The Kingdom In Action By: Dr. Pete Norris

And the Bible said in Matthew 24, that's not even what it was said. He said, "This general shall see the coming of the Lord and the coming down of the kingdom." So the kingdom of God is in where? When He came down, He put the kingdom inside of us. So when we accepted what He did in the kingdom, that kingdom manifests inside of us. Luke 1721, look here, look there, for the kingdom's inside. So Jesus come just preaching the kingdom. And so Daniel prophesied the kingdom was coming. Look at somebody say the kingdom's here. Welcome to Power in the Word. In Christian circles, not much is said about the kingdom of God. However, the Bible has much to say about the kingdom of God. So today, Dr. Nars showed us in the Bible that the kingdom of God was established by Jesus and now lives in us. It's a powerful message, so stay with us, be encouraged. Look at somebody say, the kingdom's in action. Now when you understand what the kingdom is, you'll start operating in that kingdom. The kingdom is not what the church has been preached. The kingdom is not about you trying to get everybody born again. Jesus didn't tell everybody to go preach and get everybody born again. He said, "Go, do tell them what? The good news? What's the good news, the kingdom?" That's good news, the kingdom. He said, "The spirit of the Lord is upon me, and I'm anointed to bring good news." Now what was the good news? He didn't go around preaching. Let me tell you about it. You got to get saved now, brother. You got to get saved. You got to get your heart right. That's not what he preached. He preached the kingdom. And he said, "Go preach the kingdom and heal the sick." Now how did they heal the sick without the anointing? The anointing never was inside of anybody until Jesus came to earth. Right? So the spirit of the Lord is upon me, he said.

The spirit of Elpa is the actual Greek word. The spirit of the Lord is upon me. It had been upon a lot of people, but it hadn't remained with him. But he told John, he said, "The one you see is to get on and remain on, that's him." And John was able to grab that until they put him in jail by to cut his head off. And then he said, "Do I need to go look for another, because I ain't sure I got it now." See, when you listen to me, listen to me very carefully. This is a powerful revelation. Your position has to override your condition. Because your condition is not determined by your position, your position is determined by your condition. Now go to Daniel chapter 7 verse 27, we're going to get going here. "Then the kingdom and the dominion and the greatness of the kingdom under the whole heaven shall be given to the people, the saints of the Most High." How many of you know the Most Highs are young? His kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and all dominions shall serve and obey him. So this kingdom is going to be a kind of kingdom, everlasting kingdom. Now we know in this prophecy here, Daniel is prophesying and Daniel sees and has a revelation of the four kingdoms that's going to be destroyed before Jesus' kingdom comes down to earth. And it's going to destroy all the other kingdoms. So we understand that everything was taking place and was going to be destroyed, and Jesus was coming with a whole new kingdom. And the Bible says, and let's go to Isaiah chapter 6 verse 9 verse 6, "And until the child is born, a son is given unto what? Government shall be upon his shoulders, and his name shall be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace." Whereas the government deals with what? The kingdom. So the government of the world is going to be upon his shoulders. Now we're not going to read verse 7 right now. We're going to wait a minute because we're going to come on down to it. But I want you to think about is the kingdom in your life. What kingdom is he's talking about?

See, the world has, the church has no idea what the kingdom is. Nobody's preaching the kingdom, hardly, in America. And the reality is because they don't understand the kingdom because here's what happened. In the early 40s, in the mid 50s and early 50s, the faith movement came into the world. The healing ministry came into the world. And so the kingdom was put on the back burner because Israel became a nation in May, I believe it was of 1948. And then everybody jumped into eschatology that the Lord's coming back in this generation. And the Bible said, and Matthew chapter 24, that's not even what it was said. He said, "This generation shall see the coming of the Lord, and the coming down of the kingdom." So the kingdom of God is in where? When he came down, he put the kingdom inside of us. So when we accepted what he did in the kingdom, that kingdom manifest inside of us, Luke 17, 21, low here, low there, for the kingdom's inside me. So Jesus come just preaching the kingdom. And so Daniel prophesied the kingdom was coming. Look at somebody say the kingdom's here. Say pastor, you kingdom now, absolutely I'm kingdom now. Ben now, gonna stay now, gonna be now, 'cause we're kingdom now, right? Now go me to John chapter 18 verse 36, watch this now, the kingdom in action. Jesus said, Jesus answered, my kingdom is not of this cosmos. If my kingdom were of this cosmos, my service was with fire so that I should not be delivered to the Jews, but now my kingdom is not from here, and look at verse 37. Jesus answered, you're rightly that I'm a king. And Pilate just turned to and said, look man, are you a king then? And Jesus answered, you say, rightly that I'm a king for this cause I was born brother. And for this cause I've come into the world. He didn't say I've come into the world to die for your sins. He said, I come into the world because I'm a king and I'm going to breast set up a kingdom on this world. And I'm going to deliver everybody in this world. I'm not going to leave one speck unturned, not one rock done away with. I'm going to turn over every rock. I'm going to deliver everybody. Why? Because that's the reason I was born to come

