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Understanding the Kingdom of God · Near East Christian Fellowship Sermons

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  >> Speaker A: Hi there. Welcome to necf. Ah,
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  Here's today's sermon.
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  >> Speaker B: Now what I will do today, I will just build on
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  what he did, just like an
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  introduction of the theme.
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  If you're writing. So I will talk today on
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  understanding the kingdom of God.
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  Understanding the kingdom of God
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  because you can manifest
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  what you have not understood.
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  Every man
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  will reflect the level his knowledge,
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  which means is that before we begin to talk of
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  manifesting the kingdom,
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  we have to understand exactly what
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  is manifesting. What is
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  the kingdom of God?
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  You know, many of our
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  practices as believers
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  have become
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  religious because there is no
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  understanding.
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  When Jesus washed the feet of his
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  disciples and he
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  told,
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  I show you an example.
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  I show you an example. He said,
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  do the same.
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  You know, today you see churches
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  who will bring a bow and pour
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  water. And you see members and the
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  pastors is washing their feet.
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  You get this type of dumb practices
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  when understanding is not there.
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  And we the reason is because we don't pay
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  attention to scriptures.
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  If you have been reading, probably you ought to have
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  understood that that's not what Jesus is talking
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  about. Because even Peter missed
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  it. Peter said, no, master, you won't wash
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  my feet. And Jesus said,
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  if I don't wash you, you have no part in
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  me. Brother, is not talking about physical things.
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  That there is something critical he is trying to
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  communicate
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  what he that you have no
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  part in me. There
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  is something deeper he is
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  communicating. And that's
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  why he continued and then began
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  to teach. By the time you reach. Because
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  that if you in John
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  13 by the time you reach
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  35 is
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  a love for one another. And the
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  by this shall all men know
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  that ye are my disciples.
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  That's why we don't want to miss
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  the truth. We are paying
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  attention. No Russian.
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  We want to know God
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  accurately so that our worship will be
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  accurate.
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  We don't want to face the Master.
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  And he said, what you have done
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  is useless work. It has been burnned.
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  He said, you will pass you, but your
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  works will be burnnedt.
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  We don't want to do a useless work.
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  We do not want to labor and
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  overnight there is no reward of it.
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  That's why we are mettriul. We want to
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  know what exactly is in
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  the intent of the author of
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  what God desire.
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  Go back to that verse 20 of Luke
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  17. Look at ver 20,
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  Luke 17.
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  He says that
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  now when he
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  Was asked
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  by the Pharisees
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  when the kingdom of
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  God would come.
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  When the kingdom of God will
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  come. The first question we want to
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  ask what is the
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  kingdom? That's the
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  first question. What is the
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  kingdom that the Pharisee,
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  even the Pharisee are asking
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  when will it come? And Jesus
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  didn't say what are you talking about? Come? Come
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  where? No, Jesus said
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  the kingdom does not come. So that
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  means Jesus is saying what you are asking
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  is a good question. But
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  I'm just trying to let you know what your
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  eyes is seeing. It'not where you will see
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  it. That's why he say he does not come by
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  observation. But then that
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  means we have to get accurately
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  what is the kingdom?
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  Because one time that is where the issue. So when we talk about
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  manifesting the kingdom, what exactly we are talking
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  about? Hallelujah.
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  So that wor the kingdom.
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  Now please, if you're in this church, don't be afraid of
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  Greek Hebrew do you know? Understand I'm saying
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  don't be afraid. I don't know Greek too.
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  But by the virtue of the
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  work of God in our hand,
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  there is no huoddle we will not cross to know the truth.
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  Do you know I'm saying you are in. You are
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  in a privileged generation
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  that we have everything. Even if you don't know Greek,
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  Hebrew, whatever in the sun.
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  Our, sister last week,
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  testify that she had to learn Turkish,
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  you know, understand to be able to. And it gave an
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  advantage in their career
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  some of us who refused to learn where. What is your story
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  today?
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  That's a word for someone
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  now. But the point is that what we are saying to say is that
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  so there are certain things to get the
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  truth. We have to read
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  and understand the original word.
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  And then we will now leave the context.
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  Remember, even in this show you have also
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  understood that in reading scripture we don't
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  read in paragraph andrse. I mean we don't read
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  it in verses and chapters
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  and headings. No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
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  You understand? We read as if those chapters
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  does not exist
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  because context is key.
