WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:10.440 Hey guys, how's it going? I am just getting this camera arranged in a 2 00:00:10.440 --> 00:00:19.360 certain place. Awesome. Well, yeah, I think we're all good. Good to see you guys. I 3 00:00:19.360 --> 00:00:23.600 hope you guys are doing well and we're just gonna wait for a couple of people 4 00:00:23.600 --> 00:00:27.680 to tune in but of course you can watch this live or you can watch this 5 00:00:27.680 --> 00:00:34.040 afterwards and we're about to go live. I'm about to teach on Kingdom Culture, 6 00:00:34.040 --> 00:00:37.720 the fourth pillar. There are five pillars. I'm going to do the fifth pillar this 7 00:00:37.720 --> 00:00:45.320 week and I'm going to be talking about the purpose of the kingdom and each of 8 00:00:45.320 --> 00:00:50.960 these five pillars have been really foundational. They've been very, what's 9 00:00:50.960 --> 00:00:57.320 the word for it? They're possibly aspects of the kingdom, truths, things 10 00:00:57.320 --> 00:01:02.360 that you may have heard before but I hope to to put a little bit of a 11 00:01:02.360 --> 00:01:06.040 different spin on some of those things and then we're going to use these 12 00:01:06.040 --> 00:01:09.920 things and we're going to teach from each of these pillars and it's going to 13 00:01:09.920 --> 00:01:14.600 be super fun. So we're just going to wait for a couple more people to jump 14 00:01:14.600 --> 00:01:19.800 on. Feel free to, as I'm teaching, to make any comments you want to make or feel 15 00:01:19.800 --> 00:01:22.840 free to ask questions. I'm not sure if we'll be able to answer them but you can 16 00:01:22.840 --> 00:01:32.000 absolutely ask them. And yeah, so cool. I hope you guys have had a really good 17 00:01:32.000 --> 00:01:39.080 weekend. We had a great weekend at church. We had a guy at church got born 18 00:01:39.080 --> 00:01:43.520 again in the most amazing way on Sunday. It was really fun to see God touching 19 00:01:43.520 --> 00:01:47.920 him. He was really dramatically moved by the Spirit of God and so that was fun to 20 00:01:47.920 --> 00:01:54.440 see and I've been having some amazing testimonies come in. I had a testimony 21 00:01:54.440 --> 00:02:00.920 the other day of one of our people, one of our Bethel crew. She was catching up with 22 00:02:00.920 --> 00:02:08.280 someone who had had a stroke and they'd had a stroke and they hadn't been 23 00:02:08.280 --> 00:02:12.200 able to walk. I don't know if they could stand. They might have been able to stand 24 00:02:12.200 --> 00:02:16.520 up but they hadn't been able to walk and they hadn't been able to talk since they'd 25 00:02:16.520 --> 00:02:22.480 had the stroke and she prayed for them and they stood up and I think, if I 26 00:02:22.480 --> 00:02:26.800 get the story correct, that they spoke and they said, I'd like to go for a walk. 27 00:02:26.800 --> 00:02:32.800 Can we go for a walk? And they went for a walk together. So, wow, amazing. Just some 28 00:02:32.800 --> 00:02:38.440 really cool testimonies and the kingdom of God is thoroughly alive and growing 29 00:02:38.440 --> 00:02:47.440 and thriving in the world right now. So, awesome. Cool. Hey Sylvia, good to see you 30 00:02:47.440 --> 00:02:53.120 there. Awesome as. Okay, well I think we'll just get started. There's a few of us on 31 00:02:53.120 --> 00:03:01.480 here now and we'll get started and people can jump in as we are 32 00:03:01.480 --> 00:03:07.560 progressing through the session. And like I said, we'll do the fifth session at 33 00:03:07.560 --> 00:03:15.520 another stage this week. Kingdom Culture Pillar 4. And I want to talk to you 34 00:03:15.520 --> 00:03:22.280 again, just to reiterate, I want to talk about the purpose of the kingdom. And 35 00:03:22.280 --> 00:03:25.520 here really is the purpose of the kingdom. I'm going to give it to you and 36 00:03:25.520 --> 00:03:28.680 then we're going to flesh it out a little bit. So, the 37 00:03:28.680 --> 00:03:35.880 purpose of the kingdom really is this. To bring all creation under, or you could 38 00:03:35.880 --> 00:03:43.200 say back under, the rule and the reign of Jesus Christ. You know, the disciples, 39 00:03:43.200 --> 00:03:47.440 they asked Jesus, how do we pray? And you'll hear me use the Lord's 40 00:03:47.440 --> 00:03:50.880 Prayer, what's commonly called the Lord's Prayer, often in my teaching because it's 41 00:03:50.880 --> 00:03:56.520 such a, it brings such a revelation of the heart of God and such a framework of 42 00:03:56.520 --> 00:04:00.000 the kingdom. Not to mention, obviously, the way that we pray and the way that we 43 00:04:00.000 --> 00:04:04.640 connect with God. But he says in the Lord's Prayer, he says, 44 00:04:04.640 --> 00:04:11.520 your kingdom come, your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. The disciples 45 00:04:11.520 --> 00:04:18.040 are asking Jesus, how do we pray? And Jesus' response, as a part of His response, 46 00:04:18.040 --> 00:04:23.800 is this. When you pray, pray like this. Our Father who is in heaven, hallowed be your 47 00:04:23.800 --> 00:04:32.200 name. Your kingdom come, your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. So, 48 00:04:32.200 --> 00:04:35.880 your kingdom come, what does that look like? When the kingdom comes, what does it 49 00:04:35.880 --> 00:04:40.560 look like? Well, here's what it looks like. It looks like your will being done. What 50 00:04:40.560 --> 00:04:43.760 is God's will? God's will is for everything to come under the rule and 51 00:04:43.760 --> 00:04:47.640 reign of Jesus Christ. And for things to come under the rule and reign of Jesus 52 00:04:47.640 --> 00:04:52.520 Christ is for everything in all creation to come back into its original identity 53 00:04:52.520 --> 00:04:59.000 and its original purpose before God. In other words, the reason and the 54 00:04:59.000 --> 00:05:01.960 actual thing that God 55 00:05:00.000 --> 00:05:03.880 created it to be when He first created it. 56 00:05:03.880 --> 00:05:07.480 And so there's two things that I want to bring out in this. 57 00:05:07.480 --> 00:05:10.560 When the Kingdom of God comes, it looks like the will of God being done. 58 00:05:10.560 --> 00:05:16.680 The will of God looks like Jesus Christ. 59 00:05:16.680 --> 00:05:17.680 Two things. 