into the world that I should bear witness to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth will hear my voice. Now, listen to me. Who was he talking to? He was talking to disciples here, guys. He was talking to the Jews. He was talking to the Jews. He was talking to all the people in the Jewish nationality. He was talking to everybody. It was right there. And he said, that was what I was born for. This is what I was born for. It is say I was born to forgive you of your sins. Now, don't get me wrong. I'm all for him for giving you your sins. But that's not what he came to earth for. He comes to set up a kingdom. If he come and just died for your sins, you'd still be in a mess. He come and died and resurrected and established a new kingdom. A kingdom not made with hands, but a kingdom made out of the kingdom of truth. Now, watch this. I want you to go with me. Go with me to 2 Corinthians 5 verse 18. Now, you need to stay with me because this is good. Look at somebody saying this is good. But all things are from God. All things are from God. All things are from God. Then what you're going through it, who through Jesus Christ reconciled us to himself received us into favor, brought us into harmony with himself and gave to us the ministry of reconciliation that by word indeed we might aim to bring others into the harmony with him. Now, watch verse 19. It was God personally present in Christ reconciling and restoring the cause mode. How many did he restore everybody to favor with himself, not counting up or holding against me under trespasses, but counseling them, not just the ones that asked, and committing to us the ministry of reconciliation of the restoration of favor. Now, look at verse 20. For we are, and who's the we are? Who did he reconcile? What are we? Christ ambassadors. God making his appeal as it were through us. We as Christ personal representative beg you for this state to lay hold of divine favor. Now offer to you and be reconciled to God. So what's he saying? He said, are you and I are ambassadors? Ambassadors of a what? A new world. A new world. A new world. We're ambassadors of another world. We're ambassadors of another world. What is an ambassador? Somebody that goes to that country and represents where he came from. He don't have an opinion. He don't have a choice. He don't have an idea. He comes and represents the country that he came from. You and I came from heaven, and we're ambassadors of earth for heaven. And now we ought to be representing heaven with the kingdom. Now, why would he give you the keys to the kingdom if he didn't want you to use the keys?

Now, that would make me really mad if somebody gave me the keys and didn't give me the car. Wouldn't it? Think about it a minute. So he's reconciled us to himself, and now we are ambassadors. Ambassadors of what? Listen, you can't live in America and be an ambassador for America. They're going to send you to another country to be an ambassador for America if you're an ambassador for America. So he sent us from heaven down to earth. He said, as I come, also send them. He said, just as the father sent me, he sent you what he sent him for to be an ambassador to set up a kingdom. And now you and I are ambassadors of that kingdom of heaven. And now the kingdom is inside of us. Everybody's got the kingdom inside of them. They just don't know it. Say amen. Let's go to Luke 3. Now, the kingdom in action. Now, watch this. I want you to watch this. When all the people were baptized, it came to pass that Jesus also was baptized. And while he prayed, the heavens were opened. And look at 22. The Holy Spirit descended in bodily form like a dove upon him. And a voice came out of heaven and said, you are my beloved son and whom I'm well pleased. Now, wait, wait, wait, wait. He doesn't nothing yet. He hasn't done a thing. Be born. Think about it a minute. He doesn't. He doesn't. One miracle. bar mensfah. But he hadn't done one thing but the Bible said you're my beloved son and whom I'm well pleased. He hadn't done one thing, hadn't accepted him, hadn't talked about him, hadn't discussed him, hadn't done any more thing wonderful. He never done a miracle after he was baptized in the Jordan. So how did he please him? He said the things that I do I always please the Father. How did he please him? Was he just being born? Think about it a minute. Did he please him just being born? Now I'm fixing to give you some revelation if it is. Swallow heavy. Guess what? That which is a flesh is flesh and that which is a spirit is spirit.

