WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:04.640 we don't bring any honor to God by making ourselves less than who He says we are. 2 00:00:04.640 --> 00:00:08.080 You know, there can be, when we make a statement like we're the greater people on the earth, 3 00:00:08.080 --> 00:00:14.160 that can sound weird on a number of levels. But I think we get into this false piety 4 00:00:15.040 --> 00:00:19.040 where, well, I'm just little old me, and I'm needy, and I'm just crushed and broken, 5 00:00:19.040 --> 00:00:23.120 and I can't, you know, Scripture says that we can do nothing apart from Him. You know, 6 00:00:23.120 --> 00:00:28.720 we all know that one. But we emphasize that when He also says, I can do all things through Christ 7 00:00:28.720 --> 00:00:33.120 who strengthens me. So yes, we can do nothing apart from Jesus, but the good news is we're 8 00:00:33.120 --> 00:00:35.440 not apart from Him and don't ever intend to be. 9 00:00:42.560 --> 00:00:48.640 Well, welcome back to Kingship Reformation. Today we're on class number six, and the title is 10 00:00:48.640 --> 00:00:54.080 Greater People and Greater Works. So just as a point of quick review, you know, we've been 11 00:00:54.080 --> 00:00:59.840 talking about this fact that Jesus redeemed us, not to get us off the earth, but He redeemed us 12 00:00:59.840 --> 00:01:04.879 and made us kings and priests to reign on the earth. And we've been looking at the storyline 13 00:01:04.879 --> 00:01:10.960 on a pretty high level of the narrative of the kingdom of God on earth. And, you know, it's true, 14 00:01:10.960 --> 00:01:17.360 we really have been cast into a story fit for kings. Now, largely we've been sold a lesser 15 00:01:17.360 --> 00:01:23.120 story, and I think that's why we haven't lived as kings. We've kind of lived as escapists, 16 00:01:23.120 --> 00:01:29.040 and anything in between. But that's changing. As I said, I believe we're in a kingdom awakening 17 00:01:29.040 --> 00:01:33.920 and a kingship reformation of believers. And I'm starting to hear more and more, I'm hearing more 18 00:01:33.920 --> 00:01:38.000 and more preachers around the country and around the world that are picking up on this. And I 19 00:01:38.000 --> 00:01:42.560 really do believe it's a move of the spirit in our time. So kingship reformation is about 20 00:01:42.560 --> 00:01:49.600 discovering and engaging in our kingly role in His great story. So the last class we focused on 21 00:01:49.600 --> 00:01:56.640 how the kingdom actually grows and transforms the earth. And so in summary, Jesus plants the 22 00:01:56.640 --> 00:02:01.120 sons of the kingdom in the earth. That was taken from the parable of the wheat and tares in Matthew 23 00:02:01.120 --> 00:02:09.120 13. You know, we grow alongside of the tares. And so that was a key point of growing up. We act as 24 00:02:09.120 --> 00:02:15.920 leaven mixed into the dough. You know, one of the versions of that parable of the leaven 25 00:02:16.560 --> 00:02:23.440 is that it's mixed into all throughout until the whole loaf rises. So we function as salt in 26 00:02:23.440 --> 00:02:27.200 the earth. You know, Jesus said, you are the salt of the earth. And salt is mainly a preservative. 27 00:02:27.200 --> 00:02:32.080 But I just said here that we function as salt, preserving and flavoring life on the planet. 