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Born Into the Kingdom by: Dr. Pete Norris

Harvest Fellowship Church

Jul 7, 2026 · 29 min6K

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The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave Him to show His servants—things which must shortly take place. And He sent and signified it by His angel to His servant John, who bore witness to the word of God, and to the testimony of Jesus Christ, to all things that he saw. Blessed is he who reads and those who hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written in it; for the time is near. John, to the seven churches which are in Asia: Grace to you and peace from Him who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven Spirits who are before His throne, and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn from the dead, and the ruler over the kings of the earth. To Him who loved us and washed us from our sins in His own blood, and has made us kings and priests to His God and Father, to Him be glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen. Behold, He is coming with clouds, and every eye will see Him, even they who pierced Him. And all the tribes of the earth will mourn because of Him. Even so, Amen. “I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End,” says the Lord, “who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty.” (Revelation 1:1-8 NKJV)

Looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. (Hebrews 12:2 NKJV)

I, John, both your brother and companion in the tribulation and kingdom and patience of Jesus Christ, was on the island that is called Patmos for the word of God and for the testimony of Jesus Christ. (Revelation 1:9 NKJV)

But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, His own special people, that you may proclaim the praises of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light; (I Peter 2:9 NKJV)

“And you shall be to Me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.’ These are the words which you shall speak to the children of Israel.” (Exodus 19:6 NKJV)

And they sang a new song, saying: “You are worthy to take the scroll, And to open its seals; For You were slain, And have redeemed us to God by Your blood Out of every tribe and tongue and people and nation, And have made us kings and priests to our God; And we shall reign on the earth.” (Revelation 5:9-10 NKJV)

Kings are the word kingdom.

These will make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb will overcome them, for He is Lord of Lords and King of kings; and those who are with Him are called, chosen, and faithful. (Revelation 17:14 NKJV)

John was talking to the brethren he was already in the kingdom

For the kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit. (Romans 14:17 NKJV)

Jesus answered and said to him, “Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.” Nicodemus said to Him, “How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother’s womb and be born?” Jesus answered, “Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God.” (John 3:3-5 NKJV)

“Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion! Shout, O daughter of Jerusalem! Behold, your King is coming to you; He is just and having salvation, Lowly and riding on a donkey, A colt, the foal of a donkey.” (Zechariah 9:9 NKJV)

Then He said to them, “With fervent desire I have desired to eat this Passover with you before I suffer; for I say to you, I will no longer eat of it until it is fulfilled in the kingdom of God.” Then He took the cup, and gave thanks, and said, “Take this and divide it among yourselves; for I say to you, I will not drink of the fruit of the vine until the kingdom of God comes.” (Luke 22:15-18 NKJV)

“Therefore I say to you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink; nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds of the air, for they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? Which of you by worrying can add one cubit to his stature? “So why do you worry about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin; and yet I say to you that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. Now if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is, and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will He not much more clothe you, O you of little faith? “Therefore do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ For after all these things the Gentiles seek. For your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.” (Matthew 6:25-34 NKJV)

Now when He was asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God would come, He answered them and said, “The kingdom of God does not come with observation; nor will they say, ‘See here!’ or ‘See there!’ For indeed, the kingdom of God is within you.” (Luke 17:20-21 NKJV)

Jesus answered, “My kingdom is not of this world. If My kingdom were of this world, My servants would fight, so that I should not be delivered to the Jews; but now My kingdom is not from here.” Pilate therefore said to Him, “Are You a king then?” Jesus answered, “You say rightly that I am a king. For this cause I was born, and for this cause I have come into the world, that I should bear witness to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth hears My voice.” (John 18:36-37 NKJV)

To whom He also presented Himself alive after His suffering by many infallible proofs, being seen by them during forty days and speaking of the things pertaining to the kingdom of God. (Acts 1:3 NKJV)

But when they believed Philip as he preached the things concerning the kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Christ, both men and women were baptized. (Acts 8:12 NKJV)

And he went into the synagogue and spoke boldly for three months, reasoning and persuading concerning the things of the kingdom of God. (Acts 19:8 NKJV)

