WEBVTT 00:00:12.480 --> 00:00:21.280 Well, I don't know if anyone's gonna trust me on a missions trip anymore after that, but if you want to see Jesus, come with me. 00:00:24.320 --> 00:00:28.640 Get on a plane while I was there during uh the one service. 00:00:29.520 --> 00:00:41.039 Um, it's when the cartels were uh, you know, there there was a big uh big uh one of the cartel leaders was killed, and so there was fights within the cartels. 00:00:41.359 --> 00:01:01.759 And uh it didn't affect anything where we were at uh in terms of uh our our operations, but there was uh just disruption in some of the flights, and so we ended up having to get on uh I I got on this little plane, and it was probably like five or six people on this plane. 00:01:02.399 --> 00:01:13.359 And uh, you know, they put a visor on the front, you know, that I didn't know how this plane would get off the ground, but it had to get me to another location to get me home. 00:01:13.680 --> 00:01:22.400 And uh while I was there, there were there were some families there, they were all concerned, and I just said to them, I said, Listen, God's got a plan for my life. 00:01:23.840 --> 00:01:26.400 So everyone is gonna be okay. 00:01:26.879 --> 00:01:27.679 And you know what? 00:01:27.760 --> 00:01:29.519 Everyone just settled down at that point. 00:01:29.599 --> 00:01:35.599 I said, I'm a minister, God has a plan for my life. 00:01:35.920 --> 00:01:38.560 Don't worry about it, we'll be okay, enjoy the view. 00:01:38.719 --> 00:01:42.480 And they're like, Oh, okay, and they're everyone was fine. 00:01:45.200 --> 00:01:46.879 Don't worry about it. 00:01:47.359 --> 00:01:48.319 Oh gosh. 00:01:48.480 --> 00:01:52.959 But apparently, I go airborne and we did get air though in that car. 00:01:53.120 --> 00:01:58.719 That was quite, but we landed, and that's good, Father. 00:01:58.799 --> 00:02:00.079 Thank you for this time together. 00:02:00.239 --> 00:02:01.039 Thank you for your word. 00:02:01.280 --> 00:02:05.519 Thank you that it brings truth and it brings life to our soul. 00:02:05.679 --> 00:02:12.480 And Lord, it renews us and it washes us and it sets us as a light in our path for our future. 00:02:12.640 --> 00:02:22.479 And we just thank you, Father, that today you're in your word, you're here by your word, and you're you're leading us and you're uh performing it in this moment. 00:02:22.960 --> 00:02:23.599 Amen. 00:02:24.080 --> 00:02:24.560 Amen. 00:02:24.639 --> 00:02:38.719 I'd like to share with you, we've been talking about redeemed, and since uh since Easter, we've been uh talking about the importance of Jesus being our friend and our Lord, our Savior. 00:02:38.879 --> 00:02:45.199 And we went from enemy of God, enemies of God, while we were still enemies of God. 00:02:45.439 --> 00:02:46.960 He went and he died for us. 00:02:47.120 --> 00:02:47.759 Amen. 00:02:48.159 --> 00:03:02.800 We were worthy of it, but he his friendship towards us, his kindness towards us led us to repent, and we recognized him as our Lord and our Savior, and we received salvation. 00:03:02.960 --> 00:03:05.199 How many of you have received salvation today? 00:03:05.439 --> 00:03:07.680 Are grateful for salvation? 00:03:08.240 --> 00:03:21.680 Salvation is a powerful piece, and we've preached this gospel that gets you into heaven, but Jesus preached a gospel that brings heaven into you. 00:03:23.280 --> 00:03:39.280 Thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth like it is in heaven, where we can experience on earth heaven, heaven in our home, heaven in our personal soul, heaven in our environment, in our culture. 00:03:39.520 --> 00:03:41.759 And it's not a different gospel. 00:03:42.080 --> 00:03:51.199 There was a gospel of salvation, but when you read the scripture, you read about the gospel of the kingdom, and it's a fuller gospel. 00:03:51.520 --> 00:04:00.960 And if you don't understand the difference, it will actually stop you from uh experiencing all the life that God has intended for you. 00:04:01.919 --> 00:04:16.480 So in our journey of life, we move from enemies of God to friends to say to He becomes our Lord and our Savior, and then we move to a place where we receive Him and we acknowledge Him as our King. 00:04:18.240 --> 00:04:23.040 Jesus is King, our King of Kings. 00:04:23.360 --> 00:04:26.000 We live under His rulership. 00:04:26.720 --> 00:04:30.960 We represent Him as His ambassadors to the world. 