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0:01 Welcome. This is Ignite Kingdom Talk. Make the marketplace the miracle place. Recorded live at 20 20 four's Ignite Christian Business0:13 Conference. This episode features apostolic leader, doctor Greg Hood. Doctor Hood carries the message of the kingdom of God internationally, empowering believers to passionately pursue their God given mandate,0:25 which results in personal and societal transformation. Learn from him and other amazing leaders alongside Ignite's founders, Craig and Desiree Buyer. Head to Kingdom You dot org. Ignite0:37 Kingdom Talk now streams on Abundant TV, Wednesday evenings at 7 PM Central Standard Time. Download the app today or head to abundant tv dot com to see all the life giving content on offer.0:49 We would love your help leveraging social media for the kingdom. Let's ignite Christian business leaders all over the world. Like, comment, share, follow, and subscribe. In the1:01 name of Jesus, may your faith and hope be ignited, afresh and anew.1:10 My Lord. We ought to just go home. Ain't that amazing? Yes. Give Isaacs another hand.1:22 Would you do that? They're amazing, amazing anointing on them. I'm very thankful I'm very thankful for what God has them doing in the body1:34 all over the country and what they're doing in Israel and different places around the world. It's absolutely amazing how God's using them. And I'm I'm thankful to be here with you tonight. Amen. It's1:46 Greg, thank you for inviting us to be a part of this. We don't get you know, once we meet people most of the time, they don't want us to come anywhere with them anymore. So it's kind of a miracle
1:58 that we're here with you tonight. Now we we know God has something for you, and, I'm just, I'm amazed at what Holy Spirit is
2:10 doing in the realm of business and with entrepreneurs and business owners. You are the the front line of the kingdom expansion
2:23 that God's doing in the earth today. Do you believe that? Yes. I I got a got a word burning in me, but I gotta obey my wife. You know, the Bible says husbands obey your wives. And so
2:35 she gave me an assignment. No. That's no. That's that's another cult, I think, that does that. It's not it's not Christianity, is it? But she told me to talk about these books, and I'm not good at
2:46 this, but these guys were talking about the gospel of the kingdom as a book I'd written a couple years ago that is really I'm gonna talk a little bit about this tonight, but I think is a
2:58 foundation for people who are trying to break free out of religion because God never promised you a religion. That's right. Right.
3:10 4 of you got it. Amen. The rest of you go get the book. But he never promised you a religion. He promised you a kingdom. Amen. Amen? He never said he was gonna soup up a
3:21 religion, fix an old religion, birth a new religion. He came for 1 purpose only, and that is to bring you a kingdom, which is totally different from a religion. And I talk about a lot of
3:33 things. I was gonna name I was gonna subtitle this book debunking religion. And Dutch said Dutch she told me, he said, Greg, if you name it that, won't nobody buy it because everybody that needs is religious.
3:46 And I said, okay. So it's the only book I got that does not have a subtitle. And so we've got the gospel of the kingdom there. And then I wrote another book called, Sonship According to the
3:57 Kingdom, subtitled Stepping Into the Power of Your True Identity. It's 1 thing to know the language of the kingdom, the philosophy of the kingdom, but if you don't know who you are in
4:09 the kingdom, all you got's theory. Does that make sense? You need you need to have measurable results. Even in business, if you don't have a measurable results, you you
4:21 need to stop and do something else. Right? That's right. So you need measurable results in your life in the kingdom and what God's called you to do in your identity, the identity and the purpose that he's
4:33 given you. And I talk about this in this book. Tim Sheets wrote the, forward for this book. That young man on the front is my oldest boy, Micah. Good looking guy, ain't he?
4:45 Looks just like his daddy. Hallelujah. And the third book I wrote is Citizenship According to the Kingdom. I've got another 1 coming out soon called
4:56 Ambassadorship, but this has to do with the life of governmental authority. After you know who you are, you need to know how to manifest your assignment in the earth through
5:08 heaven's governmental authority. And we talk about this a lot in this book here. Now, whenever we're talking about governmental authority, you gotta understand that
5:20 kingdom is not again, I'm gonna say it, it's not a religion.