And indeed, now I know that you all, among whom I have gone preaching the kingdom of God, will see my face no more. Therefore I testify to you this day that I am innocent of the blood of all men. (Acts 20:25-26 NKJV)

Then Paul dwelt two whole years in his own rented house, and received all who came to him, preaching the kingdom of God and teaching the things which concern the Lord Jesus Christ with all confidence, no one forbidding him. (Acts 28:30-31 NKJV)

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Today on power in the world. He said I'm your companion in tribulation and in the kingdom. So there's no way the kingdom can be future tense because he said I'm your brother and your companion in the tribulation and in the kingdom and the patience of Jesus Christ was on the island that is called Paphos for the Word of God and for the testimony of Jesus Christ. He said I'm your brother in the kingdom. So the kingdom has to be here for him to be his brother in the kingdom in Revelation 1 9. It's not gonna come guys it's here right now. We are in the kingdom. Welcome to power in the world. The kingdom of God. Is it coming one day in the future or is it here now? Where is the kingdom of God? Well today Dr. Norris answers these questions and much more as he continues his teaching on the kingdom of God. Get ready to be challenged by this powerful teaching. You'll be blessed and encouraged. You stay with us. Tonight we're gonna talk about the kingdom of God, being born in the kingdom of God, understanding the kingdom of God and how does the kingdom of God work in our lives. You know there's so much controversy about the kingdom of God. There's a denomination out there called kingdom now. There's denominations out there that don't believe that the kingdom is going to come until Jesus comes back. But I'm gonna prove to you tonight that we're in the kingdom right now. And the Bible is very plain about us being in the kingdom. And it's very plain about the evidence of the kingdom. But we've got to understand where the kingdom's at. The kingdom of God's inside of us, right? Now we're not gonna be able to understand this with our natural mind. We've got to understand that he said, lo here, lo there, for the kingdom of God is within you. He was talking to the scribes and the Pharisees when he said that in Luke 17 21. So we understand that what he was saying to them is the kingdom of God was inside of you. But they couldn't grab that because they didn't understand what he was even saying. And I think we're in a place today in the church that we've been told so much and so been heavenly oriented so much that we've missed what we're actually here for. So tonight I'm gonna try to help you understand what you're here for. Look at somebody say, I'm here for a purpose and my purpose is great.

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And we're going to go to this book of eschatology that everybody's loved so much in the book of Revelation. I don't know where they got eschatology out of it. But anyway, we'll let them see whatever they want to believe. But the Bible says that you and I have been born into the kingdom, right? Now let's go to Revelation chapter 1 verse 1 and we're going to get going. How many of you ever read through the book of Revelation? How many of you understood any of it? I used to read it, it made absolutely no sense. So I listened to one person, you were pre-trib, I listened to one person, you were middle-trib, and I listened to one person, you were post-trib. There's no way I could be pre, mid, and post, okay? I mean really, there's no way. I'll tell you what eschatology does. Eschatology sells books and scares the heck out of people. And so here's the church. As long as the church stays fear-driven, there'll be a futuristic church and they'll deal with dispensationism. All that is is futuristic believing. And so people are futuristic believing that one day Lord's coming and I believe He's coming. Here's what I do not agree with. I do not believe that we're going to be shot up, okay? Every time in the Scripture, the Bible's very plain about the bad's been taken out and the good's been left. But now with this thing of the end of time, then the bad's going to be, the good's going to be taken out and the bad's going to be left. Think about it a minute. When the flood came, who was left? The good. Bad was taken out, right? So when you read Matthew 24, it's very plain that Matthew 24 is about the end of Jerusalem in 70 AD. That's exactly the tribulation, the seven-year tribulation everybody wants to talk about, is 27 AD to 34 AD. It has nothing to do with futuristic events that God's going to come. It's going to be a three-and-a-half year. If you go do the study and you realize that if you go study genealogy and you study time, you'll understand that Jesus was born somewhere around 4 BC. 4 BC, 27 BC was the 30 years where He became a minister, where He received the anointing with the Holy Spirit. That's the first three-and-a-half years of what we call tribulation. The next three-and-a-half years is the second part of what we call tribulation. There was no tribulation. It was the fall and the resurrection of Jesus Christ that we're talking about here that was bringing about. Matthew 24 said, this generation will see this time and understand this time and

