00:23:37.080 It's the big thing that he left them with. 268 00:23:37.080 --> 00:23:38.800 And it's the big question that Paul asks. 269 00:23:38.800 --> 00:23:42.660 He says, hey, when you believed, did you receive the Holy Spirit? 270 00:23:42.660 --> 00:23:44.740 And they said, well, we didn't even know there was a Holy Spirit. 271 00:23:44.740 --> 00:23:48.380 We got baptized, but we didn't get baptized in the Spirit. 272 00:23:48.380 --> 00:23:50.260 We didn't even know there was a Spirit. 273 00:23:50.260 --> 00:23:54.660 And he's like, well, you're missing the whole thing. 274 00:23:54.660 --> 00:23:58.260 The entirety of the kingdom is in the Spirit. 275 00:23:58.260 --> 00:24:01.900 You can't extend the kingdom until you've received the Spirit. 276 00:24:01.900 --> 00:24:06.700 And so the big priority of the Apostle Paul was you've got to receive the Holy Spirit 277 00:24:06.700 --> 00:24:07.700 first. 278 00:24:07.700 --> 00:24:09.660 Everything begins with the Holy Spirit. 279 00:24:09.660 --> 00:24:11.680 You can't engage in your kingdom purpose. 280 00:24:11.680 --> 00:24:14.280 You can't engage in expressing kingdom culture. 281 00:24:14.280 --> 00:24:20.080 You can't express the living kingdom of God without being indwelled, first of all, with 282 00:24:20.080 --> 00:24:24.400 the living Spirit of God, because kingdoms begin in Spirits. 283 00:24:24.400 --> 00:24:27.840 Kingdoms are manifestations of Spirits. 284 00:24:27.840 --> 00:24:36.280 We've got to be so careful what Spirit we agree with, what Spirit we come under, what 285 00:24:36.280 --> 00:24:38.880 Spirit we align with. 286 00:24:39.880 --> 00:24:43.320 This is a side note, it's not in my notes, but those of you who are feelers, those of 287 00:24:43.320 --> 00:24:49.320 you who are very sensitive to atmospheres, you've got to be so careful when you walk 288 00:24:49.320 --> 00:24:52.960 into an atmosphere that you pick up on that's not the kingdom of God, that you don't agree 289 00:24:52.960 --> 00:24:57.360 with that or come under that, that you remain strong in the kingdom of God, that you remain 290 00:24:57.360 --> 00:25:00.000 under the authority of the kingdom. 291 00:25:00.000 --> 00:25:05.700 It's so easy to be tricked out of one spirit and be tricked into the influence of another spirit. 292 00:25:05.700 --> 00:25:07.100 But we're not meant to be influenced. 293 00:25:07.100 --> 00:25:13.100 We're not designed to be influenced by any other spirit other than the Spirit of God. 294 00:25:13.100 --> 00:25:14.400 Boom! 295 00:25:14.400 --> 00:25:18.400 That's why in Acts chapter 8, Philip goes to Samaria. 296 00:25:18.400 --> 00:25:20.400 And you know, he gets... 297 00:25:20.400 --> 00:25:21.600 I mean, this is crazy guys. 298 00:25:21.600 --> 00:25:23.800 He gets translated. 299 00:25:23.800 --> 00:25:25.600 He gets translated. 300 00:25:25.600 --> 00:25:31.000 He gets supernaturally transported into the city of Samaria. 301 00:25:31.000 --> 00:25:36.200 He starts to preach. Miracles, signs, and wonders are breaking out like crazy. 302 00:25:36.200 --> 00:25:42.600 The Scriptures say that the whole city was filled with joy because of Philip's influence. 303 00:25:42.600 --> 00:25:45.900 I mean, this is a move of God. 304 00:25:45.900 --> 00:25:51.300 And this is why we've got to get Peter and John right now. 305 00:25:51.300 --> 00:25:54.100 Because these guys need the Holy Spirit. 306 00:25:54.100 --> 00:25:57.600 Now, I'm asking myself, like, don't they have the Holy Spirit? 307 00:25:57.600 --> 00:26:00.400 There's joy breaking out. Miracles are breaking out. 308 00:26:00.400 --> 00:26:03.300 People are getting saved. People are getting born again. 309 00:26:03.300 --> 00:26:05.200 And there's obviously a degree of the Spirit moving. 