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5:46 Again, I'm gonna say it's not a religion. Amen. Amen. It's not a it's not part of a religion. But what about the church? The church is not supposed to be religious.
5:57 The church is the legislative arm of the kingdom of God in the earth. You are the governmental representation of the
6:09 kingdom of heaven in the earth. And your job is to be cultural shifters through the authority that God has given you in the earth.
6:21 You are the most dangerous creation in the earth today. Do you believe that? Amen. Yeah. Well, God leaned over and said, yeah, married her. No, no, no, no, I'm not talking about that. You are the most
6:33 dangerous thing in the earth. Devils, demons, principalities, powers, rulers of darkness, spiritual wickedness in high places, they have no more
6:45 authority in the earth than that which a human gives them. They don't have sovereign power. They have delegated power. And when and when God wants to do something in the
6:56 earth, he needs a man to do it. Am I right? That's right. When the devil wants to do something in the earth, likewise, he needs a woman to do it. Right? I mean a man. He needs a man to do it. He if he's
7:08 going if he you are the legal entity in the earth to cause anything that requires authority to happen.
7:20 That's right. It's you. Look at somebody say, it's you. It's you. And we've got to understand that is nothing is haphazard in the kingdom of God. That's right.
7:32 The Bible says God does things line upon line and precept upon precept. He takes us from faith to faith and from glory to glory. Am I right? So if God is a
7:44 God of order, then we need to understand that our lives are not designed to be chaotic. They're designed to be full of the order of the
7:56 government by which you are from and you represent, and that's the kingdom of God. So you are designed by God to live a life of governmental
8:07 authority. Say amen. Amen. Yeah. This other book that we have is called, Rebuilding the Awakening Out of Chaos. And I wrote this book, God
8:19 gave me this revelation back in 19 99. And it just set for a while, I was getting ready to write the book on the kingdom, and the Lord said, put that on hold, I
8:31 want you to write about awakening out of chaos. And I and I did, and the Lord said, I want you to look at the 12 tribes of Israel, and I want you to look at first
8:43 Kings 18, you know the story, where Elijah called fire down from heaven, And the prophets of Baal leaped on the altar, and they sacrificed and they
8:55 called out to Baal. But when it was all over, Elijah came and the Bible says he reached into the rubble and he pulled out 12 stones, 1 representing each of the tribes
9:06 of Israel, and he built an altar to the Lord for the fire of God to fall on. And I began to look at that scenario, and the spirit of the Lord began to speak to me, and he said,
9:18 Greg, I want you to study the names of all of the tribes. And I said, well, that's really nothing new. People have done that before. I mean, you know, we know who they are. He said, I want
9:30 you to discover what their names mean when they're walking with me and what their names mean when they're not walking with me. And as
9:42 I began to set myself in that journey, the Lord began to show me many things even parallel in America when we're not walking with him, certain things
9:54 manifest. And when we're walking with him, certain things manifest. And I begin to see that the whole scenario on Mount Carmel
10:05 was not about the fire. That's why we preach it, good Pentecostal folks, man. That's 1 of our go to sermons when we ain't got nothing else to preach and, you know, we didn't study
10:17 like we needed to on Saturday night for Sunday morning. We just go back to first Kings 18 and we can hoop and preach about the fire. But the fire was not the focus.
10:29 The fire was a means to an end. We're looking for revival in America and we're talking about God give us the fire. But the fire is not
10:41 what God's wanting you to dwell in. The fire is a means to an end. Elijah pulled away from the people, and he's prayed. He said, I'm asking you. And I'm
10:53 I'm I'm giving you redneck paraphrasing. He said, I'm asking you, father, to answer my prayer so that they will
11:05 know there's still a God in Israel. So the whole purpose of Mount Carmel was about from among the chaos, God saves a nation.