You and I were born in the flesh, right? We were also born in the spirit which was opened up to the door that made him pleased because he was this to me. I mean I believe Jesus did not sin, the Bible said he didn't sin. Did he not sin because of who he was or did he not sin because of how he was born? So then if he didn't sin because of how he was born, how were you born? If you notice Jesus was born just like you and I but he was born like Adam was because Adam wasn't born. Adam was creating the image and likeness of God but you and I was born in the God. Oh my lord. Why? Because the death bear on the resurrection we were birthed into the new creation and now we're ambassadors from heaven sent down to earth. That's why we're born from above. We're born into that kingdom of God. Now I'm going to mash you up. The kingdom is not in you. You were born into it. Let me have you believe Christ is in you. Let me have you believe he's in you. Okay. If he's in you then you're in him too, right? The Bible says we're one in him so we're unisons. So if the kingdom of God's in me, I'm in the kingdom of God too, right? Oh come on. He's a preacher to me. Why? Because we got to understand that we have a design purpose to walk into a different place of understanding about who we are in the kingdom of God. You're way more important than you think you are.

Then watch this. He said, I'm well pleased with him. Now go meet a Matthew 1 and 17. Now in the book of Matthew chapter, chapter 1, it says this, that he was a generation of the son of God and it was as a son of David and of a son of Abraham. Now we know that Abraham was the actual deed ship, land ship, royalty come from the son of David. He was both sons. But the Bible says in the next verse, I believe it's verse 2, that the generation starts with Abraham, Abraham to Isaac, it skips all the first generations, how many of you know there's seven generations from Adam to Noah, it skips all those generations and goes straight to Abraham, which was the seed of Christ, what the seed of Christ was birth out of. Now watch this. Now look at verse 17, and all the generations from Abraham to David are what? And from David unto captivity in Babylon are what? And from the captivity of Babylon into Christ or what? That's 42 generations, right? David, but listen to me, Matthew only lists 27 of them. Where's the other 15? The 15 generations are the excellence of the power of the revelation that happened during the law. And so Jesus didn't talk about the law because the law, he was talking about Christ because he come to fulfill the law. So if you fulfill the laws, then they talk about the law under the book of Matthew. So the fulfillment of the Old Testament prophecy that his king was going to come and he was going to destroy, not only destroy, but just fulfill the law as a whole. So the completion of that was the manifestation of that which is more than Christ, which is you and I was chosen before the foundation of the world. So you and I have been traveling all the time through Christ, getting to this destiny and

this purpose and this plan of which we are right now. See we're not accidents, man, we're some kind of purpose driven. Now watch this, I want you to get this, because I looked this up and this is powerful. 42 is often seen as a product of six, six, the number meaning for men, and seven, the number standing for spiritual perfection and completion. But when you put the two numbers together, they point to human effort working under divine limits and timing, by God. So we understand that they're under human efforts of limited time and time. So we understand now that Jesus planned that you and I was born at the same time he was born at a perfect time, we come the same way he did under the law, fulfill the purpose through grace and mercy in Jesus Christ, because Jesus fulfilled the law in us. Think about it. So now we see the kingdom in action, because we, not only are we in the kingdom of kingdoms in us, and now we can't operate outside of, listen to me, listen to me, listen to me, be careful, I got to get serious, you don't have spiritual authority to operate outside the Kingdom. Luke 17 21 low here low there for the kingdom of God's we're at Inside us now letting that little minute get off. Let's go to Daniel 2 Daniel 2. We love this prophecy in the book of Daniel Everybody loves prophecy, but what's what he says here? This is powerful revelation you watch while a stone was cut out without hands. Who's that stone? Jesus which struck the image on its foot of iron and clay and broke them in pieces Now look at 35 watch this my God Then the iron to clay the bronze of the silver and the gold were crushed together That's the four kingdoms before you know the story right and became like shaft from the summer threshing floors The wind carried them away said no trace up Then was found and the stone that struck the image became a great mountain and filled the whole earth What's he talking about he's talking about the kingdom of God man? Jesus was coming to destroy all the other kingdoms so that me and you could operate the kingdom of God inside of us And he got us born again put his spirit inside of us. So the spirit could operate the kingdom principle and mentality So if we don't have the right my slide he said in 1st Corinthians 2 and 16