00:04:31.200 --> 00:04:39.440 We're on mission, we represent the message of the kingdom, we function as those who are heirs of the kingdom. 00:04:39.760 --> 00:04:43.280 James says it this way in chapter 2, verse 5. 00:04:43.440 --> 00:04:46.880 He says, Listen, my dear brothers and sisters. 00:04:47.040 --> 00:04:52.160 So James is saying, Come on, my community that I love so much. 00:04:52.800 --> 00:05:05.200 God has not God chosen those who are poor in the eyes of the world to be rich in faith and to inherit the kingdom he promised to those who love him. 00:05:05.840 --> 00:05:15.600 So he's saying, for each and every one of us, we can walk in the inheritance of his kingdom in our life. 00:05:16.320 --> 00:05:18.960 So let's be uh clear from the beginning. 00:05:19.200 --> 00:05:21.040 Salvation is the beginning. 00:05:21.360 --> 00:05:29.840 Salvation is the genesis, it's the door, but it's not the destination for our life and for our journey. 00:05:30.080 --> 00:05:37.280 If salvation is all it was was like getting out of hell and into heaven, it's not enough. 00:05:37.520 --> 00:06:01.920 But getting heaven into our life will change every day of your life, it'll change every moment of your thought when you recognize that Christ is in you, the kingdom of God is in you, and your role now is to walk out and and announce and declare and establish his kingdom on the earth. 00:06:02.240 --> 00:06:05.760 So we walk into chaotic places and we bring order. 00:06:06.000 --> 00:06:11.840 We walk in where there's sickness and we bring health, because there's no sickness in heaven, is there? 00:06:12.160 --> 00:06:14.320 There's no chaos in heaven. 00:06:14.480 --> 00:06:18.400 We go into places that are unruly and we bring peace. 00:06:18.640 --> 00:06:25.200 We go into the dark places of the world as established by the missions and we bring light. 00:06:25.360 --> 00:06:49.760 Or what I love this week is we had I don't know how many uh of the ladies in the church who support through prayer the uh pregnancy care centers, uh, but there were over 250 uh representatives of care centers where care for uh women with unex uh unexpected uh pregnancies and these centers gathered together uh in Kelowna this past week. 00:06:49.920 --> 00:06:56.400 If you're with us today, would you just stand, those who are part of the prayer team and support the care centers, just stand up really tall. 00:06:56.480 --> 00:06:58.320 Let's give them a hand today. 00:07:00.560 --> 00:07:01.200 Amen. 00:07:03.760 --> 00:07:11.360 Where the world is trampling on innocence, there are people who are standing up for justice. 00:07:12.480 --> 00:07:14.560 That is the kingdom of God. 00:07:14.960 --> 00:07:22.160 So when Jesus said, follow me, he didn't say just follow me until you get saved. 00:07:22.400 --> 00:07:24.880 He says, follow me and I'll lead you to life. 00:07:25.040 --> 00:07:36.880 Like my life is abundant for you, and you'll experience it not just when you die and get to heaven, but you'll experience it now here on earth. 00:07:37.440 --> 00:07:55.280 Peter said this: he said, You are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God's special possession, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness and into his wonderful light. 00:07:56.480 --> 00:07:58.880 There's a mission that we're all on. 00:07:59.200 --> 00:08:05.440 It's more than just warming a seat, it's more than just coming to church and singing pretty songs on Sunday. 00:08:05.680 --> 00:08:09.920 It's about going into the world and establishing his kingdom. 00:08:10.240 --> 00:08:13.600 So the journey began with us as enemies. 00:08:14.080 --> 00:08:26.560 We were led by his kindness, we recognized him as our Lord and our Savior, and now we move to his ambassadors and representing his kingship in this world. 00:08:26.880 --> 00:08:29.920 So, how does the kingdom advance in your life? 00:08:30.240 --> 00:08:36.639 When we look at the world's lens, we say, well, the kingdom advances through power. 00:08:37.120 --> 00:08:40.480 Kingdom advancement happens through position. 00:08:40.879 --> 00:08:44.720 Kingdom advancement happens through politics. 00:08:44.960 --> 00:08:48.639 How many of you know that that's a trigger point this week? 00:08:48.879 --> 00:08:51.759 Is our world is changing politically. 00:08:52.240 --> 00:08:59.360 The world sees the kingdom advancing through power position politics, but Jesus' lens was different. 