A Resurrected Kingdom | Dr. Mike Wood, Sr. | 3-31-24

Well, praise the Lord, and grace and peace be multiplied to you from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Happy Resurrection Sunday and welcome to our Sunrise teaching this morning. I am Dr. Michael Lyris Woods, and listen, if you're scrolling, stop right here because I want to really disseminate some information that I believe, uh, is going to bless you and open up your understanding to really, uh, why Jesus Christ resurrected from the dead. I'm super excited to teach this today. Listen, if you're just joining us, glory to God, Uh, please, by all means, share this whether you're joining us live or by replay. I promise you, uh, this teaching is going to make a deposit in you today that you're able to take into the rest of your life, literally. Did you hear what I said? The rest of your life, uh, literally. So we're going to jump right into this. Glory to God. Um, I'm, I'm super happy and super excited about opportunity to open our eyes even the more to what this day is really about. Uh, this holiday season, uh, that we celebrate in springtime, honestly, is probably the most important holiday of them all, because without between our celebrating the birth of Jesus and the resurrection of Jesus, uh, both have great significance. But without the resurrection of Jesus Christ, there's no power, there's no authority, there's no ability to live for him. Glory to God. Really, and experience and encounter heaven on earth. What makes the God that we serve And again, he's the King of Kings, the Lord of Lords. Indeed, King of Kings, Lord of Lords is the fact that he actually historically died and actually got up again. So stay with me today, guys. Um, I'm gonna drop this like it's absolutely hot, and I promise you, um, glory to God, We're going to be glad that we receive this today. Praise God. Uh, let's pray. We're going to pray. Listen, again, if you're joining us, uh, please guys, do me a kind favor. I need you to share this. Uh, if you're here, I know it's early, uh, comment below, say hello, and say, hey, how you doing? Glory to the name of God. Uh, we're streaming right now over 3 different Facebook pages, YouTube, Twitter, uh, and even Instagram. So however you're joining us, guys, uh, let us know you're here. Glory to God. And I'm glad that you're here this morning. I know it's early again, but yes, it's an act of to get up and pray early, study early, seek the face of God and worship early. It's an act of discipline, glory to God. And it's an act of desire and hunger to wanna start your day this way. So I'm appreciative that you are here, glory to God. Let's, we're gonna pray, praise God. And we're gonna jump right into the heart of this, man. I'm, I'm loving— glory to the name of God— what God is doing for and through us. Praise God. Let's pray. Father, in Jesus' name, we thank you for your goodness. Yes, God, we thank you for your grace. We thank you for your mercy. We thank you for your kindness, your favor. God, without you, we are nothing. It's in you we live, it's in you we move, it's in you, God, we have our being. And this is a truth because indeed you did get up from the grave. And the clarity that we've gained from scripture is that you got up from the grave— yes, God, I thank you— with all power in your hands. And so we thank you that not only did you, uh, come forth out of death with power, you have passed that power on to us, your children, to emerge victoriously from trouble, from pain, from situations, from tests that come our way. So Father, we thank you that even as we teach this morning on this, the day where we commemorate your resurrection, where we celebrate a fact, not a figment of our imagination, that you actually live. Hallelujah! He lives, he lives. Christ Jesus lives today. He walks with me, he talks with me. A long life, narrow way. He Lives, he lives salvation to impart. Ask me how I know he lives. He lives in my heart. You are alive in us, God, and we thank you for being alive. In Jesus' name, amen and amen. Uh, again, a pleasant good morning, guys. Again, if you're here, say hello, you know. Glory to God. I know you might be wiping the cold out of your eyes. Glory to God. But this is the day the Lord has made. Please say hello, let us know you're here. Glory to the name of God. Hallelujah. And please, by all means, guys, do us the favor and share this encounter. Praise the name of God. Um, all right, so let's— again, let's, let's get into this today, man. Um, I believe, uh, God literally wants to share something with us. So let's go to Luke 24, uh, 6 and 7, which will be the foundation of this teaching today. Again, uh, to accept the resurrection of Jesus Christ, um, it's, it's a very important piece for the believer because this indeed, as I said earlier, is the line of demarcation between, uh, our quote-unquote religious idea and other religions, uh In the religion we have coined as Christianity, our God dies for us and then he is raised again from the dead for us, that we can display the power of resurrection throughout our life in every situation. Um, in other religions you find man dying for God. And at the end of the day, while we crucify our flesh to walk and talk with God— here it is— uh, the ultimate price to have relationship with him has already been paid. Uh, so Luke 24, guys, I'm gonna read 2 verses here, uh, verses 6 and 7, and we're gonna jump into this, okay? Uh, Luke 24, verses 6 and 7. Glory be to God. God is good. He's a good God. Hallelujah. Ah, thank you, Jesus. The Bible says this. It says, he is not here, okay, but is risen. Remember how he spake unto you when he was yet in Galilee, saying, the Son of Man must be delivered into the hands of sinful men and be crucified, and on the third day— hear me— rise again. And again, here we find ourselves, uh, another year, another day, celebrating this piece of history that is found in Luke 6 and 7. The reality is Uh, just to bring you up to speed on, on, on this conversation, verses 6 and 7 is an angel who's at the tomb of Jesus. Listen to me, who says to Mary when she shows up at the tomb, you know, why are you looking for the living among the dead? He ain't here. Glory to God. And, um, Because