60 00:05:17.680 --> 00:05:23.960 It first of all implies this, it implies that not everything that is happening in the world 61 00:05:23.960 --> 00:05:27.840 right now is the will of God. 62 00:05:27.840 --> 00:05:31.640 The first thing we need to acknowledge is this, that when we walk through life, when 63 00:05:31.640 --> 00:05:37.120 we look through Facebook, when we scroll through Instagram, when we read the news, watch the 64 00:05:37.120 --> 00:05:43.600 news, listen to the news, when we are confronted with issues, when we are cancelling a friend 65 00:05:43.600 --> 00:05:46.600 who's just gone through a really hard time and we don't think they deserve to have gone 66 00:05:46.600 --> 00:05:52.880 through such a hard time, when we are confronted with issues in the world that seem unjust 67 00:05:52.880 --> 00:05:59.200 and that seem like this is just not right, then what we do not have the right to do, 68 00:05:59.200 --> 00:06:03.760 according to at least if we are being true and living true to Scripture, living true 69 00:06:03.760 --> 00:06:08.440 to the life of Jesus, we don't have the right to say this, God why did you let this happen 70 00:06:08.440 --> 00:06:10.840 or why did you do this? 71 00:06:10.840 --> 00:06:12.240 How could this be your will? 72 00:06:12.240 --> 00:06:15.120 Because we can plainly see that that's not the will of God. 73 00:06:15.120 --> 00:06:19.640 There are many instances on earth right now where the will of God is not being played 74 00:06:19.640 --> 00:06:20.640 out. 75 00:06:21.080 --> 00:06:26.680 Otherwise, Jesus would not have asked, when you pray, pray, this is God instructing His 76 00:06:26.680 --> 00:06:31.800 disciples, this is God in the flesh saying, when you pray, pray that the will of God be 77 00:06:31.800 --> 00:06:32.800 done on earth. 78 00:06:32.800 --> 00:06:35.120 In other words, you don't need to pray that prayer if the will of God has already been 79 00:06:35.120 --> 00:06:37.160 done on earth. 80 00:06:37.160 --> 00:06:43.380 So there are many things happening in the world right now where that is not the will 81 00:06:43.380 --> 00:06:44.380 of God. 82 00:06:44.380 --> 00:06:50.360 For example, often people will say when someone dies, they'll say, man I just don't get it, 83 00:06:50.360 --> 00:06:54.920 I don't understand why God chose to take this person home when they did. 84 00:06:54.920 --> 00:06:56.840 It feels so unfair. 85 00:06:56.840 --> 00:07:00.400 Feels like they were taken way too young. 86 00:07:00.400 --> 00:07:03.800 And I would like to say this, possibly it wasn't God who took them. 87 00:07:03.800 --> 00:07:09.720 Possibly it's God who caught them, God who received them, but not God who took them. 88 00:07:09.720 --> 00:07:14.840 And Jesus would never have instructed us into the ministry of raising the dead if people 89 00:07:14.840 --> 00:07:17.200 didn't die before their time. 90 00:07:17.200 --> 00:07:21.360 Many people die before their time, many people are sick, and that's never the will of God. 91 00:07:21.360 --> 00:07:24.320 Bad things happen to good people, and that's never the will of God. 92 00:07:24.320 --> 00:07:30.000 But it's our job as disciples of Jesus Christ to not only pray that the will of God be done, 93 00:07:30.000 --> 00:07:37.200 but to actually spend our lives in bringing the will of God about on planet earth. 94 00:07:37.200 --> 00:07:41.840 So the first thing is, not everything that happens is God's will. 95 00:07:42.080 --> 00:07:53.920 Many people say this, I've heard this as a, Jordan, hey how's it going? 96 00:07:53.920 --> 00:07:59.840 And many people say, you know, listen I've been thinking about God, I've been thinking 97 00:07:59.840 --> 00:08:03.280 about Jesus, but the one thing that I can't get out of my head is, why do bad things happen 98 00:08:03.280 --> 00:08:06.920 to good people? 99 00:08:06.920 --> 00:08:11.440 And here's what the presupposition to that statement is. 100 00:08:11.440 --> 00:08:16.240 What people are really saying is this, if God is in meticulous control of all things, 101 00:08:16.240 --> 00:08:18.440 why do bad things happen to good people? 102 00:08:18.440 --> 00:08:22.080 You have to make that assumption first, you have to make that assumption that God is in 103 00:08:22.080 --> 00:08:25.240 control of everything. 104 00:08:25.240 --> 00:08:30.240 Therefore because of that assumption, we can then say, why do bad things happen to good people? 105 00:08:30.240 --> 00:08:34.000 Well here's just, I'm not going to, this whole message is not about why do bad things happen 106 00:08:34.000 --> 00:08:41.000 to good people, although that would probably be a good message to share to be honest. 107 00:08:41.000 --> 00:08:44.720 My notes just disappeared. 108 00:08:44.720 --> 00:08:49.120 Well here's the thing, God is sovereign. 109 00:08:49.120 --> 00:08:51.920 God has the ability to be in control of everything. 110 00:08:51.920 --> 00:08:57.920 God if he wanted to be in control of everything, could just go bam and be in control and cause 111 00:08:57.920 --> 00:09:03.160 his will to, he could take free will out of the question and he could just go bam, I'm 112 00:09:03.160 --> 00:09:07.580 now in control of everything, martial law, heavenly law, boom. 113 00:09:07.580 --> 00:09:08.580 But that's not how he works. 114 00:09:08.580 --> 00:09:14.580 God is a God of love, therefore he allows a radical amount of free will because love 115 00:09:14.580 --> 00:09:20.100 is never forced, love is always offered and must be received. 116 00:09:20.100 --> 00:09:24.020 And so why do bad things happen to good people is because God, I believe, and this is what 117 00:09:24.020 --> 00:09:27.740 I would say in my answer to that question, God is sovereignly out of control. 118 00:09:27.740 --> 00:09:29.840 He has chosen to be out of control. 119 00:09:29.840 --> 00:09:34.580 The heavens are the heavens of the Lord, but the earth he has given to the sons of men. 120 00:09:34.580 --> 00:09:35.660 You have authority. 121 00:09:35.660 --> 00:09:36.660 You have the kingdom. 122 00:09:36.740 --> 00:09:41.740 There's a responsibility that you have and that I have on earth to bring the will of 123 00:09:41.740 --> 00:09:46.660 God about. 124 00:09:46.660 --> 00:09:51.460 And so the reason that God's will is not fully outworked on planet earth is because men, 125 00:09:51.460 --> 00:09:56.460 human beings, have been given authority over the planet and we have by our own free will 126 00:09:56.460 --> 00:10:00.060 chosen, and of course I haven't and if you're watching this you probably haven't, 127 00:10:00.000 --> 00:10:03.400 You probably haven't, you've probably come back to Jesus, but there are many people making 128 00:10:03.400 --> 00:10:07.360 decisions on planet earth that are not following the plan of God, the voice of God, or the 129 00:10:07.360 --> 00:10:09.080 will of God. 130 00:10:09.080 --> 00:10:15.580 And because of that, they are actually bringing about things on the planet that are other 131 00:10:15.580 --> 00:10:17.440 than the will of God. 132 00:10:17.440 --> 00:10:24.640 Therefore, it's our job to influence the world in a way through the grace and the power. 133 00:10:24.640 --> 00:10:29.000 We've talked in other sessions about the how of the kingdom and things that you can look 134 00:10:29.000 --> 00:10:30.280 through on some of those other sessions. 