00:08:59.680 --> 00:09:01.519 He saw a different shift. 00:09:01.680 --> 00:09:09.120 He says, I'm gonna change lives, and those lives are going to change individually, personally. 00:09:09.759 --> 00:09:16.320 People are gonna change, and it's gonna be the church that's gonna bring the kingdom of God to the world. 00:09:17.920 --> 00:09:23.920 And you may look at it and go, well, what does this kingdom movement or this kingdom model look like? 00:09:24.080 --> 00:09:37.360 And I'm gonna say to you today, uh, Jesus, through his three years of ministry, modeled a personal, relational, territorial, global expression of the kingdom. 00:09:37.680 --> 00:09:40.720 But it all happened the same way. 00:09:41.279 --> 00:09:46.399 It happened via person to person, one person to another. 00:09:46.560 --> 00:09:50.800 It didn't happen because of a platform or a power move. 00:09:51.440 --> 00:09:59.840 Happened because he knew the Father and He ushered the Father's kingdom in person by person. 00:10:00.960 --> 00:10:03.040 We look at the first move. 00:10:03.440 --> 00:10:13.040 Jesus uh brings the kingdom in by affecting the systems of the world through a person, by affecting one individual. 00:10:13.200 --> 00:10:15.600 I like the illustration of Zacchaeus. 00:10:15.680 --> 00:10:17.759 Zacchaeus was a short guy. 00:10:18.240 --> 00:10:20.160 Let's hear for the short kings out there. 00:10:20.320 --> 00:10:23.200 Come on, John Watson. 00:10:23.360 --> 00:10:25.040 Yeah, I love this. 00:10:25.200 --> 00:10:26.399 He's my man. 00:10:26.960 --> 00:10:28.960 But he was an individual. 00:10:29.759 --> 00:10:33.040 Zacchaeus, Luke chapter 19, tells a story. 00:10:33.200 --> 00:10:35.279 He was overlooked because he was short. 00:10:36.399 --> 00:10:42.800 He was embedded into a corrupt system, system of the world. 00:10:42.960 --> 00:10:44.800 He was involved with it. 00:10:45.040 --> 00:10:47.920 He was it was economically unjust. 00:10:48.240 --> 00:10:59.279 He was a tax collector, he was exploiting people, he was it was uh under Roman rule at the time, and he was oppressing the people unfairly. 00:11:00.080 --> 00:11:07.120 He knew how much they could handle, and he pushed beyond that to squeeze every individual economically. 00:11:07.840 --> 00:11:14.240 And he wasn't just a sinner, he was just part of the machine that was extorting the people. 00:11:14.800 --> 00:11:21.360 And Jesus walks into Jericho where Zacchaeus is, and you think he's gonna bring the kingdom of God. 00:11:21.519 --> 00:11:34.399 What he's gonna do is he'll go to the center square, he's gonna start a protest, he's gonna create a reform policy, he's gonna address the taxes in the city, but he doesn't do any of those things. 00:11:34.639 --> 00:11:44.240 Instead, he stops, he looks up, and little Zacchaeus had climbed a tree so he could see Jesus coming, and he calls out Zacchaeus personally. 00:11:44.560 --> 00:11:49.360 He says, Zacchaeus, I'm coming over to your house tonight. 00:11:50.240 --> 00:11:54.320 You're gonna make me a meal, we're gonna have a bit of a meal together. 00:11:54.480 --> 00:11:56.240 How many of you like having a meal together? 00:11:56.399 --> 00:11:59.440 Like he he addresses him personally. 00:12:00.320 --> 00:12:02.160 I see you, Zacchaeus. 00:12:02.720 --> 00:12:04.160 You're not forgotten. 00:12:04.240 --> 00:12:10.639 I see who you are, I see what you're doing, but I'm gonna come into your home today. 00:12:11.920 --> 00:12:15.200 And Jesus, you think, well, how is he ushering the kingdom in it? 00:12:15.279 --> 00:12:18.240 I'm sure he's 12 boys, like his disciples are walking behind. 00:12:18.480 --> 00:12:19.920 How are we gonna do this, Jesus? 00:12:20.000 --> 00:12:21.600 We're gonna disrupt Jericho. 00:12:21.759 --> 00:12:31.120 He's like, I'm gonna find the shortest guy, call him out of a tree, we're gonna go to his house for dinner. 00:12:32.160 --> 00:12:33.360 Stay with him. 00:12:33.920 --> 00:12:40.399 Doesn't sound like a strategy, but it was actually Jesus' strategy. 00:12:41.200 --> 00:12:43.360 It was a personal strategy. 00:12:43.680 --> 00:12:48.480 He says, I'm gonna encounter, and right away, Zacchaeus, calm down. 00:12:48.639 --> 00:12:50.399 I'm going to your house today. 00:12:50.560 --> 00:12:54.320 And it was one encounter and it created massive disruption. 