28 00:02:32.640 --> 00:02:36.880 So we shine as light in the darkness. You know, we're not the light that people, we want people 29 00:02:36.880 --> 00:02:41.280 to come out of the darkness and into our light meetings. We want to be light that penetrates 30 00:02:41.280 --> 00:02:46.160 darkness in the spheres of influence. And the way we do that is by the way we work, really the 31 00:02:46.160 --> 00:02:51.680 way we work out our salvation. Jesus said, let your light so shine. And that so means, it's not 32 00:02:51.680 --> 00:02:56.800 like saying, let your light shine so much. It's like, let your light in this manner, let it so 33 00:02:56.800 --> 00:03:02.720 shine. How? Jesus, that men would see your good works. They'd see the way you work. They'd see 34 00:03:02.720 --> 00:03:08.240 the way life is supposed to work. And that shines light in a dark room. And they stop stumbling over 35 00:03:08.240 --> 00:03:15.120 ridiculous ideologies that we hear promoted by the world so much. So in summary, the kingdom 36 00:03:15.120 --> 00:03:20.720 of God on earth grows through the intricate and intimate involvement of God's kingdom people who 37 00:03:20.720 --> 00:03:26.000 are planted in the world. We're not of the world, but we've been planted in it. And that's God's 38 00:03:26.000 --> 00:03:32.160 glorious plan. So the days of disengagement and withdrawal from the earth and looking forward to 39 00:03:32.160 --> 00:03:38.480 getting off the earth are over. I'm officially declaring those days over. So today I want to 40 00:03:38.480 --> 00:03:43.040 talk about in this class, greater people, greater work. So greater people, where do I get that 41 00:03:43.040 --> 00:03:48.560 expression? First of all, I just want to say, we are the greater people. If you're a child of God, 42 00:03:49.200 --> 00:03:54.880 from the lips of Jesus, Matthew 11, 11, Jesus says, when he's talking about John the Baptist, 43 00:03:54.880 --> 00:04:01.680 he says, assuredly, I say to you, among those born of women, there has not risen one greater 44 00:04:01.680 --> 00:04:07.440 than John the Baptist. Now let that sink in for a minute. That's, you know, his, his, his hearers of 45 00:04:07.440 --> 00:04:12.080 that when he first said that had to be like, you know, going through their Rolodex in their mind 46 00:04:12.080 --> 00:04:18.160 of all the people in the Old Testament of coming on David, Daniel, Joshua, Moses. And Jesus is 47 00:04:18.160 --> 00:04:23.920 saying assuredly that of all those people prior, there's not one greater than John. But then he 48 00:04:23.920 --> 00:04:30.720 blows our mind and says this directly to us, but he who is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater 49 00:04:30.720 --> 00:04:38.160 than he, greater than John. So you do the math on that. We don't bring any honor to God by making 50 00:04:38.160 --> 00:04:42.480 ourselves less than who he says we are. You know, there can be, when we make a statement like we're 51 00:04:42.480 --> 00:04:47.200 the greater people on the earth, that can sound, that can sound weird on a number of levels, but 52 00:04:47.920 --> 00:04:53.280 I think we get into this false piety where, well, I'm just little old me and I'm needy, 53 00:04:53.280 --> 00:04:56.160 and I'm just crushed and broken. And I can't, you know, 54 00:04:56.160 --> 00:04:59.840 scripture says that we can do nothing apart from him. You know, we all know that one. 55 00:05:00.000 --> 00:05:02.800 But we emphasize that when he also says, 56 00:05:02.800 --> 00:05:05.520 I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me. 57 00:05:05.520 --> 00:05:08.200 So yes, we can do nothing apart from Jesus, 58 00:05:08.200 --> 00:05:09.960 but the good news is we're not apart from him 59 00:05:09.960 --> 00:05:11.960 and don't ever intend to be. 60 00:05:11.960 --> 00:05:13.680 So what does scripture say about us? 61 00:05:13.680 --> 00:05:15.400 Psalm eight, four through six 62 00:05:15.400 --> 00:05:18.000 is one of the most mind boggling scriptures. 