the reality is Jesus was actually buried in this place. Hear me. And, um, he was gone. He had risen as he said. Uh, he— verse 7, the angel said, I just need you to remember something. Remember Jesus said to you that he would be delivered into sinful man, men that didn't know who he was, men that came short, men that missed the mark. Hear me. And but on the third day, he would rise again. So we find here fulfillment of scripture. We find here again human history. I need you to hear this because this is important. And listen, your ability to receive this and believe this is going to be your ability to manifest the power that comes with this very act in your life. Oh God, I'm gonna let you go where you can get ready, iron your Easter suit and all that stuff today, but stay with me. Glory to God. I want you to understand something today, that the resurrection is not about— watch this— simply Jesus rising. But the resurrection is actually about a resurrected kingdom. Oh yeah, it's about a resurrected kingdom. Glory to God. And I need you to grasp this today. It's about understanding that the resurrection of Jesus Christ is one of the most refuted events in history. I need you to grab this. You know, people fight this because the validity of this— listen, it causes every other school of thought, every other religion to be eradicated. It makes every other religious idea null and void. So they fight it. But the thing that has been reserved for the believer is that the Holy Spirit— hear this— lives in us so strongly, so so powerfully. Glory to God that we have an opportunity not only to experience history but manifest history right before the eyes of the people that watch our life, our growth and development in Christ. Listen, Jesus Christ is the King of Kings. He's the Monarch of Monarchs. And this event, this human history, is what makes this true. Glory to God. Can I share with you for real? The resurrection of Jesus Christ makes all other religions obsolete. Hear me. Hey, God bless you, Pastor Montgomery. Good to see you, man of God. Yes, sir. This— the resurrection makes every other religion absolutely, categorically obsolete. Here's a reality, man. Here's a reality. If Jesus did not get up for real— hear me— we should stop having church, turning on organs, beating drums. We should stop preaching sermons. All the things we do are in vain if indeed— listen— Jesus Christ did not emerge from the dead for real. Hallelujah! But I'm here to tell you, he got up for real. He's alive for real. Glory to God! So let's get into this. Let's get into this. Let's get into this. So I want to first of all help us understand, because we throw this word around— glory to God— resurrection. We've been throwing around for years, and a lot of people really just don't understand what it is, okay? And the scripture says, in all you're getting, getting understanding. So, um, I'm not going to tune up this morning, but I am going to teach this word to you, uh, so you can get a clarity about, you know, what this historical event really is. So first of all, let's get a working definition of resurrection. Can we do that? Uh, the word resurrection by definition is a coming back to life. Hear this. So again, this is a historical event. Jesus really was dead. He came back to life. He died and came back to life. So again, if this happened, it makes Jesus supreme over every other god. I don't deny that Buddha is a god. The Bible says again, Jesus is the God, big G, of gods, little g. He's a god of the little g gods. Hear me. What makes him the Big G? Hallelujah! What makes him Big G? Hear me, is the fact that he came back to life. It also means— the word resurrection means a coming back into practice. Oh my God! Which means, I want you to remember this, he didn't just come back to life with a heartbeat lungs and breathing. But the fact that he got up put everything that he stood for, every thought that he implemented, every— oh my God— idea that he disseminated— he came back to life so that these things can remain in practice. So Jesus didn't get up from the grave for us to walk around here dumbfounded, and like a bunch of heathens, and like people who— glory to your name, God— who don't even realize that we serve the resurrected Savior who's in the world today. He walks with me, he talks with me, alongs life's narrow way. Oh my God, he lives, he lives, salvation to impart. Ask me how I know he lives. Again, he lives in my heart, because inside of me is resurrection power. And we're going to learn this in a minute. They should be putting that into practice. Hear me, saints of God. Oh boy, he's alive. I'm telling you this, you know, when I was a little kid, I learned about the resurrection of Jesus. Uh, I would go— there was this bus that would come through the community where I lived with my mom. Um, Dave Wilkerson had these Sunday school buses, and I would go to Sunday school on these buses and learn about the resurrection of Jesus Christ. And you know, I didn't have a thorough understanding of it as a little boy, but I remember clearly— a matter of fact, the Holy Spirit brought it back to my mind last night very vividly— uh, how I would on Easter Sunday morning, on Resurrection Sunday morning, I wanted to imagine what his resurrection was like. So what I would do, just lacking understanding, I would go to the window and look outside early, and then they would talk about things like sunrise service and things like this. I'm looking to see, okay, well, is he gonna get up? Are we gonna see him going up into the sky? I'm just a little boy. You're trying to imagine him, you know, going from earth to heaven. It wasn't really what it was about, but that was my thought process. Really, it's about him coming into practice in us and coming back alive in us, being alive from a dead state to be resurrected. Uh, here's some synonyms of resurrection: rebirth, resuscitation— hear me— returning to life, rising from the dead. Watch this— revival. Yeah, restoration. So whenever we see real revival— I'm not talking about the preacher coming to the church and preaching 5 days, uh, sermons— but I'm talking about revival where people come back from a dead life of sin and they're resurrected into new