00:12:54.560 --> 00:12:57.920 And everyone around is like, he's going to a sinner's house. 00:12:58.080 --> 00:13:01.040 Of course, Jesus is gonna go to this guy's house for dinner. 00:13:01.279 --> 00:13:07.360 Everyone starts murmuring around, but consequently, everything shifts. 00:13:07.680 --> 00:13:14.000 Zacchaeus stops, he stands up, and right away he says, I'm gonna repay everybody. 00:13:15.440 --> 00:13:23.120 I'll restore four times return to you if I've taken from you, and I'll make it right. 00:13:23.279 --> 00:13:31.840 And the fact is, Jesus went in and he fixed a system by fixing a man, a person. 00:13:32.639 --> 00:13:36.480 He didn't go in to oppress, he came under. 00:13:36.879 --> 00:13:43.120 And the kingdom of God is about a different method, a different methodology, it's a different movement. 00:13:43.279 --> 00:14:05.200 And we often think that we have to change laws to change people, but the reality is we can still, by his work through us, the king working through us, establish a different rule and a different law in people before there's even physical change and physical law changed in the country. 00:14:07.440 --> 00:14:11.440 The gospel does that, the gospel of the kingdom does that. 00:14:11.759 --> 00:14:16.160 Jesus knew if you change people, they start to change everything. 00:14:17.200 --> 00:14:23.279 And he was transformed inside the culture without having to change the culture. 00:14:25.440 --> 00:14:28.720 The gospel of salvation is there, it's important. 00:14:28.960 --> 00:14:30.080 Salvation is important. 00:14:30.240 --> 00:14:38.720 Salvation forgave Zacchaeus, but the gospel of the kingdom turned him into a threat to the world system in Jericho. 00:14:39.519 --> 00:14:43.759 So the good news of the kingdom is that God moves through people personally. 00:14:44.160 --> 00:14:49.440 And he moved this, Jesus moved this from a personal place into a relational place. 00:14:49.519 --> 00:15:02.000 And one of the uh the places that I enjoy reading the most is actually about the how Jesus uh affected the kingdom through relationship is the story of the woman at the well. 00:15:02.480 --> 00:15:10.399 And when I was in Israel, I actually went to the place where the in where the well was supposed to be, supposed to be. 00:15:10.879 --> 00:15:28.639 And when you went to that area, you realized it was on the border of Samaria, and it's one of the purest expressions of the gospel of the kingdom at work, because everything about it, everything about this story runs opposite to how you think influence actually works. 00:15:29.200 --> 00:15:43.120 Jesus could have gone anywhere, he could have gone to Jerusalem, to palaces, to temples, he could have gone to political high points, but instead he goes to a well in the middle of nowhere. 00:15:43.840 --> 00:15:49.120 Samaria, the wrong place, a well, not really the place of influence. 00:15:49.360 --> 00:15:54.480 Influential people weren't carrying water up a mountain to their houses and homes. 00:15:54.720 --> 00:16:06.960 It wasn't the place he went at the middle of the day, a time of day, the hottest part of the day, where people that went to that point were trying to avoid people to connect with. 00:16:12.080 --> 00:16:19.840 She comes down, the woman at the well comes down and she's a Samaritan, and Jesus asks her for a drink, and she says, What are you doing? 00:16:19.920 --> 00:16:22.240 You're not even supposed to be talking to me. 00:16:23.360 --> 00:16:29.680 Jews, Samaritans aren't supposed to even be getting into conversation together. 00:16:29.840 --> 00:16:38.160 And Jesus has an immediate conversion moment at that well, at that time with that individual. 00:16:38.399 --> 00:16:43.680 In fact, he tells her things about herself that she had she didn't tell anybody. 00:16:45.040 --> 00:16:48.480 And he expressed he expressed care for her. 00:16:48.639 --> 00:16:54.000 He shared with her about the living water that if he gives her water, she's gonna get him a drink. 00:16:54.080 --> 00:16:59.120 But if he she gets a drink from him, it's gonna make a big difference in her life. 00:16:59.279 --> 00:17:06.000 And she goes back into the city and she says, You've gotta meet a man who's up by the well. 00:17:06.160 --> 00:17:09.920 He's telling me things that I didn't, I haven't told anybody. 00:17:10.720 --> 00:17:12.559 He knows my heart. 