63 00:05:18.000 --> 00:05:22.160 Old Testament, so I believe talking about man at large, 64 00:05:22.160 --> 00:05:23.320 not just redeemed man. 65 00:05:23.320 --> 00:05:26.320 What is man that you take thought of him 66 00:05:26.320 --> 00:05:28.580 and the son of man that you care for him? 67 00:05:28.580 --> 00:05:31.620 Yet you have made him a little lower than Elohim 68 00:05:31.620 --> 00:05:34.860 and you crown him with glory and majesty 69 00:05:34.860 --> 00:05:37.780 and you make him to rule over the works of your hands. 70 00:05:37.780 --> 00:05:41.140 You have put all things under his feet. 71 00:05:41.140 --> 00:05:43.060 Now you should just really spend some time meditating 72 00:05:43.060 --> 00:05:45.720 on every one of those little phrases in that scripture, 73 00:05:45.720 --> 00:05:49.680 but this is what God says about us, who we are. 74 00:05:49.680 --> 00:05:51.660 I'll give an example of our greatness 75 00:05:51.660 --> 00:05:53.300 as applied to a particular area. 76 00:05:53.300 --> 00:05:54.260 Let's call it prayer. 77 00:05:54.300 --> 00:05:57.620 So James 5, 16 and 18 says, 78 00:05:57.620 --> 00:06:00.380 the effective fervent prayer of a righteous man 79 00:06:00.380 --> 00:06:01.220 avails much. 80 00:06:01.220 --> 00:06:03.460 I wanna point out, it says a righteous man there. 81 00:06:03.460 --> 00:06:07.900 It doesn't say if I can fill up the stadium 82 00:06:07.900 --> 00:06:11.300 with believers crying out for a particular thing, 83 00:06:11.300 --> 00:06:13.180 then maybe I'll hear from heaven. 84 00:06:13.180 --> 00:06:15.940 Now I love corporate prayer and I love stadium gatherings 85 00:06:15.940 --> 00:06:17.820 and I'm not knocking that, 86 00:06:17.820 --> 00:06:19.660 but James literally says here 87 00:06:19.660 --> 00:06:21.260 that the effective fervent prayer 88 00:06:21.260 --> 00:06:24.220 of a righteous man avails much. 89 00:06:24.220 --> 00:06:26.020 And I'm really glad he didn't stop there 90 00:06:26.020 --> 00:06:27.660 because we would downgrade it. 91 00:06:27.660 --> 00:06:28.700 But he goes on to says, 92 00:06:28.700 --> 00:06:31.780 Elijah was a man with a nature like ours 93 00:06:31.780 --> 00:06:33.840 and he prayed earnestly that it would not rain 94 00:06:33.840 --> 00:06:35.260 and it did not rain on the land 95 00:06:35.260 --> 00:06:36.860 for three years and six months. 96 00:06:36.860 --> 00:06:37.940 And then he goes on to say, 97 00:06:37.940 --> 00:06:40.140 he prayed again and the heavens gave the rain. 98 00:06:40.140 --> 00:06:41.460 The point is this, 99 00:06:41.460 --> 00:06:44.180 I believe that the Holy Spirit through the writer, 100 00:06:44.180 --> 00:06:45.700 through James was indicating, 101 00:06:45.700 --> 00:06:47.500 in case people are wondering what I mean 102 00:06:47.500 --> 00:06:50.540 by what a righteous man can avail in prayer, 103 00:06:50.540 --> 00:06:52.740 I'm gonna set a pretty high bar here and say, 104 00:06:52.740 --> 00:06:55.660 Elijah, this old covenant guy 105 00:06:55.660 --> 00:06:57.220 actually called for the rain to stop. 106 00:06:57.220 --> 00:06:59.540 In fact, I've written the scripture here, 107 00:06:59.540 --> 00:07:02.260 first Kings 17, one, this is actually, 108 00:07:02.260 --> 00:07:03.160 cause I wanted to look it up. 109 00:07:03.160 --> 00:07:05.320 Where