135 00:10:30.280 --> 00:10:42.940 But it's our job to influence the planet in a way where people come under the authority 136 00:10:42.940 --> 00:10:46.960 and submit to Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior, as their Lord and King. 137 00:10:46.960 --> 00:10:51.600 And under that Lordship, they begin to make decisions with the voice of God in mind, the 138 00:10:51.600 --> 00:10:54.320 heart of God in mind, and the will of God in mind. 139 00:10:54.320 --> 00:10:57.720 And then in that, the will of God starts being manifest on the planet. 140 00:10:57.720 --> 00:11:01.080 And the will of God, when it's manifested, is so attractive that everyone wants to be 141 00:11:01.080 --> 00:11:02.240 a part of it. 142 00:11:02.240 --> 00:11:06.220 So it gathers momentum until the whole world is wrapped up in the will of God. 143 00:11:06.220 --> 00:11:10.800 When the whole world is wrapped up in the will of God, then everyone will be in submission 144 00:11:10.800 --> 00:11:14.000 to Jesus Christ, who is the greatest leader that has ever walked the planet. 145 00:11:14.000 --> 00:11:18.920 Everybody wants a leader like Jesus. 146 00:11:18.920 --> 00:11:22.400 So not everything that's happening on the planet right now, this is very important, 147 00:11:22.400 --> 00:11:23.920 I'm going to say it again. 148 00:11:23.920 --> 00:11:26.960 Not everything that's happening on the planet now is the will of God. 149 00:11:26.960 --> 00:11:27.960 Why? 150 00:11:27.960 --> 00:11:29.840 Because God is a God of love. 151 00:11:29.840 --> 00:11:32.920 God is not a God of ultimate meticulous control. 152 00:11:32.920 --> 00:11:39.520 God is not a crazy, cosmic, wild dictator. 153 00:11:39.520 --> 00:11:46.520 God is a God of love who offers Himself to His creation, to His people, but waits for 154 00:11:46.520 --> 00:11:52.360 His people, waits for humanity to receive Him, and once received, His will is then outworked 155 00:11:52.360 --> 00:11:53.680 through those one's lives. 156 00:11:53.680 --> 00:11:57.960 And His will trumps and has authority over other things that happen on the planet. 157 00:11:57.960 --> 00:12:01.600 That's why we can pray for the sick and we can release healing on the sick, and the will 158 00:12:01.600 --> 00:12:07.240 of the enemy is destroyed by the authority of the will of God and the power of the kingdom 159 00:12:07.240 --> 00:12:08.960 flowing through our lives. 160 00:12:08.960 --> 00:12:15.560 So we have authority to bring change and to bring things into submission under the authority 161 00:12:15.560 --> 00:12:19.160 of Jesus Christ in everything that we do. 162 00:12:19.160 --> 00:12:25.880 The other thing that we need to assume from the scripture is that God wants His will done 163 00:12:25.880 --> 00:12:29.000 on earth in the same way that it's done in heaven. 164 00:12:29.000 --> 00:12:30.000 So what is the will of God? 165 00:12:30.000 --> 00:12:34.880 Well, the will of God is perfectly outworked in heaven, and the will of God is not perfectly 166 00:12:34.880 --> 00:12:40.240 outworked on earth, but God wants His will outworked on earth. 167 00:12:40.240 --> 00:12:45.240 God doesn't want to just rapture everyone from planet earth and eject us all into heaven 168 00:12:45.400 --> 00:12:46.680 and then leave the earth to burn. 169 00:12:46.680 --> 00:12:49.360 At least that's not my opinion. 170 00:12:49.360 --> 00:12:52.080 From scripture what I see is that God actually has a heart for His creation. 171 00:12:52.080 --> 00:12:53.360 He has a heart for the earth. 172 00:12:53.360 --> 00:12:58.080 He has a heart for every person and all of creation, and He wants to restore all things 173 00:12:58.080 --> 00:13:02.000 back to their original identity and original purpose by bringing them under submission 174 00:13:02.000 --> 00:13:07.960 to His kingship and bringing them into the expression of His culture. 175 00:13:07.960 --> 00:13:09.640 And so God has a heart for the planet. 176 00:13:09.640 --> 00:13:18.360 Now I know that seems obvious, but some people maybe don't believe that that's the case. 177 00:13:18.360 --> 00:13:24.080 In fact there have been whole theologies that have caused people to just be kind of in the 178 00:13:24.080 --> 00:13:28.160 space of just praying to leave the earth and go to heaven because, man, I can't wait to 179 00:13:28.160 --> 00:13:32.400 leave this evil God-forsaken earth and just be in heaven, and we just need to get as many 180 00:13:32.400 --> 00:13:35.880 people to heaven as we can because, man, the earth is going to hell. 181 00:13:35.880 --> 00:13:37.480 We just need to get out of here. 182 00:13:38.080 --> 00:13:40.080 The heaven bus is leaving soon. 183 00:13:40.080 --> 00:13:44.380 Get on the heaven bus because, man, this whole world is going down, but I don't believe this 184 00:13:44.380 --> 00:13:45.380 world is going down. 185 00:13:45.380 --> 00:13:46.960 I believe that God has a heart for this world. 186 00:13:46.960 --> 00:13:55.200 He has a heart for every person and all creation, and His will is that His will is outworked 187 00:13:55.200 --> 00:14:05.000 not just in heaven but also on earth and not just through Him but through His influence 188 00:14:05.000 --> 00:14:06.880 through you and through me. 189 00:14:06.880 --> 00:14:08.600 God doesn't want to work out of the blue. 190 00:14:08.600 --> 00:14:13.080 God wants to work through me and you. 191 00:14:13.080 --> 00:14:18.880 So with that being said, let's turn to—I want to introduce you to a term that you've 192 00:14:18.880 --> 00:14:22.720 already been introduced to, but I want to reintroduce you to the term and talk about 193 00:14:22.720 --> 00:14:23.720 it a little bit. 194 00:14:23.720 --> 00:14:28.760 We're going to go to Luke 6.13. 195 00:14:28.760 --> 00:14:35.440 Luke 6.13 feels like I'm just—I'm right now in my dining room, so it feels like I'm 196 00:14:35.440 --> 00:14:38.360 just kind of—I've got some friends over at my house, and I'm just having a little 197 00:14:38.360 --> 00:14:39.360 chat to you guys. 198 00:14:39.360 --> 00:14:43.360 So I hope you guys are enjoying this, and it's good to see you guys. 199 00:14:43.360 --> 00:14:44.360 Hey, Francis. 200 00:14:44.360 --> 00:14:46.080 Hey, Jordan, again. 201 00:14:46.080 --> 00:14:47.080 Woo-hoo! 202 00:14:47.080 --> 00:14:48.080 Yes! 203 00:14:48.080 --> 00:14:49.240 Out of free will. 204 00:14:49.240 --> 00:14:50.240 Come on! 205 00:14:50.240 --> 00:14:58.200 All right, so Luke 6.13 says this. 206 00:15:00.000 --> 00:15:14.600 Now, it came to pass in those days that he went out to the mountain to pray, and continued 207 00:15:14.600 --> 00:15:21.440 all night in prayer to God, and when it was daytime, when the sun had come up, he called 208 00:15:21.440 --> 00:15:31.160 his disciples to himself, and from them he chose twelve, whom he also named apostles. 209 00:15:31.160 --> 00:15:36.400 He chose twelve from his disciples, from his followers, from those who were his students, 210 00:15:36.400 --> 00:15:42.440 he chose twelve, and he didn't just call them disciples, he called them apostles. 211 00:15:42.440 --> 00:15:51.000 Now, the term apostle was a somewhat strange term to use, and you may have heard some of 212 00:15:51.000 --> 00:15:57.060 this before, but I'm going to reiterate some of this stuff for you if you've heard it before. 