# Crowning Ignorant Kings - Dr. Myles Munroe - Kingdom Conference (The Apostles)

An episode of [Crowning Ignorant Kings](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1609667064), 22 Jun 2025, 51 min.

Audio: https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/63179715/crowning_ignorant_kings_dr_myles_munroe_kingdom_conference_the_apostles.mp3

Hello Podcast Family!!! Crowning Ignorant Kings has been growing daily and influencing nations thanks to you. We have just uploaded our 200th Episode, and so far you have listened, downloaded, and shared over 82,000 times! We are continuing Season 5, as the overall goal of this series is to prepare those of us to better understand the Kingdom of God and to teach the Kingdom Concepts, Kingdom Ideology, and the Kingdom Philosophy of Jesus Christ, in order to transform local communities and nations; Cultivating a Kingdom Community on Earth. During this upcoming season, we look forward to more teaching appearances from John and Charlene Donelson as well as their special guest, to help enlighten and encourage us all as we continue to cultivate a Kingdom Community. Keep us in prayer, as we pray for you all as well. Now Let's Adjust Our Crowns! Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/crowning-ignorant-kings--2714790/support. Crowning Ignorant Kings: The Online Kingdom Academy Follow this FREE plan to gather the resources that you need to learn more about experiencing the Kingdom of God on earth. Crowning Ignorant Kings: BLOG Crowning Ignorant Kings: The Kingdom Academy Crowning Ignorant Kings: Online Community

## Transcript

[0:10] Speaker 1: You're listening to Crowning Ignorant Kings, a podcast for citizens
[0:14] Speaker 1: with like minds who love God, follow Christ, and have
[0:18] Speaker 1: a desire to be an ambassador for the Kingdom of
[0:22] Speaker 1: Heaven on earth. We are John and Charlene Donaldson, who
[0:26] Speaker 1: are teachers building a Kingdom community. Thank you again for
[0:30] Speaker 1: joining us. Now let's sudjust our crowns.
[0:40] Speaker 2: You do take a look at that the theology of
[0:44] Speaker 2: the Apostles. This is very important that we focus on
[0:48] Speaker 2: this because we need to know what the apostles taught,
[0:58] Speaker 2: what were their doctrine and uh, there was a question
[1:01] Speaker 2: last night about this, so let's look at uh the Kingdom,
[1:07] Speaker 2: theology of the Apostles, the Kingdom, Theodipoth. Those notes are
[1:13] Speaker 2: not in your package. My sessions would be given to
[1:16] Speaker 2: you at the end of the seminar. Okay, yeah, cause
[1:18] Speaker 2: I want you to listen to me and take notes.
[1:23] Speaker 2: I'm smart.
[1:26] Speaker 3: Uh.
[1:28] Speaker 2: The focus of the disciples, what.
[1:33] Speaker 3: Was their message?
[1:37] Speaker 2: Jesus chose twelve disciples, he lost one, and he poured
[1:44] Speaker 2: his life into these students. Again, he called them disciples,
[1:50] Speaker 2: so they were his students and he was teaching them
[1:55] Speaker 2: his ideology, his philosophy and his idea. Now, I'm gonna
[2:02] Speaker 2: give you a lot of scripture, not a lot of
[2:04] Speaker 2: my comments, because I want you to see from your
[2:08] Speaker 2: own Bible what they taught. I want to begin by
[2:12] Speaker 2: talking about what he considered to be their privileged position.
[2:19] Speaker 2: This is very exciting. They were with him for three
[2:24] Speaker 2: and a half years and he poured himself into them.
[2:31] Speaker 2: And I think we saw in my last session with
[2:34] Speaker 2: you what his theology was. We claar on that, right,
[2:37] Speaker 2: I mean, we know what he taught. We all clear
[2:39] Speaker 2: on that. We know his idea.
[2:40] Speaker 3: What was his idea? The Kingdom of God, no question
[2:44] Speaker 3: about it.
[2:44] Speaker 2: That was his idea. So the question is did they
[2:48] Speaker 2: get it?
[2:50] Speaker 3: Now?
[2:51] Speaker 2: This comment I'm about to read, it's interesting. This is
[2:53] Speaker 2: found in Matthew chapter thirteen. One of the most important
[2:57] Speaker 2: chapters I want you to memorize is Matthew thirteen because
[3:02] Speaker 2: Matthew thirteen is one of those teaching moments. Jesus normally
[3:10] Speaker 2: create classes out of questions, and this is the best
[3:16] Speaker 2: way to train people. You train people not by necessarily
[3:21] Speaker 2: offering information, but letting them asks a question. A few
[3:25] Speaker 2: moments ago, we were in the boardroom and one of
[3:28] Speaker 2: my mentees here asks me a question. Thirty minutes later,
[3:35] Speaker 2: there was a lesson. When you ask a question, you
[3:39] Speaker 2: create a classroom.
[3:41] Speaker 3: Write that down. Remember that.
[3:42] Speaker 2: So what you want to do to share your ideas
[3:45] Speaker 2: with people is to get them to ask you questions.
[3:49] Speaker 2: When you volunteer your opinion and ideas to people, you
[3:52] Speaker 2: could offend them.
[3:54] Speaker 3: But if they ask questions, they created the classroom.
[3:58] Speaker 2: So in chapter thirteen MM, a classroom was created by
[4:02] Speaker 2: a question. The question was, why do you speak to
[4:05] Speaker 2: these people in parables and you speak to us plainly?
[4:10] Speaker 2: That question came from his students. You'd remember that every
[4:15] Speaker 2: time Jesus Christ taught to multitudes, he didn't speak to
[4:19] Speaker 2: them plainly. He would talk to them in these little stories. Uh.
[4:24] Speaker 3: We call 'em parabolic language stories. Uh. A parable is
[4:29] Speaker 3: a short story.
[4:34] Speaker 2: That people can relate to, but it conceals the truth.
[4:42] Speaker 3: Should you get that?
[4:43] Speaker 2: A parable is not designed to expose the truth.
[4:47] Speaker 3: It is designed to hide it. And there's a reason why.
[4:54] Speaker 2: A parable is designed for you to carry truth wrapped
[4:57] Speaker 2: in a little story with you and till you are
[5:00] Speaker 2: ready to open it.
[5:03] Speaker 3: It's like a little package. The reason for that is.
[5:07] Speaker 2: The principle of knowledge is nothing is yours until you
[5:13] Speaker 2: discover it.
[5:14] Speaker 3: So that's the reason for a powable.
[5:16] Speaker 2: A parable is giving someone something they need that they
[5:20] Speaker 2: don't think they're ready for yet.
[5:25] Speaker 3: Hope that's making sense.
[5:26] Speaker 2: So a parable is very powerful because it helps you
[5:29] Speaker 2: to carry the truth with you and then one day
[5:33] Speaker 2: you have a defining moment experience where you say, ah,
[5:39] Speaker 2: that's what he meant, then it's yours. Secondly, a parable
[5:45] Speaker 2: is given to people who have no interest in the truth.
[5:49] Speaker 3: Yet.
