Hey guys how's it going? Well welcome I am coming live right now and I previously
did a live about 18 minutes ago just to let you know that I was going to be live
now and I'm gonna be talking to you about Kingdom Culture we're gonna be
talking about pillar three the third pillar of the kingdom we've talked about
the first pillar and that Jesus Christ is the blueprint of Kingdom Culture if
you want to know what Kingdom Culture is like Kingdom Culture is like the life of
Jesus Jesus is the most normal human being the most normal Christians ever
walk the planet and pillar two we talked about you know the the foundation of the
ways of the kingdom and the foundation of the ways of the kingdom is the
foundation of love and I got you know nothing that God has ever done and
nothing that God will ever do is absent from the foundation of who he is and
that is love and so that's including God's judgment that's including God's
wrath that's including all those things and in that you know under the under
that pillar and attached to that pillar a whole bunch of sessions that we will
get into when we start entering into the online school of sonship and we'll
really break that down and we'll break down the ways of the kingdom we'll break
break down the blueprint of the kingdom and and there'll be a lot of different
sessions that come out of each of those things and and today I'm going to be
talking to you about pillar three which is your place in the kingdom and again
this is just an introductory session right now and there are many many
sessions that come off the back that branch out from this one session right
now and they're all going to be amazing we're going to get into them again like
I said in the online school of sonship which we're going to talk about more
tonight in our live that's coming tonight with myself Benji Joe and Papa
Norm so that's going to be really fun so hey I just want to say thanks for
tuning in good to see you guys I've managed to wrangle a couple of minutes
in my house without kids the kids have gone to drop off some things and pick up
some things and so here I am sort of noise free I'll drink to that so let me
get into this pillar three kingdom culture your place in the kingdom you
know your perspective on your place in the kingdom really determines how you
relate to God here on earth as you're walking through life and how you
interact with the kingdom the way you see your place your perspective of your
place determines your experience of life here on earth now your your your
experience of life here on earth may be a reflection of what God's intended
reality is for you or it may not be and that all depends on what you believe to
be real and what you believe to be available to you and what you believe
about your place in the kingdom so I want to talk about your place in the
kingdom I'm going to get to the specifics of that in a second we're
going to talk about a couple of scriptures we're going to talk I'm going
to talk to you from Genesis 28 one of my favorite scriptures and also Psalm 24
I'm going to tell you a story of a moment where I realized my sonship at a
greater level and I realized my place in the kingdom at a greater level and and
then we're going to go into a few things we're going to pray for you so I hope
you're ready feel free to drop comments it's good to see some of you guys tuned
in thank you and awesome so let's turn to Genesis 28 this is a very powerful
scripture it's not only a powerful scripture it is a powerful prophetic
occurrence that happened in the Old Testament really speaks to the generation
that we are part of today and so Genesis 28 and we'll start in what I said in
verse 10 now Jacob went out from Beersheba and went toward Haran so he
came to a certain place and stayed there all night because the Sun had set
and he took one of the stones of that place I want you to take note of that
word stone he took a stone from that place he took a stone from that place
and put it at his head stone at head
Stone head. He was on a journey, he got weary, he took the stone, put it at his
head and he lay down. He rested his head on a stone. I want you to get the picture
of this. I know I'm emphasizing a point here on purpose. He rested his head on a
stone. Very important. And he lay down in that place to sleep. Then he dreamed and
behold a ladder was set up on earth and its top reached to heaven and there the
angels of God were ascending and descending on it. Now it was set up, it
never said, it never once says it was taken down, it just says it was set up. So
there was a ladder that was set up, it was reaching the heavens, the heavens
were open and there were angels ascending and descending on the ladder.