213 00:15:57.060 --> 00:16:04.320 People were used to the term prophet, that was a term that good disciples or rabbis were 214 00:16:04.320 --> 00:16:05.320 used to. 215 00:16:05.320 --> 00:16:11.160 They were used to the term teacher, they were used to the term disciple, they were used 216 00:16:11.160 --> 00:16:19.480 to these different terms, but they weren't used to being referred to as apostles. 217 00:16:19.920 --> 00:16:27.440 Now, the reason is because the word apostle was a Roman title and a Roman term, and Hebrews 218 00:16:27.440 --> 00:16:31.600 and Romans were kind of like oil and water, they didn't mix together. 219 00:16:31.600 --> 00:16:38.440 For a Hebrew to take on a Roman idea was kind of like, we don't take on Roman ideas, and 220 00:16:38.440 --> 00:16:43.800 for a Roman to take on a Hebrew idea was like, we don't take on Hebrew ideas, we are Roman, 221 00:16:43.800 --> 00:16:47.200 and our culture is not conducive to Hebrew culture, and Hebrews were like, our culture 222 00:16:47.200 --> 00:16:49.400 is not conducive to Roman culture. 223 00:16:49.400 --> 00:16:55.360 So for Jesus to say, you're an apostle, was to actually borrow kind of like, some of his 224 00:16:55.360 --> 00:17:00.880 hearers at the time would have heard it like this, to borrow the enemy's term, but to bring 225 00:17:00.880 --> 00:17:10.960 that term and to kingdomize, to bring the will of God around that term. 226 00:17:10.960 --> 00:17:15.280 And here's what the term apostle was referring to. 227 00:17:15.359 --> 00:17:20.720 It was referring to a particular class of general in the Roman army, and this particular 228 00:17:20.720 --> 00:17:28.400 general was the leader of, the general of his particular group of people, and his team, 229 00:17:28.400 --> 00:17:34.200 and his job was to go into an already, now his job was not to conquer, clear? 230 00:17:34.200 --> 00:17:40.160 So point one, the apostle's job was not to conquer, the apostle's job was to go into 231 00:17:40.160 --> 00:17:49.940 the land that was already conquered, and to establish Roman life, rule, and culture 232 00:17:49.940 --> 00:17:53.960 in the already conquered land. 233 00:17:53.960 --> 00:17:55.880 Let me reiterate that. 234 00:17:55.880 --> 00:18:02.560 The apostle's job and the apostle's responsibility as this particular type of general that he 235 00:18:02.560 --> 00:18:06.120 was, was not to conquer new land. 236 00:18:06.120 --> 00:18:15.160 His job was to find land, to be sent to land that the kingdom of Rome, the empire of Rome 237 00:18:15.160 --> 00:18:22.640 had already conquered, to go into that land with a team of people, and to make that land 238 00:18:22.640 --> 00:18:29.440 look like Rome, so that when the Roman emperor came, or when the king, the ruler of Rome 239 00:18:29.440 --> 00:18:35.540 came from Rome to that particular land, they would feel as at home in that land as they 240 00:18:35.540 --> 00:18:38.420 did in Rome. 241 00:18:38.420 --> 00:18:39.760 This is amazing. 242 00:18:39.760 --> 00:18:51.780 So we are, the apostle was commissioned from Rome into the land that was conquered to establish 243 00:18:51.780 --> 00:18:57.040 the rule, and reign, and culture, and life of Rome in that land. 244 00:18:57.040 --> 00:19:02.920 Now we, as the people of God, have been commissioned into an apostolic mission. 245 00:19:02.920 --> 00:19:05.880 We have been commissioned into the, we have been co-missioned. 246 00:19:05.880 --> 00:19:08.600 We have been joined to the mission of heaven. 247 00:19:08.600 --> 00:19:11.840 We have been joined to the mission of Jesus. 248 00:19:11.840 --> 00:19:14.740 We have been included into Jesus' mission. 249 00:19:14.740 --> 00:19:16.080 What did Jesus do? 250 00:19:16.080 --> 00:19:19.440 Jesus conquered the world. 251 00:19:19.440 --> 00:19:21.560 Jesus is victorious. 252 00:19:21.560 --> 00:19:25.680 Jesus has already conquered all of the seven mountains. 253 00:19:25.680 --> 00:19:27.840 Jesus has already conquered everything. 254 00:19:27.840 --> 00:19:29.920 Jesus has already defeated death. 255 00:19:29.920 --> 00:19:32.520 Jesus has already conquered it all. 256 00:19:32.520 --> 00:19:35.280 Jesus won the victory. 257 00:19:35.280 --> 00:19:41.800 But our job in this, in the mission of Jesus, is to come in like the apostles of Rome did, 258 00:19:41.800 --> 00:19:50.560 and to come into the already conquered land, and to bring the rule, and reign, and culture, 259 00:19:50.560 --> 00:19:57.320 and life of heaven, the rule and reign of Jesus, into the already conquered land. 260 00:19:57.320 --> 00:20:00.120 Everywhere that God will ever send you is already conquered. 261 00:20:00.000 --> 00:20:10.560 already conquered. The New Age world is conquered. I mean, I've got to be careful what I say. 262 00:20:10.560 --> 00:20:21.860 Every people group, every nation, every issue in the world that is standing in opposition 263 00:20:21.860 --> 00:20:27.360 to the will and opposition to the Kingdom of God is already conquered, but the culture 264 00:20:27.360 --> 00:20:31.880 of heaven has not already been established there. The rule and reign of Jesus maybe has 265 00:20:31.880 --> 00:20:35.840 not yet been established, been conquered, but not established there. And so the role 266 00:20:35.840 --> 00:20:39.560 of the apostle and the role of not just that you might not be called to an apostle, but 267 00:20:39.560 --> 00:20:45.240 you might be called, well in fact you are called, and God has commissioned you or is 268 00:20:45.240 --> 00:20:51.600 in the process of commissioning you into an apostolic mission that is probably led, and 269 00:20:51.600 --> 00:20:57.040 I could, I think I could pretty safely say, will most definitely be led by an apostle 270 00:20:57.040 --> 00:21:04.640 or be maybe not led, but connected to an apostle in some way. You are commissioned into that 271 00:21:04.640 --> 00:21:11.760 apostolic mission to establish and bring the culture of the Kingdom of God and the rule 272 00:21:11.760 --> 00:21:19.880 and reign of Jesus into that place. So where you see things in that place that are standing 273 00:21:19.880 --> 00:21:24.680 as an affront to the Kingdom of God or that are obviously anti the will of God. Now let 274 00:21:24.680 --> 00:21:32.760 me just name a few things. I'll just throw these words out there. Abortion, slander, 275 00:21:32.760 --> 00:21:46.280 gossip, gossip on Facebook, broken families, sickness and disease, people dying early or 276 00:21:46.280 --> 00:21:54.040 dying young, poverty, all these things that the Kingdom of Heaven is not like that. Those 277 00:21:54.040 --> 00:21:59.800 things are an affront. They are a fading culture. They are part of a fading conquered world 278 00:21:59.800 --> 00:22:07.040 system. Satan and his world system has been conquered by Jesus and his ways are fading 279 00:22:07.040 --> 00:22:13.160 right now as the Kingdom comes in with strength. As we stand in, as the people that God has 280 00:22:13.160 --> 00:22:18.480 called us to be in God and in the power of God and in the freedom of God and in the life 281 00:22:18.480 --> 00:22:25.720 of God, we establish and we enforce this culture in the areas that Jesus has already conquered. 