[5:53] Speaker 2: The reason for that is because you don't put your
[5:57] Speaker 2: pearls before, you know. I speak to a lot of
[6:03] Speaker 2: different groups and forums, different environments and different professional areas,
[6:08] Speaker 2: and I give those people heavier parables, and then I leave.
[6:13] Speaker 2: I leave, I go back to my country, and then
[6:17] Speaker 2: ten weeks later I'll get an email and you know
[6:20] Speaker 2: this CEO would write me and say, you know, I
[6:23] Speaker 2: finally understood what he was trying to tell me.
[6:26] Speaker 3: I just give them a story.
[6:31] Speaker 2: So sometimes when you want to share the kingdom, you
[6:34] Speaker 2: need to really not just tell everybody because they're not
[6:38] Speaker 2: ready for it. So give them a story, give them
[6:42] Speaker 2: a parable. So here in this chapter he'd given them
[6:47] Speaker 2: a parable. He talks about this, soa now I remember
[6:52] Speaker 2: he's talking to the multitude, not his disciples, and he
[6:55] Speaker 2: tells them this story about this soa who goes to
[6:58] Speaker 2: soul and we all know the story where some of
[7:00] Speaker 2: the seeds fell and good for soil and rock, and
[7:03] Speaker 2: you know, some fell among weeds, and and he's telling
[7:06] Speaker 2: this story, and he talked about, you know, this farmer
[7:10] Speaker 2: benefiting from the ones who actually got it. Now, by
[7:15] Speaker 2: the way, this parable is very important.
[7:17] Speaker 3: The powable is about the kingdom.
[7:18] Speaker 2: It's not about it's not about seed, you know, planning
[7:21] Speaker 2: and giving all the stuff you use to get money.
[7:24] Speaker 3: This probable is about the kingdom. All right, Oh boy,
[7:30] Speaker 3: I'm in trouble already. I'm trying to find a bible
[7:33] Speaker 3: to protect myself. Uh. Turned to Matthew thirteen.
[7:38] Speaker 2: I wanted to see this cause this is this is
[7:40] Speaker 2: this is a teaching moment here, Matthew thirteen.
[7:44] Speaker 3: He begins the whole chapter with a parable.
[7:47] Speaker 2: On the same day, he went out of the house
[7:50] Speaker 2: and sat by the sea.
[7:52] Speaker 3: It's verse one.
[7:54] Speaker 2: A great multitude were gathering together to him, so that
[8:00] Speaker 2: he got into a boat because the crowd became so big.
[8:04] Speaker 3: And from the boat he began to teach them. Okay,
[8:11] Speaker 3: he spoke to them many things. That means that there's
[8:13] Speaker 3: some things that are.
[8:14] Speaker 2: Not even recorded. I wish I was there because we
[8:17] Speaker 2: missed some stuff. This is just one of the stories
[8:19] Speaker 2: that they caught. So he might have been teaching for hours,
[8:22] Speaker 2: we don't know, but this story they remembered. He taught
[8:26] Speaker 2: this one. He says, look a soa souls went out
[8:29] Speaker 2: to sew and he sold et cetera, et cetera. Now
[8:31] Speaker 2: this is not for you to use to collect offerings. Nah,
[8:35] Speaker 2: if you don't believe me, you don't believe me. Let's
[8:39] Speaker 2: read what he says. The parable is about mm Jesus
[8:43] Speaker 2: said in verse eighteen. Therefore here with the power of
[8:50] Speaker 2: the sol means So he's telling us what it means.
[8:52] Speaker 3: You don't need to invent no simon on.
[8:55] Speaker 2: This thing, yes, cause the disciple says, look, explain ain't
[9:00] Speaker 2: as terrible to us.
[9:01] Speaker 3: Read the next verse.
[9:02] Speaker 2: He says, when anyone here is what the message of
[9:05] Speaker 2: the king So he said this thing is about the
[9:07] Speaker 2: message of the kingdom. He says that when you teach
[9:13] Speaker 2: the message of the kingdom like a group like this,
[9:18] Speaker 2: he says, twenty five percent will get excited but won't
[9:21] Speaker 2: remember it. Twenty five percent will say they got it,
[9:25] Speaker 2: but they'll lose it. Twenty five percent will run with it,
[9:29] Speaker 2: but under pressure it'll go away, go back to their
[9:32] Speaker 2: old religion and stuff, and then only twenty five percent
[9:35] Speaker 2: will really get it and they benefit. So whenever you
[9:39] Speaker 2: teach the Kingdom of God, don't expect the whole group
[9:42] Speaker 2: to get it.
[9:45] Speaker 3: So in this room, I.
[9:47] Speaker 2: Really expect twenty five percent of y'all.
[9:49] Speaker 3: To get what're we talking about this week? He not terrible.
[9:55] Speaker 2: What makes leaders depressed is they want everyone to get it.
[10:00] Speaker 2: Christ says, look, lower your expectation. Not everyone's gonna get it.
[10:08] Speaker 2: Even some folks who listen to me teacher on the
[10:10] Speaker 2: king to get excited, you know, and then they go
[10:12] Speaker 2: back to their church and they go right back into
[10:14] Speaker 2: the old thing. So, you know, he says, some are
[10:17] Speaker 2: choked because of the cares that.
[10:20] Speaker 3: They get involved in.
[10:21] Speaker 2: Some of them get excited, and the sun comes and
[10:23] Speaker 2: scorch it and dries it back up, and.
[10:25] Speaker 3: Then the twenty five percent gets it. Okay, but here's
[10:29] Speaker 3: my point. If you look at.
[10:31] Speaker 2: The hardest chapter ends, he begins to tell them that
[10:35] Speaker 2: they are privileged.
[10:38] Speaker 3: And this is important.
[10:40] Speaker 2: He was teaching them on what the kingdom for three
[10:43] Speaker 2: and a half years, and he says.
[10:50] Speaker 3: Verse ten.
[10:52] Speaker 2: They ask him, why do you speak to the people
[10:54] Speaker 2: in parables, but you speak to us plainly.
[10:57] Speaker 3: He said, because it has been given to you to
[10:59] Speaker 3: know what of what?
[11:03] Speaker 2: N don't don't underline that. He said, this whole thing
[11:06] Speaker 2: is about the kingdom message. It's been given to you
[11:13] Speaker 2: only to.
[11:13] Speaker 3: Know the mischief of the kingdom, but not to them.
[11:16] Speaker 2: Look at it outside. Now, what's he talking about. You
[11:19] Speaker 2: got thousand people a p perhaps around him, and you
[11:22] Speaker 2: got these twelve guys. And he said, look, I'm gonna
[11:24] Speaker 2: gonna tell twelve the real information.
[11:28] Speaker 3: Mm. Those ten thousand, I'm gonna give them stories. Now
[11:34] Speaker 3: he tells them. Why, he said, because.
[11:38] Speaker 2: Whoever has to him or would be given, but he
[11:44] Speaker 2: who does not have even.
[11:46] Speaker 3: What he has, he will lose. Okay, what's he just said.
[11:50] Speaker 3: Here's he's saying.
