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00:06:47Join Pastor James in North Brunswick for Kingdom Connection.
00:10:13All right.
00:10:14We read the scriptures.
00:10:48So let's pray.
00:10:49And dive right in.
00:11:19What you're done.
00:12:03All these things.
00:12:42and being right.
00:13:12what you're done.
00:14:45first.
00:14:46We're going to take you.
00:14:50a serious look at you.
00:14:52and ask you.
00:14:54And you're going to say,
00:15:53for myself.
00:15:54And you're going to say,
00:16:08we're going to be absolutely,
00:16:34and you're going to say,
00:17:04you know, you know,
00:17:34how he's going to say,
00:17:35and you're going to say,
00:18:03and you're going to say,
00:18:34and you're going to say,
00:19:01and you're going to say,
00:19:20and you're going to say,
00:19:30first, you're going to say,
00:19:45and you're going to say,
00:19:45and you're going to say, okay?
00:20:43It's like,
00:20:45and you're going to say, you're that Tim's, you're going to say, okay,
00:20:52and you're going to say, okay, and you're going to see, right, but you're going to say, oh, God, you're
00:21:05going to say, okay.
00:21:07as the message that he would preach throughout his ministry. Now, I'm like this. If it was all
00:21:17about being a Christian or Christianity, that would have been the perfect time for him to
00:21:23initiate, introduce the religious Christianity, but he did not. He did not. He absolutely
00:21:35began his ministry with the realm of the kingdom, which is the whole point of everything,
00:21:42because the whole idea was to get people out of the spirit of religion that is causing havoc to
00:21:50this very day. So again, Matthew chapter four, and I'm going to go slow so you can write these
00:21:57scriptures down and don't take my word for it, read it for yourself and let the Holy Spirit give
00:22:02you the revelation of what is being said. Matthew 4 and 17 says, from that time on, now this is
00:22:09his
00:22:11initiating message where he absolutely begins. This is after he's coming out of the wilderness for
00:22:16fasting 40 days. He encounters the temptation of Satan, the devil, and then it picks up and it says,
00:22:23from that time, Jesus began to preach and to say, repent for the kingdom of heaven is at hand or
00:22:33has
00:22:34arrived. That's as clear as you can get. So then the book of Matthew and, you know, round about that
00:22:43chapter 13, Jesus takes time to specifically explain the importance and the value of the kingdom of the
00:22:53kingdom. And we went through that, but we're going to go through it again. We're going to keep going
00:22:57through it because the Holy Spirit doesn't want me to stop until you start coming into the abundant
00:23:04life that was promised and Jesus promised it. And so it has to be so, and we must continue to
00:23:12persevere and pursue until we step into that realm of abundant life and not just in material things,
00:23:22but in every area, in our health, okay, in our relationships, of course, in finances, in every
00:23:29way that means abundant life means abundant life. So Jesus began speaking a parable, okay, of what
00:23:39they would, of course, be familiar with, you know, seed time and harvest. They were, you know, farmers,
00:23:44they were into agriculture. That was the big thing at that time, okay? And so seed planting and he deals
00:23:53with the ground, the seed fell on, okay? And it talks about the different types of ground the seed fell
00:24:02on, okay? And then he got to the point of after this understanding of, you know, the seed and the
00:24:09time
00:24:10in the ground and all of it working together. He says, this is what should happen. Now, this is what
00:24:16we can't ignore. Yielding some 100 fold, some 60 fold, some 30 fold, there has to be some results.
00:24:29Now, if this is true, then we need to be seeing some serious results in understanding. But again,
00:24:39it has to be preached and it has, people has to get it in their spirit and they have to
00:24:44make
00:24:45him first in everything. He will not be second to anything, all right? And so again, we pick up
00:24:53Matthew chapter 13 and verse 10. The disciples, of course, they're wondering, okay, why are you
00:25:01teaching the people in these parables? Okay? They came to him and said unto him, why do you speak
00:25:08to them in parables? Then he says something to me that is so profound that we, I don't know how
00:25:14we
00:25:14could possibly miss it and not zero in on it. It's scripture says, and Jesus answered,
00:25:21he says, because it's given to you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, okay? But to
00:25:33them, it's not given to them. In other words, this is something that you're seeking for me. You're
00:25:40following me. You have put me first. When I said, come follow me, you dropped everything and you came
00:25:46and followed me. And so I want you to know that there is such a benefit in you putting me
00:25:53first
00:25:53that you need to know that this is for you and it's not for those who really, you know, are
00:26:00not
00:26:01interested. Now the NIV picks it up and says, because the knowledge of the secrets of the kingdom
00:26:09of heaven has been given to you, but not to them. So then we have in possession something that
00:26:18I don't know that we've even paid any attention to. We don't put him first and you're not going to
00:26:25get
00:26:25the revelation or the secrets of the kingdom. And these things can absolutely change your life for
00:26:31the better forever. All right. And so verse 12, I'm still in Matthew 13. He says, whoever has been
00:26:43given, they're going to, you know, those who have, they're going to be given more.