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  That word kingdom. Please follow
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  me gradually. That's the reason why I'm slow.
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  Because if you miss this part of the
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  introductory part Pastor Fre started last
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  week. I am telling you miss
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  everything we'll be doing both in cell
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  and it is going to be
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  dangerous
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  that what kingdom?
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  Don't mind my pronunistion of Greo. I told you I didn't know
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  Greek. The most important thing
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  is to know the word and to know what it means
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  are we together?
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  It's basacillia. So I will
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  spell it. that's not the pronunciation. I have
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  tried to know how to pronounce it. Well,
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  I didn't know, but just know that it's something like
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  that. Did you
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  hear say yes.
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  So is ba
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  si
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  le
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  I Ba m
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  si l e
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  I
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  is a noun.
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  And that word means
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  dominion.
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  That word means
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  authority. That m
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  whatd means rule.
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  That what means royal
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  power. It's not just power,
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  you understand, has to do with reigning.
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  Understand Royal power.
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  Do we get that? That
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  word? That is what it means now
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  by just defining that word, it has crumbled
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  many things. Now, you know
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  what Pastor Fre said last week?
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  That the kingdom is not a
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  place. Is that what he said?
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  Good. So
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  each time we say the kingdom of God
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  is not a territory, that's not what we are talking
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  about. What are we saying again? What,
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  which wor did I say? What is a kingdom?
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  Dominion. Yes. Authority
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  and rule. Royal power.
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  I beg in the name of God, don't forget this
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  because we're going to be talking about the kingdom of God. Plenty,
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  plenty, plenty. So when we said
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  now that the theme of the Y
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  is manifesting the kingdom
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  Calibraa makada,
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  now you know what we are saying
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  is manifesting authority,
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  manifesting dominion,
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  manifesting rule,
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  you know, I'm saying that's
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  why that song says that,
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  dear, is power,
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  abandant power. Why
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  for the Holy Ghost
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  is. Do you understand that? That
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  is the kingdom.
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  We are not talking about a
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  place where people are, wearing white
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  clothes,
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  where they said that there is
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  gold in a s.
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  Did you know? I'm saying that's not
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  what we're talking about.
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  Because most of those people who taught that
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  as ah, the kingdom, they are
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  using human
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  establishment to define God's
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  kingdom. Are we
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  together? Are, we together?
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  Hallelujah.
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  So kingdom
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  of God or the kingdom, in this
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  context must never
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  be confused with territory,
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  with a place,
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  rather
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  authority. So when you say the
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  kingdom of God, what you are saying is the
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  dominion of God. What you
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  are saying is that the authority of
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  God.
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  Glory to God.
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  So that word
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  palia is actually
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  a word that is from a root word
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  called basilious.
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  B E S I
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  B e S
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  I L e
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  u L E u
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  S Basilius
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  and that word is a noun, but it means
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  a leader of a people.
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  It means a prince,
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  a, commander, the lord
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  of the land or the king.
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  So you don't understand.
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  So when there is power here,
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  what that Means is that I am the
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  commander, you understand?
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  And the commander
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  has the kingdom.
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  Note again. Now
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  Basilius
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  is the king.
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  Basacilia m is not
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  the territory of the king.
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  It is the power of the
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  king. Did you
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  understand saying it? So that is what
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  we are saying.
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  Now, since now we understand the kindingdle
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  what it means, I want
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  you to substitute it in that
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  scripture. This one.
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  You can now read it this way. Now
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  when he was asked by the Pharisees
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  wherein the dominion
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  or when the
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  authority of
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  God will cop, he answered
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  and them answered
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  the dominion
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  or the power
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  or the rule in the
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  of God does not
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  come by observation.
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  We're going to see how does it
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  come? Because Jesus already said it
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  does not come with
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  observation.
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  Hallelujah. Amen.
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  Let me show you something. Go back to that 20.
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  Now when he was asked by the
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  Pharisee when the
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  kingdom of God will come,
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  then Jesus said it does not come. I
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  want you to know something. The
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  kingdom is about what will
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  come, not where you will
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  go.
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  it's not where you will go.
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  The kingdom is
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  come. Now you understand what the kingdom is. Are we
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  together? So it will be that you don't have sense
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  when we say we will go. Because how can you
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  say we will go? Will go power
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  or we will go into
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  authority. No. Is
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  the one that will come.
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  Is the one that will come.
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  Now again, let me emphasize what
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  pastor Fred told us last week.
