Radah Church | 28 MARCH 2021 | KINGDOM LOVE | DR MIKE WODOS SR | #LOVE #RADAHCHURCH #DRMIKEWOODS

Hallelujah. This morning we're going to continue our series on the Kingdom Experience. Say that with me. Say, the Kingdom Experience. Say, I believe that the Kingdom of God is real. Say, it should not just be talked about, but it should be experienced. Amen. So we've covered a few things, and just by way of review, glory to God, uh, the first message we talked about the kingdom message. And I began to one, define to you really what the kingdom was. And just as a reminder, the word kingdom is from the Greek word basilia. Say that with me, say basilia. Basilia means the rule the authority, the influence, or the domain of a king. So when we start talking about kingdom, we're talking about the rulership, the authority, the ability, the resources of the king. And I also told you that if you look at the word kingdom, it's two words. It's king and dom. King again meaning a ruler, a monarch who rules a territory. So God rules not only heaven, but he also rules earth. Yes, he does. The Bible says the earth is the Lord's and the fullness thereof, them and they that dwell therein. So everything is God's. Say that with me, say everything belongs to God. So we discussed in that first message, again, we established that etymology, what those words mean, but we also determined that The kingdom message is the only message Jesus preached. Yes. And here's the problem. It's the least preached message today. Yes, it is. Preachers find themselves preaching about everything but the kingdom. Yeah. Preaching messages on how to keep your blood pressure down, messages on all kind of stuff, psychology and philosophy. I don't know about you, but I believe that the kingdom of God needs to be declared in, in not just in the church, but everywhere we go. Yes. And the message becomes an expression of our lifestyle, how we live. Say the kingdom message. And then we talked about in message number 2, kingdom keys. Kingdom keys. Glory to God. And keys give you access. When you got keys to something, it says you have been trusted with access. Keys to your house gives you access and authority to enter your house anytime you want to. Amen. And anybody you give a key, they got a right to get in when they want to because you delegated them authority when you gave them a key. Now watch this. Keys in the kingdom is the same thing. It gives us access to God's authority, God's ability, God's resources, God's influence. Touch yourself and say, I have access. Come on, say, I have access. I can teach about keys again, but I just can't. I'm not gonna do it. So 3, we talked about kingdom faith. Yes, it's impossible to believe in an invisible kingdom if you don't have faith. Glory to God. We can talk about this and talk about this authority, this wealth, this prosperity, and all that God has bestowed upon us, but if we don't have faith It'll never tangibly manifest in our life because it's an invisible kingdom that is expressed only tangibly when we trust God by faith and realize that God really is ultimately in control. Watch this, the Bible says two things. One, without faith it's impossible to please God. So no matter how many tongues I speak in, no matter how much I pray, no matter how much I worship, No matter how many demons I cast out, the reality is that I do not have faith. I cannot bring pleasure to God. I cannot advance his kingdom because that is the thing that brings him pleasure. Let me tell you what grieves God: doubt. When you— it grieves God to be doubted. His greatest joy is to be trusted. But when we doubt God, it grieves him. And so when things arise in our life, we have to really have faith to put kingdom principles, the word of God, in place. You know what we normally do? We go to our comfortable way of thinking. Yes. And our comfortable way of doing things. And we resort back to our carnality instead of saying, okay, I got all this word, I got all this teaching, I got all this preaching. Let's see if this really works. It takes faith to do that when your bills need to be paid. Yes, come on. And you have to be able to say, okay, I ain't got the money to pay this bill, but the Bible says he will supply all of my needs. Yes. And put that principle to work and believe it and watch it work. I can't tell you how many times faith has worked for me. You can't live any other way. No other way. Oh God, hallelujah. And then last week we talked about Kingdom royalty. Yes. And listen, if you hadn't heard that message, you need to go online, go on YouTube, Facebook, somewhere and listen to it. Yes, hallelujah. Because the reality is, this is where we miss it. So many churchgoers are living beneath their privilege. Because you don't realize you got royal blood running through your veins. Touch yourself and say, I'm royalty. See, you've never seen in the natural kingdoms the children or the citizens of the king living like paupers. If you're in the royal family, you got access to the resources of the royal family. And you shouldn't be running around here lacking and in poverty and broke and sick because you got access to the God that's got everything. Say, I'm royalty. I'm royalty. Say, I