00:17:12.879 --> 00:17:32.400 And that moment, that relational peace, that relational connection, someone you shouldn't have been talking to, in a place you probably should you you didn't have to have been, in a place that was was without uh power at that point, made a difference for that woman. 00:17:33.120 --> 00:17:36.079 And Jesus understood, and he was making a point. 00:17:36.400 --> 00:17:40.319 He said, the kingdom of God doesn't advance through status. 00:17:40.640 --> 00:17:43.759 You don't need people of status to change. 00:17:44.240 --> 00:17:48.160 You just need to be obedient to where the king sends you. 00:17:49.279 --> 00:17:51.039 Where does he send you? 00:17:51.519 --> 00:17:54.480 In To Kapala, to Puerto? 00:17:55.200 --> 00:17:57.600 Puerto Better? 00:17:58.160 --> 00:18:13.279 On a plane somewhere, wherever God sends you, you go, and it's not about people of status, it's about the individual and the relationship and the connection that makes a difference for someone's life. 00:18:13.519 --> 00:18:18.240 And if you've encountered Jesus like this woman did, I'm sure her theology wasn't correct. 00:18:18.400 --> 00:18:38.559 I'm thirsty that few minutes with Jesus hadn't cleared up everything in her life, but at that moment she changed because she had had an encounter with Jesus, and that encounter allowed her to experience the heart of the father and the heart of the king, and that started to change a community. 00:18:38.880 --> 00:18:42.799 So you've got uh Zacchaeus, it's a personal thing. 00:18:43.039 --> 00:18:51.279 You've got uh the woman at the well, it's it's a uh more of a system or a systematic thing. 00:18:51.600 --> 00:18:54.000 Well, what about when it gets a little deeper? 00:18:54.240 --> 00:19:09.759 And so I think about Jesus going across the the sea of Galilee, and he doesn't go across the sea for a crowd, he goes across the other side for one individual, and this individual was a demoniac. 00:19:11.200 --> 00:19:28.319 And the kings like a king doesn't waste movement, a king is always very particular about his movements, and so when the king said, Jesus, go to the other side, Jesus went, I'm on mission, and every step was intentional. 00:19:28.480 --> 00:19:36.880 So when he gets off the boat, he's greeted by a man who literally is throwing himself at Jesus' feet. 00:19:37.279 --> 00:19:49.759 He was broken, he lived in tombs, he had chains hanging from his wrist from chains that were people that tried to hold him down, and he just broke the chains. 00:19:50.480 --> 00:19:56.960 He was isolated from society and he was crying out literally from the tombs, day and night. 00:19:57.120 --> 00:19:59.279 He was living without rest. 00:20:00.079 --> 00:20:03.600 How many of you know that the kingdom of God can change a system? 00:20:03.759 --> 00:20:19.360 The kingdom of God can change a person, but the kingdom of God can also rescue you from bondage and free a community and free people from the bondage that they've uh they've encountered. 00:20:19.680 --> 00:20:25.759 And it's strange, Jesus didn't negotiate with this spirit. 00:20:26.400 --> 00:20:37.360 You know, there uh I I was thinking about this the other day, how a lot of Christians would say, you know, there's Goliath, maybe we should just talk to him and negotiate with him and blah blah blah blah blah. 00:20:37.519 --> 00:20:42.400 And no, well, there's some giants, you just cut their head off. 00:20:43.120 --> 00:20:46.240 And it just displaces darkness. 00:20:46.640 --> 00:20:49.759 There's some things you just have to deal with directly. 00:20:49.839 --> 00:21:06.799 And Jesus saw the state this man was in, knew he was naked and broken and in pain and in torment, and Jesus immediately says, I'm gonna cast out the spirit that is that is controlling you, that legion spirit. 00:21:07.759 --> 00:21:15.839 And he overthrows darkness, he threw it out, and that power it actually changes lives. 00:21:16.400 --> 00:21:27.600 When you walk with the king, when we talk about the glory of God, when we sing about the glory of God, the glory of God is like the trumpet sound that goes before God. 00:21:27.839 --> 00:21:34.400 And it announces his army, it announces his presence, it announces his authority. 00:21:34.880 --> 00:21:38.240 And so the enemy is fearful at that moment. 00:21:38.400 --> 00:21:42.319 When the king comes, darkness has to flee. 00:21:44.240 --> 00:21:44.880 Amen. 00:21:46.079 --> 00:21:49.360 And so the man gets free immediately. 