310 00:26:05.200 --> 00:26:06.800 The Spirit is over the city. 311 00:26:06.800 --> 00:26:11.000 But people have not yet received the baptism in the Holy Spirit, 312 00:26:11.000 --> 00:26:14.000 which is where the kingdom starts because kingdoms come from spirits. 313 00:26:14.000 --> 00:26:17.000 Kingdoms are manifestations or expressions. 314 00:26:17.000 --> 00:26:21.600 Kingdom culture is an expression of the inner culture of the Holy Spirit. 315 00:26:21.700 --> 00:26:24.500 Kingdom culture is just an expression, 316 00:26:24.500 --> 00:26:28.300 an external expression of the internal workings of the heart of God, 317 00:26:28.300 --> 00:26:30.200 of the heart of the Spirit. 318 00:26:30.200 --> 00:26:33.700 And so they sent for Peter and John. 319 00:26:33.700 --> 00:26:36.700 And Peter and John come, and they lay hands on the people of Samaria, 320 00:26:36.700 --> 00:26:39.100 and they are filled with the Spirit. 321 00:26:39.100 --> 00:26:41.300 That was the big emphasis. That was the big deal. 322 00:26:41.300 --> 00:26:44.700 That was the big beginning point because without that, there is no beginning. 323 00:26:44.700 --> 00:26:46.500 Without that, there is no kingdom culture. 324 00:26:46.500 --> 00:26:50.100 Without that, without that connection to 325 00:26:50.100 --> 00:26:54.100 and the indwelling of the Holy Spirit in a person's life, 326 00:26:54.100 --> 00:26:56.300 there is no flow of the kingdom. 327 00:26:56.300 --> 00:26:58.300 There is no... 328 00:26:58.300 --> 00:27:01.300 Well, at the very least, there is a major limitation 329 00:27:01.300 --> 00:27:03.100 on the expression of the kingdom of God. 330 00:27:03.100 --> 00:27:05.000 I won't say there's no expression of the kingdom, 331 00:27:05.000 --> 00:27:07.200 but there's a major limitation. 332 00:27:07.200 --> 00:27:11.700 And so in conclusion, where is the Spirit? 333 00:27:11.700 --> 00:27:14.800 Sorry, where is the kingdom? It's in the Spirit. 334 00:27:14.800 --> 00:27:17.000 Any kingdom is from a Spirit. 335 00:27:17.000 --> 00:27:21.200 So whatever you see in culture manifesting right now on the planet, 336 00:27:21.200 --> 00:27:24.100 whatever pop culture, whatever national culture, 337 00:27:24.100 --> 00:27:26.600 whatever political culture, whatever... 338 00:27:26.600 --> 00:27:32.600 even like, you know, under the title of Christian culture, 339 00:27:32.600 --> 00:27:35.400 whatever culture you see expressed on the planet right now, 340 00:27:35.400 --> 00:27:39.500 ask yourself the question, what Spirit is that expressing? 341 00:27:39.500 --> 00:27:42.900 Is that an expression of the Spirit of God? 342 00:27:43.000 --> 00:27:46.200 Or is it not? Because if it's not an expression of the Spirit of God, 343 00:27:46.200 --> 00:27:47.700 it's not the kingdom of God. 344 00:27:47.700 --> 00:27:53.200 Because the kingdom of God is never absent from the Spirit of God. 345 00:27:53.200 --> 00:27:55.400 Where is the kingdom? It's in the Spirit. 346 00:27:55.400 --> 00:27:57.100 And it's going to look something along the lines of 347 00:27:57.100 --> 00:28:01.900 righteousness, peace, and joy in the Spirit. 348 00:28:01.900 --> 00:28:06.500 How do you release the kingdom? 349 00:28:06.500 --> 00:28:08.100 Well, this is how you release the kingdom, guys. 350 00:28:08.100 --> 00:28:10.900 And this is really another session, but I'm touching on this right now. 351 00:28:10.900 --> 00:28:12.500 This is how you release the kingdom. 352 00:28:12.500 --> 00:28:18.300 Is that you lean into the Holy Spirit in order to express the life, 353 00:28:18.300 --> 00:28:21.100 the will, and the heart of the Holy Spirit. 354 00:28:21.100 --> 00:28:24.400 When you are intentional to release the life, 355 00:28:24.400 --> 00:28:29.300 or to express from your life, to shine from your life, 356 00:28:29.300 --> 00:28:35.100 the life, the will, and the heart of the Holy Spirit, 357 00:28:35.100 --> 00:28:41.800 then you begin to express the kingdom. 