The Spirit In The Kingdom By: Dr. Pete Norris

But Jesus said I've come to bring it right now. So from here on out, it's going to be an acceptable year of the Lord. This is going to be year to year because I'm annoying in there. So I'm going to set you free. I'm going to bring you out of your bondage. I'm going to deliver you out of your mouth. I'm going to get you away from your struggles and your hardship. See, but your mind can still take you back when God has delivered you out. But your inside has got to be the most determining factor that takes you over to the next level. So the spirit only operates in the kingdom. Welcome to Power in the World. Why is it that so many Christians living below their God-given potential? Is it living a spirit-led life more than just a Christian catchphrase? Well, today Dr. Narshow's us in the Word of God. What it really means to live a spirit-led life. To trust in the Holy Spirit who lives in God's all believers if we only listen. It's a great message. Stay with us and be encouraged. So tonight we want to talk about the kingdom of God, but we want to talk about it a little different perspective. I want to talk about the spirit in the kingdom. And if there's something I believe the body of Christ has kind of gotten away from, a little bit, and I think that's the spirit of the Lord. And what I want to talk about tonight is have the spirit operate in the kingdom. Now listen to me very carefully. The Holy Spirit woke me up Saturday night really just a wide awake. And He said this to me very politely. He said, "Son, my spirit will never operate under law preaching." And so I was asking the Holy Spirit. I said, "Lord, I don't understand why the spirit of God is not moving around the earth."

And I know God's moving in some tremendous places in some tremendous ways. And I understand that. But as long as the law speaks, the spirit can't move. And I heard the Holy Spirit say something to me. He said, "Son, condemnation preaching will bring people to the altar, but it won't be a transformation." It'll be a condemnation, guilt, repentance. Now I want you to listen to me very carefully. Jonathan Edwards. You may know who that is when the sins fall on angry God. Right? I think it centers in the hands of an angry God was His message. And thousands of people got born again. You got to understand something. Jonathan Edwards lived in seclusion the last 25 years of his life because he had a nervous breakdown and couldn't function anymore. Think about it a minute. Here he is preaching this message of condemnation and guilt. Thousands of people come except Christ that day. I mean thousands and 25, 30 years of his rest of his life, he lives in seclusion because he can't get out of the house anymore. And he lived with a lady named Jesse Pinn which pretty much sold his revelation and the writings that he did and wrote books about it. Not saying she was not spiritual. I'm not saying that, not judging her in any way. But here's the point I'm trying to make. Without the spirit of the Lord, there's going to be never going to be any freedom in your life to walk out the goodness of God. And so condemnation has been preached all through the 40s and 50s to bring people into condemnation.

That's why people, if they're not having their toes stepped on, they don't understand the spirit of the Lord. So I'm not really sure the church as a whole in America understands the spirit of the Lord. Look at somebody and say, I got the spirit of the Lord living inside of me. I know his voice. His spirit bears witness with my spirit, let's me know I'm a son of God. See, listen to me, there's no way you can have the spirit of the Lord to you and doubt your salvation. Because if I was said, the spirit of a man is the candle of the Lord searching all the inward parts of the belly, Proverbs 20, 27. So what's he saying to us? He said, my spirit bears witness your spirit and let's me know that I'm a son of God. So let's go to Saint Corinthians 121. Now it is God who makes both us and you stand firm in Christ. Now what's this? I want you to get this. Now it is God who makes both us and you who's writing this. Paul. So Paul said, it's God who makes both us and you stand firm in God, in Christ. He anointed us. Now think about it in a minute. Are you firm in Christ? Now how many of you know what firm means? That word actually means to be placed or to be planted. It's the same identical word that is used in the text when he said he's placed us in Galatians as a son of God into the adoption, which means the placing of a son. It's the same identical word. So what he's saying to that Paul said, me and you are both stand firm in Christ. Now think about that a minute. You can't follow off the boat if you're standing firm in Christ. And then he said, he anointed us.