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  That it is not a place.
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  So stop dreaming that when
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  you die you go
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  somewheremm.
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  Are we together? Amen. That is what we are talking
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  about. I believe somebody is understanding
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  something. Amen.
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  I don't need to explain further because when you understand
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  Bible, then you will see that when
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  somebody says something, you know that is
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  speaking. Because imagine,
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  let's say you are in Lagos, Nigeria and somebody say Lagos
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  come to Cyprus. Will Lagos ever
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  come to Cyprus? You can only go to Lagos,
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  but Lagos cannot come. do you understand I'SAYING
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  because if it is a place, it will not come.
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  You are the one that will go if it is a place,
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  but it is not a place.
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  Hallelujah.
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  Now I want to remind you of what you have been
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  reading again. Now
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  when you read what we normally call the lost prayer.
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  Let's leave with that. That. But
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  he says something. He said, thy kingdom
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  come. thy will be done on earth.
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  Are we together? You now understand what Jesus is talking
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  about.
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  So I don't want you to be singing some
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  songs that looks you don't understand.
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  M. Did you understand I'm saying
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  So we have to be careful.
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  We know himonight.
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  Thy kingdom come, Thy
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  will be done. No, that's not his song to sing.
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  Now
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  change it. Because
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  we will show you that the kingdom has
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  comera already and the will
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  has been done. Are we
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  together? Hallelujah.
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  Good. Now look at verse
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  21. Look, verse 21.
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  He said no. Will they say see
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  here or see there?
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  For indeed the kingdom
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  of God is within
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  you. Is within you
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  first. Remember, he told them, the
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  kingdom does not come with
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  observation. That is is not what you
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  see. The power,
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  the authority, the rule
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  is not what you see.
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  That means is spiritual. It
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  does not, come with observation. That is not what you
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  see. You can't see as a see there
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  because that is remember.
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  I believe Jesus have
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  tapped into the
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  Pharisee'mind
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  Remember the
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  life of the apostles
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  before their eyes opened, in the 40 days
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  teaching with Jesus,
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  before he moved away from them
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  in the sun, they kept asking him, when will
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  you restore
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  the what he, are you with m Me?
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  When will you restore the
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  kingdom to Israel?
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  They ex it. In fact,
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  look captured it in two places
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  in act of Apostles, chapter one.
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  You understand? And again Luke 24.
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  He helped us to know what also
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  these Pharisees are thinking.
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  That's why Jesus tell does
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  not come by what by observation.
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  So don't say see here, there. Because that is
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  what also the disciples were thinking.
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  When will you restore the kingdom?
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  Because they are looking at
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  the Romans, how they were
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  dealing the structure.
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  Remember when they came and they were
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  lobbying John and his
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  brother, he said, let me sit by this side. You see
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  what they are thinking? And let me sit by this side.
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  In where in your kingdom.
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  Lack of understanding. Because they
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  thoughtaught God's kingdom is
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  like the kingdom of men. And
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  don't think the other
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  10 we. Because when
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  they heard that the two, were lobbying
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  the Bible said, they became indignant.
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  That means they say, so these people, that's what they are
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  planning. And Jesus had to
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  call them
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  and taught them again in the sa
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  and said, what you are seeing outside.
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  How they do it in the other kingdom
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  is that they loade it over
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  people. He said, but in this kingdom
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  it is not so. The greatest
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  among you shall be the servant of all.
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  Even the Son of Man. He
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  did not come understand to be
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  served, but to serve and to
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  give his life a ransom for many.
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  So that was what. So, I'm trying to connect to you Jesus
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  answer so that you don't think that the Pharisee has
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  some Revelation.
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  Because when Jesus just immediately said it
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  didn't, it does not come by.
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  Neither will you say, see there, See here?
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  That is what he was addressing.
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  Unfortunately, over more than 2,000
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  years ago, we still have believers. They are
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  in the kingdom, they are in the
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  authority, they are in the power.
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  But they are waiting the day they will
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  go into the kingdom. And now look
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  at it.
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  He said, for
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  indeed the kingdom of God
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  is within you. Now
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  listen, you have to train your mind
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  now that we have started addressing this issue, because eastern now
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  I say the kingdom, there's that debris that you have
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  held since you
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  know, sir, you have to deal with it. That is your responsibility.
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  Because you have to deliberately, you
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  understand, relear. Now,
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  now when Jesus says the kingdom means the
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  authority, the power is within you. That
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  what within you? That's not a good, translation.