life for real, and they fall passionately in love with Jesus Christ. Hear me, guys, I, I'm almost done, I really am. Uh, another synonym is reanimation. It's, it's salvation, it's transformation, uh, is, is renaissance. Glory to God. It's transmogrification, which means you come back from being mortified and you're transformed again into life. Hallelujah! That's what it means to be resurrection. So here's a few things to understand when we read that definition. Number 1, there could be no resurrection without death. We're gonna, we're gonna discover a lot of things today, uh, so stay with me. Number 2, all the elements of Jesus's passion are widely accepted. Watch this. Among religious and lines. His birth is accepted, his life is accepted, his death is accepted, even his burial is accepted. But there's a high lack of acceptance of the fact that Jesus actually was resurrected and ascended. He says, because again, acceptance of this fact eradicates all other religious schools of thought, and it— oh my God, today— and it singles Jesus out as the Lord of Lords, as the King of Kings, as the God of Gods. God, I love you today. I love you. I love you. Thank you for the resurrection. Glory to God. So again, that's what resurrection looks like. So what is a kingdom? That's what we're talking about, a resurrected kingdom. Let's, let's break this down, man. The Greek word for kingdom is basileia. The word basileia means order, it means authority, it means rule, it means domain. God. So the order, the authority, the rule, and the domain of Jesus when he got up from that grave came alive. Oh, we— when Jesus got up from that grave, his authority came alive. Oh boy, good God. And it came alive where? In us. Those of us who believe. I gotta go. We're gonna get into this. So can I submit to you that Resurrection Sunday, or as many term it, Easter— I won't get into the paganistic things surrounding Easter, not, not important right here because we can spend a lot of time on that— but I will say It's not about bunnies, eggs. The reason there are eggs is because this is a paganistic idea— Easter, not resurrection— that emerged from the god of fertility. Oh boy, who is again a lesser god. And people worshiped eggs. Bunnies came because the bunnies gave birth to these eggs that brought fertility, and people prayed to this actual Astaroth, or this Easter god, uh, to be fertile, to give birth. And we know that's paganistic. So again, we won't get into that, but let— I want you to see a contrast here of how the world can be so deceptive to take our eyes and our focus off Jesus and the real authority of the resurrection and the real purpose behind him resurrecting and create this fanfare with pastel colors and eggs and bunnies and grass. And, you know, at the end of the day, um, you know, did I have fun growing up doing Easter egg hunts? Yes. Did it have anything to do with resurrection power in me? No. All right, so I'm not knocking anything anybody does. If this is, you know, what you choose to do to entertain, uh, your children, or if you're using this draw people to the cross, that's, that's your thing. All right, I personally, you know, I'm not into, you know, that. I'm into introducing people to the resurrected King that's inside of them so that they can be a living expression of resurrection and kingdom that moves through them. Oh boy. So in every kingdom— I gotta go because I need to lay this backdrop to where I'm about to be. Good morning everybody, if you're showing up, uh, again we're streaming live here today over, uh, 3 different Facebook pages, YouTube, Twitter, and Instagram. However you're joining us this morning, welcome! Glory to the name of God, we're glad that you're here and that you decided to wipe the sleep out of your eyes and stop scrolling and really learn something about— glory to the name of God— the resurrection of Jesus Christ. Good morning, Sharon Quinn, welcome! Good morning, young lady, good morning! Listen, In every kingdom, there are 3 elements. Again, I'm laying a backdrop, and we're gonna get into this resurrected kingdom. So again, we broke down what resurrection is. Now we broke down what a kingdom is, but I want to further show you that inside of a kingdom, you got 3 distinctive elements. So understanding this is going to help us realize that inside of a resurrected kingdom, not only— hear me, guys— does Jesus, um, come alive in us. But these three elements, inclusive of him, come alive in us. So the first element, of course, is the king. If you look at the word kingdom, the root is king. You cannot have a kingdom without a king. Anyone that says they are part of a kingdom, they got a kingdom, and they are not a king, they're lying. Every kingdom has a king. This is an important piece, and a king influences and impacts the— oh my God— the values of the kingdom personally. Hear this. So the king in the kingdom impacts the values of the kingdom personally with his values, his morality, his lifestyle. And his entire principles and laws. Watch this, until the people begin to reflect his lifestyle. Whew! So Jesus resurrected so that you and I can reflect his lifestyle, his authority, his morality, his domain, so that we can reflect his constitution, what he stands for. So this is why he resurrects in us. Number 2, listen to me. In every kingdom— listen, hear me, guys— there is a domain. It is the physical place where the king rules. All right, let's look at Psalm 47:7 real quick. Psalm 47:7. You'll find these words: for God is the King of all the earth. Listen to this: sing ye praises with understanding. So wait a minute, God's domain, we are clear, is heaven, and people would like to leave him there. But his domain through man— hear this— he created man in his image and likeness on earth So man could have dominion on earth, so man could be co-rulers and an extension of his rulership, a reflection of his rulership and authority on earth. So again, you— I mean, you can have the bunnies, the eggs, the Easter baskets, the pageantry, you know, you can have that. This thing is about a domain and a king resurrecting, coming alive in me and you, you and I, so that we become a reflection of his kingdom on earth. God, oh God. Listen, I'm gonna