Look at somebody say, I'm anointed. What are you anointed for? Think about a minute now before you ask. What are you anointed for? What are you doing with the anointing you got? The Bible said he's anointed us. See our mindset is about servitude. anointed us and it is a common that look at 22. Set his seal of ownership upon us and put his spirit in our hearts as a deposit, guaranteeing what is to come. So he's promised us guys, now I want you to get this, he's promised us we're his ownership, he owns us. Right? He put his spirit, his only spirit in our hearts as a deposit. In other words that's just a guarantee that's just like a making a deposit on a house and you go buy the house. So you make a security deposit on the house. He's put a deposit in us guaranteeing what's to come. What's to come? The fruit of the Spirit, the gifts of the Spirit, the joy of the Lord, the strength of the Lord, the wealth of the Lord, the blessings of the Lord. All these things are in our lives to guarantee us what's coming. Now that spirit inside of us is more than just the God does. The Bible said in John the Holy Spirit has come what? To teach us all things. Now think about this a minute when you answer that. How many of you know that you got what? Listen to me, you're searching for what you want to teach you and what's going to teach you is only inside of you. And he put it inside of you. You have not because you, let's go on John 1613 said the Holy Spirit is going to guide us into all truth. First Corinthians 2 verse 11 says this that the Holy Spirit is going to show us all the things that have been freely given to us. Romans 5 and 5 says the love of God has been shed in broad number of hearts by the Holy Spirit. So the Holy Spirit is in our hearts as a guarantee to what's coming. And so sad thing is is that we've got to guarantee in our hearts but something most things don't ever come to anybody because we're not operating in who we are. And you have not because you ask not. Now say we need here in a minute. So the Spirit operates only in the kingdom. Now the Spirit

listen to me we've got to go back because now listen to me here carefully under the old covenant the Holy Spirit would come upon the prophet and the priest and the king for what? Service service under the new covenant the Holy Spirit lives all the time, Emma on and in sons and daughters. See that's the difference. It came upon them for service. It lives in us and we're anointed all the time. See daddy you understand why the Spirit, why the devil don't want you to get a hold of the revelation of who you are. You've got your power pack. You're fully alive with revelation knowledge that the enemies afraid of but you don't know that you got it. So he comes around and does the little picky stuff to keep you off kill. But look at this the kingdom is the first fruit of what is to come a deposit guaranteeing your future. Come on guys listen to me get away from the mindset of going to heaven. Please get away from that mindset. Bring heaven right here and manifest the things of heaven right here on earth. God wants your life to be blessed. Highly favored. Deeply loved. I want his favor to follow you around all the time. So here's my point. Let's go to Luke 4 and 18. Now here's here's GSA walks into the synagogue and it's at the end of his life here. And here's what he said. He said the Spirit of the Lord is upon me here now. This is before this is before that they with me. The Spirit of the Lord is upon me because he's anointed me to proclaim the good news to the poor. Now they've never heard nothing like this. He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners and the recovery of sight and that doesn't mean getting people out of jail. That means bringing people out of the self-concept and recovery of sight to the blind and set the oppressed free. Now let's go to Acts 1038. How God adorned Jesus the Holy Ghost of power who went about doing good healing all that was oppressed. So God was with him. So here's my point I'm trying to get you. Here's Jesus standing up and he's telling everybody he said I'm anointed man. They never heard that before. I'm anointed. And so they're looking at him like a deer at a new fence. Now look and there's a common now. Watch verse 19 to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor. Now that was Jubilee under the old covenant. But Jesus said I've come to bring it right now. So every year from here on

out it's gonna be your Jubilee. So from here on out it's gonna be an acceptable year of the Lord. This is gonna be your year because I'm anointed now. So I'm gonna set you free. I'm gonna bring you out of your bondage. I'm gonna deliver you out of your mess. I'm gonna get you away from your struggles in your hardship. See but your mind can still take you back when God has delivered you out. But your inside has got to be the most determining factor that takes you over to the next level. So the spirit only operates in the kingdom. Now watch this. And so the Holy Spirit gave me a little revelation. I was right down the road the other day. He said this. He said the spirit operates in a greater level than the world knows anything about. That's why it's kingdom mentality. of a daughter's voice or somebody does his voice, we're walking a victory. Now we don't deny that those things exist. We know we can look around and see that those things exist, but they don't have to exist in us. Jesus did not tell us to pray for the sick. He said he or the sick. Now go with me some. The freedom of the kingdom of God is for you right now. There's a lot of theories out there that believe that the kingdom of God is going to be when Jesus comes back. And that's wonderful, but that's not true because the kingdom is right here right now in us. Now watch this. That is what freedom looks like healed and made whole. That's what the kingdom of God is. That's what kingdom looks like when you're healed and made whole. That's what Jesus said. Jesus said, "I come that you might have a life and have it more abundantly." Now think about it a minute, do you think people is really having an abundant and more life?