282 00:22:25.720 --> 00:22:32.640 So this is pretty cool. Matthew 16 verse 19 says this. It's a story of Peter. He's called 283 00:22:32.640 --> 00:22:39.040 Simon at the time. And this is where he actually gets his name changed. And he says, you know, 284 00:22:39.040 --> 00:22:43.200 people are saying you're this and that. What do you say? Some say John the Baptist, some 285 00:22:43.200 --> 00:22:47.240 say the prophet, blah, blah, blah. And Jesus says, well, who do you say that I am? And 286 00:22:47.240 --> 00:22:53.560 Peter, who was Simon at the time, he says, you are the son of the living God. And Jesus 287 00:22:53.560 --> 00:22:58.040 said, flesh and blood is not revealed to this to you, but my Father who is in heaven. And 288 00:22:58.040 --> 00:23:02.280 he says, upon this rock, upon this revelation, I will build my church and the gates of Hades 289 00:23:02.280 --> 00:23:08.840 shall not prevail against it. I will get I behold, I give you the keys of the kingdom 290 00:23:08.840 --> 00:23:22.460 of heaven. I love that. I'm just saying that for a second, because Jesus gave the keys 291 00:23:22.460 --> 00:23:30.520 to Peter. Peter is this this person who's commissioned into the mission of Jesus as 292 00:23:30.520 --> 00:23:37.080 an apostle, receives authority to unlock and to establish the rule and reign of Jesus 293 00:23:37.080 --> 00:23:45.360 on the planet. He has given the keys. Now, you know, Jesus gave the keys. So now who 294 00:23:45.360 --> 00:23:51.620 unlocks the kingdom of heaven on earth? Who has the power to unlock the kingdom of heaven 295 00:23:51.620 --> 00:23:57.160 on earth? And this is part of what it means where Colossians says, Christ in you, not 296 00:23:57.160 --> 00:24:02.320 just you individual, but you plural, Christ in you, Christ in you guys, Christ in the 297 00:24:02.320 --> 00:24:10.560 church is the hope of glory. Why? Because Jesus has given the keys of the kingdom to 298 00:24:10.560 --> 00:24:15.840 you and to me, to the church. As we've come into this apostolic alignment, as we come 299 00:24:15.840 --> 00:24:20.800 into this to the alignment with the body of Christ and we take our place, we find our 300 00:24:20.800 --> 00:24:27.320 space, our place of expression within the house of God, within the body of Christ, and 301 00:24:27.320 --> 00:24:32.200 we come into alignment with our brothers and sisters and with God himself as our father, 302 00:24:32.200 --> 00:24:37.560 then we realize we have a key in our hands. God has given the key. Maybe God, I mean, 303 00:24:37.560 --> 00:24:43.320 maybe I could be so bold to say this, God gave the key, which means maybe God doesn't 304 00:24:43.320 --> 00:24:46.600 have the key, but maybe he gave the key to you. Now, maybe he could take it back, but 305 00:24:46.640 --> 00:24:51.720 maybe he won't. And maybe he's waiting for me and you to use the key that we received. 306 00:24:51.720 --> 00:24:59.880 Maybe God's will, maybe the purpose of the kingdom on earth and the capacity for that 307 00:25:00.000 --> 00:25:05.920 purpose to be outworked on the earth is all waiting on me and you to turn the 308 00:25:05.920 --> 00:25:09.240 key. Now there's no condemnation in that. There's no shame in that. There's none of 309 00:25:09.240 --> 00:25:13.680 that in that. But there's just an opportunity. There is an invitation to be 310 00:25:13.680 --> 00:25:22.720 ones who turn the key. Now in that we can get to this point often where we 311 00:25:22.720 --> 00:25:26.840 realize we have authority. We realize we have power. We realize that the kingdom 312 00:25:26.840 --> 00:25:30.440 is our hands. We realize that the will of God being outworked on planet earth 313 00:25:30.440 --> 00:25:35.240 that we actually have been sent by God with authority to bring that to pass on 314 00:25:35.240 --> 00:25:39.000 earth. Now that's all true but then this is what can happen and this is what's 315 00:25:39.000 --> 00:25:43.000 happened to me many times is that we are confronted with a situation that we know 316 00:25:43.000 --> 00:25:49.520 we have authority over but it seems like the authority doesn't it doesn't seem to 317 00:25:49.520 --> 00:25:56.080 work. Now I've prayed for many many people and seen amazing kingdom 318 00:25:56.080 --> 00:26:00.000 breakthroughs. Seen the will of God crash into people's worlds. I've seen you 319 00:26:00.000 --> 00:26:03.880 know and you guys have heard some of the stories but seeing tumors disappear, arms 320 00:26:03.880 --> 00:26:09.160 straighten out, deformed bodies be healed, blind eyes open up in front of my eyes. 321 00:26:09.160 --> 00:26:15.680 It's body parts recreated. I remember being in Redding, California at the 322 00:26:15.680 --> 00:26:19.440 healing rooms. I remember praying for some for some people and people were 323 00:26:19.440 --> 00:26:22.040 getting healed. At the end we're telling testimonies and as we're telling 324 00:26:22.200 --> 00:26:27.360 testimonies of metal dissolving in people's bodies I remember a cloud of 325 00:26:27.360 --> 00:26:33.320 bright hot pink feathers just went poof and exploded over our heads and just 326 00:26:33.320 --> 00:26:36.720 gold dust and feathers just filled the room. I mean it was just I mean there's 327 00:26:36.720 --> 00:26:40.680 there's amazing stories of victory and breakthrough but I've had other times 328 00:26:40.680 --> 00:26:47.480 where I've prayed for people and either it takes longer than I feel and that 329 00:26:47.480 --> 00:26:51.520 what I read in the Bible that it should take for those people to be healed or 330 00:26:51.520 --> 00:26:54.600 for the kingdom of God to be established in that person's body or 331 00:26:54.600 --> 00:26:58.360 that person's life and other times they just simply don't get healed. I've prayed 332 00:26:58.360 --> 00:27:02.680 for people with cancer and and you know not immediately after the prayer but I've 333 00:27:02.680 --> 00:27:06.640 prayed for people and a few days or weeks later they've died of cancer. Now 334 00:27:06.640 --> 00:27:11.960 am I okay with it? I am freaking not okay with that. Do I have questions about that? 335 00:27:11.960 --> 00:27:16.160 Yes I've got questions about that but I want to I want to let you know the 336 00:27:16.160 --> 00:27:20.240 purpose of the kingdom never changes and the intensity of that purpose never 337 00:27:20.240 --> 00:27:27.880 changes and my understanding and perspective of God and His will on the 338 00:27:27.880 --> 00:27:32.400 planet is not shaped by external circumstances. It's shaped by what He 339 00:27:32.400 --> 00:27:36.880 says in Christ. It's shaped