I've given you the mind of Christ so that you can think like the new kingdom things You can't listen to me you can't live in this world and function the kingdom of God through a worldly system It's not gonna work Let me do Psalms 118 22 I want to verify that the stone is Jesus the stone which the builders rejected has become the chief what? Talking about Jesus the stones gonna come how many of you know that Jesus was a stumbling block to the Jews Let's go to Matthew 21 The kingdom now watch this this is powerful Jesus says to them Have you ever read in the scripture that the stone which the builders rejected has become the chief cornerstone? That was the Lord's doing and it was marvelous in our eyes look at 43 Therefore I say to you the kingdom of God will be taken from you and given to a nation Bearing the fruits of it. Who was he talking to the Jews? He said guys you don't understand there's come there's coming a generation of people that's going to accept this kingdom of God That I'm trying to preach to you look at 44 Whoever falls on this stone will be broken, but on whomever it falls it will grind him to patter in other words He said this kingdom's coming down to earth and it's gonna destroy every kingdom that's been there before and it's gonna grind it up The power just like he talked about in the book. I just read just a minute ago What was gonna happen? What was the generation Jesus gonna fall on the earth the kingdom of God was gonna destroy everything on the earth And that kingdom that was gonna rise up out of death that had never risen before had never lived before was gonna rise up out of death And put that same resurrecting power on the inside of me and you to operate that kingdom which he was established is set up on the earth That's who we are It's gonna revelation 11 and 15 And he amplified and the seventh angel then blew this trumpet and there were mighty Wind's voices in heaven shouting the dominion the kingdom sovereignty rule of the world has now come into the possession and become the kingdom of our Lord and of his Christ the Messiah And he shall reign forever and ever for the internities of the internities And he said this kingdom is gonna come and it's gonna rule and it's gonna rank now We want to put that right in the middle of the book of Revelation because that's right in the middle eschatology We won't have some tribulation going on, but Jesus said I come to deliver you from tribulation I come to deliver you from bodies. I come delivery Why is he gonna bring destruction on us if Jesus died that we'd be delivered

Doesn't make any sense Hold on. Hold on. Thank you Give me just a minute Daniel 9 27 Because we really need we need to understand listen to me You cannot grab the kingdom of God as long as you're grabbing eschatology and a futuristic view of Jesus He's done it guys. What's this? Now here's your tribulation and he shall confirm a covenant with many of with many for one week But in the middle of the week he shall bring an end to sacrifice an offer. Did he do that and on the wing Of a bottom nation shall he who makes desolate? How many of you do Matthew 24 who called for the desolation of Israel? Jesus did my goodness even now even to the consummation Which is determined is poor out on the desolate. So what's he telling us? He said in the middle of the week in the middle of the seven days I'm gonna show up. That's exactly what he did in the middle of three and a half years Which is symbolic of one day with the Lord is a thousand years over a generation of time He stood up in the middle of the week and said it is finished. It is over It is done three and a half years is over the next three and a half years after the resurrection And we see the parallel of the seven years of what we want to call the church tribulation But is the resurrection a fulfillment of Christ and the kingdom of God's ministry? Amen He tells you right here. You can't do you think with Daniel 927 you got to deal with it Look as if I say deal with it I threw that in for free. Let's go to Daniel 7 and 14 Then to him was given dominion and glory and a kingdom that all peoples nations and languages should serve him His dominion is never lasted dominion which shall not pass away and his kingdom the one which shall not Be destroyed Guys it's over You and I some kind of something but we hadn't discovered with some kind of something because somebody's told us we ain't much of nothing But I have to come to tell you you're some kind of something that I say a chapter 9 verse 6