No, people are oppressed, people are discouraged, people are frustrated. I get letters. I get emails. I get calls. I get messes. Because people are hurting. Prisoners are hurting. People are tied up. People are wrapped up. There's a mental health crisis going all through the earth today. And the church is sitting around saying, "Well, we're going to pray for them." He told you to pray. He said, "Speak to them. He'll bring the deliverance to them. Speak life to them. Speak health to them." Do you think God puts you around people every day for just the accident? He puts you right in people's path for divine appointments for you to be right there to meet their need. That's what we're here for. Let me tell you a little secret. This is a little secret. Sunday morning on the way to church, I get a phone call from a man, a friend of mine. I haven't spoken to him in probably six years because he used to play ball for him years ago. Well, Sunday morning I'm riding the church now of all the people in the world. He said, "Man, I was watching on TV last night." He said, "I just got a phone call this morning. I just felt like you the first person I need to call. They found my son dead."

Now what is my point to you? Why was I on Saturday night right before his son died Sunday morning? That wasn't an accident. That's a great big God that loves us very much. And here's the thing. Your opportunities are there for you to change lives. Listen, you've got to preach to them. You just got to walk out who you really are and they'll see something there that they'll want to be part of. And that's exactly what I hear the Lord saying. Now go to John chapter three verse one. So how do we operate in this spirit that Jesus was talking about for us to have? There was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. So this guy wasn't supposed to be around Jesus. And the man came to Jesus by night. See, he'd come at night. He'd come in the daytime and anybody could see him going to it. When he said to him, "Rabbi teacher, we know that you're a teacher. Come from heaven for no one can do these things that you do unless God is with him." Ever been around somebody and you, God was working in their life. They saw things that other people didn't see, heard things that other people didn't hear, lived in places other people didn't live. See, here's what I'm trying to get you to understand. God's on the sore in business. People are rising, man. Anointing is increasing. Revelation is coming like never before. It's not new revelation. It's just new to the church. Now what's verse 3?

Because Solomon said there's nothing new under the sun. Jesus answered and said to him, "Most surely I say to you, unless one is what?" Who's he talking to? He's talking to the Jews, man. He ain't talking to Gentiles, he ain't talking to Jews. He cannot see the kingdom of God. Now that word "see" is the Greek word for understand. So what he's saying to Nicodemus, he said Nicodemus, you don't understand, brother. If you don't enter into this heavenly room and get born from above, by the Spirit and have the Spirit inside of you, you can't understand the kingdom of God. Is that why the church don't understand the kingdom of God? Is that why preachers don't understand the kingdom of God? Now what's verse 4? Nicodemus said to him, "How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter the second time into his mother's womb and be born?" He said he was talking about the physical, Jesus was talking about the spiritual. See, the church today is talking about the physical and Jesus is talking about the spiritual. See, do you understand that your sickness is a spiritual issue? But what's inside of you is bigger than your physical, because see, here's what happens. Sickness not only invades your spirit, it invades your mind and your soulish and your will and your emotions. It takes ownership of you and that's all you focus on because you don't understand what you're dealing with is not really you. But what's really used is your spirit inside of you. Now look what he told him in verse 5, this is good. Jesus said to him, "Most surely I'll say to you, unless one is born of the water and of the spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God." Now if you'll notice he ain't telling him nothing about how to get to heaven. If you notice Jesus doesn't mention heaven at all much. But he's telling us how to enter into the kingdom of God to the Jews.

He talking to me and you here. Now this is going to shake you. You ready for this? You can't find anywhere in the scripture He told you that a Gentile needs to be born again. Because the Jews understood the Jewish custom, but you and I have been born from above. When were we born before the foundation of the world? When were we called before the foundation of the world? When were we chosen before the foundation of the world? So when you rationalize out the revelation of the spirit world, the spirit world has been existing for a long time. We just hadn't joined in it. And that's why some people are seeing things in the spirit. And other people say, whoo, what's that? They talking off the wall. Why? Because the spiritual revelation of the physical body can't grab hold of it. You can't grab hold the kingdom of God in your physical mind. You can't enter in and understand the kingdom of God in your physical mind. That's why people have problems with it. Oh, Pastor, we live in a physical world. No, we're not. We're spiritual beings dominating a physical world. But we're not dominated because we don't know we can dominate. Now, now, now, go with me something. The kingdom of God is the rule and reign of God

and his blessings for his people. Now, go to Matthew 6 and 33. Now, watch this. This is an amplified classic. But seek, aim at, strive after. First of all, his kingdom and his righteousness. Now, how many of you know that his kingdom and his righteousness is two different things? And his righteousness, his way of doing things and being right. Then all these things, all these things, taken together will be given to you. Now, I want you to understand something very clearly. Seek, aim at, strive after. First of all, his kingdom and his righteousness. Now, how many of you know his righteousness brings us into the kingdom? His righteousness brings us into the kingdom. Has nothing to do with you. Come on. His righteousness brings you into the kingdom. Has nothing to do with you. His righteousness brings you into the kingdom. Not your righteousness. His righteousness, what do you say? Him, he and you know, sin, became sin that you and I might become the righteousness of God. So we're the righteousness of God, but he said you're into the kingdom because of my righteousness. What do you just tell, John?