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it will happen in your time. He was talking about Jerusalem coming down. Come on, guys. If you read twice, you'll be smarter than most people. Just don't believe everything you've been told. If you can't find it in here, then it's probably not the truth. Okay? So let's go to Revelation 1 and 1. The revelation of Jesus Christ. So what's the book of Revelation about? Which God gave Him to show His service, things which must shortly take place, and He sent and signified it by His angel to His servant John. How many of you know about John? How many of you know that John's the one who put his head on Jesus' brow? right? It was something different about John's Revelation. As a matter of fact, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, and the first eight chapters of the book of Acts were all written between 27 and 34 AD. So it was written during the time of what we want to call the Tribulation Period in the book of Revelation, but the transition was that God was creating a destiny through a son. He said that's why Daniel chapter 9 verse 27 ends, you've got to understand that, because there's not a gap between there. It's the fulfillment of Jesus Christ. He's going to die and resurrect, and the sins of all people was going to be removed. When did that happen? At the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ. So we know Daniel chapter 9 verse 27 is fulfillment of the prophecy of Jesus Christ that Messiah prophesied 700 years prior to Him coming that He was going to be born, He was going to bring, and that He was going to do what? He was wounded for our transgressions. He was bruised for our iniquity. Chastised with peace upon Him. With His stripes you and I were healed. We are absolutely whole. We're not going to be whole. We're already whole. Now look, the revelation of Jesus Christ which God gave to Him to show His servants, things which must shortly take place, and He sent and signified it by an angel of His servant John. Look at verse 2, "...who bore witness to the word of God and to the testimony of Jesus Christ to all things that He saw." Now how many of you know an angel of the Lord came to John

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to send Him to the seven churches, to give Him a word for the seven churches? There were literally seven churches in Asia Minor at that time, right? Okay, look at verse 3, "...blessed is he who reads and those who hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written in it for the time is near." Verse 4, "...John to the seven churches which are in Asia, grace to you and peace from Him who is and was and who is to come." Past, present, and future. "...and from the seven spirits who are before the throne." Who's the seven spirits? The seven churches, right? Look at verse 5, "...and from Jesus Christ, a faithful witness, the firstborn from the dead, the ruler over the kings of the earth." Now I want you to underline that. So John saw in a vision that God was going to be a ruler over the kings of the earth. Who's the kings? He's going to tell you in just a minute, okay? How many of you know we're kings? So he saw in a vision that Jesus was going to be the faithful witness, He was going to be the firstborn from the dead, firstborn from the dead, and that He was going to be a ruler over all the kings. Where at? On the earth. "...to Him who loved us and washed us from our sins in His own blood." Has that taken place? Have you been washed from your sins? So that's not coming, that's already taken place, right? Can we all agree with that? That's already taken place, right? So you can't separate, He's the ruler of the kings of the earth and then say, I've been washed. You can't take those scriptures out of context. So if we've been washed, then He's come for kings and rulers of the kings of the earth. That's me and you, right? We're going to read it in just a minute. Look at verse 6. "...and has made us the kings that He's rulers of and priests to His God and Father, to Him be glory and dominion forever