00:26:51And it goes on to say in abundance and whoever does not have, it says, even what they have will
00:27:01be taken from them. Now that's a serious secret. The world has got it backwards because they take
00:27:07from those who have and give to those who don't have and wonder why those who don't have never seem
00:27:15to get to a point where you don't have to keep giving to them. They should be where they can
00:27:20begin
00:27:21to pick up and kind of, you know, get it for themselves. So that's backwards. And we see,
00:27:26you know, from the various systems that have really stunned the growth of many people,
00:27:32because that's not how the kingdom works. Okay. And he goes on, he says, so whoever has the secrets
00:27:40or the mysteries of the kingdom, those who will prioritize and put him first, then whoever has
00:27:48what, those who have, who have what the mysteries, the secrets of the kingdom of heaven will be given
00:27:55more, but not if you're not putting him first, not if you're not prioritizing, because that's what
00:28:00they do. They don't put God first. They don't even think of him first. And if you're already doing
00:28:06that, then I say, pursue all the more, because this thing is about to take off for you. It's going
00:28:13to take off and you are going to be on the most wonderful ride of your life. Okay. And so
00:28:20the
00:28:21kingdom of heaven, it will begin to give more as you begin to seek it as simple as that. The
00:28:27more you
00:28:27seek it, the more it's going to give you the knowledge of the mysteries of the secrets, the more
00:28:32you seek, the more it's going to give the secrets of the kingdom of heaven will come to you. And
00:28:37it
00:28:38becomes an abundance according to the scripture. So there is so much to learn about the kingdom of
00:28:44heaven that is yet to be revealed because it's only now that, and I'm going to explain why it's only
00:28:51now,
00:28:52because I've come to find out even why the majority of the body of Christ doesn't really deal
00:29:00with the kingdom, with the message of the kingdom. Encompassed within the message of the kingdom is
00:29:06everything we need, all of our healing, all of our increases, all of our gifts and our callings,
00:29:12all the things that he has promised are within this message of the kingdom. That's why it says from
00:29:18that moment on, his message and only message was the kingdom of God, because within it is everything
00:29:25that we need for life and living. And so we got a lot to learn. The more you desire it,
00:29:32the more you
00:29:32seek after it. See, Jesus will give you more, okay, if that's what you're seeking and you're in pursuit
00:29:40after it, then more is going to be given to you. Whoever does not have this knowledge of the mysteries
00:29:46or the secrets of the kingdom of heaven, they're not, they're not going to get it because they're
00:29:54not pursuing it. They're not seeking after. They've made it common and they've heard it so much and
00:29:59everybody understand that I've heard the kingdom of God thrown out there so much until it's become
00:30:05common and people don't pay attention to it anymore. And it is the ultimate message for life, but God will
00:30:12not give mysteries where they are not wanted, where they're not interested, where they're not sought
00:30:17after or pursued. God won't show you what you don't care to see because it's too valuable to waste on
00:30:25people who don't care. And a lot of it, that's what's happened. It's not been taught. The value of it
00:30:31has
00:30:31not been resting in the hands of the people of God. And so here we go. So whoever does not
00:30:37have even, even
00:30:39what they do have, and we'll get to the scripture and explain this, even what they do have will be
00:30:45taken from them. Okay. And then this is in that same Matthew 13. I invite you to read it and,
00:30:51you
00:30:51know, see it. So, because it begins to make sense as we continue to all the other scriptures, you'll
00:30:58start to see them different in a very different light as you begin to understand more and more about
00:31:04what Jesus was, uh, talking about in the kingdom of God. And so, but, but, but because you didn't even
00:31:11value, you know, what you, what you do have the little bit that we do have, I know I'm going
00:31:17to
00:31:17explain it. Just bear with me. It's going to be taken because God, he doesn't waste anything. And so
00:31:23this is a lot of what's been going on. Verse 16 says, he says, but blessed are your eyes.