did Elijah actually pray for it not to rain? 110 00:07:05.320 --> 00:07:07.700 So I went back to first Kings 17, one, 111 00:07:07.700 --> 00:07:12.380 and this is what Elijah says to Ahab, the king, 112 00:07:12.380 --> 00:07:14.060 as the Lord God of it, 113 00:07:14.060 --> 00:07:15.820 this is called confidence by the way, 114 00:07:15.820 --> 00:07:18.540 in your relationship with God, 115 00:07:18.540 --> 00:07:22.580 as the Lord God of Israel lives before whom I stand, 116 00:07:22.580 --> 00:07:27.180 there shall not be due nor rain these years, 117 00:07:27.180 --> 00:07:29.460 except at my word. 118 00:07:29.460 --> 00:07:32.420 Okay, that's a kingly prayer right now. 119 00:07:32.420 --> 00:07:35.220 And again, we've been redeemed to be kings and priests. 120 00:07:35.220 --> 00:07:37.060 This is what we ought to have as a target 121 00:07:37.060 --> 00:07:40.300 for the way we pray as the ecclesia of God. 122 00:07:40.300 --> 00:07:42.140 So I would just say, have we the church, 123 00:07:42.140 --> 00:07:44.180 have we even begun to grasp, 124 00:07:44.180 --> 00:07:47.340 much less walk in the reality of these truths? 125 00:07:47.340 --> 00:07:48.820 I believe the days are coming, 126 00:07:48.820 --> 00:07:50.360 I don't know how far down the road it'll be, 127 00:07:50.360 --> 00:07:52.980 but when walking in this greatness 128 00:07:52.980 --> 00:07:54.420 will be normal for the saints. 129 00:07:54.420 --> 00:07:57.400 These things right now have a cognitive dissonance to them 130 00:07:57.400 --> 00:07:59.500 because we haven't really been given a, 131 00:07:59.500 --> 00:08:02.660 again, that story that requires that kind of faith 132 00:08:02.660 --> 00:08:04.180 or that kind of greatness, 133 00:08:04.180 --> 00:08:07.020 but it really is God who says these things about us. 134 00:08:07.020 --> 00:08:09.460 So we are the greater people 135 00:08:09.460 --> 00:08:12.380 and I just don't take my word for it, 136 00:08:12.380 --> 00:08:14.140 take Jesus's word for it. 137 00:08:14.140 --> 00:08:16.040 And then I wanna talk about the greater works 138 00:08:16.040 --> 00:08:20.800 and I get, I draw that phrase from John 14, 12, 139 00:08:20.800 --> 00:08:23.400 where Jesus says, most assuredly, I say to you, 140 00:08:23.400 --> 00:08:27.920 he who believes in me, the works that I do, he will do. 141 00:08:27.920 --> 00:08:30.720 If he stopped right there, it'd be an awesome, 142 00:08:30.720 --> 00:08:33.960 it would be an awesome declaration or promise. 143 00:08:33.960 --> 00:08:36.640 But he says, and greater works than these, 144 00:08:36.640 --> 00:08:40.640 he will do because I go to my father. 145 00:08:40.640 --> 00:08:42.320 And again, you just have to meditate. 146 00:08:42.320 --> 00:08:44.080 We have to renew our minds to this truth 147 00:08:44.080 --> 00:08:45.800 because it's not something you get right away, 148 00:08:46.560 --> 00:08:48.800 but he said, me leaving because I leave, 149 00:08:48.800 --> 00:08:52.360 it's going to facilitate or empower 150 00:08:52.360 --> 00:08:54.920 or enable greater works to be done 151 00:08:54.920 --> 00:08:56.160 by those who believe in him. 152 00:08:56.160 --> 00:08:58.720 So what is the causal relationship 153 00:08:58.720 --> 00:09:00.640 between Jesus's leaving earth 154 00:09:00.640 --> 00:09:02.840 and our being able to do the greater works? 