You can't understand this kingdom and listen. You're born from above. The translation is really not born to get. It's born from above. How do we get born from above? Nobody could be born from above until after Jesus died and resurrected because you've got to listen to me. You've got to first go down below earth and come up and resurrect now and ascend to heaven to bring heaven back down to earth. Jesus didn't bring heaven when he came to earth. He was still the son of man. He brought heaven when he came back to earth and was the son of God after the resurrection. You and I are sons of God and now we've been placed into his righteousness and nothing can ever move us out of that righteousness. That's why I placed this this into the kingdom of God. Low here, low there, the kingdom of God's in you boys. You just don't know like the kingdom of God. Why? Because this righteousness places us in that kingdom. He was talking to Jews in Luke 17, 21, and low here, low there for the kingdom of God's in you boys. They didn't know that, but he said, here's what's going to happen. This kingdom that you're talking about when you restore, remember the Jews? They were saying, when you're going to move back to the kingdom is, or who's it coming at?

He said, man, I'm not talking about that kingdom. My children, my service would fight you over that stuff if that's what the kingdom I was about, but that's not the kingdom I'm about. In other words, my righteousness is going to make you righteous and place you into my kingdom. And there you can go preach in my kingdom because it's inside of you. That's why he told disciples, I've given you the power to go preach the kingdom, to go preach the kingdom, to go preach the kingdom. They were a forerunner of the kingdom. That's what John was, right? But Jews said, I've come that you can have the kingdom now inside of you boys. You've got the kingdom inside of you. And if you don't understand and be born from above after I resurrect, you go to come back. My Lord, go with me, go with me too. I want you to see this. Now watch this, he said, and then, and then all these things taken together will be given to you. And what things are you talking about? What things is he talking about? The indwelling of the Holy Spirit, a transforming life, power and authority to do greater things than Jesus did, gifts of the spirit, fruit of the spirit, salvation and the opportunity to partner with God

in sharing all this in the world. Guys, do you understand what he's giving us to do? He's gonna give you all the things. He's not gonna take cars and trucks and houses and boats and pup tents. He's not talking about that. He's talking about the spirit. See, the spirit of God's gonna give you everything that you need in your desire. God will give you some stuff you don't even want. See, listen to me. You don't understand that. He gives it to you by the spirit. Because you're annoyed, listen to me, listen to me. You remember in the old covenant when you used to take sheep and they'd rub 'em down with oil? What they rub 'em down with oil for? Keep the flies away, right? You've been rubbed down. That's what anointed means. down with anointing. See people, listen, the world can tell somebody that's anointed. I mean it don't take a rocket scientist to tell somebody that's anointed, right? So that they would rub the sheep down, the shepherds would rub the sheep down so that the flies wouldn't bother because flies get all mad in them. I mean if you know a sheep can't swim. So they would put rocks in a little puddle because moving the mortar or drown of sheep because he can't swim. That's why the Lord is in my shepherd. They shout out, "Moyne, make me lie down in green pasture. Lead it to me beside still waters." See, you got to understand what Jesus has done, man. He is absolutely now. Look at this. But seek amen, strive after the first of all the kingdom and his righteousness. His way of doing things and being right. And then all these things, the food of the Spirit, the gifts of the Spirit, salvation, the power, the wealth, all the goodness of the Lord, it'll follow you around like a glove.