00:31:30Okay. Because they see, in other words, you've got something because you're still following you're
00:31:36still, but now you have to up your pursuit. You have to start getting serious about it now,
00:31:41because now you're understanding as we have been over and over revealing, exposing the spirit of
00:31:47religion, that it is a demonic spirit. It is not a God. It has cut off so much of what
00:31:53the body of
00:31:54Christ is supposed to receive. And it seems that no, no one wants to identify it for what it is
00:31:59because it is rain for so long over the body of Christ. And this religious system is really what's
00:32:08dominating and keeping people from coming into what God has truly promised. And we're going to break
00:32:14that in Jesus name. So blessed are you. Okay. Why? Because your eyes see and your ears blessed because
00:32:22are us what, because they hear you're hearing and you're seeing, and you can start preparing for the,
00:32:28one of the most wonderful things, because you're going to start valuing it. You're going to start
00:32:33seeing it differently. It's not just some kind of religious message. It has nothing to do with
00:32:38religion. You don't, you don't, you don't know how blessed you are. Now, this is what he starts
00:32:43explaining to disciples. He says, you don't even know how really blessed you are. Uh, you're in a place
00:32:48where you can actually see and hear this message of the mysteries and the secrets of the kingdom of
00:32:54heaven. He says, this, this is the original message that God has sent to the earthly realm.
00:33:00Uh, it goes on to verse 17 for truly, I tell you many prophets and righteous people long to see
00:33:07what,
00:33:08what you're getting an opportunity to see and hear. Okay. And they did not because they died before
00:33:14they would even get to understand this realm of the kingdom and to hear, he says, you're so blessed
00:33:20to hear this and, and what you're hearing and what you're able to see. Uh, they did not get to
00:33:27hear it
00:33:27or even see it. Uh, verse 18, he says, now listen, listen then to what the, the parable, what is
00:33:35this
00:33:35parable saying? What is about, first of all, it's about the sower, the parable of the sower. All right.
00:33:42And then he picks it up and he said, verse 19, this is what it means. When anyone hears the
00:33:47message
00:33:47about the kingdom and does not understand it, understand it here simply means you don't, you
00:33:54know, you don't lock onto it. You don't, you don't grasp it. You don't, um, you know, embrace it and
00:34:01value it and hold onto it and grab it and not let it go. Uh, he says, uh, you know,
00:34:07when they don't
00:34:07get it, then what happens, um, Mark chapter four and 15, it says exactly what happens. It says
00:34:15immediately, immediately Satan comes and takes it away. Okay. The word that was sown in their hearts.
00:34:24How does that happen? Now, this is one of the things I know the spirit of God was showing me.
00:34:30So I could, cause I was really trying to understand what does it really mean? How does the devil
00:34:36immediately take it away? Uh, hear me now when I say, cause this was my experience. Okay. I have
00:34:44been understood, you know, hearing the message of kingdom. This goes back when I first really began
00:34:49the ministry. Uh, the late great Dr. Miles Monroe was doing a big conference, um, at, you know, uh,
00:35:00a particular ministry. They were having him, they would have him from time to time. And this time
00:35:05I said, you know, I really want to go and see and hear, you know, what, what this man of
00:35:10God is
00:35:10coming all the way from the Bahamas. And I thought this is, this is something I want to hear now.
00:35:17Make no, so many people were there. The place was packed for this session that he was teaching
00:35:23about the kingdom. Now this was really more or less really first time that I was actually hearing
00:35:29this message of the kingdom. Okay. And out of the, now, if you, if you have been to conferences,
00:35:36you know, the speakers will get up and they'll kind of introduce to you their latest books or their
00:35:42latest CDs and so on and so forth. And many times they'll, you know, give them or throw them out
00:35:47to
00:35:47the crowd and so on and so forth. And so when he finished explaining his first, uh, CD about the,
00:35:53you know, the kingdom of God, it was in four parts, four different, um, might've been CDs or it might've
00:36:00been cassette tapes. That's how long ago it was. I don't remember. But anyway, he says, I want to
00:36:05give this to somebody who, well, my hand went up. So I don't even know, I don't even remember raising
00:36:10my hand, but out of all those people, my hand went up and I was the first one. And he
00:36:16says, come on up
00:36:16and get it. Well, I ran up there and grabbed that thing. I was like, so glad to get it.