11:18 And the fire that we're looking for in revival, in awakening, in transformation should not just be another Pentecostal charismatic experience that
11:29 we're wanting to make us feel better about ourselves where we are, but it should be a means to an end to shift America back to God and get her
11:41 operating in and out of her prophetic blueprint. Does that make sense? God's not done with America. Do you believe that tonight? He's not done with this nation. As a matter of
11:53 fact, he's priming us up in a showdown between good and evil, between the prophets of Baal and those that know the voice of the Lord and are not afraid
12:05 to say, you go first. Do your best. I have to be careful because sometimes my colorful language from the state of Mississippi shows up and I never get invited back to conferences
12:16 again. So I have to be very, very careful. And he began to nag him. He said, maybe your God's on vacation. Maybe he's sleeping. You might need to shout a little louder, wake him up.
12:29 And he just poked and poked and poked at them until they gave up. Let me tell you, some demons you can't cast out, some of them you just gotta outlast. And there are some things that are going on in our nation
12:41 now that we're gonna have to outlast. We're saying, God, would you rid us of these things? And God's saying, just hang on. If you'll hang on and you'll hang out with me a little bit, I'll show you the
12:53 breakthrough that you're needing for your nation. That's good. That's good. Glory to God. Let's go. Who would like 1 of these books? Right here.
13:05 Brother, I wanna give you this 1. That gentleman right behind you. Joanne, come up here, baby. This is my beautiful wife. Y'all give her a hand. She's amazing. So here's what I'm gonna do. I'm
13:16 gonna pass the buck so I don't get in trouble. So y'all raise your hand and whoever she picks gets the books. As a matter of fact, the 1 on sonship, the Isaacs wrote an endorsement
13:28 in it, and I'm so very thankful for that. I'm gonna take a few minutes tonight. I wanna talk to you a little more in-depth about kingdom. Joanne and I lead a a a university called kingdom university.
13:41 And when we teach our classes, we teach our students that when you study the scripture, there are 4 questions you need to ask yourself. I want you to write these down. This will change your life. The first question is,
13:53 who's talking? It's very important to know who's talking when you're reading any particular passage of scripture. Am I right? Yes. And the second question is, who are they talking to? The
14:04 audience is very, very important. And many times in the scripture you'll find that whenever Jesus or someone else is talking in the scriptures, they're mostly talking to the men.
14:18 Testing 1 too. Yeah, and that, which brings us to the third question. What does it mean in that culture? Because in that
14:29 culture, it was the men that were out front doing everything. They were not advanced as you American women are. Come on, smile at me on a Thursday night. I'm getting in trouble,
14:41 aren't I? But the the third question, what did it mean in that culture is so important. Because many times we try to interpret the
14:52 scripture through American culture and we mess it up. We try to interpret through Western culture and we mess it up. I tell folks back home, we try to interpret it through Tennessee culture. We get
15:04 closer than any other interpretation, but we still mess it up. And when we're looking at the Bible, we've gotta understand the culture in which it was was said because that
15:16 means something. And at this point, I usually tell people that you do know that the Bible was not written to you. Right? It was not. It was written to
15:28 the people that it was originally given to. It was written for you, but not to you. Which brings me to the fourth question, and I'm doing this very quickly tonight, is how do I
15:40 take that and how do I apply it to my life? So who's talking, who are they talking to, what does it mean in that culture, and then how do I take that and apply it to my life? When you can begin to answer
15:52 those questions, when you're reading the scriptures, you can begin to get a very good understanding of what the Bible is saying. The reason we have so many
16:03 denominations today in America, especially, is because of the way that we have interpreted the Bible. And translations that have come down
16:15 the pike have not always been translated with the purest of hearts. Many of them have had political agendas attached to the translations. And just being a church member, most people
16:27 don't know those types of things. But being a theologian, and I'm kind of a nerd this way, I love this stuff, I I I find these things as we study and as we teach. But you need to
16:39 know these things. God is wanting to move you into a place of power, but you cannot produce power out of a religious structure. Right. That's right. God said this to me 1 time
16:50 and I just shook my head. I said, Lord, what in the world do you mean? He said, Greg, I'm not obligated to manifest myself in any structure I did not create. Oh, wow. Woah. Glory to God.