00:21:49.519 --> 00:21:51.120 You've got to read the Bible. 00:21:51.360 --> 00:21:58.960 The Bible's full of these stories that are rich of Jesus' turn over and over. 00:21:59.120 --> 00:22:10.160 You gotta get to Israel, really, and just stand on the Galilee on the side of the Galilee and see how Jesus went to one side, then got back in the boat and just came back. 00:22:10.880 --> 00:22:11.839 Of one man? 00:22:12.880 --> 00:22:15.200 And just think about that for a moment? 00:22:15.600 --> 00:22:18.880 That God cared enough for one man who was under torment? 00:22:19.200 --> 00:22:22.480 And if he cares for that one, he cares for you? 00:22:23.360 --> 00:22:24.799 And you think about that. 00:22:24.880 --> 00:22:26.880 And you think about the power of that. 00:22:27.039 --> 00:22:37.039 And so the man is literally at the next moment, the next stage, the the the you read the story, a lot of bad stuff happened to a bunch of pigs. 00:22:42.319 --> 00:22:43.759 They were gone. 00:22:44.720 --> 00:22:50.400 And you've got pigs over a cliff, and you got all this problem. 00:22:50.720 --> 00:22:58.720 Like all of a sudden everyone's kind of upset because they met, lost all these pigs, but there's the man who's standing there, clothed. 00:22:58.880 --> 00:23:02.319 They gave him clothes in his right mind. 00:23:04.799 --> 00:23:15.519 Sitting with Jesus, free from bondage, free from the pain, free from the from the torment, free from the anguish. 00:23:15.680 --> 00:23:19.360 And so he says, Jesus, I want to go with you. 00:23:19.680 --> 00:23:21.200 Where are you going next? 00:23:21.360 --> 00:23:22.720 I'm going to get in the boat. 00:23:22.799 --> 00:23:24.559 And Jesus is like, Nope. 00:23:25.839 --> 00:23:27.600 But you saw what I had to deal with. 00:23:27.680 --> 00:23:30.480 He goes, No, I'm going to send you home. 00:23:30.799 --> 00:23:31.839 Go home. 00:23:32.640 --> 00:23:33.279 Go home. 00:23:33.440 --> 00:23:36.240 And so that area, it was called the Decopolis. 00:23:36.400 --> 00:23:39.039 There were 10 cities around that region. 00:23:39.279 --> 00:23:42.240 And they were known for their immorality. 00:23:42.319 --> 00:23:44.160 They were known for the darkness. 00:23:44.319 --> 00:23:52.240 And Jesus says, I want to send you to go right back into that place and announce and tell people what I've done for you. 00:23:52.880 --> 00:23:55.920 And at that point, there was freedom in that area. 00:23:56.079 --> 00:23:58.400 Paul later went and visited that spot. 00:23:58.720 --> 00:24:06.880 And it was clear that people have come had come to Christ and that the church had been established in that area. 00:24:07.039 --> 00:24:10.480 Again, Jesus worked with Zacchaeus. 00:24:10.880 --> 00:24:12.960 Jesus worked with a woman at a well. 00:24:13.279 --> 00:24:16.000 Jesus worked with a demoniac. 00:24:18.640 --> 00:24:20.400 You think he can work with you? 00:24:21.519 --> 00:24:26.400 To establish his kingdom, to establish his role in the world? 00:24:26.960 --> 00:24:29.120 It becomes something that's powerful. 00:24:29.200 --> 00:24:30.799 And so Jesus moves. 00:24:31.039 --> 00:24:32.480 He's changing systems. 00:24:32.640 --> 00:24:34.880 He's changing people personally. 00:24:35.039 --> 00:24:41.039 He's changing people territorially through the through the uh the decopolis. 00:24:41.360 --> 00:24:42.960 And then he moves his disciples. 00:24:43.039 --> 00:24:47.680 He says, We're gonna go and and look at how the kingdom is built. 00:24:48.480 --> 00:24:52.160 And he moves his disciples to a place called Caesarea Philippi. 00:24:53.120 --> 00:24:55.759 And it's unique because it wasn't Jerusalem. 00:24:55.920 --> 00:24:58.160 In fact, it was the exact opposite. 00:24:59.120 --> 00:25:07.519 Caesarea Philippi was uh was uh a place where they worshipped the the god of Pan, the Pan flu. 00:25:07.680 --> 00:25:14.640 It's where they committed, they they sacrificed babies into this cave where they called the gates of Hades. 00:25:16.160 --> 00:25:18.640 It was a day, it was a terrible place. 00:25:19.120 --> 00:25:27.680 It was an idolatrous place, it was a pagan place, and Jesus just walks right in like a baller, just like boom, let's go. 00:25:27.920 --> 00:25:34.000 Me and my like I'm the I'm the rabbi, and these are my boys, and we're going in. 00:25:34.559 --> 00:25:37.600 And he walks into this place again. 00:25:37.759 --> 00:25:39.120 You can still go there. 