by the Word of God. When I say the Word of God 340 00:27:36.880 --> 00:27:41.600 I mean Jesus Christ. It's shaped by God in the flesh. It's shaped by the life and 341 00:27:41.600 --> 00:27:47.200 reality of Jesus and as I meditate and marvel at the life of Jesus my external 342 00:27:47.200 --> 00:27:51.120 circumstances slowly but surely come into alignment with what I spend the 343 00:27:51.120 --> 00:27:55.920 most time gazing upon. That's another session but but I want to read to you a 344 00:27:55.920 --> 00:28:05.400 scripture that's been really helpful for me in the on the journey of of being a 345 00:28:05.400 --> 00:28:09.440 person that has understood my authority that has acknowledged that I have a key 346 00:28:09.440 --> 00:28:12.920 in my hand that has acknowledged I have been given authority I've been 347 00:28:12.920 --> 00:28:19.640 commissioned into an apostolic mission and and that began with Jesus that I 348 00:28:19.640 --> 00:28:22.720 have the same Holy Spirit that Jesus had when He walked the earth the same Holy 349 00:28:22.720 --> 00:28:26.440 Spirit lives in me and I realize that I'm a son of God like Jesus is the Son 350 00:28:26.440 --> 00:28:30.880 of God he's my elder brother and I have this expectation that my life really 351 00:28:30.880 --> 00:28:35.680 should look like the life of Jesus that that the same miracle power that flowed 352 00:28:35.680 --> 00:28:38.840 through Jesus hands is actually flowing through my hands when I pray for the 353 00:28:38.840 --> 00:28:43.480 sick that I fully I fully believe and fully acknowledge that however there's 354 00:28:43.480 --> 00:28:47.000 not one example in the Bible where Jesus laid hands on a sick person I'm of course 355 00:28:47.000 --> 00:28:52.440 referring to sick to healing sick people at the moment quite a lot but the kingdom 356 00:28:52.440 --> 00:28:57.720 of course goes way beyond that but there's no example in the Bible of Jesus 357 00:28:57.720 --> 00:29:03.200 praying for a sick person have not been healed therefore that's never to be my 358 00:29:03.200 --> 00:29:07.680 expectation I'm never meant to have a grid for that but but here's here's a 359 00:29:07.680 --> 00:29:14.840 helpful here's a scripture that's been helpful to me Hebrews 2 and let's start 360 00:29:14.840 --> 00:29:24.880 in verse 5 for he has not put the world to come talking about the kingdom what's 361 00:29:24.880 --> 00:29:29.120 the kingdom what does it look like it looks like the will of God being done on 362 00:29:29.120 --> 00:29:33.760 earth as it already is being done in heaven we have the keys of the kingdom 363 00:29:33.760 --> 00:29:39.160 to bind what has been bound and loose what has been loosed this is amazing the 364 00:29:39.160 --> 00:29:43.240 world to come of which we speak in subjection to angels but one testified 365 00:29:43.240 --> 00:29:48.560 in a certain place saying this what is man now you might you've probably heard 366 00:29:48.560 --> 00:29:51.960 me use the scripture before I actually use it quite a lot because it's a very 367 00:29:51.960 --> 00:29:58.040 very pivotal and helpful scripture what is man when it says man it's talking 368 00:29:58.040 --> 00:30:01.960 about human what are human beings what is 369 00:30:00.000 --> 00:30:02.880 It's talking about me and you. 370 00:30:02.880 --> 00:30:03.880 What is man? 371 00:30:03.880 --> 00:30:06.280 I'm not talking about males, I'm talking about men. 372 00:30:06.280 --> 00:30:11.800 So I'm talking about females, males, men and women, I'm talking about humanity. 373 00:30:11.800 --> 00:30:19.080 What is man that you, with a capital Y, God, that you are mindful of him, him with a small 374 00:30:19.080 --> 00:30:20.080 h? 375 00:30:20.080 --> 00:30:23.320 Or the son of man that you take care of him? 376 00:30:23.320 --> 00:30:28.440 You have made him, little h, talking about us, mankind, you have made him a little lower 377 00:30:28.440 --> 00:30:34.640 than the angels, or it's actually mistranslated, it should be Elohim, which means God. 378 00:30:34.640 --> 00:30:41.880 You, you, capital Y, have crowned him, small h, talking about humanity, you and I. 379 00:30:41.880 --> 00:30:48.680 You have made him, you have crowned him with glory and honor and set him, set who? 380 00:30:48.680 --> 00:30:55.720 Yeah, that's right, me and you, set us, humanity, the sons and daughters of God. 381 00:30:55.720 --> 00:31:01.000 You have set him over the works of your hands, in other words, the land that you have conquered, 382 00:31:01.000 --> 00:31:06.940 you have set him, you have set humanity, you have sent apostles, prophets, pastors, teachers 383 00:31:06.940 --> 00:31:12.360 and teams of people, the sons and daughters of God, to go and occupy that land and you 384 00:31:12.360 --> 00:31:16.360 have set them over the works of your hands. 385 00:31:16.360 --> 00:31:29.400 You have put all things, all things, all, in my Bible it's spelled A-L-L, which literally 386 00:31:29.400 --> 00:31:37.600 means all, which is excluding zero, nothing, it means 100%, all, all things in subjection 387 00:31:37.600 --> 00:31:44.760 under his feet, small h, not big h, small h, under your feet and under my feet. 388 00:31:44.760 --> 00:31:48.880 We have authority over all things, we have authority from God to bring the kingdom of 389 00:31:48.880 --> 00:31:54.720 God, the will of God, the purpose of God, which we see perfectly outworked in the life 390 00:31:54.720 --> 00:31:55.720 of Jesus. 391 00:31:55.720 --> 00:31:58.560 If you ever want to know what is the will of God, just read Matthew, Mark, Luke and 392 00:31:58.560 --> 00:32:03.360 John and read the life of Jesus. 393 00:32:03.360 --> 00:32:09.440 He has put all things in subjection under our feet as we stand in Christ. 394 00:32:09.440 --> 00:32:14.400 And then it says this, and this is what I have just been telling you, is that we have 395 00:32:14.400 --> 00:32:23.080 authority, for in that he put all in subjection under him, he left nothing that is not put 396 00:32:23.080 --> 00:32:28.520 under him, but now we do not yet see all things put under him. 397 00:32:28.520 --> 00:32:31.360 And I can relate to that, I don't know if you can relate to that, but I certainly can 398 00:32:31.360 --> 00:32:32.360 relate to that. 399 00:32:32.360 --> 00:32:37.240 I can relate to the deep seated conviction that all things have been put underneath my 400 00:32:37.240 --> 00:32:38.240 feet. 401 00:32:38.240 --> 00:32:42.140 I can relate to the deep seated conviction that I have authority, that God himself has 402 00:32:42.140 --> 00:32:44.360 given me the keys of the kingdom. 403 00:32:44.360 --> 00:32:48.880 But I can also relate to the side of the story where, man I believe that, but I do not yet 404 00:32:48.880 --> 00:32:53.960 see that fully and properly and perfectly outworked in my life. 405 00:32:53.960 --> 00:33:01.400 And then it gives you a what to do in that situation, in the next verse. 