17:03 I said, Lord, would you say that 1 more time? Somebody I'm gonna come up on is gonna need to hear that. And he said, no, this is for you. I'm not obligated to manifest myself in any
17:15 structure that I did not create. I'm not gonna get in anybody's box. And religion has been very good at performing
17:27 and creating environments or atmospheres to where we are emotionally charged, but we have not matured to the place that we can conquer and have
17:39 dominion whenever we walk out the doors of the church house. So we must understand culture. It's important that you know history. It's important that you know what Jesus was
17:51 saying. I'm gonna give you a few of these tonight. Is that all right? And our sister did such a good job tonight laying this foundation. I leaned over Joanna said, she's finna preach my sermon tonight, and I ain't got a
18:02 backup. What are we gonna do? No, but it just weaves together so good. Jesus said in the book of Matthew chapter 6 verse 33, he said, seek first
18:15 the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and everything you need in life will be added unto you. Even in the realm of business, your your your assignment is not to seek
18:26 wisdom or to be the guru of your niche in business, but to be a kingdom seeker. That word first is the word pro or proton in the Greek, and it literally
18:38 means first in priority and first in responsibility. So above everything else in your life, your first priority is to be a kingdom seeker. That sounds good,
18:50 but what is kingdom? Let me define that for you real quick. The word kingdom is made up of 2 words. The first word is the word king or sovereign, and the second word is the word
19:02 dom, which is dominion. So when we talk about kingdom, we're talking about where a king has dominion. Right? So it has to do with a sovereign
19:13 authority in a territory by which he rules in. So when you talk about the kingdom of God, you're talking about a territory, a sphere of
19:25 influence where Jesus is in charge. My mic went out again, I think. What does that mean to you as business people? That means your
19:37 business is not just you're not just a Christian business person. You're a kingdom business person. That God has given a sheer of influence
19:49 that when you go in there, the number 1 priority is the will and the intent of the king. Does that make sense? It's not your denomination's
20:00 purpose or will or intent, it's the will and the intent of King Jesus. So when we talk about the kingdom of God, let me define it for you. I'm not I can't repeat it too many times
20:12 tonight, but I wanna give it to you tonight. I wanna read it to you. A kingdom is this. A kingdom is a sovereign rulership and governing influence of a king over his territory, his
20:23 dominion, impacting it with his will, his intent, the purpose, and his purpose producing a community of citizens expressing a culture,
20:36 reflecting the nature and the lifestyle of the king. King Jesus is not a metaphor for something that is coming in the future.
20:48 His kingdom is here on the earth right now. You say, Greg, is it really? Yes, it is. Let me give you scripture so we can make it legal for you tonight. Mark chapter 9 in verse 1, Jesus said,
20:59 there's some of you that are standing here today who will not chase death until you have seen the king and his dominion power come in the earth.
21:12 The book of Acts chapter 1, it says Luke was writing to his buddy Theo. Y'all know Theo, Theophilus. Theophilus is too much of a fancy word. We I like calling him
21:23 Theo. He said, Theo, listen. Here are the things that Jesus began to do and teach. So Jesus didn't finish, he just ignited it.
21:36 Does that make sense tonight? And in the great commission, he said, I want you to go, and I want you to teach everything that I taught you to the nations. What did Jesus teach
21:47 them? Kingdom. Nowhere, let me emphasize this, nowhere in the scripture do you find Jesus teaching anything but the kingdom of God.