let y'all go. You got your Easter suit, okay? I'm gonna let you go, all right? But I just need you to understand, this is not something that should be occurring one day of the year, we should be a reflection of dominion, authority, instead of it being the flip way where the world is ruling. Are you hearing me? And the systems of the world are in charge financially, mentally, professionally. There's a guidepost that has been set by the world that many believers follow instead of accepting the reality that you'll hear the rule. And the resurrection further proves— hear me— that dominion is not Plan B, it's Plan A. We should be in charge. We should be in authority. That's why our whole ministry, Rother Church, uh, Rother Alliance, the— my businesses, the Rother Group, all of these things are born out of the idea that we are here Ooh, I feel like running this morning. That we are here to rule. I dare you, touch yourself, say, I'm here to rule. Oh God, this is about the resurrection of a domain. Hear me, guys, inside of you. I'm almost done, I promise you. So in every kingdom, there's a king, there's a domain, and then 3, they're also citizens. So you and I are the citizens— hear me— of the kingdom. Hear me, hear me, hear me, family. Let me lean in here. You and I are citizens, and what a privilege to be citizens of the kingdom of God. I didn't say citizens of the United States. Of course, we have dual citizenship. In our humanity, we are citizens of the United States. Or if you're watching this from another part of the world, listen, you're a citizen of whatever country you've been given citizenship in, the him— in your human state. But also our home country. We have dual citizenship, and our main citizenship is heaven. Oh wait, oh my God, good God Almighty, we're, we're citizens, we're citizens, we have citizenship. And what does that mean? That means that God chooses his citizens, because watch this, in a kingdom, the king chooses citizens. I have friends in England and I have friends in kingdoms or commonwealths in the world where, uh, these areas of the country are act— or the world are actually ruled by actual kings. And their testimony is that they had to be chosen for citizenship by the king. They just didn't get citizenship like we do under democracy in America just by being born there. They had to be chosen, because once they're chosen, two things happen. Number one, it is the responsibility of the king to take care of the citizen. So the king has to determine that the citizen is worthy of his care, of his provision. And then number 2, the citizen has to be sworn in to carry out the duties and the decrees of the domain. Or— and watch this— to be a reflection of the king. So when resurrection happens in the spirit realm. Glory to God. And we become— see, you're not a church member. Don't let somebody just reduce you to being a member of a church or being a Christian. You're a citizen, and you are born again. Glory to God. To be a reflection of the King on earth, a reflection of his domain, his constitution, his authority. You know what God does through his citizens? He rules— listen to this— the seen world, the world we see with our eyes. Oh my God. From the unseen world. Oh boy, oh boy. I'm telling you, God wants to resurrect the kingdom, man, and he wants it to resurrect in us, his citizens. Oh my God, I'm so glad you got up to hear this, this early this morning. I want to put something on your mind. You weren't just born again to jump, shout, speak in tongues, prophesy, spit, blow bubbles, roll in the floor. You were born to be a reflection of the kingdom of God in the earth realm. My question to you is, when you leave church, how do you show up in the world as a reflection of him? Good God, I gotta move. Go to John 15:16. Some of y'all say, okay, well, Apostle, show me, show me how I'm a citizen. I will. John 15:16 says this, it says, you did not choose me, but I chose you. He chose you because that's what a king does. A king chooses citizens and appointed you so that you might go forth and bear fruit, fruit that will last, and so that whatever you ask in my name ask me, the Father will give you. See, the King of Kings, the Lord of Lords, Jesus Christ, he was resurrected so that those of us that he chose can go into the world, bear kingdom fruit, become a reflection of him. See, watch this. One type of fruit is the winning of souls. But then another type of fruit is the advancement of dominion, where we literally begin to take our place and operate in full authority, full control. When we begin to control the wealth of the world, wouldn't it be something that when the world got in trouble, when governments got in trouble, they came to the kingdom of God to be bailed out for help? That Would you believe it if I told you we could create a multi-trillion dollar economy in the kingdom? I don't have time to teach about that today, but we can. We have the resources available, but most of all, we have the God who owns everything— I just read it earlier— who's the King of the Earth on our side. Glory to God! And there's nothing we can't conquer. We should be employing people versus them employing believers. I'm gonna say that again: believers should not be the employees, you should be the employers. We should own banks, we should own schools. I, I'm not just talking about one school next to our church, I'm talking about school systems, universities, where we are deploying into the world kingdom citizens who've been trained to operate in dominion. So a resurrected kingdom, we pull it all together, is what we have termed in Greek as the ecclesia. See, the word church in the— oh my God— New Testament of the Bible is the Greek word ecclesia, and this word means called-out ones— hear me— or citizens. Okay, citizens. Ecclesia is the citizenship. Hear me. Who will defeat religion and advance the agenda of the kingdom. Watch this. To give the world infallible proof. Are y'all hearing me? Infallible proof. That Jesus lives. See, that's what we're here to do, to be a walking reflection example of the kingdom of God so that the world can see living proof that Jesus is alive. Glory to God. Again, do what you want to do with the bunnies and the eggs. I'm not into