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and ever. Amen." Now He's made us kings and priests on this earth. That says the book of Revelation. That doesn't say we're going to be kings, we're kings and priests right now. Look at somebody and say, I'm a king and I'm a priest. I've been washed in the blood. I've been washed in the blood. Now what made me a king or a priest? Being washed in the blood. Look at somebody and say, I'm washed in the blood, so I'm a king. See, if you don't ever see yourself a king, you can never operate the kingdom. Because if you don't understand that you're a king, you can't operate no kingdom. Look at somebody and say, I'm a king. Thank you Lord, thank you. Let's go to Romans. Romans chapter 5 verse 17 in the Amplified. And if because of one man's trespass, lapse and offense, death reign through that one, talking about Adam, right? Much more surely will those who receive God's overflowing grace, unmerited favor, and free gift of righteousness, putting them into right standing with themselves, reign as kings in life through the one man, Jesus Christ the Messiah, the anointed one. So when are you going to start reigning? Because that's the kingdom mentality. That's the kingdom word to be reigned. Say, I'm going to reign. I'm going to reign. What did he do? He put them into right standing with himself to reign as kings on the earth. The Bible said let everything be established upon two or three witnesses. I just read it to you in Revelation chapter 1 verse 6. Now I'm going to read it to you in Romans chapter 5 verse 17. And then just a minute, I'm going to read it to you in Revelation chapter 5 verse 10. Okay? In Revelation chapter 5 verse 10, he adds on the earth. Okay? So you've got to understand when you're going to start reigning. Reigning ain't reigning. Say, I'm reigning as a king. Listen to me. Always to have a kingdom, you've got to have a king. That's why Americans struggle with kingdomship, because we live in a democracy and a republic. So we struggle with understanding kingship. Listen to me. When a king settled... decree under the old covenant, there was no questions asked, you followed it. Remember what happened to Daniel? He said don't pray and let us see you.

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Daniel kept on praying, what happened? Think about it, they put him in the lion's den, right? Think about it just a minute, guys. Think about it just a minute. When a king set a decree, when an ambassador for the United States goes to China, he represents the United States in China. He don't have his own opinion. He goes and says what the president's saying here. Come on. So we've got to understand that you and I don't have a right or an opinion in the kingdom of God. We're supposed to be saying what he's saying. If we're gonna rule this this kingdom mentality here on the earth, then we've got to understand that we're operating that kingdom. And if we understand that we're operating the kingdom, we're going to speak the kingdom mentality. We're not going to speak like everybody else, not going to talk like everybody else, not going to act like everybody else. Why? Because we're kingdom mentality. Now let's go back up to verse 7 back in Revelation chapter 1. Guys, come on now. Has he done that? Did everybody see him? Even the ones that crucified him, did they see him? There's no way that's going to happen in the future. That's already happened. Come on. Think about it a minute. That's already happened. He come back and walked around the earth for 40 days. You know why he did that? Because under the old covenant they believed that once you die your spirit hovered for 40 days. So Jesus said, okay I'm going to come back and I'm going to fulfill everything about the old covenant. So for 40 days he'd come and walk around the earth and what did he preach? The kingdom of God. The kingdom of God. The kingdom of God. The kingdom of God. He didn't do any miracles. He just preached the kingdom of God. Why? He couldn't do a miracle because he didn't have a physical body. You've got to have a physical body to operate on this earth. That's why Jesus come into flesh,

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took on man, dwelt among men full of truth and grace. He operated what you and I are supposed to be operating. That's why he had flesh. You and I got flesh to operate the kingdom of God on earth. Once you lose the body you can't operate the kingdom. Listen, it's illegal. Lord, I want to go there. It's illegal for us to operate on this earth or anything to operate on this earth without a body. It's impossible. You can't do that with a glorified body. Jesus did no miracles when he came back. He just preached the kingdom. The kingdom. The kingdom. The kingdom. Now look at verse 8. I'm the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end, says the Lord, who is, who was, and who is to come, the Almighty. Now when I got to thinking about this last night about 2, it lit me up because look at Hebrews. Look at Hebrews chapter 12 verse 2. Looking into Jesus the author and the finisher of our faith. Now how many of you was here Sunday and I told you that you and I, remember, that you and I have the faith of God. It's in the name of Jesus that God was born again, but it's the faith of God, of Christ that lives in us. You believe in him by the faith, but it's the faith of Christ that you're living in. That's why we're going from faith to faith is what Paul was talking about. Because we believe in him by the faith that he gave us. Romans 12 and 3, I've given you the measure of faith. Mark 11, 22, we have God kind of faith. Faith comes by? Hearing comes by? Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. You and I are full of faith. Look at somebody say, I'm full of faith. I don't like any faith, I'm full of faith. I got God kind of faith. I got the same faith to Jesus as God on this earth. I've got that same kind of faith, so I'm not liking any faith. So he's the author and the finisher of my faith. Who, for the joy that was set before him, he endured the cross. What was the joy? Me and you. Despising the shame and then he sat at the right hand of God on the throne. Now watch this guys, go with me to Revelation 1 and verse 9. Revelation 1, I John, watch this, now this is glorious. There's no way this is going to be future tense. Watch this, this is absolutely powerful. I John, both your brother and companion in the tribulation and in kingdom. He said, I'm your companion in tribulation and in the kingdom. So there's no way the kingdom can be future tense because he said, I'm your brother and your companion in the tribulation and in the kingdom and the patience of Jesus Christ was on the island that is called Pappas for the