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  That word within you is amt, you
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  is amidst you.
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  Because listen, reading
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  even the context know that that is with. If you
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  say within is inside them, why
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  then, are they asking when will it come?
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  Did you see how it doesn't make sense? Because if what
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  Jesus is saying, that the kingdom is
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  inside the Pharisee,
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  why then are they asking when will it come?
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  So that within you contextually shows that he's not
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  talking about that.
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  Jo is saying that the kingdom is inside them.
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  Are we together? So it'am, miss
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  them is and miss them.
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  Hallelujah.
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  So when Jesus said the kingdom
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  is within you, Jesus was talking
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  about himself.
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  He was talking about himself
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  that he was amids them.
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  What that means is that the coming
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  of Jesus is the coming of the
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  kingdom. That means
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  up until Jesus has arrived, the
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  kingdom has not come. That's why
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  it's important to know
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  that this kingdom, this
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  dominion, this power, this authority
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  in the sun
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  is the coming of
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  Christ. Look at with me
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  Isaiah quickly. Isaiah 9.
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  When we are young, we have being
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  learning this verse very very well for a
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  long time. We together
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  is have nine, verse six.
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  We have been made to memorize this, but we don't know the meaning.
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  For unto us a child is born,
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  unto us a son is given.
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  And the government will be
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  upon his shoulder. And his name will
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  be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God,
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  Everlasting Father, Prince of peace. Of the
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  increase of his government and peace
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  there shall be no end upon the throne of David
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  and over his kingdom
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  to order it and establish it with
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  judgment and justice.
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  From that time forward, even forever,
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  the zeal of the Lord of hosts
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  will perform this. Now look at
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  it. Most times when I was growing up when they say the
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  government, you know, because we are used to democracy,
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  you understand? Most believers are
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  thinking that the
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  government
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  is that God will come, he will take over
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  this government and his believers will
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  be there. And we'quot in some scriptures when they
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  just are on the throne. The righteous
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  prosper. You a sir,
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  you. You know that kind of thing. Just the same we used to calle that
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  scripture. What was that scripture? The
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  blessing of the Lord. It make it rich
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  and it had no sorrow in it.
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  Kashaakata. You see, when the Lord
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  blesses you, there is no sourrow. Bro. Brother
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  did do something. Don't worry. We're going to unpack some of those
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  things. That's why you don't just take things anyhow.
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  In the sun or the parts of the jaws
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  is like a shining light that shines more and
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  more onto the perfect day. And then you
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  ask explain.
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  Hallelujah. No, brother, you are in the perfect
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  day. You are in the perfect day.
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  It's not you is talking about. Did you understand?
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  Saying, that's the just of
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  the old who are seeing the
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  promissory. Their revelation is progressive.
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  Did you understand I saying? He'progressive
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  and suddenly the man of Calvary
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  appeared and he stepped and,
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  and, and John told us and
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  the word became flesh. And
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  suddenly in the past he spoke through
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  prophets, but now he said he spoke to his
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  son.
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  What you see we'talking about, we're
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  saying that, that government
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  is not the country's seat of power.
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  That word government
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  is a word called misra.
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  M M I S R
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  A. M M I S R
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  A. That word is
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  a word in Hebrew. You
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  it means rule. What you it
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  mean rule? It means
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  dominium. That's what it means.
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  Just the same thing we see in Greek
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  basilia. That's the same thing. This one
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  means dominion.
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  Misra. So when
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  he is talking, he said in that
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  prophecy in the
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  sa that of the increase of
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  his government. Brother is not talking
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  about territory. Are
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  we together? Amen. He's all talking
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  about territory.
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  So Jesus told them, the kingdom of God
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  does not come by what? By
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  what? It does not
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  come by observation.
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  So how does a
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  man have contact with the
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  kingdom of God? Because what we are talking about
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  manifesting the kingdom is only those people
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  who have the kingdom will manifest it.
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  By the way, you know, I'm talking about authority.
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  So how do a man have
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  contact with the kingdom or
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  have access to the kingdom? Jesus already
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  have said it does not come by what,
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  John, chapter three.
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  John, chapter three.
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  Halak Kabadaka Glory to
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  Jesus.
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  Look at verse three
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  he said. Jesus answered and said
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  to him. Now you see Nicodemus
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  came When you read from verse one, you
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  know he's intriguing me. Look at ve two he say, this man came to
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  Jesus by night in the sun
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  and said, rabbi, we know that
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  you are a teacher come from God.