155 00:09:02.840 --> 00:09:04.560 And of course, the first answer we all would give, 156 00:09:04.560 --> 00:09:06.880 and it's, I believe, mostly true. 157 00:09:06.880 --> 00:09:09.200 It's true, but it's only part of the story 158 00:09:09.200 --> 00:09:10.800 and that's the Holy Spirit was poured out 159 00:09:10.800 --> 00:09:12.280 when Jesus went to the father, 160 00:09:12.280 --> 00:09:13.680 then the spirit was poured out 161 00:09:13.680 --> 00:09:15.240 and the spirit that was with them, 162 00:09:15.680 --> 00:09:17.360 as he told his followers and now be in us. 163 00:09:17.360 --> 00:09:20.880 So the indwelling spirit of God, I mean, that's awesome. 164 00:09:20.880 --> 00:09:23.960 So that empowers us to do the works of Jesus. 165 00:09:23.960 --> 00:09:26.880 That would speak to our ability to do more works 166 00:09:26.880 --> 00:09:29.520 than Jesus did because he was limited by the human body 167 00:09:29.520 --> 00:09:32.520 he chose to travel around in when he was on the earth. 168 00:09:32.520 --> 00:09:34.880 But Jesus didn't just say, you do more works. 169 00:09:34.880 --> 00:09:36.360 He said, you do greater works. 170 00:09:36.360 --> 00:09:38.760 And that's a qualitative statement, 171 00:09:38.760 --> 00:09:40.280 not a quantitative statement. 172 00:09:40.280 --> 00:09:45.160 So what is this relationship between Jesus leaving? 173 00:09:45.160 --> 00:09:47.000 And I believe it's right at the heart. 174 00:09:47.000 --> 00:09:49.800 It's right at the core of this kingship reformation 175 00:09:49.800 --> 00:09:52.040 and this kingdom of God awakening. 176 00:09:52.040 --> 00:09:53.680 When Jesus ascended to the father, 177 00:09:53.680 --> 00:09:55.760 he ascended to receive his kingdom. 178 00:09:55.760 --> 00:09:58.200 It was his coronation, his crowning moment. 179 00:09:58.200 --> 00:09:59.560 We have the parable of, 180 00:10:00.000 --> 00:10:03.800 Now, a man goes to a faraway land to receive a kingdom, 181 00:10:03.800 --> 00:10:06.860 and then he comes back, and he asks his people, 182 00:10:06.860 --> 00:10:08.520 his servants, to give an account. 183 00:10:08.520 --> 00:10:11.900 But probably the most stunning picture of this ascension, 184 00:10:11.900 --> 00:10:16.040 what Jesus ascended to do, is Daniel 7, 13 to 14. 185 00:10:16.040 --> 00:10:17.160 I'll just read that. 186 00:10:17.160 --> 00:10:18.880 I was watching in the night visions, 187 00:10:18.880 --> 00:10:20.800 and behold, one like the Son of Man, 188 00:10:20.800 --> 00:10:23.640 coming with the clouds of heaven, by the way, 189 00:10:23.640 --> 00:10:25.520 he came to the Ancient of Days, and they 190 00:10:25.520 --> 00:10:27.360 brought him near before him. 191 00:10:27.360 --> 00:10:31.360 Then to him was given dominion, and glory, and a kingdom, 192 00:10:31.360 --> 00:10:34.320 that all people's nations and languages should serve him. 193 00:10:34.320 --> 00:10:37.320 His dominion is an everlasting dominion, 194 00:10:37.320 --> 00:10:40.440 which shall not pass away in his kingdom, the one which 195 00:10:40.440 --> 00:10:42.240 will not be destroyed. 196 00:10:42.240 --> 00:10:45.520 So when Jesus redeemed us and received his kingdom, 197 00:10:45.520 --> 00:10:48.280 he made us kings and priests to reign on the earth. 198 00:10:48.280 --> 00:10:51.440 This is why I believe he says we do the greater works because he 199 00:10:51.440 --> 00:10:54.440 went to the Father, because he went to become the king. 200 00:10:54.440 --> 00:10:56.520 He did not walk on the earth as a king. 201 00:10:56.560 --> 00:10:58.960 He walked on the earth as the Lamb of God. 202 00:10:58.960 --> 00:11:00.920 Now he's seated at the right hand as the king, 203 00:11:00.920 --> 00:11:02.440 as the lion of the tribe of Judah. 