[11:51] Speaker 2: He said, the reason why you guys are getting all
[11:53] Speaker 2: this information is because you have a desire to know
[12:01] Speaker 2: the information. You left your families, you left your fishing business,
[12:06] Speaker 2: you left your tax office, Matthew, you left your family. Look,
[12:09] Speaker 2: you left and you came and followed me. You decided
[12:13] Speaker 2: to pursue this information. That's why I'm gonna tell you
[12:16] Speaker 2: the information. God responds to desire and hunger, not to
[12:22] Speaker 2: casual interests. He's telling them because you have a desired
[12:28] Speaker 2: in a know to know. I'm gonna tell you what
[12:31] Speaker 2: I know. Those people they interested. They just come because
[12:35] Speaker 2: they're excited about the miracles and the free bread.
[12:38] Speaker 3: And fish and you know what they can get.
[12:39] Speaker 2: They're not interested in in what I really have to
[12:41] Speaker 2: deliver them yet, So I give them stories.
[12:44] Speaker 3: You I give the real thing. So you get two
[12:47] Speaker 3: groups all the time.
[12:49] Speaker 2: Some of you may have come here just skeptical to
[12:52] Speaker 2: check to see what I'm doing.
[12:53] Speaker 3: Some of you, and that's in every crowd. There's some
[12:55] Speaker 3: folks who come.
[12:56] Speaker 2: Just to see, let me see what's going on here,
[12:57] Speaker 2: let me see what He's doing.
[12:58] Speaker 3: And that's fine.
[13:00] Speaker 2: So you wanna get parables. But look at this room
[13:08] Speaker 2: of people who travel from twenty countries. Someone gotta pay,
[13:11] Speaker 2: you know, so much money to get here. You think
[13:13] Speaker 2: God's gonna let them go back empty. They have a hunger,
[13:19] Speaker 2: so he will give you what mysteries he says. It's
[13:23] Speaker 2: up to you. You will know the mysteries, which means
[13:25] Speaker 2: it ain't mysteries to you no more. It's a mystery
[13:28] Speaker 2: to them who are not here. It's gonna be clear
[13:32] Speaker 2: to you all right now. But watch the next verse
[13:36] Speaker 2: for sixteen. He says, But blessed are your eyes because
[13:42] Speaker 2: they see on your ears, because they hear.
[13:46] Speaker 3: Keep reading, because I tell you the truth.
[13:50] Speaker 2: Many prophets, Now this is deep and righteous. Men long
[13:56] Speaker 2: to see what you see, but did not see it.
[13:59] Speaker 2: And I wanted to hear what you hear, and didn't
[14:03] Speaker 2: hear it. We gotta pause on this verse of a second.
[14:06] Speaker 2: He ran back into history and picked up Moses, Daniel, Joseph, Amos, Obidiah, Jonah,
[14:13] Speaker 2: Michaeh Naam Obaka, Seph, and Iah, Hageaa, Zachariyah Malakai. He
[14:17] Speaker 2: picked up all up, and he says, look, they didn't
[14:20] Speaker 2: get this. They prophesied, they talked about it, but they
[14:25] Speaker 2: never quite got it.
[14:28] Speaker 3: God. What this kingdom message?
[14:31] Speaker 2: They got little glimpses of it, Some of them saw
[14:33] Speaker 2: little bits of it. He said, But you guys got
[14:35] Speaker 2: the real message. You got the Kingdom of God message.
[14:39] Speaker 3: You got it. You got more than Joseph and Moses.
[14:45] Speaker 3: That's what he's talking about you are greater than Moses.
[14:47] Speaker 3: In this room. He even put John in that category. Now,
[14:56] Speaker 3: now Joama was the.
[14:56] Speaker 2: Last prophet of the Old Testament, except John was also
[15:01] Speaker 2: a New Testament prophet, so he had his foot in
[15:04] Speaker 2: Malachi on one foot in Matthew. He's the only prophet
[15:07] Speaker 2: who was in both errors. That's why Christ says, there's
[15:14] Speaker 2: no greater profit than John. He's greater than all the prophets.
[15:16] Speaker 2: Why he actually Prophesiet he's coming, that's the Old Testament.
[15:20] Speaker 2: And then he says, there he is. He actually was
[15:23] Speaker 2: able to see it happen. But then he says, the
[15:28] Speaker 2: least in the kingdom is greater than John.
[15:31] Speaker 3: Okay, so now this gets deep here.
[15:33] Speaker 2: He called John the greatest, and call you greater than
[15:36] Speaker 2: John because you you're not prophesying it, you're supposed to
[15:40] Speaker 2: live in it. So he's telling them you are privileged
[15:52] Speaker 2: above every prophet, a righteous.
[15:55] Speaker 3: Man like Abraham is a righteous man. He says, you
[15:57] Speaker 3: greater than Abraham, greater.
[15:58] Speaker 2: Than Job because all of them were behind the announcement.
[16:04] Speaker 3: You're looking back at the fulfillment of it. The kingdom
[16:07] Speaker 3: is here. You're not talking about it. You are in it.
[16:16] Speaker 3: Are you following this? Okay?
[16:18] Speaker 2: So watch this next verse, he says Matthew eleven. At
[16:23] Speaker 2: that time, I guess another privileged statement. He said, you
[16:25] Speaker 2: are a privileged At that time, Jesus answered and said,
[16:28] Speaker 2: I thank you, O, Father, Lord of Heaven. He's praying
[16:31] Speaker 2: for these guys now because you have hid these things,
[16:35] Speaker 2: these kingdom revelations, from the wise and the prudent, and
[16:41] Speaker 2: have revealed them the babes he's talking, he's talking about
[16:46] Speaker 2: his disciples. He said, these uneducated, unschooled, simple businessmen, fishermen,
[16:57] Speaker 2: their hunger.
[17:00] Speaker 3: Made them more valuable than the scholars.
[17:08] Speaker 2: You're being here makes you wiser and more privileged than
[17:17] Speaker 2: anyone with a PhD from the highest theological seminary in
[17:21] Speaker 2: the world, because they have theology information that a related
[17:26] Speaker 2: to the kingdom. Having a PhD doesn't impress me anymore.
[17:35] Speaker 2: That means you are exploit in some kind of information.
[17:38] Speaker 2: I don't know what it is. I don't know if
[17:39] Speaker 2: it's right, but you're an expert in some kind of information.
[17:42] Speaker 2: So he's saying to them, you are smarter than the
[17:47] Speaker 2: wise men and above those who think they are prudent.
[17:56] Speaker 2: Verse twenty six, he says father, that same good to
[17:58] Speaker 2: you to just tell these people who just wanna know. Well, Uh,
[18:06] Speaker 2: I had two universities that called me, wrote me rather,
[18:10] Speaker 2: and uh one of 'em called cause they wanna use
[18:12] Speaker 2: my books in their seminary.
[18:14] Speaker 3: I was very happy to hear that, very happy. Uh.
[18:19] Speaker 2: But you know the average school, they they wanna go
[18:21] Speaker 2: after Saint Augustin and the German theologians and the deep
[18:24] Speaker 2: guys who don't talk about the Kingdom.
[18:31] Speaker 3: The wise and the prudent is not getting what you're getting.
[18:34] Speaker 2: That's what he's saying, Cause you got the real original idea.
[18:40] Speaker 2: You're getting the theology of God, which is the Kingdom.
[18:43] Speaker 3: Alright, So did they get it? That's the question.