that. But listen, I'm telling you right now, what I am into is us taking over the world. What I am into is us being citizens that take control and full authority every single day. A lot of people don't want to hear this because they've grown comfortable with the bunnies and the eggs. They've grown comfortable with the pageantry of Easter versus resurrection. And the reality is this thing is born out of a brutal crucifixion. Glory to God. And we all take that serious. He died so he can get up for us, so we can rule, so we can be in full authority. So let me jump into this. Main points here. I, I— that's enough introduction. Somebody said, Apostle Woods, that's a lot of introduction. I know, I just needed to lay a backdrop because we're talking about a resurrected kingdom. So what must I do to live out the realities of a resurrected kingdom? What must I do to really be a walking, talking reflection of the King, the one that's in me? Hallelujah! The one that— where his throne is in heaven and in my heart. That's amazing that he's so omnipresent. He could sit on the throne in heaven and sit on the throne of my heart. That, that's amazing. He— and he actually does do that. And this is why we also have dual citizenship. Glory to God, because he's omnipresent. Oh my God. Oh, I gotta go, I gotta go, I gotta go. So how do I live this out? How do I become this reality of the domain of citizenship? I'm glad you asked, because grasping the idea that the resurrection of Jesus Christ is not just a historical event alone, although it is history, it is history that's written, oh my God, in the Constitution of Heaven. You know, there are a lot of people, again, they try to refute the canonization of the King James Bible, of scripture, but this word is alive. You can't refute that. You can't refute when the tenets of scripture have actually come alive and worked in the lives of so many people. So understanding that it's not just a historical event but actually the resurrection of a king and his desired way of life for his people is one of the ways that we live this. You gotta accept the fact that a king really lives, and he really lives in you. John 11:25-26, Jesus said to her— are you ready? I am the resurrection, listen, and the life. He that believeth in me, though he were dead— hear this, glory to Jesus— yet, listen, shall he live. And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. Believeth thou this? So here's the first way we have to express a resurrected kingdom, and this is the first tool we need to implement in our life, we got to believe that the King actually got up. Why are you saying this, Apostle? Because most of the people in the church— we're not even talking about sinners right now, I'm talking about people that actually go to church, people that actually say they're born again— they don't actually believe that they are alive spiritually. Because he's alive. You know, they believe their heart is beating because they get dressed, you know, they go through religious motions, they go through the process of worship and all the things that happen in a church, and they proclaim, I'm a Christian, but still dead because they're not encountering resurrected life, and they're not encountering resurrected life— uh, oh my God— dominating life. Oh, because they don't believe. Jesus asked a very profound question here in John: Believe thou this. Do you believe it? He said, if you believe in me, you'll never die. Okay, so here's what separates the men from the boys, the women from the boys and girls, you got to believe that you are eternal. God have mercy. And that you have eternity living in you, not after you die, not in the great by and by, not when you, uh, walking around heaven all day, as the song said. I don't know if they're gonna be much of that because I think the kingdom is about work, it's about advancement, it's about the glory of God, it's about a way of life. Glory to God that we're preparing for now by being kingdom people. The reality is you got to believe that you'll never die. You can't fear physical death. God, because you're eternal, you're eternal. Being. Glory to God. You make the most of your life on earth and you let eternity flow through you. And eternity ought to be flowing through you with such power, with such authority, that every person that encounters you, they encounter the eternity that flows out of you and through you. This is no religious thing. People throw religion around and sometimes it just makes me sick. Everybody wants to cry, everybody wants to pray, everybody wants to appear to be spiritual, but when you check the fruit of their life, they really have no heavenly flow. I'm telling you, when the resurrected Jesus resurrects in your life, you begin— you become dominant in your family, you become dominant in your finances, your faith is dominant, and you begin to move with a boldness and an authority that's not of this world. Oh God, oh my God, oh my God, oh my God, oh God. I'm trying to stay calm because I want to get through this. Glory to God. Listen, Oman, yeah, God, I give you glory. You ought to Understand the King is really alive. His kingdom— again, his— the king, the domain, citizenship has emerged in you. Embrace it. Believe it. Listen, when you in— when you operate in kingdom, your finances never die. I confess every day I'll never be broke another day in my life. I confess every day I'm a billionaire. I confess every day I have dominion in the city. I have dominion in the field. I have dominion when I come. I have dominion when I go. I am the head and not the tail. I am above and never beneath. I am a lender and not a borrower. I am creative because the Holy Spirit lives in me. Listen, that's resurrection life. Oh my God, today not bunnies, Not eggs. It's Jesus alive for real. Heaven flowing through us. Listen, John 7:38. If you believe on me, as the scripture has said, out of your belly shall flow rivers. Of living water. I got to get through here. Glory to God. Hey, Shemaiah, good morning, Apostle Britson. Glory to God, good to see you, woman of God. But you got to believe this, you got to believe this. The resurrected King is alive. We can't just go through religious motions, we got to become a