got royal blood. I got royal blood. Running through my veins. Running through my veins. So that's what we've covered so far. So today in message 5, I'm gonna talk about what I believe is the foundation, the very foundation of the kingdom. The anointing is the culture of the kingdom. Faith is the structure of the kingdom. But love is the foundation of the kingdom. Yes. So today I'm gonna talk about kingdom love. Mm. The reality is, no matter how deep and wonderful we are, we can prophesy, we can see through walls and muddy waters. Glory to God. We can see, you know, I heard a prophet say one time he could see so good if he tell you the moon made out of cheese, you better believe it. Glory to God. You can see that far. But the Bible said if you don't have love, it profits you nothing. Glory to God. And we lack love so much in the body right now. The Bible said by this they will know that we are his disciples indeed. Because of the love we have one for another. You wonder why people are not coming into the church, getting saved, and giving their life to the Lord like they used to. It's because people in the church too busy fighting and arguing over stuff that don't even matter. Too many isms and schisms in the church. I call isms— I-S-M— isms that separates members. Yes, ignorance that separates members. I'm sorry, ignorance, ignoring the knowledge of God, the love of God. So it separates us. Yes, it does. But we gotta learn to love without dissimulation, without prejudice, because we are children of God. You know, kingdom love is expressed most in how we approach life every day. Yes. See, you have to become a lover of God. The Bible says in Peter that in the last days perilous times will come. Yes. That men will become— no, that was Timothy— that men would become lovers of themselves rather than lovers of God. And we got people now that are very in love with themselves. And social media, I'm telling you, it ain't help people because it gives people opportunity to selfishly love on themselves. And every 5 minutes they're checking their phone to see who else loved them. Gloria, they want to see who liked, who loved their picture, who loved their post. They just scrolling. They can't even function in regular life. I think you got— you, you got people who pick up their phone to do something. Else and end up going Facebook, Instagram, takes them an hour to do what else they picked up their phone to do. Yeah. Then they wonder, who was I supposed to call? Because they got so distracted about wanting to love on themselves and wanting others to approve of that self-love. That's a problem, y'all. I'm telling you right now, it is a problem. Because we need to become lovers of God. Amen. And when people need to see our love for him— so let's move through this. Listen, we gotta have a passion to deeply— say deeply— experience the love and the presence of God in a way that— watch this— we feel like we're partnering with him. Yes, to express his love to the world. I'm gonna tell you something, the world right now, for real, it needs love more than anything else. Now let me say this off the top of this, because some Christians— and I don't call myself a Christian, I'm a kingdom citizen, glory to God, because the Bible never called me a Christian. Yes. Never. You'll never find it. The Bible said it was Antioch they were first called Christians. Yes. If you show me where God called me a Christian, I will start calling myself a Christian. I'm not a religious man. I believe I'm a citizen of the kingdom. And the Antiochs were mocking Christians. Wow. It was a pagan word, and they were saying, look, Y'all, these little Christ following around, y'all crazy. It was a word that connected in its connotation to insanity. It wasn't something that was celebratory. So God never called us that. He said, you're no longer strangers, but your fellow citizens in the kingdom of Christ. I'm a citizen. I'm in the family of God. I'm a son of God. You are a son, a daughter of God. We're in his family. So, but here's the problem with Christians. Christians don't have a passion to deeply love him where they partner with him in a way that the world can see Jesus Christ— watch this— for real. Yes, because really right now what it's seeing is a whole lot of us. And very little of him. But we got to deal with this, right? So what is kingdom love? What is kingdom love? I'm glad you asked. So again, we know the word kingdom is basilia. Say that with me. Say basilia. Get that word in your spirit, because it's influence, it's impact, it's authority. Its wealth, its resources that belong to a king. And you and I as citizens have access to his influence, his authority, his wealth, his resources, and everything he has. We got access to it. So kingdom love is basilia agape. Agape is unconditional love. It's love that has no reason for loving. Amen. It's love that says, I love you for love alone. It's love that says, no matter what you do, I love you. Amen. I may not agree with what you do, but I love you. Because here's what I'm about to say earlier, a few moments ago. A lot of Christians, in the name of love— watch this— think love is acceptance. Wow. And love is not acceptance. Love chastises