358 00:28:41.800 --> 00:28:46.400 Shokaramate Shishidi Madaroto Boko Shishidi Baka 359 00:28:46.400 --> 00:28:49.600 Yeah, Acts chapter 8. Thanks for that question. 360 00:28:49.600 --> 00:28:53.700 Acts chapter 8 is expressing the kingdom, expressing the Spirit of God. 361 00:28:53.700 --> 00:28:56.800 Because remember, Philip is baptized in the Holy Spirit. 362 00:28:56.800 --> 00:29:07.900 So he's expressing the kingdom of God, just to clarify that. 363 00:29:07.900 --> 00:29:10.800 What I like to imagine, and I often... 364 00:29:10.800 --> 00:29:14.400 You know, this is just a personal little activation that I go through sometimes. 365 00:29:14.400 --> 00:29:16.800 I'm a very visual person. 366 00:29:16.800 --> 00:29:22.900 And a lot of my expression, a lot of what I do to express the kingdom is... 367 00:29:22.900 --> 00:29:28.600 You know, I'm often talking, preaching, speaking, teaching, 368 00:29:28.600 --> 00:29:30.500 doing things like I'm doing now. 369 00:29:30.500 --> 00:29:33.900 And what I often imagine is, I imagine a big beating heart, 370 00:29:33.900 --> 00:29:38.100 an invisible beating heart in the middle of whatever space I'm in. 371 00:29:38.100 --> 00:29:40.200 And that heart is the heart of the Father. 372 00:29:41.100 --> 00:29:44.300 And the heart of the Father is the same heart that's in the Spirit. 373 00:29:44.300 --> 00:29:47.700 And I imagine that it's an invisible heart in the middle of the room. 374 00:29:47.700 --> 00:29:49.800 And it's beating with life. 375 00:29:49.800 --> 00:29:51.000 It's expressing life. 376 00:29:51.000 --> 00:29:52.900 It's expressing something. 377 00:29:52.900 --> 00:29:54.900 It's wanting to touch people. 378 00:29:54.900 --> 00:29:56.300 It's wanting to be engaged with. 379 00:29:56.300 --> 00:29:59.200 His heart is wanting to be connected to. 380 00:29:59.200 --> 00:29:59.900 He's wanting His... 381 00:30:00.000 --> 00:30:03.200 people to connect to his heart. It's hard to connect to his people. And what I 382 00:30:03.200 --> 00:30:07.360 imagine is that my job as a preacher and a teacher is to look at that heart and 383 00:30:07.360 --> 00:30:12.800 look at what it's expressing and to wrap words around that heart so that 384 00:30:12.800 --> 00:30:19.520 that heart can be seen, felt, and experienced. A musician's job is to 385 00:30:19.520 --> 00:30:26.160 wrap music around that heart so that heart can be heard, felt, listened to, 386 00:30:26.160 --> 00:30:33.160 seen, experienced. A painter's job is to put color and put marks and put 387 00:30:33.160 --> 00:30:38.520 imagery around that heart so that it can be engaged with. And a builder's job 388 00:30:38.520 --> 00:30:42.240 would be to wrap building material around that heart so that it can be 389 00:30:42.240 --> 00:30:48.640 engaged with. Then our job is to express the heart, will, and life of the Spirit. 390 00:30:48.640 --> 00:30:54.680 And how do we do that? Well here's how we do it. And this is what I want to end on. 391 00:30:54.760 --> 00:31:02.760 You ready? This is the big thing. We first of all ask God to baptize us in the Holy 392 00:31:02.760 --> 00:31:07.120 Spirit if we haven't been baptized in the Holy Spirit. And secondly, we steward 393 00:31:07.120 --> 00:31:11.240 and develop friendship with the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is longing to be 394 00:31:11.240 --> 00:31:17.280 your very best friend. He is the invisible friend you've always wanted to 395 00:31:17.280 --> 00:31:20.280 have. And he's that invisible friend that's forever longing to be made 396 00:31:20.280 --> 00:31:25.560 visible. But he requires your help to be made visible. He's like, I want 397 00:31:25.560 --> 00:31:30.800 you to express me. I want you to be a mouthpiece to me. I want you to be the 398 00:31:30.800 --> 00:31:35.400 one who introduces me to the world. I want to meet all your friends. I want to 399 00:31:35.400 --> 00:31:38.800 meet your world. I want to be introduced to everything that you're doing. I want 400 00:31:38.800 --> 00:31:45.400 to be acknowledged within and lent upon in every aspect of your life. 401 00:31:45.400 --> 00:31:49.920 I want to be your very, very best friend. Your very, very best friend. I want to be 402 00:31:49.920 --> 00:31:53.480 that friend that comes with you everywhere you go. And not just the guy 403 00:31:53.480 --> 00:31:58.200 in the backseat that is the seen and not heard, or sometimes not seen or heard. 