00:25:40.079 --> 00:25:46.880 You see the caves, you sense it in that place, and it wasn't an accidental place. 00:25:47.039 --> 00:25:49.120 Jesus took his disciples there on purpose. 00:25:49.279 --> 00:25:54.240 He says, This is how the kingdom of God is going to get established, it's going to be built. 00:25:54.480 --> 00:26:03.839 And he says, I will build my church, and the gates of Hades will not prevail against it. 00:26:07.519 --> 00:26:11.920 And so what he did not say is just as important as what he did say. 00:26:12.160 --> 00:26:19.759 He didn't say, I'm gonna overthrow Hades, I'm going to take control of this place of Hades. 00:26:20.160 --> 00:26:23.519 No, he says, I'm gonna build a church. 00:26:24.480 --> 00:26:35.440 Build a church, and it doesn't come, the kingdom of God doesn't come by like seizing power, possessing, it comes by building people in the character of the king. 00:26:35.680 --> 00:26:39.519 That's why Romans 8 says the whole world is in anguish. 00:26:39.759 --> 00:26:51.440 It's waiting, it's groaning, waiting for the manifestation of the sons of the king, the sons of God to manifest, carrying the heart of their father. 00:26:52.720 --> 00:27:02.319 The gospel of salvation says you've been brought out of darkness, but the gospel of the kingdom says you're now part of what God is building against the darkness. 00:27:03.039 --> 00:27:09.360 The church is not a defensive entity, it is an offensive entity. 00:27:09.680 --> 00:27:17.200 It's not built for defense, it's built for offense, and the gates of hell will not prevail against the church. 00:27:17.519 --> 00:27:26.240 We will possess systems, possess territories, possess spaces that the enemy has carried. 00:27:26.400 --> 00:27:42.400 And so when I look at this, I look at the woman at the well, I look at Zacchaeus, I look at uh the demoniac, I look at Jesus taking his disciples to a place where he says, I'm gonna build a global church that's gonna impact the world. 00:27:42.640 --> 00:27:52.160 And I think about this gospel, and he's and and Jesus said, uh, in fact, the keys of the kingdom are actually there available for you. 00:27:52.400 --> 00:27:57.360 And what you lock will be un will be locked, and what you unlock will be unlocked. 00:27:58.079 --> 00:28:17.039 But I'm gonna give you access, like keys give access, and I'm gonna give you authority, and I'm gonna give you my spirit that's going to empower you to be able to do great things in the world, and that's why Jesus said, Greater things will you do in my name than I've done. 00:28:17.360 --> 00:28:20.799 I'm gonna believe that for you and for the church. 00:28:21.519 --> 00:28:31.519 So Jesus wasn't there to build a headquarters or a political throne, he wasn't there to build a political party. 00:28:32.160 --> 00:28:36.480 He was just filled, he says, You've got to be filled with revelation knowledge. 00:28:36.720 --> 00:28:45.920 Just like he said to Peter, he said, upon this rock, upon this revelation, that I'm the Son of God, and upon that revelation I'm gonna build the church. 00:28:46.160 --> 00:28:49.120 And that church is gonna make an impact on the world. 00:28:49.360 --> 00:28:57.519 And that impact is gonna be unshakable, it's gonna be unstoppable, it's gonna be immovable, it's gonna make a difference in the world. 00:28:57.839 --> 00:29:07.680 So it goes beyond salvation, it goes beyond the the the moment of the cross is a powerful moment. 00:29:07.839 --> 00:29:25.440 It's that the cross saved us, but but the cross also empowered us to do something uh that that we that can make a difference in establishing his kingdom, heaven on the earth today. 00:29:25.759 --> 00:29:26.400 Amen. 00:29:26.960 --> 00:29:27.440 Amen. 00:29:27.600 --> 00:29:29.600 Would you stand with me for a moment? 00:29:31.600 --> 00:29:34.240 This is how we're gonna change the world. 00:29:34.720 --> 00:29:46.880 This is how life is gonna be affected, lives are gonna be affected, and it's not going to be uh by control, it's gonna be by looking at each and every individual and reaching out. 00:29:46.960 --> 00:29:58.000 I I don't know what your day looks like today, I don't know who you're gonna come in contact with today, but I want you to know that you carry the king in your heart. 00:29:58.960 --> 00:30:11.120 When you receive Jesus, you receive forgiveness, but you also received his spirit that would empower you to go and establish his kingdom in the world. 