00:36:22And, you know,
00:36:23at some point when I did finally get home and get to some, get some time to really listen to
00:36:28it.
00:36:28Notice what I'm saying now, when I finally got some time, it was amazing to me. When I looked back,
00:36:33I said, all those people, and you were the only one that got that free, you know, volume of, of,
00:36:40of the messages. And I mean, four sets, they were anywhere from four to maybe six hours.
00:36:47And at what point did I really listen to it? Really much later on from the time I got it.
00:36:53Okay. That's how, how I didn't even understand what I had in my hands and, but things were going
00:36:59so bad. And I said, you know, I really settled down and started listening and hearing it. And I was
00:37:06really starting to get it right. But now this is what I want you to understand. The enemy is not
00:37:13going to distract you with obvious sins or obvious stuff. Now, the way he got me was with other
00:37:22messages. I would get other thoughts and they were good thoughts. You know, those of you who've been in
00:37:28the ministry, we've always made sure we came before God's people with word that would help and change
00:37:34their life and so on and so forth. And, you know, I didn't even realize that, okay, yes, you got
00:37:42some
00:37:42good word going, but you have totally kind of put the message of kingdom, uh, kind of on the back
00:37:47burner. And then guess what? Things would happen and I'd get back on it again. And I could see my
00:37:54back and forth, back and forth kind of pattern. And that's when it finally hit me when I saw this
00:38:01scripture where it says, when you, uh, get a little understanding of it, the enemy, cause he doesn't
00:38:07want you to get, this is the one message. This is why so much of the body of Christ doesn't
00:38:12even,
00:38:12this is the one message. The enemy does not want you to get ahold to. He knows and understands what
00:38:19the message of kingdom is about. And so he'll distract and with good stuff, with good things,
00:38:25so that you won't even at, you know, identify or understand that you've just been distracted from
00:38:31the message. Because let's face it, the preaching out there, it's good preaching. It's good word.
00:38:37It's blessing. It's helping lives. People are really, you know, benefiting from it, but not to
00:38:42the fullness, not to where, you know, the message of kingdom is fulfilling every area of life. There's
00:38:49too much sickness and death in the body of Christ. There's too much poverty and lack in the body of
00:38:53Christ. Can we be honest? There's too many divorces and breakups and messed up relationships and,
00:38:59you know, domestic abuse. There's just as much in the church and the body of Christ as it is in
00:39:05the
00:39:05world. And somehow, I don't believe it's supposed to be that way. The kingdom message, remember, it's
00:39:11for us, not for them. So why do we have no distinguish or no difference between what's going on with
00:39:18the
00:39:18world and what's going on? Because we are not teaching the message of the kingdom. We have all these
00:39:25other messages going, which is good. Like I said, thank God we have preached Jesus. We will, you know,
00:39:32my goodness, shine in the greatest darkness with the message of Jesus. But it's time for us now to
00:39:40preach what Jesus preached. Okay. And that's what I continue to harp on. And I want you to just really
00:39:48kind of pay attention because as this message starts to take, you know, uh, grounds and take
00:39:54roots, you know, watch out for the distractions that come to get you off of it and onto, you know,
00:40:01another thought or it's because that's what kept happening to me. And even now, because I'm far more,
00:40:07uh, I guess, conscious and aware, uh, it's, it's not so easy for the enemy to get me off track.
00:40:15All right. So what's he saying? In other words, until you value this message of the kingdom for
00:40:22your dear life, because when you get those really rough situations, you start turning to God
00:40:28and saying, Lord, why, what, what is going on? You know, that's what get me the times that I did,
00:40:35you know, reach out back for the whole realm of kingdom. It was in some major situations and then
00:40:42God was able. And unfortunately that's how a lot of us receive it's in the midst of stuff that has
00:40:47gotten us to where we, you know, don't have no place to turn. It just looks like there's no way
00:40:52out. And that's when God can get us, you know, our attention and, and, and get through to us what
00:40:59we
00:40:59need to do. And so until you value it, like for, like your life depends on it, you know, the
00:41:05enemy,
00:41:05he's going to continue to take it away. The kingdom is for life and living, not religion
00:41:14and the enemy, he knows that. And so there'd be distractions that are really good enough to get
00:41:20you busy working and preoccupied into something else. When indeed that's not putting him first.