reflection of heaven through us so that the world experiences heaven on earth. Glory to God. Number 2, so again, how do you live out the realities of this resurrected kingdom? First one, again, you got to realize that the resurrection was not just a historical event. While it was, it was not just that. You must accept that it is the resurrection of a king and his way of life for you and I, period. It should go from the tomb— glory to the name of God— to the womb of your spirit. From the tomb to the womb of your spirit. People said the other way, from the womb to the tomb, in, in, in essence of sharing some type of commitment that I'm committed to you unto death. I'm not kicking against that, but what I am saying when it comes to Jesus is from the tomb where he resurrected to the womb of our spirit, where resurrection continues in our life. Glory to God. Oh, I gotta get out of here, man. I gotta go. Number 2, so if you're going to live this out, you got to understand that the resurrected kingdom operates— watch this— outside of the fear or the realm of human limitations. So when you really tap into resurrection and you allow the kingdom to be resurrected in you— hear me— all the limitations that were imposed upon your life through the systems of the world are now lifted. Oh God, oh God, oh God, oh my God. There are no limits in him. Resurrection power is not governed or controlled by natural law. The resurrected kingdom is governed by Jesus Christ, the Holy Spirit, who is the governor of the kingdom. I am tired, God, I got to get out of here. I got 10 minutes, guys. Jesus, help us today. Go to Acts 4:33. I want to show you the kingdom law of resurrection. See, the kingdom law of resurrection says I have no limits, I have no Boundaries. I cannot be controlled by worldly systems and structures, but I am controlled by the King in his kingdom. Acts 4:33, watch this. The Bible says, with great power— the word power there is exousia— with great authority, the apostles continued to testify to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ. And God's grace was so powerfully at work in them all. Listen to this. God's grace— charis in Greek— which is his favor, uh, his blessing. Hear this, his free gift that empowers us to move boldly, to move in authority. But here's the catch here. The apostles give us a clue on what it means to remove limits. And what it means to have grace powerfully at work in us. So grace is not just to forgive our sin, it's to work powerfully through us. It's not just to be used for an excuse to sin. Charis is a gift that empowers you toward righteousness, that empowers you toward kingdom living. Hear me, hear me, family, hear me. It empowers you toward kingdom living, a kingdom lifestyle. It's the grace that does it. But the key to experiencing that— hear me— and that life without limits where you can flow in and out of the power available to you from heaven and manifest that power on earth— hear me— and let those rivers of living water like we just talked about in John 7:38 flow out of you for real, so that others, when they encounter you, they don't encounter you first. It's a river that precedes you. So when you show up, you don't walk in the room first. The river walks in. The river flows in the door before you, and everything that's about to happen behind those doors, whether you're going to a business meeting, whether you're going to a hospital room, home, whether you're going to a classroom, where you're walking into your business, the river goes through the door first and every person encounters that living water first. But you got to continue to testify, to be a testimony, a monologue about the test. That's what testimony is. We overcome him by the blood of the Lamb and the word of our testimony. A monologue about the test. The word testimony is also martus in Greek, which means to literally be a witness through death. So to die to the old system, the old way, and embrace the system of resurrection removes limitations and gives you the power and authority of heaven working through and with you at all times. Oh my God, I feel like running. I'm telling you, I feel like running because I've seen it with my own eyes. This ain't just something I'm teaching. I've seen it with my own eyes. I've seen it with my own eyes. Oh glory! Hey, yeah, yeah, yeah. I've seen him do it. I've seen him heal. I've seen him deliver. I've seen him touch my finances and resurrect it. I've seen him make ways out of no way. I've seen it with my own eyes. I've lived it with my own life. Glory to God. I gotta get out of here, guys. Go to 1 Corinthians 2:4. He said, and my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power. Again, so when we embrace the words of the kingdom, good God, and we— our speech is kingdom speech. Listen to me, and we're saying what the King says, and we're reflecting what the King has done. Glory to God. Good morning, Tracy Bender, welcome. Glory to God. When we're saying what he says, glory to and we are longing for what he longs for. The Bible says here— oh my God, this is, this is, this is great, man— that our life now is exchanged for a demonstration of the Spirit and of power. There's that word again, exousia, authority. Of course, the Spirit is— oh my God— Zoe, which is the God kind of life. Which is God flowing out of us. I just told you that the resurrection of the kingdom means God flowing out of you. It means, glory to God, the authority of the living of God coming alive in you, removing burdens, destroying yokes, opening doors, taking authority, taking dominion. We ought to be— oh my God, demonstrating this. I've been a revivalist most of my life, and I've traveled, God, to 4 continents because of the gospel. I've seen great moves of God. I've preached in one setting at one time— true story— to almost 100,000 people, and I've seen great revival. But here's the revival that we've missed. It's the revival of dominion. It's the revival of his domain. It's the revival of citizenship where we actually show up in the world— hear me— as citizens of God's kingdom, and we begin to take control. Good God. And take authority. And the world will know through our demonstration, not just when we lay hands on the sick and