204 00:11:04.760 --> 00:11:07.520 So he said that Jesus said he was going to build his church. 205 00:11:07.520 --> 00:11:08.560 This is Matthew 16. 206 00:11:08.560 --> 00:11:10.880 He's going to build his ekklesia, 207 00:11:10.880 --> 00:11:13.160 and that this is his legislative body. 208 00:11:13.160 --> 00:11:14.120 We've talked about that. 209 00:11:14.120 --> 00:11:16.360 The Greek word for church there is ekklesia. 210 00:11:16.360 --> 00:11:17.880 It's a legislative body. 211 00:11:17.880 --> 00:11:19.600 He's going to build his legislative body 212 00:11:19.600 --> 00:11:23.320 on the earth, which the gates of hell would not prevail against. 213 00:11:24.320 --> 00:11:28.440 So what are the greater works that Jesus did not do? 214 00:11:28.440 --> 00:11:29.840 So it's very interesting. 215 00:11:29.840 --> 00:11:33.560 So in Luke chapter 4, this is when Jesus stood up 216 00:11:33.560 --> 00:11:36.560 in the synagogue, and he read the following passage 217 00:11:36.560 --> 00:11:38.160 from the prophet Isaiah. 218 00:11:38.160 --> 00:11:41.120 And I'm just going to read Isaiah 61, 1 through 2a. 219 00:11:41.120 --> 00:11:43.720 The spirit of the Lord God is upon me, 220 00:11:43.720 --> 00:11:46.880 because the Lord has anointed me to bring good news 221 00:11:46.880 --> 00:11:48.120 to the afflicted. 222 00:11:48.120 --> 00:11:50.760 He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, 223 00:11:51.040 --> 00:11:53.440 to proclaim liberty to the captives 224 00:11:53.440 --> 00:11:55.280 and freedom to the prisoners, 225 00:11:55.280 --> 00:11:58.360 and to proclaim the favorable year or the year of jubilee, 226 00:11:58.360 --> 00:12:00.200 favorable year of the Lord. 227 00:12:00.200 --> 00:12:02.480 Then when he closed the book and sat down, 228 00:12:02.480 --> 00:12:06.200 he said, today this scripture is fulfilled in your hearing. 229 00:12:06.920 --> 00:12:10.160 What was he saying to them by looking for 230 00:12:10.160 --> 00:12:13.080 and reading this particular passage out of Isaiah? 231 00:12:13.080 --> 00:12:14.520 This was a turning point, 232 00:12:14.520 --> 00:12:16.960 one of many turning points in his ministry. 233 00:12:16.960 --> 00:12:20.360 He was telling them point blank in the synagogue 234 00:12:20.360 --> 00:12:23.840 that he is the anointed one of whom Isaiah prophesied. 235 00:12:23.840 --> 00:12:25.640 And the way he's validating that statement 236 00:12:25.640 --> 00:12:28.160 is these are the works that I do, 237 00:12:28.160 --> 00:12:30.120 because they've seen him preaching good news 238 00:12:30.120 --> 00:12:32.800 of the afflicted and binding up the brokenhearted, 239 00:12:32.800 --> 00:12:34.760 proclaiming liberty to the captives, 240 00:12:34.760 --> 00:12:36.480 healing the sick, raising the dead. 241 00:12:36.480 --> 00:12:40.960 All the individual works Jesus did validated 242 00:12:40.960 --> 00:12:42.240 that he actually was the one. 243 00:12:42.240 --> 00:12:43.840 And this was him standing up and saying, 244 00:12:43.840 --> 00:12:45.720 I am here, I am he. 245 00:12:46.680 --> 00:12:51.280 So the works that he referred to in this Isaiah 61, 1 and 2, 246 00:12:51.280 --> 00:12:53.480 they're redemptive works to individuals, 247 00:12:53.480 --> 00:12:55.000 if you'll notice that. 248 00:12:55.000 --> 00:12:56.640 We the redeemed, the people of God, 249 00:12:56.640 --> 00:12:59.920 we continue doing these works as well, as Jesus said we would. 