00:41:27And because it's, it's, you know, it's not bad stuff. In fact, it's good stuff. So that's why you
00:41:33won't even realize you're off track. Like right now, the hardest thing to preach for the body of
00:41:39Christ is the message of the kingdom, because that what they're doing is nothing wrong. It's not wrong.
00:41:45It's just not kingdom. And if it's not kingdom, you're not going to have the, when Jesus said,
00:41:51he that believes on me, as the scripture says, so he was very clear in that, you know, these are
00:41:57the instructions. If you want to have the results, then you have to do what the instructions say. And we
00:42:03know that many times I know I bought things and the instructions was there, but I went about trying
00:42:08to do it myself. And then finally I go back to the instruction so I can get it right. And
00:42:13I think
00:42:13that's where we're at. That's where we are now in our understanding. So again, it's for life.
00:42:20It's not for religion. You know, even, even the little that you begin to understand, okay. The sower,
00:42:27the seed, these represent life giving, you know, the sower, the seed. He's trying to show you that
00:42:35a seed represents life. A sower, this represents life. We need seed to live and seeds are alive.
00:42:44And when they are planted, they bring forth and we have to start seeing it for what it says. All
00:42:49right,
00:42:49Luke chapter eight and 11, I'm going to really be emphasizing because I'm praying that the Holy
00:42:57Spirit will just open up your eyes of your understanding and you will just get a whole
00:43:02new insight for the message of the kingdom of God. Luke eight and 11 says, seed is the life giving
00:43:11word.
00:43:11And this is what I, you know, the commentary is this kingdom is the life of the word of God.
00:43:21Kingdom
00:43:21is the life that he was trying to explain to us. Okay. Kingdom is the message. It's a message for
00:43:28life. Okay. It deals with sower and seed and those things represent life. I hope you're understanding.
00:43:36I know I'm, you know, kind of overemphasizing it maybe, but I learned a long time ago. Repetition is the
00:43:43mother of learning. So praise God. So how do you seek the kingdom? How, how do we go about it?
00:43:48First of all,
00:43:49you must get to the king. Okay. Well, thank God we, we did that. You, you got to get to
00:43:55Jesus. Of course.
00:43:57That's why I said we didn't waste time preaching. We knew salvation was in Jesus Christ. We know our
00:44:04redeemer lives. Thank God for the preaching of the gospel of, of, of the Lord Jesus Christ. Thank God for
00:44:11that. That's why, because he is the king. Okay. You must get the king. The, the, the center of a
00:44:20kingdom
00:44:20is the king, not an organization, not a building, you know, not organized religion. The king, the center
00:44:33of the kingdom is the king. The king is the source. He's the source of the kingdom. That's why Jesus
00:44:42said,
00:44:43you know, come on to me. Let's take a look real quick. Matthew chapter 11, Matthew chapter 11 and
00:44:5028. Hopefully you'll start seeing all these scriptures now in a different light from how
00:44:54you once read them. Matthew 11. He says, what come on to me, all who labor and are heavy laden,
00:45:03and I will give you rest. When you allow the flow of kingdom in your life, things become with much
00:45:14less effort because we put a whole lot of effort and have a very little results. And that is what
00:45:22you should really give some thought because all that labor and heavy laden, heavy burdens, all the
00:45:28things that we're doing. He says, come on to me because I want to give you rest. All right. He
00:45:34says, and I, you know, uh, verse, verse 29 puts it up and watch this. Take my yoke upon you.
00:45:39And what
00:45:39learn, learn of me. We are in the process now of learning about kingdom. So we need to learn what
00:45:48he
00:45:48really said and see it from a King's perspective and not from a religious perspective. He says, for I am
00:45:57meek and lowly, meek is, has nothing to do with weakness. In fact, meekness is power under restraint.
00:46:04Okay. So he says, I'm meek and I'm lowly. Lowly means humble and humble in heart. And you shall find
00:46:12rest onto your soul. How many know that this is what we need so desperately? I mean, God's people need
00:46:22to be able to rest. You need to be able to lay down at night and have sweet sleep. Just
00:46:28as the
00:46:29scripture says, you need to wake up refreshed. It's a terrible thing when you sleep all night and still
00:46:37wake up exhausted and still tired. You know, we have to understand this is why Jesus spent so much time
00:46:47speaking about kingdom, speaking about kingdom, because if he could get you into the mindset in
00:46:50the realm of kingdom, then you could start receiving the rest that you need. And you would
00:46:56see how things would flow. Uh, and it wouldn't be a whole lot of effort. He says, come on and
00:47:02learn
00:47:02from, you know, learn some things from it. Come to the King. Because if you come to the King,
00:47:09you're going to learn about the kingdom because you're going to see that that's what he did.