Isaiah chapter 9 verse 6 and a to us a child is don't hear this about Christmas time until it's a child is born until So son is given the government shall be upon his shoulders his name shall be called wonderful counselor mighty God everlasting father principal's five names grace Look at verse 7 of the increase of the government and peace there will be no end Upon the throne of David and over his kingdom to order it Establish it with judgment and justice from the time for even forever the zeal of the Lord of hosts will perform this Guys come on The kingdom is inside of us We are dynamic We're apps Superman ain't got nothing to us We need to step in a phone booth this clerk kitten come out Superman We need some superheroes in the church that understand who they are that they're not wondering if the Mars gonna wake up And my family's gonna be gone because I've been raptured out of here So I got to worry about they're gonna get it right or not you ain't got to worry about them getting right He got it right and he got it right. They're all right Amen Look at somebody say my family's all right So Jesus came to bring the government of God back to earth to rule over it now go to Luke 17 20 and When he had asked by the Pharisees You know the Pharisees are right the religious vote when the kingdom of God would come He asked her and said to them take the kingdom of God does not come with observation. You know, I'll be able to see it brother Nor will they say see here see therefore indeed now think about this a minute. He's talking to the Jews the Pharisees And he's telling them I'm already for in reality the kingdom of God is within you In reality, you don't know it yet But the kingdom of God's gonna got the ability to be inside of you because I'm gonna leave and I got a command from the father Don't I'm gonna come back after three days and the kingdom's gonna be in you then So the kingdoms inside of you you just don't know it yet Kingdom inside everybody I just think it's just covered it yet The political world will suck you in to a world culture mentality

Now am I for politics? Absolutely Everything in America was established upon the the Bible Everything all the government was set up that way the design was set up It's supposed to be run under the leadership and the spiritual guidance of the Holy Spirit Me and of old prayed and established covetous signed the articles that the independence all those were based on the Word of God okay If they were written today, they would not be Because we don't understand the kingdom and I tell you the Holy Spirit's been telling me church has been too quiet too long It's time for us to stand up and say you know what I just ain't gonna lie that no more See it's not about Republican or Democrat. It's about people's level of truth Because people that are wrong think they're right and the only thing they have it the base it on is what they've read or heard or been around Because they're not going to come into church because the church ain't preaching the word That went over good. Thank you for both claps. Let's go to Acts chapter 1 verse 3 Now watch Jesus here For whom he also presented himself alive after his suffering by many and fallible proofs being seen by them during 40 days and speaking of the things So what did he come back and talk about? He come back and talked about the kingdom of God This is right before Pentecost cooked up and Genesis and in Acts 2 How many of you know that they had to get that 12th apostle before the spirit could fall in the book of Acts and Chapter 2 now if you'll notice they won't sitting in Acts chapter 2 sitting around praying They were sitting in a room and it filled the whole place where they were sitting That Jesus went into a place even the 12 and him heal the sick. They saw him raise the dead. They saw him do all kinds of miracles. At 42 months ministry, in one night, Peter said, "I didn't follow him. I didn't know him." But Peter's also the one that said, "You're the Christ." So Peter was pretty much born again when he didn't. When he did not him. But it's amazing when Jesus came back and he saw Mary, he said, "Tell Peter and the disciples." He wasn't uptight with

Peter because he knew he'd made a way. He even made a way for Judas. Think about it a minute, the kingdom in action that's you. God's about to do some miraculous things. In the middle of your mess. And here's what I'm wanting you to understand. The Holy Spirit's been dealing with me. A minister's only as powerful as you'll let him be. See, what I mean by that is you have a tendency in the power to draw things out of me that I don't know that I know. That's what you need to start praying about. That God will open the doors for this message to be shared. He's opened the tons of doors and we've got a lot of opportunities. I want it to be the right opportunities. People need to hear the truth. I'm telling you, people need to hear the truth. Last week, I really, I just went to this place and I had a wonderful time and people were anointed. It was better than I thought, honestly. But I also saw some people that were traveled and spent $300 to be in this place looking an answer. And my desires I was there is, Lord, let them get an answer they need. But here's the key I want you to understand. You don't have to run to somebody to get that answer. He's your answer. And his name is Jesus. Amen? His name is Jesus. And he's going to give you the desires of your heart. And it's going to be better for you than it's ever been. The latter glory in your life is going to be greater than any glory you've ever had. And he said, so keep your eyes open. It's going to show up out of nowhere and you're going to know without a shadow of a doubt that is gone. Okay? All right. Father, in the name of Jesus, I just thank you tonight for revelation and knowledge. I thank you for truth. I thank you for the anointing of the Holy Spirit. And Father, I pray tonight that as we leave this place, safety in Jesus' name. And everybody say it. And God bless you. Thank you so much for joining us today at Power and 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. [MUSIC] [BLANK_AUDIO]