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word of God and for the testimony of Jesus Christ. He said, I'm your brother in the kingdom. So the kingdom has to be here for him to be his brother in the kingdom in Revelation 1 and 9. It's not going to come guys, it's here right now. We are in the kingdom. You got to understand, you got to get this mentality that you're in the kingdom. You're not of this world. First Peter 2 and verse 9, but you are in the kingdom. You are in the kingdom You are, Peter said, a chosen generation. How many of you know you're a chosen generation? Are you acting like you're chosen? No, you act like you're orphans. You're not sure if your daddy's going to do it or not. You're not even sure if he's your daddy. But he's put the Spirit in you that cries out, Abba, Father. See, you ain't even doing the crying. It's the Spirit in you that's crying out for him. Oh, see, if we could get a hold that he put the Spirit in us that's doing the crying for him. You're a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation. His own special people that you may proclaim the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light. Now listen to me very carefully because I'm fixing this shaky cage. He called you out of darkness. Who represents darkness? Satan, right? Okay, you're in the kingdom of Satan, right? Is it possible that Jesus created 54 and 16 of Isaiah? I'll tell you he did. He created… Now I'm fixing to take you somewhere. There's nowhere in the Bible that you're going to find that Lucifer and Satan is the same person. Oh, y'all looking at me or him? You're not going to find anywhere that Lucifer and Satan is the same person. Matter of fact, in the garden when Lucifer, when Satan come to tempt, it was the serpent, right? And the Bible said he was a little lower than all the beasts. He was not even human. And the Bible said there was darkness and there was light. And Jesus said that the light come into the darkness and the darkness could not comprehend the light. Now the Bible says, I'm going to go there, in Ezekiel, that he saw him fall, Lucifer, but Lucifer is not in the original Hebrew text. But the Bible said he saw Satan fall like lightning to the earth, right? Now Satan was not a human. He was a little lower than the cunning beast in the book of Genesis. Is it possible that you don't know who you're battling? Because

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the Bible said, 1 John 3 and 8, that the Son of God come to do what? To destroy the works of the devil. So the devil and Lucifer is not the same individual. Because there's three archangels, Lucifer, Gabriel, and Michael. But the Bible is also very plain about the gifts and the callings of God are irrevocable. So once God called you to be an archangel, you're not always an archangel. But the Bible said a third of the angels were cast out of heaven with him. But it never said with Lucifer. But Jesus said, I saw Satan fall like lightning to the earth. Did it not? Check up on me. So is it possible that you don't even know what you're struggling with? Because there's two dimensions. The Bible said that you and I have been translated out of the kingdom of darkness. So that means there's a kingdom of darkness and there's a kingdom of light. I believe that's Colossians 1 verse 27. So you and I have been translated out of the darkness into the light. So what have I been translated out of? Darkness, right? Now the word darkness in the actual Hebrew means ignorance. And light means knowledge. The Bible said that the life of Christ is the light of all men. So there's light and there's darkness. Now I'm not going to dig there because I want you to go with me to Exodus chapter 19 verse 6. Now in the Torah, in the first five books of the Bible, which was written by Moses, you understand that Exodus says this in 19 Exodus. And you shall be to me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation. These are the words which you shall speak to the children of Israel. So even back before the law ever come, we can understand before the law ever come, what happened? He said, I'm going to have a kingdom of priests. I'm going to have a holy nation. Now he was talking to the Jews here because he came and the Jews received him not. So Paul allowed us to go through the spirit. Jesus was preached to the Gentiles, correct? And so the Gentiles and the Jews are absolutely no difference in Revelation. God does not love the Jews any better than me and you. If they do not go by the blood of Jesus Christ and by the cross, there is no going to be no repentance for them neither. So God has one people, neither Jew nor Gentile, neither male or female, but one individual in Christ Jesus. We're all in Christ Jesus, say amen. Now let's go to Revelation 5 and 9. And they sang a new song saying, you are worthy to take the scroll and to open its seal for you were slain. You have redeemed us to God by your blood out of every tribe and tongue and people and nation. Now there's a comma. Now look at verse 10. And hath made us kings and priests through our God and we