00:47:12He spent all of his preaching talking about the kingdom. So if you want to learn kingdom,
00:47:21of course we have to, but we can't learn him from a religious mindset. Okay. John chapter 20 and
00:47:29verse 22, John chapter 20 and verse 22, he says, and when Jesus had said this, he breathed on them
00:47:37and said unto them, receive the Holy ghost. Now that is so powerful because that was really the
00:47:46beginning of what would take place on Pentecost. Now notice it says he breathed on them, not in
00:47:52them. He breathed on them. But what happened at Pentecost, they were filled from within because that
00:47:59would be our ultimate. That's why we call this masterclass because it's the ultimate teacher,
00:48:05the Holy spirit. That's going to get you to the realm of where you belong or where you're supposed
00:48:11to be. You're going to realize that the real you has not really manifest yet, that there is so much
00:48:17more of you, so much that's yet to come that, you know, what, what you see is really not what
00:48:23you get.
00:48:24There is so much more to you. And that's why we had to have the governor, the Holy spirit himself,
00:48:30that would come and really teach us and show us. He teaches us all things according to the scripture,
00:48:37all things what pertaining to the kingdom of God, Luke 17 and 21, Luke chapter 17 and 21 says,
00:48:45the kingdom of God is where it's within you. Because when he allowed us to actually
00:48:55receive the return of the Holy spirit, thank God for Pentecost, you know, we are in the feast of
00:49:02weeks right now, right? We're counting the weeks leading up to Pentecost, which is the celebration
00:49:08of the return of the spirit of the Lord. It left in the garden because of disobedience and sin and
00:49:16Jesus, because of his blood and sacrifice and all that he did returns the Holy spirit back to us.
00:49:23Our ultimate teacher is the Holy spirit, the spirit of the living God. And, and okay. So then the kingdom
00:49:30of God is within you. The kingdom is the person of the King, Jesus Christ. Okay. And this comes from
00:49:39the
00:49:39very source of his own birthright. His own birth was for this very purpose. He says, this is why I
00:49:49came
00:49:49I'm getting ahead of myself, but the one scripture, he says, I must preach the kingdom because this is
00:49:54what I came to do. And so it's very important for us to start taking these things serious so that
00:49:59we can
00:50:00begin to participate, experience all that he said, the kingdom is the person of Jesus Christ. And then it is
00:50:09lived out through the power of the Holy ghost. We've got this now. So let's learn, let's take it in
00:50:17and now
00:50:18learn from it and stay focused on it. Uh, you know, in the parable of the sower, Jesus describes four
00:50:24different types of people, which are also representative of the soil, you know, the stony ground, the, by the
00:50:34wayside ground. Okay. We're going to take a look at that. We'll get started. We won't be able to finish
00:50:40it all, but we'll at least get started so that you can understand the importance of the parable that he
00:50:45was sowing the sower. He says it describes four different types of people, uh, when the seed or
00:50:51the word, because we read the scripture where it literally says, and the seed is the word, uh, it's being
00:50:58sown and, and what, you know, what does it represent? What's it about? You see, and that's very
00:51:04interesting to me because it is so prevalent for what is taking place now. In other words, there's,
00:51:10there's four different types of ground that the seed is to fall on, uh, which represents four
00:51:16different types of people. So guess what then the percentage for receiving the message of the kingdom
00:51:26out of those four types is like 25%. And that's exactly what it looks like that the 75% of
00:51:35the
00:51:36church is preaching everything except the kingdom. You'll hear it mentioned from time to time through
00:51:43the lens of religion, but not from the reality of what Jesus was teaching. And so you talk about the
00:51:51rocky. Well, the, the rocky is to someone who just misses, you know, they dismiss it. You know,
00:51:57it's just, again, that's what a religious spirit will do. It'll never make, uh, the word of God a
00:52:02reality, uh, because that's what religion does. It's just a religion. It's not real. Okay. Uh, and then
00:52:09of course there's the shallow, the shallow ground where, you know, this is those who, who it springs up so
00:52:16quickly because, and why does it spring up? Cause they think they already know you mentioned kingdom.