404 00:31:58.200 --> 00:32:01.840 But I want to be that friend that's like in the driver's seat with you. I want to 405 00:32:01.840 --> 00:32:05.880 be that one that's making decisions with you. I want to be that one, that invisible 406 00:32:05.880 --> 00:32:17.520 friend. I want to be that one who is, you know, considered and acknowledged and 407 00:32:17.600 --> 00:32:23.720 lent into on every occasion. And the more we do that, the more we are faithful in 408 00:32:23.720 --> 00:32:29.680 stewarding, developing friendship with the Holy Spirit, the more we will see the 409 00:32:29.680 --> 00:32:35.400 expression of the kingdom of God grow and flow through our lives. And so that's 410 00:32:35.400 --> 00:32:40.560 what I want to leave you with. Where is the kingdom of God? It's in the Spirit. 411 00:32:40.560 --> 00:32:45.840 Everything you see in the natural has come from the Spirit. And as we are 412 00:32:45.840 --> 00:32:49.600 intentional to build friendship with the Holy Spirit, and to grow in our 413 00:32:49.600 --> 00:32:54.000 relationship with the Holy Spirit, our expression of the kingdom of God will 414 00:32:54.000 --> 00:33:04.240 vibrantly grow in ferocity, and will grow in volume, and will grow in—let me just 415 00:33:04.240 --> 00:33:08.000 read this question. When we have non-believers around us who have given 416 00:33:08.000 --> 00:33:12.160 their hearts to the Lord, do we guide them to receive the Holy Spirit? 417 00:33:13.120 --> 00:33:16.480 I'm seeing your question there, Jasmine. I'm just saying, see more. 418 00:33:16.480 --> 00:33:21.440 Ah, here we go. Or lead them to do it themselves, sort of like when we give our 419 00:33:21.440 --> 00:33:25.120 hearts to the Lord. Great question! I love it. Thanks for asking that question, 420 00:33:25.120 --> 00:33:32.320 Jasmine. That's a fantastic question. I would say both and more. I would say the 421 00:33:32.320 --> 00:33:36.560 answer to that question—there kind of isn't a concrete answer to that 422 00:33:36.560 --> 00:33:41.320 question. I think it's one of those questions that I, personally, I would ask 423 00:33:41.320 --> 00:33:47.240 the Holy Spirit myself on a case-by-case basis. Sometimes it's lay hands on 424 00:33:47.240 --> 00:33:52.440 people. Sometimes it's—sometimes I felt like doing this. I felt like, hey, I want 425 00:33:52.440 --> 00:34:00.120 you to go away. Read Acts chapter 1 and 2, and I want you to pray until you 426 00:34:00.120 --> 00:34:04.840 receive. Sometimes I felt like I need to lay hands on this person. And I don't 427 00:34:04.920 --> 00:34:12.040 think there's a really a one-stop answer for that question, but it's a 428 00:34:12.040 --> 00:34:20.520 really good question to ask. And my answer to that question, I think, would 429 00:34:20.520 --> 00:34:30.520 be ask the Holy Spirit on a case-by-case basis. I think God is faithful in terms 430 00:34:30.520 --> 00:34:34.840 of this, that when we ask for the Spirit, He gives us the Spirit. He doesn't give 431 00:34:34.840 --> 00:34:37.719 us a serpent. When we ask for bread, He doesn't give us a stone. When we ask for 432 00:34:37.719 --> 00:34:41.800 the Holy Spirit, He gives us the Holy Spirit. He really wants to give us the 433 00:34:41.800 --> 00:34:48.920 Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit really wants to be in every person's life. And so, 434 