250 00:12:59.920 --> 00:13:02.080 He said, the works I do, you will do. 251 00:13:02.080 --> 00:13:03.240 So I think we get that. 252 00:13:03.240 --> 00:13:06.000 I think, of course, there are still whole sections 253 00:13:06.000 --> 00:13:09.960 of the church that don't believe in the power of miracles today, 254 00:13:09.960 --> 00:13:12.840 don't believe in all of the gifts of the Holy Spirit. 255 00:13:12.840 --> 00:13:14.240 That's called cessationism. 256 00:13:14.280 --> 00:13:17.720 And I'm not even going to grant that the time 257 00:13:17.720 --> 00:13:20.840 to address it with this crowd. 258 00:13:20.840 --> 00:13:23.600 But we still do the works that Jesus did. 259 00:13:23.600 --> 00:13:25.080 And we've been doing them. 260 00:13:25.080 --> 00:13:27.160 And I think we're going to be doing more of them. 261 00:13:27.160 --> 00:13:29.560 And I think we're going to be doing them more powerfully. 262 00:13:29.560 --> 00:13:31.240 But they're still the works Jesus did, 263 00:13:31.240 --> 00:13:35.600 which are the redemption aimed towards individuals. 264 00:13:35.600 --> 00:13:39.840 But the Isaiah 61 passage goes on from that place 265 00:13:39.840 --> 00:13:43.440 where Jesus stopped his reading to speak about additional works 266 00:13:43.440 --> 00:13:43.960 being done. 267 00:13:44.680 --> 00:13:46.680 This is mind-boggling here. 268 00:13:46.680 --> 00:13:50.640 So I'm going to read it, Isaiah 61, 3b through 4. 269 00:13:50.640 --> 00:13:54.800 It says, so they will be called the oaks of righteousness, 270 00:13:54.800 --> 00:13:58.480 the planting of the Lord, that he, God, may be glorified. 271 00:13:58.480 --> 00:14:01.760 Then they will rebuild the ancient ruins. 272 00:14:01.760 --> 00:14:06.680 They will raise up or restore the former devastations. 273 00:14:06.680 --> 00:14:09.680 And they will repair the ruined cities and the desolations 274 00:14:09.680 --> 00:14:11.480 of many generations. 275 00:14:11.480 --> 00:14:14.600 Now, notice that the works in this Isaiah passage, 276 00:14:14.600 --> 00:14:18.160 they've progressed from works of personal redemption, which, 277 00:14:18.160 --> 00:14:21.720 again, are the ones Jesus stood up and read and said, 278 00:14:21.720 --> 00:14:23.680 today this is fulfilled in your hearing. 279 00:14:23.680 --> 00:14:25.880 So they progressed from personal redemption 280 00:14:25.880 --> 00:14:27.880 to cultural reformation. 281 00:14:27.880 --> 00:14:29.480 And I believe personally that this 282 00:14:29.480 --> 00:14:32.080 is what Jesus meant by the greater works. 283 00:14:32.080 --> 00:14:34.680 Notice who's doing these works of reformation 284 00:14:34.680 --> 00:14:36.160 in the Isaiah passage. 285 00:14:36.160 --> 00:14:37.120 It's the redeemed. 286 00:14:37.120 --> 00:14:39.080 It's the planting of the Lord. 287 00:14:39.080 --> 00:14:43.360 Frankly, it's the ones that the redemptive works 288 00:14:43.360 --> 00:14:45.040 were first performed on. 289 00:14:45.040 --> 00:14:48.280 It was we that were in prison and have been set free. 290 00:14:48.280 --> 00:14:50.120 It's we that were lost, but now we're found. 291 00:14:50.120 --> 00:14:52.160 We were blind, but now we see. 292 00:14:52.160 --> 00:14:53.600 And he doesn't give a pause there. 293 00:14:53.600 --> 00:14:56.000 He doesn't say, and then they're put in a holding pattern 294 00:14:56.000 --> 00:14:58.880 until the anointed one returns to earth 295 00:14:58.880 --> 00:15:01.400 and starts fixing the earth. 296 00:15:00.000 --> 00:15:01.200 There's no pause there. It says, 297 00:15:01.300 --> 00:15:04.540 then they will be called the oaks of righteousness, 298 00:15:04.640 --> 00:15:06.040 the planting of the Lord. 299 00:15:06.140 --> 00:15:09.640 Then they will rebuild, restore, and repair. 