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shall be kings and priests through our God and we shall be kings and priests through Don't that sound like Romans 5.17? You're going to rain on in life Jesus? Why? Through this one man named Jesus Christ? So, are we kings or are we not? See, here's the mentality of the church. I'm just a servant of the Lord. I hear people, I hear people say all the time, I just want to get by Him and say, well done, not a good and faithful servant. If I, if that guy up there, he tells me that, I know I'm at the wrong place. I'm not a servant. He said, I didn't come to be served, I came to serve. Jesus said that. So, we need to get our mentality, we're sons. You can't be a son and a servant. A son can't spend the night in the house, a servant can just come and show up and eat supper. He got to go though. Galatians chapter 4 verse 1 says, let's go there real quick. Now I say that the heir, as long as he is a child, does not differ at all from a slave, though he is master, one translation says, or Lord of all. Listen, if you don't know who you are, then you're going to remain a servant. My people are being destroyed, Hosea 4 and 6, my people are being destroyed for what? A lack of knowledge. You rejected knowledge and therefore I must reject you. Come on guys, we got to get a hold of who we are. Look at somebody and say, I am some kind of something. So, we understand that we shall reign on this earth, right? We shall reign on this earth. Now, He has made us kings and priests and we shall reign on this, on the earth. Now the word king here, in the translation of the Latin text here, is a powerful word. It's the word kingdom that's been replaced there with the word kings. Because you cannot have a kingdom without some kings. And the Bible says in Revelation chapter 19 verse 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10, you got to turn to what it says. It says that he shall be this man, his name shall be the word of God and upon him he shall be king of kings and Lord of lords. Who is the little kings and who is the little lords? Us! Not when we get to heaven, guys, you're going to reign and be a king on this earth. Right?

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Think about it. Kings and kings, Revelation 17, 14. That'll work. These will make war with the Lamb and the Lamb will overcome them for he is Lord of lords and king of kings. And those who are with him are called the chosen and faithful. That's me and you guys. How can that be eschatology that we're going to be called faithful at some time? He already said that you were chosen in Christ Jesus and made accepted in him before the foundation of the world. The enemy wants you to stay under your authority and under your identity. He wants you to walk in churchism and religious theology and stay bound up one and all the time if you're even going to make it in. You ain't going to make it in. Listen, Jesus didn't bring you out and didn't take you in at the same time. He's already brought you into the kingdom. God doesn't bring us out without some place to take us in. Listen, think about it. When Moses died, think about the story when Moses died. He chose Joshua, right? Joshua means what? Jesus, Messiah, Yahweh. Think about it a minute. He said, I'm going to give you the same anointing and you're going to lead the people in. The end of Moses was the beginning of the Yeshua coming in. That's the end of the Old Testament, the beginning of the New Testament. It's all throughout the Bible. He said, Joshua, meditate upon my word day and night and do not let it depart from your eyes. You're going to make your way successful and you're going to have good success. You're going to make your way prosperous and you're going to have good success. Look at somebody say, I'm successful. We've got to understand. Let's go to Romans chapter 14, verse 17.