And behold the Lord stood above it and said, I am the Lord God of Abraham
your father and the God of Isaac, the land on which you lie I will
give to you and your descendants. And then it goes on, he recounts the
dream. And then in verse 16, it's a very powerful dream, it's amazing. It says,
Then Jacob awoke from his sleep and said, Surely the Lord is in this place and I
did not know it. And he was afraid, the fear of the Lord came on him, and he said,
How awesome is this place! This is none other than the house of God and this is
the gate of heaven. Then Jacob rose early in the
morning and took the stone that he had put at his head and set it up as a
pillar. There it is right there, right in the Bible, right there. This is the
kingdom pillar. He set it up as a pillar and poured oil on top of it and he called
the name of that place Bethel, but the name of that place had been previously
called Luz. And he goes on, he talks some more about that stone. So let me break
this down a little bit for you. Jacob is on the way somewhere. He has an encounter
where he walks into a place and he walks into the place unaware of the glory of
God and unaware of the presence of God that was already with him and already in
that place. He was actually walking in a way where he was unaware of what was
available to him and he was somewhat unaware of his place. He was
unaware of the open heavens that were around him. He says, Surely God was in
this place, but I didn't know it. In other words, man got like God. God is here and
he was here before I became aware he was here. I can't believe I wasn't aware of
this before, but now I am. This is none other than the house of God. This is the
gate of heaven. So he has this encounter. He has this dream. The ladder is set up.
These angels ascending and descending. The glory of God is coming down upon him.
He hears the voice of God. It's this amazing thing. He is now experiencing
both in his dream and when he awakes in the morning, he is experiencing an open
heaven. This is pretty amazing. Now what happened between him not experiencing
the open heaven that was there and the presence of God that was there and
experiencing or stepping into the reality or the awareness of the nearness,
the awareness of the presence. This is what happened. He picked a stone and he
laid his head and rested on the stone. Now this is, of course, as I mentioned
before, a prophetic. Jacob is an individual prototype of what would become
true of an entire generation that Psalm 24, and we're going to go to there in a
second, calls the generation of Jacob. And what's happening here with Jacob as an
individual is a prophetic prototype of what would happen and what will happen
and is and what is happening right now with a future generation that is called
and labeled according to the Bible, the generation of Jacob. And we are all, if
you listen to this, you are part of this generation that David writes about in
Psalm 24. And as he refers back to this instance, which is the individual
instance of what would become true of an entire generation that we're part of.
He lays his head on a stone that, it's important for you to know this, that and
he, you know, we speak English, well I speak English and most of you, well all of you
speak English, otherwise you wouldn't be tuned into this right now, but the people who heard
this, they understood Hebrew and in Hebrew it's a play on words. The Hebrew word for stone is
the Hebrew word, and there's actually a few words for stone, but in this instance the word
for stone that is used is the word Abin or it can also be pronounced Evin. It's
it's the first part of the word evangelism or evangelist. So if you're an evangelist here,
listen really carefully what I'm saying because this is really a revelation of your primary
calling as an evangelist. It's the word Evin, Abin, Avin. There's different ways of pronouncing
the same thing, but Abin is actually a compound Hebrew word. You might have heard me talk about
this before. It's one of my favorite words in the universe. It's a compound Hebrew word. It's
made up of two words. The first word is Abba, which means father. The second word is Ben,
that means son, and it's Abin. So it's Abba and Ben joined together as one, and what it is,
it's a prophetic picture of the union between the father and the son. It's a prophetic picture that
says I am one with my father and my father is one with me. Now this rock, this stone represents a
revelation that would become a resting place for a generation as they choose to lay down their
authority, lay down their mindset, lay down their perspective, and rest their perspective, rest their
mindset, rest their consciousness, rest their awareness into this reality that you are not
alone, into this reality that you and your father are one, into this reality that you have been
chosen by God and there's nothing you can do about that, into this reality that you are a son and God
is your father, and God is a father and you are His son, and He has chosen you, and as you open your
heart to Him and say, I choose you, you choose Him too, and in that there is a fusing together of the two,
and God covenants His presence to you, and now everywhere you go He goes too.
There is a revelation that you can rest your head on, and as you rest your head on, especially if
you're weary from the journey, as you rest your head on this revelation, you will find that in this
revelation there is an open heaven. Now what is this revelation? This is a revelation of your place
in the kingdom, and your place before the Father. What is your place? Your place is the place
of a son before a father, or a daughter, a child before a father. Psalm 24, as I mentioned just
briefly previously, refers to Genesis 28. David is writing, and I'll pick it up in verse 6, in Psalm 24
he says this, this is Jacob, and he's referring to directly to Genesis 28. This is Jacob, the
generation, not the individual now. Now he's talking about the generation. He's talking about me. He's
talking about you. This is Jacob, the generation of those who seek Him, who seek your face. Lift up
your heads, oh you gates, and be lifted up you everlasting door. Now what did Jacob call
the place that he worked? He called it the gate of heaven. Now David is calling you the gate.