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  Jesus immediately have to change the
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  discussion because this man that is a Pharisee
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  have learned a lot inocent ever
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  learning, but never ever coming to the knowledge of the
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  truth. He has not understood that no, Jesus
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  is not a teacher that comes from God. That's why in
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  that context Jesus presented himself as the
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  Savior, the sacrifice for sin.
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  Did you understand saying no, he's not a teacher that
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  come from God. He didn't come. Do you understand
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  saying Jesus turned the discussion
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  and start talking talking.
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  And that's why you didn't understand you the
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  so now look at
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  it Vu he said Jesus
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  answered and said to him, most
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  assuredly I said to you, unless one is
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  born again, he
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  cannot see
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  the kingdom of God. Now
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  he's not talking about going to somewhere
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  he cannot see the
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  dominion, the authority, the
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  rule.
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  Nicodemus did't understand.
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  Nicodimo said to him,
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  how can a man be
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  born when he is old?
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  Can he enter a second time
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  into his mother's womb and be born? And
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  Jesus clarified again what he said in VE3
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  he said, no. Jesus answered mosturedly
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  I say to you, unless one is
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  born of the water
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  and the spirit, he cannot enter
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  the kingdom of God.
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  Jesus clarify. What I'm talking about is not
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  the issue of physical thing, it's not biological.
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  Verse 6 that which is born of
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  flesh, meaning that which is biological is
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  biological. Understand? But that
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  which is born of the spirit
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  is a spirit. So he's talking
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  about that how you access it is spiritual.
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  Is spiritual. That was Jesus told them, it does not come by
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  what reservation is
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  spiritual,
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  it happens spiritual.
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  And Jesus kept on discussing up until he
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  went to a point where he told him how the
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  man can access how he can be born
• 33:17
  again. Are we together? And for God so loved the
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  world that he gave
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  his only begotten son that whoso ever believe
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  in him will not perish
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  but have a everlasting life.
• 33:33
  So what he is saying that it is a spirit that
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  tossed and I want you to know that and I don't
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  want you to forget that that
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  we access power, dominion and authority
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  is when we received the gospel.
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  Is when we receive the gospel.
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  So the kingdom of God is not
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  access after Life. It's not what.
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  When you die, you will see. Understand?
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  We will go, And be with him. Where have you been?
• 34:06
  Huh? He said he has gone to be with the Lord.
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  Where has he been all this while? Is it
• 34:12
  now that he died that you go to be with the Lord?
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  Did you understand that? That's what we are
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  saying. And I want you
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  to. To. To. To see
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  this. Now you
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  understand the kingdom is power.
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  It's not escaping from pain.
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  You. Some of us are dreaming a place where
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  we will go. You know that white place. I told you
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  that people with writing we lo rope
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  in the
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  See there is no pain. That's where we are hoping to
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  go. While God has given you authority
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  in the sun to put
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  the devil in his place. You see the devil
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  harassing people. You're not angry and you are
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  waiting to escape.
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  God has kept you to save people from this
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  harassment. And All you are dreaming is to
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  escape. You know, I have a picture during pandemic
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  while everybody is running. You
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  understand? It's running while
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  everybody is closing down. Government are closing down things.
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  But we have some people which we call the health
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  workers.
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  People are running from the threat. They are moving
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  towards it. Men. It taught me many lessons.
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  Their focus is not their life.
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  Their focus is to take
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  care. Is to fight
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  the threat for other people's lives.
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  Some of them died in
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  the process. And when I saw
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  it, I saw the picture of the
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  believer. The one who
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  would run toward the threats
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  and contending and Fighting for the harassment
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  the devil is. Is hitting people with.
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  Yes, of course there will be casualty. What
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  for? That is what the disciples
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  did once they
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  understood before they never understood.
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  When Jesus died, they were
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  afraid for the Jews. They went
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  and they locked themselves in the place.
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  But not when they contact that
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  power. When not when the
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  kanddom came in the sun,
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  they become
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  vicusats
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  in the sun. They say from today they flock
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  them. Don't ever again teach and Speak in
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  that name.
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  Don said
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  this name. We will not stop it. The coun
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  council were surprised. Act 4:13.
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  You said when they saw the boldness
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  of Peter and John in the
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  so and they say We know
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  these men now. They are not
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  educatedh.