[18:48] Speaker 2: Jesus Christ went to the cross, he died on the cross.
[18:51] Speaker 2: His work is ending on earth, and he's leaving. He
[18:56] Speaker 2: goes to the to the grave, and he rose again
[19:00] Speaker 2: on the third day. He comes back, and I want
[19:02] Speaker 2: to read what I call the Big Transfer. He meets
[19:06] Speaker 2: with them after the resurrection. Now, he taught them the
[19:09] Speaker 2: kingdom all during the pre crucifixion life, and he comes
[19:15] Speaker 2: back after the crucifixion, and did his message change?
[19:18] Speaker 3: Is the question?
[19:20] Speaker 2: Okay, let's read it acts chapter one, verse three, after
[19:25] Speaker 2: his suffering that means his death and burial and everything,
[19:30] Speaker 2: he showed himself to these men and gave many convincing.
[19:33] Speaker 3: Proofs that he was alive. He's resurrected. He appeared to
[19:37] Speaker 3: them over a per to forty days.
[19:41] Speaker 2: Now we don't know where they where they were, and
[19:43] Speaker 2: what they were doing, but at.
[19:45] Speaker 3: Least they tell us what he was doing.
[19:48] Speaker 2: What did he do with them for forty days after
[19:50] Speaker 2: the resurrection, it tells us. And apparently Luke who wrote this,
[19:56] Speaker 2: either was there.
[19:58] Speaker 3: Or the guy I told him what was going on.
[20:02] Speaker 2: He says he spent forty days speaking to them about
[20:06] Speaker 2: one subject, the Kingdom of God.
[20:11] Speaker 3: Now, I guess I could rest my case here.
[20:14] Speaker 2: We could close the court room and go home, because
[20:19] Speaker 2: even the death and resurrection couldn't change his message.
[20:25] Speaker 3: Can I get a little bit on dangerous ground?
[20:30] Speaker 2: All right, I'm gonna walk on a little dangerous ground here. Okay,
[20:37] Speaker 2: he did not preach to them or teach them about
[20:40] Speaker 2: the resurrection.
[20:42] Speaker 3: Now let's be on. Let me ba babay bay bay baby.
[20:45] Speaker 3: Don't you think if you rose from the dead, I'm
[20:51] Speaker 3: gonna get in trouble here? Now?
[20:52] Speaker 2: I mean, if you rose from the dead, what can
[20:56] Speaker 2: be a better message to talk about.
[20:58] Speaker 3: He didn't talk about it. He talked about but the kingdom.
[21:01] Speaker 3: The kingdom is more important than the resurrection of Jesus
[21:04] Speaker 3: in Jesus' mind. Oh boy, treading? Eh, he didn't say.
[21:17] Speaker 2: I went down in the bowels of Hell and took
[21:19] Speaker 2: the keys of death held and the grave from the devil,
[21:22] Speaker 2: and I walked out, and I unlocked the gates of
[21:24] Speaker 2: all those who were bound and devil and Hell, and
[21:27] Speaker 2: I released Peter and James. I released you know, Joseph,
[21:30] Speaker 2: I released most. He says, Look, let's talk about the
[21:33] Speaker 2: kingdom again. All that I did was for this kingdom.
[21:44] Speaker 2: He was telling them, this will be your theology, this
[21:47] Speaker 2: will be what you teach you.
[21:51] Speaker 3: Now. How come he didn't.
[21:52] Speaker 2: Say to them, go and tell the world I've raised.
[21:55] Speaker 3: From the dead. That aout the instruction.
[22:02] Speaker 2: I'm I'm treading here, because you see, when you read
[22:06] Speaker 2: the first five or six chapters of Acts, the resurrection
[22:10] Speaker 2: became the over shouting, overshadowing message. M And if you
[22:18] Speaker 2: study the church today, including the Catholic Church, the resurrection
[22:22] Speaker 2: is the big message.
[22:23] Speaker 3: Yeah, not the kingdom. Yeah. To him, that was not
[22:36] Speaker 3: the message. N The resurrection is a great victory. Thank
[22:39] Speaker 3: God for the resurrection. But he was stuck on this message.
[22:45] Speaker 3: Can you imagine a guy.
[22:47] Speaker 2: Boddy come back together, m recomposed body.
[22:51] Speaker 3: Then come on, let's talk about what happened to you. No, no, no,
[22:55] Speaker 3: let's talk of the kingdom. He says.
[23:01] Speaker 2: He wanted the apostles to get the right message. They
[23:07] Speaker 2: ran off talking about what happened to him and not
[23:10] Speaker 2: what he said.
[23:13] Speaker 3: Can I say something again? I'm treading here. Can I
[23:16] Speaker 3: say something that's very important?
[23:18] Speaker 2: Jesus never told us to preach his miracles. Now I
[23:23] Speaker 2: want you to go back, you passes and listen to
[23:26] Speaker 2: your last ten years of sermons, and eighty percent of
[23:29] Speaker 2: them are about his miracles. And the blind man cried out, Sna, David,
[23:35] Speaker 2: have mercy on me.
[23:37] Speaker 3: Mm. The people said shut up, and.
[23:40] Speaker 2: The young man said a SNA David. Somebody say, David, hm,
[23:44] Speaker 2: are you.
[23:45] Speaker 3: Preaching this thing? And christis where's the kingdom?
[23:47] Speaker 2: Method woman thou Art loosed, where's the kingdom?
[24:00] Speaker 3: Oh?
[24:00] Speaker 2: But we sure a shout on that, didn't We shot
[24:02] Speaker 2: on that kind of message? Largers came forth and Jesus said,
[24:07] Speaker 2: loose him and let him go. Somebody say, loose, loosen.
[24:12] Speaker 2: I believe today you bound up with your problems.
[24:15] Speaker 3: But God has sent me to tell you he want
[24:18] Speaker 3: to lose you. That ain't the kingdom message. It's a
[24:20] Speaker 3: nice miracle.
[24:22] Speaker 2: You can preach it for an hour, but it's still
[24:24] Speaker 2: not the kingdom message.
[24:32] Speaker 3: So Christ is very specific.
[24:35] Speaker 2: He said to this. He said to his students, go
[24:40] Speaker 2: and preach this message. The Kingdom of Heaven has arrived.
[24:45] Speaker 2: He was specific. Take a deep bread you need it.
[24:56] Speaker 2: Just destroyed all your sermons, right, yeah, get back to
[24:58] Speaker 2: the real thing. That's the real thing there. Now did
[25:02] Speaker 2: they get it?
[25:03] Speaker 3: Let's look at Philip first.
[25:04] Speaker 2: He's the first one I think that you know, really
[25:07] Speaker 2: mentions it. Uh Acts eight, verse eleven. Did the apostles
[25:11] Speaker 2: preach the kingdom? Well, let's see Acts eight, verse eleven.
[25:14] Speaker 2: Philip went out. He was considered to be an evangelist.
[25:19] Speaker 2: Of course, Philip was a very influential disciple, it says,
[25:24] Speaker 2: but when they believed Philip as he preached what the
[25:28] Speaker 2: good news of the Kingdom.
[25:30] Speaker 3: Now, good news means what gospel?