they recover. We got to keep doing that. We got to keep prophesying and it comes to pass. And notice I said prophesying and it comes to pass, because it's not enough just for you to prophesy and be a false prophet and nothing you say never comes to pass. That's, that's not, that's, that's not a good witness. We got to keep demonstrating gifts of the Spirit. Yes. But we got to show up in the world and exemplify the kingdom. And then there should be a revival of resurrection in the world. There needs to be an emergence of children of God, citizens of God, the family of God that converges on the earth and takes over. We literally, for real, cannot take sides with the world. We must take over. I'll say that again. We cannot take sides. Their systems are inferior to the systems of the kingdom. And the moment you prioritize the system of the world over the system of the kingdom, you have set yourself up for failure. You've set yourself up to lose. You've set yourself up to never really experience the benefits in its optimal state of walking with God. I want more than what religion gives. I want more than what a church service gives. I want to see the witness of God's people in the earth. Why is it that worldly people are the only people that build amusement parks and build great billion-dollar companies, Fortune 500 companies? Why is it that 97% of all of the wealth in the United States is controlled by 3%? And watch this, that 3% controls all the wealth and employs the other 97% to help them build the wealth. We should be moving in authority. We should be moving in power. I'm almost done, guys. Stay with me. I got a few more moments. Here's a— here's, here's number 3. So number 1, if you're gonna live out the realities of a resurrected kingdom, number 1, you got to believe that the resurrection was not just a historical event, but The resurrection of a king and his desired way of life for his people. Number 2, you gotta believe that the resurrected kingdom operates, operates outside of human limitations. So when you're in a kingdom, doctors may cannot cure cancer, but the healthcare system in the kingdom can. Yeah, there are no limits. Hunger, poverty, these issues in the world can be solved through operation in the kingdom properly. There are no limits. So, so number 3, here we go. You cannot live in the realm of a resurrected kingdom if you don't know— hear me— know the king. The word know— there are basically two transliterations of the word know in Greek when you read them in the New Testament. One is the word orda. The word orda is absolute perfect knowledge. It's knowledge that can't be changed. It's knowledge that cannot be reversed. Uh, let me give an example. 1 1 2. Knowledge, glory to God, that cannot be changed. I don't care, you, you can leave this place, glory to God, but when you leave, 1 1 is still going to be 2. It's ordo knowledge, it's absolute. I know my wife Felicia in a biblical sense. I know her. Knowledge cannot be changed, glory to God. It's— I know her, she knows me in a biblical sense. That's what ordo knowledge is, absolute absolute knowledge is knowledge that has been resolved and cannot be reversed. Hear me, you got to know the King in this way, but it doesn't happen unless you have gnosis knowledge. See, gnosis is the other side of knowledge. It's the— it's— watch this— it's knowledge that is gained through a process of relationship and experience. So the more I spend time with the King, every time he shows up and manifests himself— glory to God— every time he brings me out of a crisis, every time the kingdom operates in my life for real, I, I get a level of order knowledge that cannot be reversed because it goes beyond what I read. It goes beyond what I hear the preacher say. I know it. Just touch yourself, say, it's in the knowing, it's in the knowing, it's in the knowing. You got to know. That's what relationship is about. People always say, I'm not religious, I'm relational. But how can you be relational and you don't know God? And, and you don't know God just because you went to the altar, repented of your sins, got in the baptism pulled, got baptized, got filled with Holy Ghost. That's not knowing God, that's receiving him, that's accepting him. That's a, that's a step toward relationship, but late relationship is fostered deliberately and strategically through communication, through time spent. Okay, let me give you some word. Philippians 3:10, uh, The Apostle Paul says that I may know him and the power of his resurrection. Yeah, so I want to know him and the power of his resurrection. It's very important. This word know here is orda. I want to have absolute knowledge of him so nobody can change my mind. No Muslim, no Hebrew Israelite, uh, screaming, um dead man's knowledge that— are you hearing me— that has no fire, that has no power, that has no life to it can convert me because I know him. Not only do I know him, I know power. I stood toe-to-toe one time with a Hebrew Israelite, and you know, they're very studious, very knowledgeable of scripture, in particular Old Testament scripture, uh, He didn't realize I was too, uh, that I've been a student of the Bible most of my life. But outside of that, I also understood that the letter killeth and the spirit makes alive. So everything that he began to state about the word, I, I wasn't debating word. I was proving what he said through spirit and encounters to the words that he was speaking, because all he had was letter, but he had no encounter. He had no power. Glory to God. He had a wealth of knowledge in scripture but no real presence in the world, no real authority, no real influence. And the reality is God wants us to know the power of his resurrection, so you won't believe that he actually got up until you experience it and encounter it. He said, and the fellowship of his sufferings and being made conformable unto his death. So it's important to know him. It's important to go through the process, the crisis. I did a live last night, just impromptu, about going through crisis and not cursing your crisis. I'm almost done, guys. I've been live an hour and 4 minutes. I got to get out of here. Hallelujah! Thank God for the resurrection. I pray you've gotten some out of