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  They have not learnt this thing. But they
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  sayh the now the Bible
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  says they realize that this man has
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  been with Jesus. By this
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  time they have
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  accessed the kingdom and their
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  life is a different life.
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  Question. Can someone see your
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  life and know you have
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  contacted something? Or will what you
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  carry be always be traceable to your
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  Grandfather m He said don't play with
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  us. In my family we have
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  me. I don't take it lying down.
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  that? Which
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  family is that one?
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  We glory in nonsense. We
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  glo in the tradition of men
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  and neglect and reject our life.
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  Will you trust the Lord that this year
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  that there shall be evident? Paul
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  charged Timothy and said
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  be committed he said, through yourself
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  he said, so that your're evident. I mean your
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  profiting will be evident to all.
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  So that your prophets your
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  profiting will be evident to all. So when we talk about
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  the kingdom it comes when we believe the
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  gospel that authority
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  come. That's why when we sing that song,
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  he said and I know understand
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  I know that healing
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  is happening through my hands.
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  I know is a
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  knowing when the kingdom
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  comes, it is not by seeining it'by knowing.
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  The kingdom does not come with
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  observation. The kingdom
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  comes by knowing. He said,
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  this is eternal life that ye
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  by know Thee ye min
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  know
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  its knowledge. When they had.
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  When they received it, they became bold
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  and they did greetings.
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  So you're not going anywhere.
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  Stop. Don't stop. Stop trying
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  to escape. You not escape
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  became who you are. Stop the
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  harassment going on in your families.
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  Stop the harassment that the devil had been doing to people.
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  You understand? It's high time to
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  arise to preach this
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  kingdom, to preach this
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  authority that come by
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  believing. That come by
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  believing. You know there's a song mo time when there is a
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  deatht they used to sing I used to love
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  itam then where I grew is
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  close to jo plateo state in
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  Nigeria. So we used to catch PRTV
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  inside each time we hear that song somebody has
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  died you a
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  never grow old.
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  is a land that will never
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  grow old. You know including that
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  one you are see more ago but this one, well immediately you hear
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  it. You know somebody ale
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  yes we total submission to the will of
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  God son. We
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  regreta is a daughterv and then we regret
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  no, but you
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  see our ah, Daddy. I'll call him
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  daddy. Jim Reeves in the
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  sun when he san that song there's
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  a knowledge is missing because that's why there's on part
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  because the idea that when he spoke he's thinking of a space
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  somewhere. When we die we will you know that's
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  why he sang that song and the
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  songimes sound comfort tea
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  the sun and then you know that his voice
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  I have heard
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  awayra dis a
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  beauty home of
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  high. Yah will never
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  or shall die. Tis the land
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  kingdom is not a land.
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  Are we together? It's not where we are looking
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  for to
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  Hallelujah. It's not a
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  promise. It's a
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  reality. Now
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  are we together?
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  We are already in the land.
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  Is not what we expect
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  to have when we die. We have
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  it now.
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  Now are we together
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  now?
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  Now you are re not Abraham
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  and the patrch who we are
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  looking up to.
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  You understand? Give me Hebrews
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  9. When Abraham were looking to up
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  to that land, even the land he
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  was looking up to is called a city.
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  Even that city is not a territory, is a peoplea.
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  did you understand saying
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  so? You have to understand when the Bible is talking.
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  When you say land, you are thinking
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  of your grandfather
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  Langirir.
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  By faith he dwell in the land.
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  He'talking about physical land of the
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  promise that is not the promised
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  lanu. Even the one who entered there
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  is looking to another land or
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  another city. He said, as in a
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  foreign country dwelling in tent
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  with Isaac and Jacob. The hair with
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  him of the same promise.
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  Next verse. For he waited.
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  For who? For the city.
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  Who waited Abraham.
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  He waited for the city which
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  has foundations,
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  whose builder and Americcca is God. This
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  one city is not talking about a
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  territory. Are we together is
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  not a territory. Give me someal
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  37, verse
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  29. Psalm
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  37, verse 29.
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  The righteous shall inherit the
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  land and dwell in it.
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  How? How
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  forever. This is not a
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  physical land. That is
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  what Abraham, was
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  looking. That land is a
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  people. That land is.
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  We call a city. Move
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  to Hebrews 12.
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  You will see that is a reality.
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  Now
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  he say what reality now? Hebrews
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  12:22.