00:52:21Now they think they already know. Okay. And, and so it, it gets no roots because they really,
00:52:28you know, they take it on. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And they don't really get it, but they think they,
00:52:32because they think they already, well, you know, God can't give you anything. If you think you already
00:52:36have it. Okay. And then there's, there, there's those again, who put their cares first. He says,
00:52:42they, you know, get caught up in the cares of the world. And, and then what happens? They become
00:52:47choked by their own cares. That's why Jesus said, refuse to worry, you know, about the things,
00:52:54your cares. All right. And so when, when we come back, we'll walk, you know, through each of these
00:53:01grounds, because I want to take my time with it so that you can very clearly, because clarity is
00:53:08wonderful. When you get clarity, that's when your focus becomes very sharpened. And Hey, when your
00:53:13focus is sharp, so is your discernment. And that's what you want. You want to be someone who is on
00:53:20it.
00:53:21You get it and you can move into, you know, higher levels and higher frequencies to hear from the realm
00:53:27of heaven. You know, understand this people agree. You know, that's the one thing I found out about
00:53:36the four different grounds. They all agree, but they don't obey. Okay. You know, they hear,
00:53:43but they don't listen. Okay. They see, but they don't understand. And that's what he's showing us
00:53:50in the midst of these four different grounds. So when we come back, and that's important because
00:53:56Sunday morning, we're going to pick right back up and we're going to, you know, break it down as much
00:54:01as possible. This is only round one. You know, God has showed us so much. That's why I say that
00:54:06the
00:54:06more you seek, the more he's going to show you, he will give you just as much as you will
00:54:11pursue him
00:54:12for. And as long as I'm pursuing, he's going to keep giving me, you know, more and more understanding,
00:54:17more mysteries, more of the secrets so that they can really help the body of Christ to grow in such
00:54:23a
00:54:23matter, uh, that, you know, you can't help, but the blessings of the Lord will chase after you.
00:54:28Okay. And so, uh, there, there are those who, who are, are, are, are ground. They are good ground.
00:54:37Okay. They, they prepared, you know, they're ready to receive that seed. They embrace it. Okay. And again,
00:54:46the seed is word and they really hold onto it. They're not distracted from, and because they've embraced
00:54:52it, the enemy can't snatch it from them. Uh, and these are the ones who bear much fruit. So when
00:54:58we
00:54:59come back, that's what we're going to look into. Okay. Uh, we're going to see what happens. What's
00:55:04it take to produce, you know, the kind of fruit in, in the abundance because abundance, when you talk
00:55:12about abundance, it means your life has so much, you, you began to overflow into the lives of others
00:55:17and it's without effort. You know, it's not going through all these major workshops and learning how
00:55:23to witness and things. It's not even like that. It's not supposed to be that at all. It's not that
00:55:27available. The same way you see people, uh, doing, risking their lives to come into America because in
00:55:34their mind, it's such a better place. They're escaping, you know, poverty and, and lawlessness and all
00:55:40those kinds of things. And you know, they, many, many have lost their lives trying to get here.
00:55:46Uh, that's the way the kingdom is. When you start bringing kingdom and not religion,
00:55:51people are going to be trying to get to you. You don't have to be running to them and trying
00:55:55to have
00:55:56all these 12 ways how to witness and how to win souls and so on. So kingdom does that for
00:56:01you.
00:56:01All right. So we're going to stop there because we have a lot to cover. I hope that you'll follow
00:56:06through. I hope that you'll, you know, stay with this because this is what life is about. He was
00:56:13teaching us how our life is supposed to be. And it all rests within the teaching and the knowledge
00:56:19of the kingdom. So when we come back, we pick up on divine priority. That'll give you some time to
00:56:25really examine your priorities and really be honest. Is he really first, are you really making kingdom?
00:56:32The first thing about your day, the first thing about your thinking and your thoughts,
00:56:37give you a chance to really consider it so that you can start setting up your schedule, your time,
00:56:44your life to put him first. So father, in the name of Jesus, we thank you for the opportunity to
00:56:49share
00:56:49this word with your people. I believe there's been a great impartation and lives are about to step
00:56:56into the realm that you have ordained for their life, that they have been so fearfully and wonderfully
00:57:03made that your mind is full of them and they will see the glory in Jesus name. We thank you
00:57:12for it.
00:57:12We call it done and it is so. Amen and amen. God bless you. We look forward to our time
00:57:17together.
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