21:59 Nowhere, nothing else. He never taught on healing. He never taught let me just say it this way. Let me let me get in a little more trouble tonight. Jesus never preached the gospel of
22:11 salvation. Never. Most of Western church is built on the salvation message. But nowhere in the scripture did Jesus teach
22:23 the gospel of salvation. He talked about being born again 1 time, and he did that in John chapter 3 in the middle of the night with a temple ruler, and he told him that you must be born
22:35 again to get where? In kingdom. In the kingdom. Not in heaven, but in the kingdom. Right. He and and because he came to him and he said he said, Jesus, we know that you're a teacher,
22:47 we know that you're sent from God because no 1 can do what you do unless he's sent by the Father. And Jesus didn't say thank you, I appreciate that, that's very encouraging. He didn't say that, He said if you wanna
22:58 see and do what I do, you must be born again to get in the kingdom of God. Amen. Everything was kingdom. He didn't preach a gospel of prosperity. There is no gospel of prosperity. There's none. No
23:10 nowhere in the Bible. Amen. It's kingdom. Kingdom. Kingdom. Kingdom. Kingdom. Kingdom. And if you wanna be healed, it comes through kingdom. Why? Because every government has a health care plan. That's right.
23:23 That's right. Go ahead. Whoo. Yes. Ours is called the Red Cross. Hallelujah. Not Blue Cross Blue Shield, Red Cross. Why? Because if
23:34 kingdom is not a religion, it must be something else. It has to be something else. What is it? A kingdom is a government. It is a country. It is a nation,
23:46 period. We try to make it a religion. We try to use it as a cliche or or Christianese. We like to throw the word kingdom around. We like to put it on everything, but it's do it a
23:57 misinterpretation and a misdefinition of what the word actually is. The kingdom of God is a government. How do we know? You cannot use the word kingdom without attaching it to something
24:09 else. You cannot say, well, the kingdom of the world, what is that? What are the kingdoms of the world? Well, let's look at it just in the natural in our time. We got the kingdom of Great
24:20 Britain. We got the kingdom of Morocco. We've got the kingdom of Tonga, which is in the South Pacific, and them boys know how to man, they know how to roast a pig down there. Glory to
24:32 God. If y'all y'all y'all y'all know the serving trays that we use to put, like, pulled pork and stuff in? That's their plate. And they'll fix you 1 when you come preach at their church,
24:44 and they want you to eat it. It's not good for your health, but they're good friends. You've got the kingdom of whatever, but it's tied to a government. And
24:56 I want you to see tonight, family, that if we can break the mindset of religion that has told us the kingdom of God's coming in the future, and that the kingdom of God is a religion that
25:08 Jesus birthed, if we can break that mindset and move out of that, we can get into the governmental authority that Jesus intended for us to operate in, and we can go out and change the world.
25:20 We can cause the kingdoms of this world to become the kingdoms of our God. He never said the religions of this world would become his religion or merge into his religion.
25:32 No. Jesus, let me say it this way, was a government man. Amen. Yes. Yes. Woah. Hallelujah. I don't like that,
25:43 Greg. That's okay. It gets worse. Just hang on. It ain't gonna get no better. I promise you. If you are a modern day Pharisee, just go ahead and say, Lord, deliver me.
25:57 Religion is rules, regulations, and ordinances, traditions that you are required to keep to get God to
26:08 approve of you. That's religion. Well, gotta pray every night. I gotta read my Bible every day, so many times a day. There were several presidents in the early years, John Quincy Adams
26:20 was 1 of them. He said that, he he said, I do not start my day without reading at least 4 to 5 chapters of the holy scriptures every morning. Wouldn't it be good to have some presidents do that
26:32 today? Yeah. I'm a I'm yeah. Okay. I can't run down that rabbit hole.
26:44 But we have to understand kingdom is government. That's all it is. And when you try to tie it into our religious upbringing, the
26:56 inner Pharisee begins to take over and wants to make it denominational, wants to make it religious in a way to where you do some type of performance
27:08 and feel good about serving God. Does that make sense? You're getting ready to see a massive exodus out of organized
27:19 religion. Why? That's a prophetic word. Why? Because people are fed up with word only and no demonstration. That's
27:31 good. That's good. The generations that are younger than me, and I'm just claiming there's only 1. There might actually be 2, but there should only just be 1 younger than me at this particular juncture in my life.