[25:33] Speaker 2: You should never use the word gospel without UH defining it.
[25:41] Speaker 2: There's no such thing as preaching the gospel that doesn't exist.
[25:46] Speaker 3: The word gospel means what good news. I don't know
[25:49] Speaker 3: what you're talking about. This. I preached the gospels. That
[25:50] Speaker 3: means okay, so you gotta raise.
[25:53] Speaker 2: That's that's gospel. You got promoted on your job, that's gospel.
[25:57] Speaker 2: The doctor says that the cancer is gone, that's gods.
[26:00] Speaker 2: In other words, gospel simply means good news, any kind
[26:03] Speaker 2: of good news. But when you read Jesus's words, he
[26:06] Speaker 2: would say, I must preach the good news of.
[26:10] Speaker 3: The Kingdom to other towns.
[26:12] Speaker 2: Also in other ways, the good news has to be defined.
[26:20] Speaker 2: So when someone tells you I preach the gospel, you
[26:22] Speaker 2: should answer which one? What did Philip preach the gospel
[26:32] Speaker 2: of the kingdom and he preached the name of Jesus afterwards.
[26:38] Speaker 2: By the way, that's a pattern you will see in
[26:40] Speaker 2: a minute. Kingdom first, Jesus afterwards. The church has reversed it.
[26:47] Speaker 2: Jesus first and nothing else. You preach what the kingdom first,
[26:54] Speaker 2: then you explain about Jesus.
[26:58] Speaker 3: But the poor preach Paul and Barnabas. I like this one.
[27:01] Speaker 2: It says Paul and Barnabas, they preached the good news
[27:04] Speaker 2: the gospel in that city and Warren a large number
[27:07] Speaker 2: of disciples students. Then they returned to Listra, Iconium and Antioch,
[27:13] Speaker 2: strengthening the disciples and encouraging them to remain true to
[27:16] Speaker 2: the faith.
[27:17] Speaker 3: Quote, we must go through.
[27:19] Speaker 2: Many hardships, they say, to enter the Kingdom of God.
[27:23] Speaker 2: So here we see early in the church there's a
[27:25] Speaker 2: consciousness that they believe the Kingdom was here. Now, I
[27:33] Speaker 2: think those who have been studying theology a little bit
[27:36] Speaker 2: would probably remember that you've been taught that it's true
[27:40] Speaker 2: or not.
[27:40] Speaker 3: We've been taught in.
[27:41] Speaker 2: Theological studies that, you know. Peter and Paul and these
[27:45] Speaker 2: guys became a little bit frustrated. They became disillusioned because
[27:51] Speaker 2: they expected Jesus to come in their lifetime. Okay, Jesus
[27:57] Speaker 2: specifically told them that you know that hour is not
[27:59] Speaker 2: in your calendar, none of your business.
[28:01] Speaker 3: You go ahead and do what you have to do.
[28:03] Speaker 3: You appreciate the kingdom.
[28:04] Speaker 2: But they expected Christ to come in their lifetime, and
[28:06] Speaker 2: there were different things that caused.
[28:07] Speaker 3: That to happen.
[28:08] Speaker 2: Of course, persecution was a big part of that. You know,
[28:10] Speaker 2: I mean you're being persecuted and Christ he's with you
[28:13] Speaker 2: and you in prison and they're gonna feed you the lions.
[28:15] Speaker 2: You began to think, Hey, God, come get me out
[28:16] Speaker 2: of here. So there's this this sense they say that
[28:20] Speaker 2: was there in the early Church where they wanted choose
[28:23] Speaker 2: to come back right then to deliver them from the
[28:25] Speaker 2: persecution of Rome and other persecutions that they went through.
[28:28] Speaker 2: And so there was this sense that he's coming back now.
[28:30] Speaker 2: But here we see the early Church where they at
[28:32] Speaker 2: least had the the awareness that the kingdom was there
[28:36] Speaker 2: now and you gotta go through, you know, the conflict
[28:38] Speaker 2: because it's two different cultures.
[28:40] Speaker 3: Cultures are clashing.
[28:43] Speaker 2: To me, persecution is when a Chinaman meets someone from
[28:49] Speaker 2: New York, you know, and the Chinaman acts for sushi
[28:56] Speaker 2: and the New York acts of Chinese for a hot dog.
[29:00] Speaker 3: That's you know, that's conflict. Yeah.
[29:03] Speaker 2: So that's how different we are from the world. We
[29:05] Speaker 2: are from another country called Heaven. Our culture is different,
[29:09] Speaker 2: and the persecution is nothing we create. It's natural. You steal,
[29:14] Speaker 2: I don't steal. Mm, you commit adultry. I don't commit adultery.
[29:17] Speaker 2: Now you mad at me because you feel guilty committing it,
[29:20] Speaker 2: till you mad at me cause I don't. So that conflict,
[29:22] Speaker 2: that persecution is natural. We just two different cultures. You
[29:26] Speaker 2: don't go around creating persecutions.
[29:28] Speaker 3: What I'm saying, Yeah, right, you from a different country.
[29:36] Speaker 2: So here we see Barnabas and poor telling the people, look,
[29:43] Speaker 2: you guys are part of another country, so expect hardship
[29:47] Speaker 2: when you come into this country.
[29:49] Speaker 3: Call Heaven you are different. Okay.
[29:52] Speaker 2: Now, I believe later on, based on what I read
[29:55] Speaker 2: in the scripture itself, that they begin to to push
[29:58] Speaker 2: that off into the future because you know, Jesus didn't
[30:03] Speaker 2: show up in their lot of years.
[30:07] Speaker 3: All right, let's take a look at Paul.
[30:10] Speaker 2: Romans, Chapter fourteen, verse seventeen. Did the apostles what was
[30:14] Speaker 2: their theology? Paul says, for the Kingdom of God is
[30:17] Speaker 2: not a matter of eating and drinking, but of righteousness, peace,
[30:20] Speaker 2: and joy in the Holy Spirit, because anyone who serves
[30:23] Speaker 2: Christ in this way is pleasing to.
[30:24] Speaker 3: God and approved by men.
[30:27] Speaker 2: So Paul again is referencing in his mind, telling the
[30:30] Speaker 2: people that there is such a thing as the Kingdom
[30:33] Speaker 2: of God, and it is real, and it's not just
[30:37] Speaker 2: a matter of you know, eating and drinking and you know,
[30:40] Speaker 2: wearing clothes. It's a reality of a life. Okay, so
[30:46] Speaker 2: again we still see him. We just awareness of the kingdom.
[30:50] Speaker 2: And by the way, I think Paul probably had an
[30:53] Speaker 2: affinity with kingdom concepts a little bit more than Peter,
[30:57] Speaker 2: because Paul was a Roman citizen Peter was not. So
[31:02] Speaker 2: Paul even had more of an idea of the message
[31:05] Speaker 2: of Jesus, even though he didn't deal with Christ personally
[31:08] Speaker 2: like the others did for.
[31:09] Speaker 3: Three years three and a half years.
[31:11] Speaker 2: But you'll find Paul referring to the Kingdom even more
[31:14] Speaker 2: often than the other disciples because of his history. All right,
[31:19] Speaker 2: but here we say another one. First Corinthians four, verse eighteen.