00:30:11.360 --> 00:30:29.759 And if that means changing systems, if that means affecting relationships, if that means setting people free by his spirit, there's power, there is his kingdom is here to be established in the world, and that's established for each and every one of us. 00:30:30.000 --> 00:30:32.400 Let's bow our heads, father. 00:30:32.640 --> 00:30:34.160 We give you thanks today. 00:30:34.640 --> 00:30:48.079 If you just want to receive that kingdom, that kingdom uh mandate and that kingdom mission, you want to move from salvation, you want to move from salvation to that kingdom living. 00:30:48.559 --> 00:30:53.759 Today, Father, we just open up our hearts and we surrender to you. 00:30:54.160 --> 00:31:00.480 We surrender to your word, we surrender to your will, we just surrender to your way. 00:31:00.720 --> 00:31:18.880 Father, if there are people in our lives who are engaged in systems that are anti-Christ systems, Father, we speak up today, we we we confront today, Lord, individually, just as Zacchaeus was uh confronted, Father. 00:31:19.039 --> 00:31:20.960 We just approach in person. 00:31:21.120 --> 00:31:23.600 We approach by your spirit. 00:31:23.839 --> 00:31:44.480 If if today, Father, is to affect individuals and cities or or darkness, Father, we ask for your spirit to fill us, to overflow, to lead us, to guide us, to to empower us, to do the work of establishing your kingdom in the world. 00:31:44.640 --> 00:31:46.319 In Jesus' name. 00:31:46.720 --> 00:31:49.120 We know that we're not alone, Father. 00:31:49.360 --> 00:31:54.240 We know that you're with us, we know that the king is with us. 00:31:55.120 --> 00:32:14.640 We know that your kingdom is to be established, that heaven has come, and we are all called to be inheritors of this message of the kingdom, inheritors of this grace, inheritors of of uh the the purpose and the call. 00:32:15.039 --> 00:32:35.279 I think, Father, today of our city of Kelowna and our nation of Canada, and we ask, Father, that your will be done in this place, in this city, in this station, your kingdom come in this place, on earth as it is in heaven, in the name of Jesus. 00:32:35.600 --> 00:32:39.680 We don't know how, we don't know how you're going to do it, Father. 00:32:39.759 --> 00:32:47.440 We we don't trust in those systems predominantly, Father, but we know you will lead and you will guide and you will. 00:32:47.920 --> 00:32:51.360 You said that the heart of the king is in the hand of the Lord. 00:32:51.600 --> 00:32:54.559 It flows like a river through your hand, Lord. 00:32:54.799 --> 00:33:07.920 And so we don't know what it looks like, but we believe today, Father, that your purposes are greater and your vision and your dream for this place is even greater than we can dream. 00:33:08.400 --> 00:33:14.799 The kingdom of heaven is at hand, the kingdom of God is here. 00:33:16.319 --> 00:33:20.480 And Father, today we just receive it and we accept it. 00:33:20.880 --> 00:33:33.200 And Lord, lead us as to how to uh how to be active in it, operating as your ambassadors in this great place in the name of Jesus. 00:33:33.519 --> 00:33:34.160 Amen. 00:33:35.200 --> 00:33:35.839 Amen. 00:33:36.240 --> 00:33:36.720 Amen. 00:33:36.799 --> 00:33:39.440 Let's give the Lord a round of applause today. 00:33:39.839 --> 00:33:46.079 The King of Kings, the Lord of Lords, hallelujah. 00:33:46.559 --> 00:33:49.759 We're gonna have people praying up front today. 00:33:49.839 --> 00:33:52.480 We're gonna invite our prayer team to come up. 00:33:52.640 --> 00:33:56.799 If you're here today and would like to receive prayer, we would love to pray with you. 00:33:56.960 --> 00:33:58.799 It'd be an honor to pray along with you. 00:33:58.880 --> 00:34:00.799 We also have communion to my right. 00:34:01.039 --> 00:34:08.000 If you'd like to share some communion today, we're going to uh have communion be led as well. 00:34:08.239 --> 00:34:26.000 And uh may the Lord bless you, may He keep you, may his face shine upon you, may He be gracious to you, and may He His countenance be lifted over you and may He fill you with peace. 00:34:26.399 --> 00:34:27.039 Amen. 00:34:27.599 --> 00:34:28.159 Amen. 00:34:28.399 --> 00:34:33.039 God bless you, God bless you for those who are being baptized next week. 00:34:33.199 --> 00:34:36.559 We'll see you in baptism class upstairs.