27:43 But they don't want anything to do with their mom and daddy's and grandmama and granddaddy's church. Why? Because it talks a big talk, but has no walk.
27:56 Has a lot of rules, has a lot of regulations, but it cannot produce the supernatural. The kingdom of God is a government that is headquartered in the unseen
28:07 realm. Its outpost is in the seen realm, a place called earth. And the kingdom of God is the influence of the kingdom of heaven in the earth.
28:20 I study a lot of ancient Hebrew culture, and I've studied a lot of ancient Hebrew text and language, and what I found out there is they're not Greek.
28:32 That's a revelation to me. Why is that? Because everything in American and Western Christianity, everything is built and based off of Greek thought,
28:44 which says, and this is just 1 example, the natural realm is here and it's bad, the supernatural realm is here and it's good. 1 day we'll die and we'll leave this realm and
28:56 we'll get over into this realm where everything is perfect, and that's Greek thought. Hebrew thought is that they overlap 1 another, that you can live in the
29:08 natural realm and in the supernatural realm simultaneously. You ask any each ancient Hebrew, they're not around, but they left their writings for us. They realized and
29:20 they knew that in order to be able to be Jehovah's people, you have to operate in 2 different realms simultaneously.
29:31 That's why we struggle getting people healed. That's why we struggle at times casting out devils. That's why we struggle at seeing
29:43 supernatural resources pour into our lives is because we're asking God to do something from where he's at and manifest it where I'm at when the scripture says that we need to
29:54 go where he's at and get what is there and manifest it in this realm. Yeah. That's good. That's good. We have chalked up all of our mistakes and all of our unanswered
30:06 prayers to the sovereignty of God. And that is not the sovereignty of God, that is humanity. Let me make another statement here that and I just wanna fulfill my
30:18 promise that it's gonna get worse for you tonight. And this next statement is this, family, God is not in control. Amen. Come on. I know we go around
30:29 saying God is in control. No. God is not in control. We write songs about it. We sing it. We get our theology from it. We need to stop getting our theology from our hymn books and get it actually from
30:41 the Bible. Is that alright? Y'all smile at me, just please. I will be done in a minute. God is not in control.
30:53 He's in charge. He's in charge. If God was in control, you would have to blame him for every murder, every rape, every abortion, everything
31:05 that's evil in the world, you would have to blame God for it if he is in control. And if you believe he's getting control and all of these things are happening, then you have to say it's his will for these things to
31:15 happen and it is not his will. That's right. God's in charge. He put you in control. Everything happening in the earth is because of mankind.
31:27 It's because of the human race. It's not because God's a bad God or he's a evil God. No. No. No. No. If you look at Genesis chapter 1 and and and
31:39 just write these down real quick, I'm not gonna turn there. Genesis chapter 1 verse 26, God said, let us create man in our image.
31:51 The next statement says, and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea.
32:03 Y'all remember when Jesus told his boys, let's push out from the bank, throw the net on the other side? He was showing dominion over the fish of the sea. Amen. Yes. Man, this whole thing walks out through Jesus. It's
32:15 amazing. He said, let them have. Did you ever wonder why God did not intervene when that crazy woman named Eve was trying to throw everything away and eat that fruit? Did y'all ever
32:27 wonder why God didn't intervene? God was watching it, God was paying attention, but he did not say a word, why? Because Adam and Eve were not losing a religion, they were
32:39 losing dominion. Let them rule, have dominion. In the Hebrew, that's the word radah. And the word radah is literally the
32:51 word kingdom. Dominion in Hebrew. So when God blessed them, he gave them dominion and kingdom in the earth.
33:03 It wasn't the first church of Eden's apostolic glory. No. It was the kingdom of God manifested in the earth.
33:15 Now we got a problem, because we say that Jesus came to restore us. We say that he came to save us. The word
33:26 saved in the Greek does not mean fire insurance. It does not mean a ticket on the glory train to heaven. It
33:38 literally means to recover, to restore, and to preserve. When you say I'm saved, you're not saying I'm going to heaven, you're saying I've been
33:50 recovered, I've been restored, and I've been preserved. I've been recovered from what? From sin. I've been restored to what? God's original idea about me.