[31:23] Speaker 2: Let's read together, some of you have become arrogant, and
[31:27] Speaker 2: if I were not coming to you, as if I
[31:29] Speaker 2: wasn't coming to you, but I will come to you
[31:31] Speaker 2: very soon, if the Lord is willing, and then I
[31:33] Speaker 2: will find out not only how these arrogant people are talking,
[31:36] Speaker 2: but what power they have, because the Kingdom of God
[31:40] Speaker 2: is not a.
[31:40] Speaker 3: Matter of talk. But okay, again he's referring. He says.
[31:44] Speaker 2: Look, by the way, this statement implies that he believed
[31:47] Speaker 2: the Kingdom was present, So again he had an awareness.
[31:55] Speaker 2: The Kingdom of God is here would the poor preach.
[32:02] Speaker 2: Did Paul preach it? Very refers to it. Let's read
[32:04] Speaker 2: another one first, Chris in sixty nine read do you
[32:07] Speaker 2: not know that the wicked will not inherit what the
[32:10] Speaker 2: Kingdom of God?
[32:11] Speaker 3: Do not be deceived?
[32:12] Speaker 2: Neither the sexual immoral, nor the yet idolators, nor adulteress,
[32:16] Speaker 2: nor male prostitutes, nor homosexual offenders, nor thieves, nor greedy,
[32:20] Speaker 2: nor drunkards, nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the Kingdom
[32:24] Speaker 2: of God. But this is what some of you were
[32:28] Speaker 2: used to be that in the other culture.
[32:31] Speaker 3: But now you've.
[32:32] Speaker 2: Been washed, you were scientified, you were justified in the
[32:34] Speaker 2: name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit
[32:37] Speaker 2: of God. In other words, he's contrasting the two cultures
[32:40] Speaker 2: or two different kingdoms. So again there's an awareness he
[32:45] Speaker 2: preached the kingdom. Let's see if he preached the kingdom
[32:49] Speaker 2: specifically Galatians five nineteen. The acts of the sinful nature
[32:55] Speaker 2: are what obvious Paul says. Again, he's referred his contrast
[33:00] Speaker 2: think cultures, which we'll get to later on in.
[33:03] Speaker 3: This next couple of days.
[33:04] Speaker 2: Made this can be important for you, But this is
[33:06] Speaker 2: important statement here about the contrasts.
[33:10] Speaker 3: Let's read it together.
[33:12] Speaker 2: The acts of the sinful nature are obvious sexual impurity, immorality, impurity, debaucherary,
[33:18] Speaker 2: idolatry and witchcraft, hatred, discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition, dissensions,
[33:25] Speaker 2: factions and envy, and drunkenness.
[33:27] Speaker 3: And orgies and the like. He made all that was.
[33:30] Speaker 2: Going on in them days. Mm hmm, and it's going
[33:33] Speaker 2: on in your city right now too. He says what
[33:37] Speaker 2: I warn you, as I did before, that those who
[33:41] Speaker 2: live like this are not inherent kingdom lifestyle. He is
[33:45] Speaker 2: again referring to this kingdom as the distinction. Your lifestyle
[33:50] Speaker 2: is different because you are in another country.
[33:53] Speaker 3: You belong to another country, your culture is different.
[33:56] Speaker 2: So we are cognizant that poor and the disciples were aware.
[34:01] Speaker 2: I've gotta take a look at this one Epheesians five
[34:03] Speaker 2: to five red. For of this you can be sure
[34:07] Speaker 2: no I moral, impure or greedy person. Such a man
[34:11] Speaker 2: is an idolator, as an idolator has any inheritance.
[34:15] Speaker 3: In the Kingdom of Christ and of God Colossians for eleven.
[34:18] Speaker 2: Jesus, who is called Justice, that's one of his workers,
[34:22] Speaker 2: also sends you greetings.
[34:23] Speaker 3: Paul says, these are the only.
[34:25] Speaker 2: Jews among my fellow workers for the Kingdom of God,
[34:30] Speaker 2: that they have proved comfort to me. Now, notice, Paul says,
[34:33] Speaker 2: I'm working for what the Kingdom of God. Again, he
[34:37] Speaker 2: sees himself as a worker for a country, so he's aware.
[34:44] Speaker 3: All right, Let's get.
[34:45] Speaker 2: Some directed statements Colossians one twelve. Some you never saw
[34:50] Speaker 2: these verses before giving thanks to the Father who has
[34:53] Speaker 2: qualified you to share in the inheritance of the saints
[34:56] Speaker 2: in the Kingdom of Light. For he has rescued us
[34:59] Speaker 2: from the dominion of darkness and bought us into the
[35:03] Speaker 2: kingdom of his son, whom he loves, in whom we
[35:07] Speaker 2: have redemntion, and the forgiven the sins. Paul sees our
[35:11] Speaker 2: life as being transferred from one country to another country.
[35:16] Speaker 3: A kingdom is a country, not a religion.
[35:19] Speaker 2: When you change countries, you gotta adjust to the laws
[35:23] Speaker 2: of that country, which means that.
[35:25] Speaker 3: You actually develop a new culture. That's what he's talking about.
[35:29] Speaker 2: Contrast, what did Paul preach Acts twenty eight twenty three?
[35:33] Speaker 2: Everybody read go They arranged to meet Paul on a
[35:36] Speaker 2: certain day and came in even larger numbers to the
[35:39] Speaker 2: place where.
[35:39] Speaker 3: He was staying from morning till evening. He explained and declared.
[35:43] Speaker 2: To them what the Kingdom of God, and then tried
[35:46] Speaker 2: to convince them about Jesus Christ, from the law of
[35:49] Speaker 2: Moses and from the prophet. Notice, kingdom first Jesus. Afterwards,
[35:53] Speaker 2: all right, let's check an out verse Acts nineteen eight reed.
[35:57] Speaker 2: Paul entered the synagogue and spoke boldly there for how long?
[36:01] Speaker 3: Three months?
[36:02] Speaker 2: That's a long sermon, arguing persuasively about what the Kingdom
[36:08] Speaker 2: of God?
[36:08] Speaker 3: Notice what his emphasis is, Acts twenty twenty five.
[36:11] Speaker 2: Paul says, now I know that none of you, among
[36:14] Speaker 2: whom I have gone about preaching the kingdom will never
[36:17] Speaker 2: see me again.
[36:17] Speaker 3: What did Paul preach? What was his theology? What was
[36:20] Speaker 3: his message?
[36:21] Speaker 2: It's Claire, we think Paul preach, you know, grace and
[36:26] Speaker 2: faith and all this stuff. No, most of those writings
[36:29] Speaker 2: are arguments, answering questions to religious people. Grace was not
[36:36] Speaker 2: Paul's message. It was his defense against those Jewish people
[36:40] Speaker 2: who wanted to replace grace with works. So don't get
[36:44] Speaker 2: your message or your gospel from Paul's letters. These are arguments,
[36:51] Speaker 2: These are defenses. He's dealing with people who have difficulty
[36:55] Speaker 2: accepting the kingdom work of the king. They don't wanna
[37:01] Speaker 2: leave these ceremonial laws and come into the fulfillment that
[37:05] Speaker 2: the th that Christ did. They wanna still help people
[37:08] Speaker 2: of babies of ceremonial laws.