406 00:33:01.400 --> 00:33:03.800 Verse 9, here we go, here it is, are you ready for this? 407 00:33:03.800 --> 00:33:06.440 Get ready to catch this. 408 00:33:06.440 --> 00:33:14.640 But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than Elohim for the suffering of death, crowned 409 00:33:14.640 --> 00:33:18.720 with glory and honor, that he by the grace of God might taste death for everyone so that 410 00:33:18.720 --> 00:33:22.520 no one else would ever need to taste it again. 411 00:33:22.520 --> 00:33:25.560 What do you do when things don't seem to be working out? 412 00:33:25.560 --> 00:33:31.480 What do you do when you have all authority but it's not been perfectly outworked in your 413 00:33:31.480 --> 00:33:32.480 life yet? 414 00:33:32.480 --> 00:33:35.980 What do you do when you've been given a pair of shoes and your feet aren't quite big enough 415 00:33:36.020 --> 00:33:38.940 and they haven't quite grown enough to grow into them yet and you don't have the full 416 00:33:38.940 --> 00:33:45.220 use of them and you're still tripping up and you still don't have the, you haven't matured 417 00:33:45.220 --> 00:33:48.620 into the size of your calling and to the size of your authority yet? 418 00:33:48.620 --> 00:33:49.900 Well this is what you do. 419 00:33:49.900 --> 00:33:54.860 You keep your eyes fixed on Jesus who is the perfect picture of the purpose of God outworked 420 00:33:54.860 --> 00:33:55.940 on the planet. 421 00:33:55.940 --> 00:33:59.340 The perfect picture of the purpose of the kingdom outworked on the planet. 422 00:33:59.900 --> 00:34:07.340 To help you, I had a, I want to share an encounter that I had with Jesus a few, well many years 423 00:34:07.340 --> 00:34:08.340 ago now. 424 00:34:08.340 --> 00:34:14.620 It was one of the first kind of encounters that I had with Jesus after I got born again. 425 00:34:14.620 --> 00:34:19.920 I was on, I think I was on Bucklands Beach or somewhere in East Auckland and I was praying 426 00:34:19.920 --> 00:34:25.500 and I was asking God, you know, God tell me what my calling is like. 427 00:34:25.500 --> 00:34:28.219 Tell me how do I walk in my calling? 428 00:34:28.219 --> 00:34:29.780 How do I walk in my purpose? 429 00:34:29.780 --> 00:34:32.300 How do I walk in the power of the kingdom? 430 00:34:32.300 --> 00:34:34.780 How do I walk as the man that you've called me to be? 431 00:34:34.780 --> 00:34:36.179 How do I step into this? 432 00:34:36.179 --> 00:34:38.659 What is the thing that you've called me to do? 433 00:34:38.659 --> 00:34:42.060 God, I know, and I was saying things like, God I know you've called me to revival. 434 00:34:42.060 --> 00:34:43.179 I know you've called me to preach. 435 00:34:43.179 --> 00:34:45.340 I know you've called me to these things. 436 00:34:45.340 --> 00:34:52.219 And I was just kind of like talking at Jesus, you know, just talking, just unloading my 437 00:34:52.219 --> 00:34:59.820 heart to Jesus and my heart's desire at the time was, God just show me the way forward. 438 00:35:00.000 --> 00:35:04.320 Show me how I can step into the power of the kingdom that I see in Jesus' life. 439 00:35:04.320 --> 00:35:09.200 Show me how I can step into the purpose of the kingdom outworked in the same 440 00:35:09.200 --> 00:35:16.520 manner and ferocity and vibrancy that I see in Jesus' life. I want to see 441 00:35:16.520 --> 00:35:21.160 revival. I want to see a move of God. I want to see my generation. 442 00:35:21.160 --> 00:35:25.800 I want to see the prophecy of the knowledge of the glory of God 443 00:35:25.800 --> 00:35:28.800 covering the earth as the waters cover the sea. I want to see every person I 444 00:35:28.800 --> 00:35:33.720 know just so baptized in the love and power and glory and fire and wonder of 445 00:35:33.720 --> 00:35:38.160 God. I just want to see it God. And he took me into this vision. I saw this 446 00:35:38.160 --> 00:35:41.760 vision as clear as day. And to this day I don't know whether I was seeing it 447 00:35:41.760 --> 00:35:47.120 outside of my like an open vision or an internal vision. But either way it felt 448 00:35:47.120 --> 00:35:54.640 the same. And what I saw was I saw a big rock in front of me. And in that rock was 449 00:35:54.680 --> 00:35:58.400 this massive sword. And it was way too big for me. But it was this massive 450 00:35:58.400 --> 00:36:04.720 amazing epic sword. And it was kind of it kind of looked like this Excalibur. You 451 00:36:04.720 --> 00:36:09.840 know King Arthur's sword. And he said try get that sword out of the rock. And so I 452 00:36:09.840 --> 00:36:13.240 put my hands on the sword and tried to wrench it out of the rock. And it didn't 453 00:36:13.240 --> 00:36:18.560 come out of the rock. And this is what he said. He said your calling is great. 454 00:36:18.600 --> 00:36:29.560 Your calling is heavy. Your calling is is it's like a heavy-duty calling. And 455 00:36:29.560 --> 00:36:32.480 and I'm not saying that just for me. I'm saying that for you. Your calling is also 456 00:36:32.480 --> 00:36:39.040 that. And he said the strength that it takes to take the sword out of the rock 457 00:36:39.040 --> 00:36:43.080 is the strength that will be required to wield the sword once it's out of the 458 00:36:43.080 --> 00:36:47.680 rock. And there's an authority that you've been given. There is a 459 00:36:47.680 --> 00:36:51.160 responsibility that you've been given. There is a stewardship that you've been 460 00:36:51.160 --> 00:36:56.720 given. There is a calling that you've been given to bring the purpose of the 461 00:36:56.720 --> 00:37:00.760 kingdom. The purpose of God's heart. The purpose of heaven. To bring the will of 462 00:37:00.760 --> 00:37:07.000 God into actuality. Into fruition on the planet. In a way where where everything 463 00:37:07.000 --> 00:37:12.360 that is opposed to the will of God bows its knee to the name of Jesus. Where the 464 00:37:12.360 --> 00:37:18.600 culture of heaven is fully outworked on the planet. But in that 465 00:37:18.600 --> 00:37:22.720 responsibility and in that stewardship, it requires a strength. It requires a 466 00:37:22.720 --> 00:37:28.880 maturity. And it requires, it's so massive, it requires a growing into. A maturing 467 00:37:28.880 --> 00:37:33.400 into in order to grasp and receive everything that's been given to us. So 468 00:37:33.400 --> 00:37:37.560 while we have been given all authority, we have not yet fully received or grown 469 00:37:37.560 --> 00:37:42.120 into the all authority that we've been given. And we are therefore, we find 470 00:37:42.120 --> 00:37:46.040 ourselves in this wrestle. And for me, I often refer back to the picture of the 471 00:37:46.040 --> 00:37:49.920 sword. Where I was wrestling with the sword. And it didn't, you know, wrestling 472 00:37:49.920 --> 00:37:52.800 isn't always very much fun. You know, like when you're trying to wrestle a sword 473 00:37:52.800 --> 00:37:58.120 out of a stone. I don't know if you've ever tried to open a, I mean I'm sure you have. 474 00:37:58.120 --> 00:38:05.880 Like I got, I got given a jar. My wife gave me a jar a few days ago. And said 475 00:38:05.880 --> 00:38:09.280 could you, could you open this jar? I can't open it. And I tried with all my 476 00:38:09.480 --> 00:38:13.320 might to open this jar. And I couldn't. I was trying to wrestle the lid off 477 00:38:13.320 --> 00:38:17.040 this jar. But it just wouldn't come off. And then of course I said I can't get it 478 00:38:17.040 --> 00:38:21.480 off. I just can't get it off. And then we gave it to to my brother-in-law. And he 479 00:38:21.480 --> 00:38:24.400 just went and just came off straight away. And it was just super frustrating. 