34:01 And I have been preserved until the day of his return. Man, that right there will mess a good Baptist church up on a Sunday morning in a minute.
34:13 Amen, yes. Why is that? Because, my Lord, am I doing okay on time? How much more time I got?
34:25 Religion has defiled God's original intent. Can I walk you through the scriptures with something real quick? Go to first John chapter 3. First John chapter 3 is
34:37 remember, keep this in mind, who's talking, who they're talking to, what did it mean to that culture, and then how do I take this thing and apply it to my life. But when we get to first John chapter 3, we begin to see
34:47 the purpose of Jesus. Sister talked about it a little bit tonight. Jesus' purpose was not the cross. That's right. It ain't in the Bible.
34:59 Well, Greg, I thought Jesus came to die on the cross. That was a means to an end. Can I throw something else out at you tonight? Jesus was not the promise of the father.
35:14 Wait a minute, Greg. You're going too far there, buddy. You know he was. He said his only begotten son. That's a whole another topic. Jesus said, go to Jerusalem and do what? Wait
35:26 for the promise of the father. Jesus said of himself, he said, I'm the door. He said, spirit is the
35:37 promise. Yeah. Jesus' goal was not to get you into heaven. Even though if you die before he returns, you will get to go there. That's right. I'm hoping to be around when he
35:49 shows back up. Jesus, his assignment was to preach the kingdom to get Holy Spirit back into the earth, back
36:01 into the governor's mansion. That's you. Amen? Amen. You are the governor's mansion. The governor's the 1 who stewards a foreign colony.
36:14 Y'all remember, you've read it in our history whenever King George came here and wanted to make us pay a whole lot of taxes and we dumped his tea in the harbor. Y'all remember that? Whoo. Yeah. Glory to God. Any patriots
36:25 in the room? I'm a I'm a direct descendant of John Quincy and John Adams. They my granddaddies. So I got a little bit of that fire in me too. I didn't get Samuel.
36:37 Samuel's just still a cousin, Sam Adams. He did make a lot of beer though. That might have helped some of the folks in the future, but sees the religious people are getting really nervous right now,
36:49 Craig. The governors of the first 13 colonies did not come out of the colonies. They came from England. Why?
37:01 Because they had to know the heart of the king. They had to know the will of the king, and they could not come up from the colonies. They had to be sent into colonies from the court of the king. Does that make sense?
37:11 Yes. So when Holy Spirit came, he came to live in you, to dwell in you, so that the will of heaven could begin to manifest in you because he said that when he comes, he's gonna lead you and
37:23 guide you into all truth. You're demon board, I mean, deacon board is not your leader. Holy Spirit is, amen? We have to understand this, Jesus'
37:34 purpose was to get the spirit of the Lord back into you so you could get on to kingdom business. First John chapter chapter 4 or chapter 3 verse 4. Everyone who
37:46 practices sin also practices lawlessness. Now is the word sin in this passage, is it singular or plural? Singular. It ain't a
37:58 trick question. Singular. Singular, right? He who practices sin also practices lawlessness, and sin is lawlessness.
38:10 Lawlessness is not a religious word, it's a governmental word. It's a kingdom word. This word sin is singular,
38:22 and it's singular as well in the Old Testament, but you and I have been taught it's plural. Jesus came to die for my sins. So I wouldn't drink
38:34 and smoke and dip and chew and spit or date girls that do those things. Right? It's not morality. Jesus did not die
38:47 so that you could be moral. He died so that your sin, singular, would be forgiven, and when you come into the kingdom of God, Holy Spirit
38:59 becomes your teacher, and he works on the culture of your life, which is the moral of your life. He works on that moving you from the kingdom of darkness culture into
39:10 the kingdom of light culture, as Holy Spirit's responsibility. The word sin in the Hebrew and in the Greek, it means rebellion. We know that, right? We knowShow more
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