Jacob was in the gate. He had a revelation of the gate, and the revelation you receive becomes a
revelation that you are to the world around you. You are a gate of heaven now. You not just have
a revelation of a gate, you have now become the gate. Lift up your heads, oh you gates, and be
lifted up you everlasting doors, and the king of glory shall come in. Who is the king of glory?
The Lord strong and mighty, the Lord mighty in battle. Lift up your heads, oh you gates, and lift
up your everlasting doors, and the king of glory shall come in. Who is the king of glory? He is the
Lord of the angelic armies. He is the king of glory. You know in Genesis 28, the deal is lay
your head down. In Psalm 24, it's lift your head up. To lift up your head is to lay down
your head. To lift up your head is to lay down in a resting place, is to position your life in a
space where you are resting. Your entire life is foundationally rested in the reality that you are
a son and God is your father. And not just that you are a son and God is your father, and not just
that you are a child and He is your father, but that He is a present, loving, affectionate God
that refuses to be separate from you, which means that everywhere you go He is.
And something changes in your life when you get this revelation. This is the exact revelation
that Peter, when he was called Simon, he got renamed Peter in Matthew 16 because of this revelation.
Jesus Christ, the chief cornerstone, the chief corner oven amongst many stones of the building
of a new temple, a building of a new tabernacle of David. There's so many things I could talk
about with this word oven, but it's super fascinating. Whenever you feel alone, I want
to let you know this. Whenever you feel alone, God provides a stone, and what's the stone?
It's the reminder of the ever-present reality, this revelation that you are a child of God.
I want to tell you a story of a moment that happened for me. I was in the Philippines,
and we were in this village, and miracles are breaking out everywhere. It was a non-Christian
village, but probably thousands of people there. I was with some friends, and it's a big, long
story, but I won't go into all the details, but it was crazy. We were just seeing hundreds of
miracles just breaking out, people getting saved, people getting healed, people getting delivered.
It was crazy, and amongst all the pandemonium, there were some people that couldn't leave their
houses because they were so sick. So I had some of their family members come, and they sort of grabbed
me by the sleeve, and they started dragging me towards the house. My job also on this particular
trip was to take photographs for a magazine that Bethel Reading was putting out. So I had a camera
with me, and I get to this house, and this lady gets dragged out of the house. She's a Filipino
lady, so she's naturally tan, but she is like as white as that wall back there, which on this
video feed right now, it's not looking terribly white, but it's actually quite white.
She is about that white. Her eyes are like rolled back in her head. She has no strength in her arms
and legs. She gets propped up on a stair. She gets lent against a pole, and she still doesn't have the
strength to sit up. So there's someone behind her propping her up, and they say, pray for her.
And I said, cool, I'm going to pray for you, and I had this idea. Now I want to let you know,
I don't believe God gave me this idea. I believe that I had this idea, and God said that's a great
idea. So I had an idea. I know that sounds controversial to you, but this is a message
on your place in the kingdom. Your place in the kingdom is that you are a child of God.
So I had this thought, I'm going to take a photo of this lady, and as I take the photo,
I believe that the power of God by the Holy Spirit is going to go through her body,
and she's going to be instantly healed. So I just said that. I just said, hey, I'm going to take a
photo of you, and as I click the shutter on the camera, I believe the power of the Holy Spirit
is going to go through your body, and you're going to get completely healed. Now, you know,
her family had flown in from all over the Philippines to say goodbye to her. They were
expecting her to die either that night or the following morning. I mean, she was near death.
I think she had dengue fever, but a really bad case of it. So I clicked the trigger. As I clicked
the trigger on the camera, I watched as the power of God just goes over her. You watch color just
come out in her face instantly. She jumps up onto her feet. She starts to leap like at least a meter
in the air, dancing around in the dirt outside her house. She's completely healed and restored.