[37:10] Speaker 3: Paul says, no, that work is done.
[37:12] Speaker 2: So most of Paul's writings is defending the Gospel, and
[37:15] Speaker 2: Paul actually said it many times. He said, I am
[37:17] Speaker 2: defending the defending. He said, pray for mess like and
[37:19] Speaker 2: defend it.
[37:24] Speaker 3: Paul preached the Kingdom.
[37:29] Speaker 2: Still not convinced, I get seen your face al right,
[37:30] Speaker 2: it read another one Aks twenty a three. For two
[37:33] Speaker 2: whole years Paul stayed there in his own reddit house
[37:37] Speaker 2: and welcome all who came to see him. Boldly and
[37:42] Speaker 2: without hindrance. He preach what the Kingdom of God watches now.
[37:46] Speaker 2: And then he taught about the Lord of this Christ,
[37:48] Speaker 2: him and Philip and all those guys. This the the
[37:50] Speaker 2: Kingdom message was first. Then they talked about Jesus. I
[37:58] Speaker 2: think this is very important. Once Paul said, I preached
[38:05] Speaker 2: Christ in them crucified.
[38:07] Speaker 3: He was talking to a religious.
[38:12] Speaker 2: Environment, to a specific group of people who wanted to
[38:18] Speaker 2: the word preach me to declare that people are saved
[38:21] Speaker 2: by works of the law. Paul says, no, I d
[38:25] Speaker 2: I'm not preaching that you're saved by law.
[38:28] Speaker 3: I preached what Christ did.
[38:30] Speaker 2: So we've taken that one verse and try to say
[38:32] Speaker 2: Paul preach Christ.
[38:35] Speaker 3: Paul preached.
[38:38] Speaker 2: He preached the kingdom. Then he explained about Jesus. Do
[38:45] Speaker 2: you know why, because the kingdom is a country.
[38:50] Speaker 3: How you with me? Look at Colossians did probably the
[38:54] Speaker 3: Kingdom of God was present. Let's read it Colossians one.
[38:56] Speaker 2: Twelve, giving thanks to the Father who has qualified judish
[39:00] Speaker 2: share in what the inheritance of the faith in the
[39:03] Speaker 2: Kingdom of light. For he has rescued us now from
[39:06] Speaker 2: the kingdom of darkness and brought us into the Kingdom
[39:09] Speaker 2: of his son, now home he loves, in whom we
[39:12] Speaker 2: have redemption now and forgiveness of sins. Now we are
[39:16] Speaker 2: in the Kingdom. Now it ain't coming, he said, we're
[39:18] Speaker 2: in it. You are under a different government. Now, you
[39:26] Speaker 2: are under different constitution. Now you expect to be living
[39:30] Speaker 2: under different moral standards and value systems. Now you don't
[39:34] Speaker 2: get holy when you get to heaven. We're in the
[39:42] Speaker 2: Kingdom Now, so as you go for lunch today, remember
[39:47] Speaker 2: you're eating in the kingdom. Hey yeah, look at the
[39:55] Speaker 2: Hebrews twelve, verse twenty eight. Therefore, since we are what receiving,
[40:02] Speaker 2: not going to receive, since we are receiving a kingdom
[40:05] Speaker 2: that cannot be shaken, let us be thankful and so
[40:08] Speaker 2: worship God acceptably, with reverence and awe for our God
[40:12] Speaker 2: is a consuming five that means keep the laws of
[40:15] Speaker 2: the country when you get in.
[40:20] Speaker 3: Arrest.
[40:21] Speaker 2: My case, the theology of the Apostles is very clear
[40:25] Speaker 2: based on the record that we have. There are many
[40:29] Speaker 2: more statements made by Peter and others. Matter of fact,
[40:31] Speaker 2: here's what John preaching revelation. John's focus was this. He says,
[40:36] Speaker 2: the kingdoms, the kingdom of the world has become the
[40:42] Speaker 2: kingdom of our Lord and his Christ. He saw the
[40:45] Speaker 2: culmination as a kingdom issieur. This is about the Kingdom
[40:52] Speaker 2: of God taking over. His next statement says, and he
[40:56] Speaker 2: will reign forever and ever. This is about kingdom restoration.
[41:03] Speaker 2: It's not about you go into heaven and sitting by
[41:05] Speaker 2: the river of the Crystal Lake eating grapes for a
[41:08] Speaker 2: million years, singing to Jesus.
[41:10] Speaker 3: That's not what this is about.
[41:13] Speaker 2: It's not about you being in the choir and heaven singing.
[41:15] Speaker 2: God don't want knows further funny music up there. He
[41:17] Speaker 2: got angels to sing.
[41:18] Speaker 3: Man. He puts you here to rule and to lead.
[41:24] Speaker 3: You are a ruler, not a singer.
[41:32] Speaker 2: Yeah, it's about the culmination of the kingdom.
[41:36] Speaker 3: So let me just close with this.
[41:44] Speaker 2: Do you know why you preach the kingdom first and
[41:46] Speaker 2: then you talk about Jesus. Here's why, because the kingdom
[41:51] Speaker 2: is a country and you are trying to get people
[41:55] Speaker 2: to come to the country. Now, if you want me
[41:58] Speaker 2: to come to your country and move from my country,
[42:01] Speaker 2: uproot my entire life and come to your country, do
[42:05] Speaker 2: you tell me about your president. You don't describe your
[42:11] Speaker 2: president to encourage you to come to your country. I'm
[42:15] Speaker 2: not coming there for the president. That making sense. What
[42:20] Speaker 2: makes people want to leave Mexico and come to America
[42:23] Speaker 2: not the president. They don't care who the president is,
[42:25] Speaker 2: and the president changes every five, four or five years.
[42:27] Speaker 2: People don't leave countries because of the leader of the country.
[42:32] Speaker 2: They leave because of opportunities, privileges, benefits, higher lifestyle, better
[42:39] Speaker 2: style of living. You know, there's money, all this stuff
[42:41] Speaker 2: that's what they go for. When they arrive, then they
[42:46] Speaker 2: learn who the president is. If you study the words
[42:53] Speaker 2: of Jesus his message, do you.
[42:55] Speaker 3: Know how he preached.
[42:57] Speaker 2: He never preached himself, never preached himself to the matude,
[43:01] Speaker 2: never matter of fact.
[43:02] Speaker 3: Whenever he spoke about.
[43:03] Speaker 2: Himself, it was always in a private conversationist disciples. He
[43:08] Speaker 2: never preached the Calvary to the mantitude, never talked but
[43:11] Speaker 2: the death to the multitude, except once in the parable
[43:13] Speaker 2: when he says, you know, if you bury me, I'll
[43:16] Speaker 2: come back, and you know, see it, he's sent a parable.
[43:18] Speaker 2: But when he talks about being crucified, that was always private,
[43:22] Speaker 2: in a personal meeting with his students. Why because that
[43:25] Speaker 2: was not the message. I'm getting in trouble again. Calvary
[43:30] Speaker 2: was not the message. That's not the gospel. He never
[43:34] Speaker 2: preached his death to the multitudes.