Why? Because you're anointed. Amen? And the goodness of the Lord's father surround all the days of our life and the goodness of God is all around us, guys. But we're not, listen to me. Things are sticking to you. You don't even know stuck to you. Go me to John 7, 38 and 39. What's this? "He who believes in me as the Scripture have said out of his heart will flow rivers of living water." Now what he who believes in me as the Scripture have said out of his heart will flow rivers of living water. Are you rivers of living water? How many of you know that waters, most of the time, 90% of the time in the Scripture represents the Holy Spirit? Okay. So what's going to flow out of us? Really waters or what's going to flow out of us? The Holy Spirit, leading waters, which is the Holy Spirit. See, I'll come upon you and teach you what you need to say in the hour and the time it needs to be seen. Now look at 39. What's this? This is powerful. But this he spoke concerning the Spirit, whom those believing him would receive for the Holy Spirit was not yet given because Jesus was not yet glorified. So he spoke to them about this concerning the Spirit, whom those believing him would receive it. Yet the Holy Spirit was not given yet until after he was not glorified. Then what he told him, don't touch me because I'm not yet ascended to the Father to be glorified. Think about it a minute. You can't touch me yet because I'm not yet glorified. But once I get glorified, I'm going to touch you and you ain't going to need to touch me. Then I'm going to touch you. How many of you know he's touched you? I think it was Dottie Rambo. He used to sing that song. Somebody touched me. Now think about it in just a minute. What did he do for you? What did he do for you? I want you to go to Psalms 1, 1, 2, and 3. Now watch this. This is powerful. Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the ungodly. How many of you know you're blessed? What are you doing with the blessing? You're standing in the path of sinners, nor sitting in the seat of the scornful, verse 2. His delight, who is the blessed man? His delight is in the law of the Lord. How many of you know law represents the word and in his word he meditates day and night? See, listen to me. His spirit draws you to himself. Without the Lord, you can never find the Lord. Listen, you're drawn by my spirit. You cannot come save the Lord. But see, here's the thing. Now, don't you listen to me very carefully. Too many people are looking at experiences on God and not relationships. The hype of God won't carry you through the battles. Let's go to verse 3. He shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water. There he goes, planted by the rivers of water that brings forth fruit in its season, who leaves also where not with her. And whatever he does,

whatever he does, whatever he does, whatever he does, whatever he does is going to prosper. Think about it, guys. Whatever you do is going to prosper. But as long as you look at the physical aspect, you're never going to grab the depth of the spirit of God. The spirit of God is going to lead you right where you need to be. Listen to me. Your provision is wherever God's called you. Why? Because God's doing some wonderful things in the body of Christ for those that will trust the Word, meditate upon my word day and night and what's going to happen. Everything you do is going to prosper. Everything you do is going to prosper. Everything you do is going to prosper. Why? Because your life is based in the spirit and he's directing your life. He's directing every one of your steps. Go to Ezekiel. We're going to show you the spirit of the Lord in the Old Testament. Then he brought me back to the door of the temple and there was water, flowing from under the threshold of the temple toward the east. For the front of the temple faced east and the water was flowing from under the right side of the temple, south of the altar, verse two. And he brought me out by the way of the north gate, faces east and there was water running out on the right side verse 3 and when the man went out to the east there was a line in his hand a measuring stick and he measured 1,000 cubics now how many of you have a cubics 18 inches what's this and he brought me through the waters and the water came up to my ankles and he measured 1,000 he brought me through the waters and the waters came up to my knees and he measured 1,000 he brought me through and the water came up to my waist now what's this it's the same thousand what's happening verse 5 and he measured 1,000 the water into rivers came up and I could not cross for the water was too deep water in which one must swim and a river that could not be crossed now Ezekiel had a vision here and he saw that the water was getting deeper away from the temple than it was going to be in the temple now have you ever seen water run out of a temple or out of a building and it's deeper two miles down the road than it was when it pulled out of the temple what he was prophesying and prophetically saying is I'm gonna pour out my spirit upon this earth and you're gonna say it's gonna be in the temple right now it's gonna be a little bit but as it flows out into the nations it's gonna get greater because I'm gonna pour out my spirit upon this nation and Ezekiel said I'm prophesying

that I could not measure it because now they're swimming in it in the water in the spirit of the Lord it's gonna rest upon the church why because the old covenant operated in the temple and the spirit would move in the temple but it couldn't move anywhere outside the temple but God said I'm gonna pour it out of the temple and it's gonna flow out into the nations but now he said not only that you're gonna be the temple that I'm gonna flow out of and I'm gonna send you to the nations and how are you is gonna flow the spirit and the revelation of the kingdom of God is gonna prophesied to the nations and lives are gonna be changed lives are gonna be transformed eyes are gonna be open bodies are gonna be healed because the revelation that is coming forth is gonna justify and lives not a generation of people that's gonna speak truth and lay hands on the sick and say you know what I'm trusting for that's the revelation that's coming we are blessed and highly favored people and I'm telling you God is shifting some things in the spirit God's moving some things in the spirit God's moving some things over he's turning some things up some people gonna banish because the new seasons here new new terms arrived a new season is arrived and your revelations arrived a new dimension of God's revelation is for you and he did he tell me to tell you this and I'm gonna close the only thing you don't have is what you don't believe in God the only thing you don't have is what you don't believe you thank God 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 harvest fellowship church dot net so until next week please remember there's power in the word you [BLANK_AUDIO]