All her strength has come back. This is like 30 seconds after praying for her. So I've got the
photos. They're on my Facebook somewhere. The photo of clicking the first photo, and then I
took a photo 30 seconds later of her dancing, and it is absolutely amazing. I want to just let you
know, God, I believe, and you can have your own perspective on this if you like, but I believe
that God honored my idea. Now, servants don't get to put their ideas on the table, but sons,
daughters, they get to have a say in the family business. They get to have a say. They actually
get to have a voice. They get to put their dreams on the table. They get to put their ideas on the
table, and the Father's delight is to say, hey, that's a great idea. Let's do that idea.
You know, it's not all I tell you what to do, and you do it. You just obey. That's like servant
language, but sons, they get to walk with the Father. They get to talk with the Father. They
get to have an idea. They get to have ideas. They get to walk with an open heaven. It's not so much
a tightrope as it is a playground. Now, there's boundaries on the playground, but there's multiple
different options also within those boundaries as you walk the Father as a son or as a daughter,
and I want to let you know, before God is your Lord,
before he is your master. Now God is your Lord, God is your master, God is your boss,
God is your king. But before he's any of those things, he's foundationally your
father. And you are God's servant, you are a subject in the kingdom, you are God's
disciple, you are all these things. But before you're any of those things,
foundationally you're his son or you're his daughter. When God looks at you,
he doesn't see a servant, he sees his beloved child who has a heart to serve
him, as every good child does. And so in that, here's what we have, and this is the
most amazing dynamic of your place in the kingdom, is that you are now no
longer working for love, you are now working from love. You're no longer
working for God, you're working from God. You're no longer working for acceptance,
you're working from acceptance. You're no longer walking working for success,
you're working from success. You're no longer working for provision, you're now
working from his abundance. You're no longer working for the kingdom
of heaven, you're working from the kingdom of heaven. You're no
longer trying to reach an open heaven, you are now reaching out from an open
heaven. Our position has completely changed, we're not working towards
something, we have already reached our end and now we're reaching from the end
back to the beginning and pulling people into the fulfillment of everything that
God's dreamed for them in their lives. And this is one of the most amazing
things about being a son, is that you get a seat at the father's table. Now the
crazy thing is, that if you don't sit on your seat, no one else is going to sit on
your seat. Your seat will remain empty. You don't have a servant seat, you don't
have to sit on the servant's table, you don't have to sit on the prisoner's
table, you don't have to sit on the merely tolerated people's table. You sit on a
seat of the celebrated, adored, beloved sons and daughters of God. There's a seat
at the father's table for you and it's right next to Papa God's, right next to
Father God. You know, you are a son or daughter of God, he is your father and
you are walking with him and as you walk with him you get to establish his
kingdom and you get to have ideas about how that looks and you get to walk with
him in creativity, you get to walk with him through the expression of your heart
towards him and it's absolutely amazing. So that's really all I have to say about
your place in the kingdom. As I said, there's actually a
lot more things I want to say, but this is just the first session and I just
want to lay the foundation of your place in the kingdom and as we move into this
online school of sonship, we're gonna break that down a whole lot more. We're
gonna break that down into really practical outworkings. It's gonna be, we're
gonna break down different aspects of what that means and what that looks like
and from the Word, from Scripture, from experience, we're gonna tell more stories
and give more practical keys to to living in and fleshing out your sonship
here on earth and your position before the Father here on earth. So let me pray
for you and then we're gonna finish this Facebook live. Thank you so much again
for tuning in. God, right now I just pray for every single person that's tuned in
and that will watch this this live. I declare God that their seat at your
table will be highlighted. I declare the grace to come on them, to come into their
place before you. I declare every mindset, every hindrance that would steer them
away from who they are and the position that you've invited them to take before
your face, that those things will melt away right now in your presence. I
declare right now the lifting up of their heads and the laying down of their
heads on that stone. I declare the revelation of Abin. I declare the
revelation of the open heavens. I declare the revelation of their place. I
declare that they would have an experience like what Simon Peter had in
Matthew 16. I declare that there would be a revelation that you could build your
church on and from through their lives in the name of Jesus. So I bless you and
and we will see you tonight. Peace.