this word today. Listen, you cannot live in the realm of a resurrected kingdom. Come on, if you don't know the king. So the lordship of the king is confirmed— hear this— by the obedience of the citizens to the constitution. So when I'm obedient to what the word says and I see the manifestation of the word coming forth out of my life The King and his kingdom is confirmed. I become again a reflection of that, and people come to Jesus not because of some religious thing, but because of power, because of the reflection of the shadow that we're casting. Oh my God, knowing the King is another thing about advantage to knowing the King. Gives you legal access to the King's resources. That's why when he chooses you, he knows that— he knows that you have a right to everything he has. Oh, you have access to his Commonwealth, which is the shared wealth in the kingdom. That's why if you go to England, you'll see signs say the Commonwealth of England. You go to the Bahamas, the Commonwealth of the Bahamas, because the wealth is shared among the citizens. How about the Commonwealth of the Kingdom of God? We have access to it through the resurrected power of God. There's no excuse for being broke except you don't believe. You got to believe that when the King moves in He moves in with his stuff. He moves in with his resources. Guess what? We have access to the healthcare system of the kingdom of God. With his stripes he took for us, we are healed. Yeah, you just gotta believe the Constitution. See, here's what I know. We know the king. Hear me. You embrace his culture. You don't reject this culture, you embrace it. I'm coming to a close, glory to God, I really am. And I'm gonna pray for you, glory to God, that this will manifest strongly in your life. So stay with me, I'm almost done. You embrace his culture. His culture is his values, is that we share with him. It's his attitudes, it's his goals, it's his practices. We embrace those things that he institutes through his word. We don't try to change them. We don't start talking crazy like we got to write another the Bible to justify human life. Come on, man, we don't have to do that. You know, you got groups out here and communities who want to be a part of the church, but they feel like in order to make them feel comfortable, they need to change the Bible to do that. And listen, if you gotta do that, then maybe you need to closely examine the lifestyle because you're not embracing the practices of the King. He has set a constitution in place for you, and we got to walk it out. Last thing, the resurrected kingdom— here we go— is proof. Watch this, are you ready? And I'm closing with this. The resurrected kingdom is proof to yourself, to the world, to those watching you, that the worst thing— here it is— is not the last thing. I'm gonna say that again. The resurrected kingdom is proof that the worst thing is not the last thing. Oh my God, I don't care what has happened, you can rise from it. You can get up. Let's go to Acts 1:3 to show you proof. He said, to whom he showed himself alive after his passion by many infallible proofs. Being seen of them 40 days and speaking of the things pertaining to the kingdom of God. Now he proved to them, hey, the worst thing was my death, but it wasn't the last thing. He, he, he, he, he was infallible proof Ah, that I'm the Lord of Lords, I'm the King of Kings. And when he rises in you, it will be infallible proof that he's alive. God, what a mighty God we serve. People will see the kingdom in you. You are living proof. That Jesus lives. Let's pray. Father, in Jesus' name— I'm not done, I'm just quitting— I pray for every person that actually made the sacrifice and got on live. God, do something special, Lord, for them. And Father, I pray that your resurrection power would emerge in their life. I pray for every person that will watch this video by replay. Do something special for them. Let them be a reflection of the King, of your domain, and of citizenship. God, give us the resurrected power to show up in the world and take control, take authority over everything that's not like you. In Jesus' name, amen, and thanks be to God. Hallelujah. Listen, you are a part— glory to God— of a resurrected kingdom. Listen, I want to very quickly— we're getting out of here— challenge you guys as you head out to worship service today. I want you to plant a special seed— glory to the name of God— into the kingdom today. The ways to give are on the bottom of the screen. I want to challenge you guys today literally, if this word has blessed you, whether you're live or by replay, you know, people struggle with giving online, but the scripture does declare, if I communicate to you spiritual things, you should communicate your natural things. And God put it in my heart, matter of fact, just while I was praying, to challenge you, glory to God, to give. I need every person— listen to me, say everybody, everybody under the sound of my voice to get a seed faith offering in the ground right now as you're hearing this, of $100, a resurrected seed. Put it in the ground. The ways to give are scrolling at the bottom of the screen. Listen, get it in the ground. Nothing leaves heaven until something leaves earth. It's more blessed to give than it is to receive. And listen, you can't even multiply your finances and resurrect them until that seed falls to the ground and dies, and then it brings forth fruit. Put that seed in the ground, sow it into this word, sow it into your dominion, sow it into the authority that God's going to cause you to move in. Get your $100 seed in the ground right now. Listen, I love you guys so much. You know, my— I'm praying that the power of the living God God will be a resident part of your life every single day. And Father, right now, every gift and every giver, return it back to them a thousand times more, even as they're sowing it now. In Jesus' name, amen. And thanks be to God. I love you guys, man. Heaven smile upon you is my prayer. You guys have a super Resurrection Sunday. As a matter of fact, Just go ahead and live a resurrected life. Again, the ways to give are on the bottom of the screen. Make sure you get your seed in the ground. I love you guys. Y'all be blessed. Peace.