[43:36] Speaker 3: Right, But what did he preach? Here's what he preached.
[43:41] Speaker 3: The Kingdom of God is like the Kingdom of God
[43:45] Speaker 3: is like. The Kingdom of God is what like?
[43:48] Speaker 2: In other words, our country is like this because jobs galore.
[43:53] Speaker 2: Our country is like this. You don't pay any taxes.
[43:57] Speaker 2: Our country is like this. There's a fair system where man,
[44:01] Speaker 2: if you ain't got no money, the government gives you money.
[44:03] Speaker 3: Now you tell me them kind of things. I want
[44:05] Speaker 3: to know where his country is.
[44:09] Speaker 2: In other words, you describe the advantages of being in
[44:13] Speaker 2: that country. Yes, that's the good news. The good news
[44:23] Speaker 2: is there's a place, there's another country. There's an alternative economy,
[44:31] Speaker 2: an alternative culture, an alternative lifestyle, an alternative mentality, an
[44:37] Speaker 2: alternative welfare system, an alternative healing health program.
[44:48] Speaker 3: What does good news? And that's what Nikki heard. I'm sorry, Nicodemus,
[44:54] Speaker 3: that's what he heard. He heard nicotives ginting Christ.
[44:57] Speaker 2: He didn't say I would like to join your relig
[45:01] Speaker 2: He was already in one.
[45:02] Speaker 3: He said, what must I do to enter the Kingdom
[45:04] Speaker 3: of Heaven?
[45:05] Speaker 2: I want to come to this country, he told Jesus,
[45:08] Speaker 2: and Christ answered him correctly.
[45:14] Speaker 3: There's another problem we have. Christ said, you're an old man.
[45:19] Speaker 3: He told you, an old.
[45:20] Speaker 2: Man, how can you ask me how to become a
[45:23] Speaker 2: citizen of a country.
[45:26] Speaker 3: You're supposed to know that you're an adult. And then
[45:31] Speaker 3: he gave him a reminder.
[45:32] Speaker 2: He says, you know how if I every other country
[45:35] Speaker 2: except you are born in the country naturally. Legally, you
[45:39] Speaker 2: cannot be a citizen. It was the answer of immigration.
[45:48] Speaker 3: Are you with me? If you ain't born a country,
[45:50] Speaker 3: you got to go through all kinds of changes.
[45:53] Speaker 2: But if you're born in a country, you are naturally
[45:54] Speaker 2: a citizen, he says. He says, in my country, we
[45:57] Speaker 2: made arrangements for you to be born again. Born again
[46:02] Speaker 2: is not the gospel. That's another problem. He didn't preach
[46:06] Speaker 2: born again. He only mentioned it once in the entire Bible.
[46:10] Speaker 3: Once.
[46:10] Speaker 2: He mentions it, cause that's not the message. That's the
[46:14] Speaker 2: immigration process. Mm, we preach born again, and he never
[46:24] Speaker 2: preached it once. He never preached it once. He mentions
[46:29] Speaker 2: at two am in the morning to an old man,
[46:31] Speaker 2: one person. We made it the gospel.
[46:34] Speaker 3: Yeah, So what did the apostles preach?
[46:46] Speaker 2: No question, they had an awareness that they were supposed
[46:51] Speaker 2: to preach. The arrival of the government of Heaven on earth.
[46:57] Speaker 2: The immigration office was open. You can become citizens now,
[47:02] Speaker 2: and all of the constitutional rights and privileges promised by
[47:06] Speaker 2: the king are available.
[47:08] Speaker 3: Now. That's what we're supposed to be preaching. And when
[47:16] Speaker 3: you come into the country, then we tell you about
[47:18] Speaker 3: the king.
[47:18] Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, the King made it possible for you to
[47:22] Speaker 2: come m into this country.
[47:24] Speaker 3: He chose you, you didn't choose him. He yeah, he he.
[47:27] Speaker 2: He made the immigration papers all valid. He stumped it
[47:31] Speaker 2: with his blood. That's you know, appreciate him.
[47:34] Speaker 3: Let's worship him, cause it's thank him.
[47:35] Speaker 2: But the citizenship is available for you into a country,
[47:40] Speaker 2: not a religion.
[47:43] Speaker 3: And that's the issue of what you must teach. The apostles.
[47:51] Speaker 2: They they they were privileged to get it. He told
[47:55] Speaker 2: him that you are privileged to get it. He said
[47:56] Speaker 2: that you go and teach it now. Later on you're
[47:59] Speaker 2: gonna find in some scriptures where they start talking about,
[48:02] Speaker 2: you know, uh, the Kingdom is coming. They shifted a
[48:05] Speaker 2: little bit, and that's when we got lost, and so
[48:08] Speaker 2: people started kind of postponing.
[48:12] Speaker 3: Kingdom lifestyle.
[48:15] Speaker 2: And we ended up with this theology that that.
[48:20] Speaker 3: Says, uh, I'm climbing up.
[48:25] Speaker 2: The rough side of the mountain, this whole theology of
[48:30] Speaker 2: someday he'll take me.
[48:33] Speaker 3: Out of here, and I want up to pay no
[48:36] Speaker 3: more market.
[48:36] Speaker 2: You gotta pay markets right now, talking about you need
[48:39] Speaker 2: you need God.
[48:39] Speaker 3: To take care of business now. Now you sick, you
[48:44] Speaker 3: need healing now now?
[48:47] Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, write this down whatever you postpone, you can
[48:53] Speaker 2: never whatever you postpone, you can never experience. Whatever you
[49:05] Speaker 2: postpone you can never appropriate.
[49:11] Speaker 3: So if you push it to the future, you would
[49:13] Speaker 3: never experience it. Now.
[49:18] Speaker 2: We need to take the Kingdom and bring it where
[49:20] Speaker 2: it is. It's here now, but it's also coming in
[49:24] Speaker 2: its consummation. Twenty nations in this room, which means we
[49:33] Speaker 2: got twenty people here from another country, But where are
[49:36] Speaker 2: they they here? Coming here doesn't change their citizenship, don't
[49:43] Speaker 2: you get it. They are still a season of the country,
[49:49] Speaker 2: so your location doesn't change your citizenship conditions. You are
[49:57] Speaker 2: in the world, but not from this place.
[50:00] Speaker 3: Love up the world.
[50:02] Speaker 2: You don't wait to go to heaven to experience Heaven's privileges.
[50:08] Speaker 3: You are a citizen now.
[50:11] Speaker 2: Exactly. All right, let's go for lunch like you so
[50:19] Speaker 2: much to be'd be.
[50:20] Speaker 3: Back after life.
[50:26] Speaker 1: Thank you for listening to Crowning Ignorant Kings, where we
[50:29] Speaker 1: are cultivating a Kingdom community. Please sign up for our podcast, download, like,
[50:35] Speaker 1: and share. Look for us on your social media platforms.
[50:40] Speaker 1: If you'd like to reach out to us, please send
[50:42] Speaker 1: us an email at Crowning Ignorant Kings at gmail dot com.

Shows are listed from Apple Podcasts' charts and directory, and Podcast Index where it is used. Every show and episode belongs to its publisher and plays from the publisher's own feed; this site hosts none of them.