480 00:38:24.400 --> 00:38:28.480 But you know, sometimes wrestles aren't that much fun. Sometimes it feels, 481 00:38:28.480 --> 00:38:32.200 sometimes all you want to do is just get the lid off the jar. Or get the sword out 482 00:38:32.200 --> 00:38:40.200 of the stone. Or get, you know, the, you know, the mature into and have your 483 00:38:40.200 --> 00:38:43.960 capacity grow to the capacity that can receive the amount of authority that 484 00:38:43.960 --> 00:38:48.440 you've already been given by God to walk in. And that wrestle can be hard 485 00:38:48.440 --> 00:38:53.160 sometimes. But when the wrestle's hard, this is what I want to say. Look to Jesus. 486 00:38:53.160 --> 00:38:58.400 Look to Jesus and let Jesus continually be the definition of the purpose of the 487 00:38:58.400 --> 00:39:02.800 kingdom to you. Look to the life of Jesus and let it continually be God's 488 00:39:02.800 --> 00:39:06.640 definition to you of what His purpose in your life, and what His purpose on earth, 489 00:39:06.640 --> 00:39:10.160 and what the purpose of the kingdom is. Because the purpose of the kingdom looks 490 00:39:10.160 --> 00:39:14.880 like Jesus. The purpose of the standard of His purpose, the authority to bring 491 00:39:14.880 --> 00:39:21.400 His purpose to pass, it looks like Jesus. That's the expectation that we're 492 00:39:21.400 --> 00:39:30.440 meant to live with as sons and daughters of God. And so, yeah, that's what I 493 00:39:30.440 --> 00:39:34.000 want to say about the purpose of the kingdom. We're gonna, as I said, I'm gonna 494 00:39:34.000 --> 00:39:40.480 go into the pillar five, the fifth pillar, which is where is the kingdom? Obviously 495 00:39:40.480 --> 00:39:43.160 there's a little bit of overlap between some of these sessions, and that's just 496 00:39:43.160 --> 00:39:47.160 just the nature of what we're talking about now. Everything that we're talking 497 00:39:47.160 --> 00:39:50.680 about does overlap in a pretty massive way. We're gonna be talking about the fifth 498 00:39:50.680 --> 00:39:53.880 pillar of the kingdom, which is where is the kingdom? We're talking about the Holy 499 00:39:53.880 --> 00:39:58.280 Spirit. We're going to be talking about a few things, also some practical things that we 500 00:39:58.280 --> 00:40:00.560 can do. 501 00:40:00.000 --> 00:40:04.680 Yes, I'm just reading a comment right now. 502 00:40:04.680 --> 00:40:06.760 I'm going to need both hands to hold this sword. 503 00:40:06.760 --> 00:40:07.760 Amen. 504 00:40:07.760 --> 00:40:08.760 Thank you so much, Matt. 505 00:40:08.760 --> 00:40:09.760 Amen. 506 00:40:09.760 --> 00:40:12.200 Yes, you're going to need both hands to hold this sword. 507 00:40:12.200 --> 00:40:15.360 Yes, absolutely. 508 00:40:15.360 --> 00:40:19.840 We all have—God believes in us more than we believe in ourselves, and He's entrusted 509 00:40:19.840 --> 00:40:24.680 us to such a glorious and wonderful responsibility. 510 00:40:24.680 --> 00:40:31.640 Sometimes I pinch myself and I feel so humbled to have been trusted by God with such—it's 511 00:40:31.640 --> 00:40:35.560 sobering to be trusted with such a responsibility on the planet, and so it does require both 512 00:40:35.560 --> 00:40:36.560 hands. 513 00:40:36.560 --> 00:40:39.600 It absolutely requires both hands. 514 00:40:39.600 --> 00:40:45.560 So let me pray for you, and then we'll see you in a few days with Pillar 5. 515 00:40:45.560 --> 00:40:46.560 Boom. 516 00:40:46.560 --> 00:40:49.920 Also, feel free to drop a comment if there's any questions you have or if there's anything 517 00:40:49.920 --> 00:40:55.360 that you would—you're like, man, I'd love it if you taught on this, or if you answered 518 00:40:55.360 --> 00:40:59.080 this question, or if you went into this, or during the Kingdom series, if you talked about 519 00:40:59.080 --> 00:41:02.720 this or that or the other thing, just feel free to drop it in the comments, and we'll 520 00:41:02.720 --> 00:41:07.240 definitely be considering that, and we'll try and cover that in some of the sessions 521 00:41:07.240 --> 00:41:08.240 in the future. 522 00:41:08.240 --> 00:41:11.840 But Father, right now, I just thank You for every person tuned in, and I thank You for 523 00:41:11.840 --> 00:41:16.320 the purpose of the Kingdom, and everywhere in anyone's life where Your will is not being 524 00:41:16.320 --> 00:41:20.160 played out, where Your will is not happening, it's not taking place. 525 00:41:20.160 --> 00:41:23.720 Right now, I declare the authority of the Kingdom over every person's life that's tuned 526 00:41:23.720 --> 00:41:31.200 in right now, over their families, God, over their minds, over their finances, over their 527 00:41:31.200 --> 00:41:33.240 health, over their bodies. 528 00:41:33.240 --> 00:41:37.960 I declare right now a manifestation of Your Kingdom right now to come flashing in like 529 00:41:37.960 --> 00:41:39.920 light in the dark, lighting up the room, God. 530 00:41:39.920 --> 00:41:44.680 I declare the light of Your glory all over every person in their family right now in 531 00:41:44.680 --> 00:41:48.360 the name of Jesus, and I thank You, God, for bringing people into alignment with Your 532 00:41:48.360 --> 00:41:49.360 Kingdom. 533 00:41:49.360 --> 00:41:51.200 Your Kingdom looks like Jesus. 534 00:41:51.200 --> 00:41:54.340 The purpose of Your Kingdom looks like the purpose of Jesus. 535 00:41:54.340 --> 00:41:55.840 Thank You, God, for the apostolic. 536 00:41:55.840 --> 00:42:00.680 Thank You for bringing us in and showing us, God, that everything that we look at is already 537 00:42:00.680 --> 00:42:01.680 being conquered. 538 00:42:01.680 --> 00:42:04.960 It just needs to be cultivated until it looks like heaven. 539 00:42:04.960 --> 00:42:07.360 God, thank You for the stewardship that we've been given. 540 00:42:07.360 --> 00:42:12.640 I just bless every person right now with a renewed mind and with a renewed fire and passion 541 00:42:12.640 --> 00:42:17.760 for the purpose of the Kingdom in their lives, in Jesus' name, Amen. 542 00:42:17.760 --> 00:42:18.760 Awesome, guys. 543 00:42:18.760 --> 00:42:25.760 Well, I love you, and I'm going to be seeing you guys in a few days, but until then, ka 544 00:42:25.760 --> 00:42:27.680 kite, and we'll see you soon.