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This is a good one. For the kingdom of God is not about what you drink or not what you eat, but it's about what? Righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit. It's about what? Righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit. So the kingdom of God is not about... He don't want you to be... Listen to me. I was laying in bed last night and the Holy Spirit just spoke this to me. He don't want you to be concerned about what you're eating. He don't want you to worry about what you're thinking. He don't want you to worry about what you're drinking. He don't want you to worry about what you're wearing. He wants you to focus on the kingdom of God. That's why Matthew 6, 33 says, seek ye first the kingdom of God and his way of doing things and amplified and being right and all these things will be given to you. Why? Because you ought not to be thinking about those things. He didn't say seek Jesus. He said seek the kingdom. If you seek the kingdom, that's only... Where's the kingdom? On inside of us. Think about it a minute. Let's go to John 3. Jesus answered and said unto... This is when he's talking to Nicodemus. You know the story here. And Jesus answered and said to him, most surely I say to you, unless one is born again, he cannot see or understand the kingdom of God.

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Remember that? He told him, he said, listen brother, unless you're born again... Again, it's really not in the original text. The original text says born from above. That born again was only told to the Jews. It was never told to the Gentiles. I say to you, unless one is born from above, he cannot understand the kingdom of God. Look at verse 4. Nicodemus said to him, how can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second? time into his mother's womb to be born? Verse 5, Jesus answered, Most assuredly, I say to you, unless he was born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. Now if you'll notice, he hasn't said anything about heaven. He said, unless you're born from above, you cannot what? You can't understand the kingdom of God. And if you don't understand the kingdom of God and you're not born of water and of the Spirit, you cannot enter the kingdom of God. Now he tells you in Ephesians that all these things that you cannot do and inherit the kingdom of God. But he didn't say you can't do those things and go to heaven. See Matthew uses the kingdom of heaven. Mark, Luke, and John uses the kingdom of God. Kingdom of God I think is in there 38 times. But the translation of it too, if you'll notice, everything after Jesus is teaching the parables in the four gospels, everything is likened unto the kingdom of God. Everything is likened unto the kingdom of God. Everything is likened unto the kingdom of God. Why? Because everything is the kingdom of God. Now meaning you have the kingdom of God, we understand the kingdom of God because the kingdom of God is inside of us, right? Now let's go to Zechariah chapter 9 verse 9. Now watch this. Remember what he told Zechariah? He said he's going to come riding in on a donkey, right? The king is going to come riding in on a donkey. He come riding in on a donkey, they still didn't believe he was king. Look at Zechariah. Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion! Shout, O daughter of Jerusalem! Behold, your king is coming to you. He is just and having salvation, lowly and riding on a donkey, a cow, a foal of a donkey. They still didn't believe. They said he's going to come riding in on a donkey. Remember he come riding in, they were waving

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the leaves. Think about it. They still didn't believe. Now watch this. The churches fell into the same trap as the scribes and the Pharisees. We've made the Word of God to no effect. The traditions of men have made the Word of God to no effect. Jesus never come bringing religion. He come bringing a kingdom. See, everything inside of you that you're ever going to need is there. You're worried about the external stuff because you're a physical being. Paul said you could yet be a Christian and yet be carnal. Right? Doesn't mean you ain't going to receive eternal life. It just means you ain't going to walk into blessings on earth. Because how are you going to walk into blessings is in the spirit world. That's why Jesus said I'm not from here. Right? And they said, Jesus, you judge us. You're the father of judgment. He said I don't judge you, but if I did judge you, I'd be a just judge. But your father, which is Moses, does judge because all the law does is judge. Right? But Jesus said I redeemed you from the curse of the law. For he that hanged upon a tree took the curse from us. Galatians 3. And then verse 329 says if you be in Christ and your Abraham seeds and heirs according to the promise. Glory be to God. We something, ain't we? Look around and tell somebody I'm something. Thank you so much for joining us today at Power in the Word. All of us here at Harvest Fellowship Church want you to know that God is not mad with you, but he loves you so very much. And he has a plan for your life. Please feel free to contact us here at Harvest Fellowship Church at our website, HarvestFellowshipChurch.net. So until next week, please remember, there's power in the word.

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