00:34:48.920 --> 00:34:59.800 yeah, that's what I would say about that. Awesome, guys. Well... 435 00:35:00.000 --> 00:35:04.640 Yeah, that's right Jasmine, you got it, you got it. 436 00:35:04.640 --> 00:35:11.160 I mean I would, when you said, and pray if the Spirit leads us to, I would kind of, the 437 00:35:11.160 --> 00:35:15.600 way I see it too is, sometimes I see it like this. 438 00:35:15.600 --> 00:35:18.880 I'm assuming that the Holy Spirit is leading me to pray for them until the Holy Spirit 439 00:35:18.880 --> 00:35:21.080 leads me not to pray for them. 440 00:35:21.080 --> 00:35:26.480 Rather than waiting for, it's my, I have a philosophy of life, I call it the green light 441 00:35:26.480 --> 00:35:32.480 gospel, and my philosophy of life is the light is green until it turns red, it's not 442 00:35:32.480 --> 00:35:34.640 red until it turns green. 443 00:35:34.640 --> 00:35:39.720 So it's not no until he says go, it's go until he says no. 444 00:35:39.720 --> 00:35:44.600 And I've learned that the Holy Spirit is really, really good at letting me know when it's a 445 00:35:44.600 --> 00:35:48.480 no. 446 00:35:48.480 --> 00:35:54.180 I've noticed that he's better at saying no than he is at saying yes, and my conclusion 447 00:35:54.180 --> 00:36:03.460 to that and my revelation of that has grown into an understanding that is this, that he's 448 00:36:03.460 --> 00:36:05.220 kind of already said go. 449 00:36:05.220 --> 00:36:11.900 He's kind of already said go for it, do it, you got freedom, just go hard and I'll let 450 00:36:11.900 --> 00:36:15.020 you know when just to hold off. 451 00:36:15.020 --> 00:36:20.180 So I would just assume Jasmine, I would assume when it comes to praying for people, just 452 00:36:20.180 --> 00:36:23.260 assume the green light, just assume that it's a go. 453 00:36:23.260 --> 00:36:28.460 Go check it, and if you hear no, then of course it's a no. 454 00:36:28.460 --> 00:36:32.460 So that's what I'd say, green light gospel, that's so good, I love it. 455 00:36:32.460 --> 00:36:33.460 Awesome. 456 00:36:33.460 --> 00:36:37.460 Okay guys, well let me pray for you and then we're going to finish this session. 457 00:36:37.460 --> 00:36:42.980 Father, I thank you for the kingdom, I thank you for your kingdom, I thank you that I'm 458 00:36:42.980 --> 00:36:49.500 a son and that we're children in a kingdom God, that we have a home, we have a place, 459 00:36:49.500 --> 00:36:50.500 we have a space. 460 00:36:50.500 --> 00:36:55.460 I thank you God that we have a kingdom to express and expand on the world and into the 461 00:36:55.460 --> 00:36:58.500 cosmos and that's your kingdom and it's by the Holy Spirit. 462 00:36:58.500 --> 00:37:07.140 And so Holy Spirit, we honor you right now, we acknowledge you right now, we thank you 463 00:37:07.140 --> 00:37:12.340 for friendship right now, and I pray for every person listening in right now that they would 464 00:37:12.340 --> 00:37:20.020 experience God right now, they would experience an upgrade in friendship with you Holy Spirit. 465 00:37:20.020 --> 00:37:26.540 I pray that they would feel the wooing of your heart, the wooing of your life, the wooing 466 00:37:26.540 --> 00:37:31.860 of the Spirit, just pulling them into deeper friendship and deeper connection, deeper intimacy 467 00:37:31.860 --> 00:37:32.860 God. 468 00:37:32.860 --> 00:37:37.500 And with those who are watching who haven't been baptized in the Holy Spirit yet, I just 469 00:37:37.500 --> 00:37:43.340 in the Spirit right now lay hands in Jesus name and I declare an impartation, I declare 470 00:37:43.340 --> 00:37:51.020 the baptism in the Holy Spirit and God I ask you to baptize people in the Holy Spirit right 471 00:37:51.020 --> 00:37:57.060 now in the name of Jesus, Amen. 472 00:37:57.060 --> 00:38:02.380 Awesome guys, well God bless you and love you all and we'll see you soon.