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  But you have come to Mount
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  Zion and to the city of the
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  living God, the heavely Jerusalem. not
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  you will come. You have
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  come to the,
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  innumirable company of angels.
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  Next verse. To the Jara assembly and
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  the church of who?
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  The church of who? A people or
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  a territory. A people or a
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  territory? The church of the
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  firstborn who is registered with CAC
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  or where which is registered in
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  heaven. To God the judge of all and to the spirit
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  of the judgment made perfect.
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  Please give me. I have to read this one. Give
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  me Corinthians. and we're going to just
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  do some adjustments more in the sun
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  instead of land Will correctly sing that
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  song. Ah, I love that song. It's A beautiful song.
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  But that land will not put it there.
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  You understand? And we will change the whole thing because
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  that is. Yes, Our believers expecting
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  something. Yes. Did you understand m
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  saying we are expecting something? We have not come into
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  the fullness of what already has been
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  possessed of us. You know what I'm saying?
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  Yes. We are expecting something, but not they land.
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  The land is a reality. Let me show you that one, and then
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  we'll close.
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  Second Corinthians. Oh, this one. Please
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  open with me. I want you to read with me quickly.
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  2 Corinthians, chapter
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  4.
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  2nd Corinthians,
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  chapter 4.
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  Look at verse 16. Therefore, we do not lose
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  heart. Even though our outward man
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  perishing, yet, our inward man is being renewed day
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  by day. For our light affliction,
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  which is but for a moment,
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  is working for us a far more
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  excellent and eternal weight of
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  glory. While we look, While we do not
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  look. Did you see that? Are you with
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  me? While we do not look at the
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  things which are seenin, please, I want you to know. Which means there
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  is something we are expecting.
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  What is sin. But ah, are the things which
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  are not seenin. For the things which are sin
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  are temal, but the things which are not
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  seen are, eternal. Verse 5, chapter 5.
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  For we know.
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  knowing That if our
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  atly house. Say Atley house.
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  Say Atley house.
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  Our Atley house.
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  This tent is destroyed.
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  We have a building of God.
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  We have a building of God. A house
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  not met with hands eternal in
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  heaven. For in this we
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  groan, earnestly designed to be clothed with our
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  habitation which
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  is from heaven. If indeed having been
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  clothed, we shall not be found
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  naked. For we who are, in this
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  tent be burened
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  not because we want to be cloth on clothes,
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  but for that clothe that
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  mortality may be
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  swallowed up by life. Now, he who
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  has prepared us for this very thingin
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  is God, who also has given us
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  the spirit as a guarantee that, that will happen.
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  So we are, always confident,
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  knowing that while we are, ah,
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  at home in the body, we
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  are absent from the Lord. For we walk
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  by faith, not by sight. That's why he
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  said, we know. We know.
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  We, ah, are confident. Yes,
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  well, please, rather to be absent from the body
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  and to be present with the Lord. He's
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  talking about the body. When he say
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  we have a house. He's talking about
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  celestial body. He's talking about this,
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  the spiritual body we are. We long for.
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  So now we're going to put this thing now
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  where we have a land In James
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  Rick songs, we'put a house
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  in the now because
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  that house will never grow old.
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  So when you sing never
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  grow old.
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  Never grow old
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  in a house. Because the house
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  now is a celestial body
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  where it will never grow old. Did
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  you understand saying e that is
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  what we are expecting. Are we
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  together? That is what we are expecting.
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  So now you understand that
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  the authority. When we say
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  manifesting the kingdom, we are first
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  saying manifesting the
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  authority, the dominion of God.
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  Are we together? That is what we are saying.
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  We are not saying you will go somewhere in the sun.
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  Are we together? And I want you to
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  say this with me.
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  I believe the gospel.
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  Please say it as you. I mean, say
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  it with your with conviction. If you are
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  born again here, say it.
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  Except if you have not
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  believedir
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  and we'praying for you so that you believe.
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  Yes, sir. So I believe the
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  gospel. Therefore,
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  I am in the kingdom now,
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  right now, at this very
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  moment. At this very
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  moment. I am not waiting for
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  it. I have it
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  now. I have dominion.
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  I have authority. Christ's
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  authority. He is my life.
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  His victory is my victory.
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  Oh, I reign in life,
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  over demons, over sin,
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  over the whole system and
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  every force of darkness. Oh, this is
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  my life. This is my song.
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  And this is my reality. Oh, this is
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  my life. This is my
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  song. And This is my
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