300 00:15:09.740 --> 00:15:12.780 So these are works of cultural reformation. 301 00:15:12.880 --> 00:15:15.280 And it's the redeemed that are doing those. 302 00:15:15.380 --> 00:15:17.920 So we're doing these works, again, 303 00:15:18.020 --> 00:15:21.760 John 14, 12 said, because he goes to the Father. 304 00:15:21.860 --> 00:15:25.460 So he's gone to the Father to be enthroned 305 00:15:25.560 --> 00:15:28.460 as the King of kings, having redeemed us 306 00:15:28.460 --> 00:15:31.660 and made us kings and priests to reign on the earth. 307 00:15:31.760 --> 00:15:33.460 So the bottom line here, I believe, 308 00:15:33.560 --> 00:15:35.560 is that we, the redeemed kings and priests, 309 00:15:35.660 --> 00:15:39.440 are doing the works of personal redemption that Jesus did. 310 00:15:39.540 --> 00:15:42.100 But we're also doing, and we're called to do, 311 00:15:42.200 --> 00:15:46.180 the greater works of reformation under the crowned headship 312 00:15:46.280 --> 00:15:47.640 of the reigning King Jesus. 313 00:15:47.740 --> 00:15:49.120 You know, he's really a king. 314 00:15:49.220 --> 00:15:51.080 He's sitting on a real throne. 315 00:15:51.180 --> 00:15:52.220 It's not ethereal. 316 00:15:52.320 --> 00:15:54.420 It's not just an interior thing. 317 00:15:54.520 --> 00:15:55.820 The kingdom of God is within us. 318 00:15:55.920 --> 00:15:56.620 It starts there. 319 00:15:56.720 --> 00:15:57.880 It gets planted in us. 320 00:15:57.900 --> 00:15:59.840 But then he plants us in the earth, and he says, 321 00:15:59.940 --> 00:16:02.640 now you reign and rule on the earth. 322 00:16:02.740 --> 00:16:05.440 So Jesus didn't do these greater works while on earth, 323 00:16:05.540 --> 00:16:09.160 because as Ephesians 1, 22 says, he's now, 324 00:16:09.260 --> 00:16:12.760 as he's been ascended, he has been given as head 325 00:16:12.860 --> 00:16:16.100 over all things to us, to the church, which 326 00:16:16.200 --> 00:16:20.460 is his body, the fullness of him who fills all and in all. 327 00:16:20.560 --> 00:16:24.060 So folks, this is the kingship reformation. 328 00:16:24.160 --> 00:16:26.240 These passages, I believe, are going 329 00:16:26.300 --> 00:16:28.540 to become more and more familiar to us. 330 00:16:28.640 --> 00:16:31.240 And we're going to begin to get a vision, a picture, 331 00:16:31.340 --> 00:16:34.280 beyond the, I believe, shrunken version 332 00:16:34.380 --> 00:16:36.740 of the kingdom of God and Christianity 333 00:16:36.840 --> 00:16:39.940 in general that most of us have been raised 334 00:16:40.040 --> 00:16:41.780 under for the last 150 years. 335 00:16:41.880 --> 00:16:43.220 Nobody here is any older than that. 336 00:16:43.320 --> 00:16:44.760 I'm probably the closest. 337 00:16:44.860 --> 00:16:47.820 But I think we're in for some exciting times 338 00:16:47.920 --> 00:16:50.600 and just really looking forward to exploring, you know, 339 00:16:50.700 --> 00:16:51.820 how do we reign and rule? 340 00:16:51.920 --> 00:16:54.020 You know, how do the saints, as kings and priests, 341 00:16:54.120 --> 00:16:55.320 reign and rule on the earth? 342 00:16:55.480 --> 00:16:57.580 I think we'll spend the rest of our lives mining that out 343 00:16:57.680 --> 00:16:59.220 and walking in that. 344 00:16:59.320 --> 00:17:02.620 And so just welcome to the kingship reformation. 345 00:17:02.720 --> 00:17:04.780 And thanks for being with me for this class. 346 00:17:04.880 --> 00:17:08.260 And we will see you on the next class.