what's wrong. The Bible said open rebuke is better than secret love. Yes. The Bible said God chastised those whom he loved. You can't tell me you love your child and they get out of line and you don't whoop them. Yes. Lord, as much as I love my grandbaby, Lord have mercy, it just breaks my heart when I gotta pop her. Yeah, I think it hurt me more than it hurts her. But when she get out of line, and I mean, for me, she got a soft spot in my heart. I— everybody else, I'll be getting mad. I said, y'all whooped her too quick, let her do it a little more. What was a little slower than that? Glory to God. You whooped her too fast. Glory to God. Just, just let it, man. They can't take it. Especially her uncle. He— 30 seconds, pop. I'm like, come on, man, give her a chance. Glory to God. Give her a chance to get it right. But at the end of the day, it hurts me. Yes, because— and you know, my mama, she's the woman that's gonna hurt me more than hurt you. I'm trying to say, how in the ham sandwich is this gonna hurt you? More than it's gonna hurt me. Y'all hear me? You— I'm the one on the receiving end of this belt, this switch, and you tell me it's gonna hurt you more than it's gonna hurt me? No, it's hurting me more, ma'am. But I get it, I understand it, because you understand if you spare the rod, you spoil the child. So I said that to say we love everybody. But just like God, we hate sin. Y'all ain't got to talk to me here. We— I'm gonna say again, we love everybody, but we hate sin. We hate it in our lives, and we hate it in others' lives. So we love the homosexual, but we hate the sin that they commit. We love hoes. Y'all not talking to me here. But we hate the sin that they commit. We love lesbians. Y'all not talking. But we hate the sin they commit. We love the transgender with their confused self. We just hate the sin, amen, that they commit. And we realize that the love of God is more, more powerful, yes, than the demon that influences people to sin. Yeah, so when we preach against it, we're not preaching against it because we don't love you. Quite the contrary, we're preaching against it because we do love you and we want you to be saved. Hallelujah! And we want you to get to heaven. Yes, we understand that there's something bigger than the pleasure you get by following after your sensual and sexual perception. Amen. All you gotta do is open yourself up to experience the love of God. So basilia agape says I love you in spite of. So if you are gay, we got to love the gay. Y'all not talking. We got to love the queer. We gotta love the— I don't even know how all them alphabets, L, B, G, F, I, whatever it is. We love all of them. We love them. But what we want is we want salvation to enter their heart. And they're no different than the whoremonger, right? They're no different than a liar. All sin is sin. And if we're gonna go by the book, we got to call sin by his name. So we gotta learn to love. Married people don't understand agape. If you can't walk in the spirit of agape, you never need to be married. Amen. Because marriage will challenge agape. You have to be willing to love your spouse for love alone. Some of these men married these women that were size 2 when they got married. They were, they were a straw. Y'all not talking— I don't know what, what you can put on the side too, a straw, just literally. But, but now, glory to the name of God, they don't gain a few pounds. They went from a 2 to a 16, 2 to 18. And their love is in question. The question is, what were you loving? Yes, because you can fall in love at first sight and not know what you loving. Amen. Y'all not talking to me here. That's what grown folks— you can see something you love with your physical carnal perception and not know what you're loving. That's why you got to slip past the outer casing. That's right. And fall in love with a person's heart. So then when something that they do challenges your love walk, you can say, I love you with agape. Yes, because watch this, things change. Oh my God, financial conditions change. See, a lot of people that get married, they don't have agape, they have eros. Eros is erotic love or need love. Eros is Greek word that says I need you, and as long as you supply my needs, I love you. I'm here as long as you're doing what I need. That's erotic love. The moment you stop doing what they need, they're out. Oh, you don't need nobody to love you like that, because a better word is I need you than I love you. I know I don't have some folk in my life that said they love me, but the reality is they really did love me. They needed me because the moment my capacity decreased and I was not able to do the things they anticipated that their love was predicated on, I didn't see them no more. See, real love says, I'm down with you like 4 flat tires, and no matter what happens, you my bottom chick, you my bottom dude, and we going to get through this and we going to win. Yes, hallelujah! Are y'all hearing me? Amen, son. Say kingdom love. Kingdom love. Kingdom love is the love of God expressed from God to his family. Yes. Hallelujah. And that— and then watch this— when the family receives it, it overflows from the family to the world. It's not kingdom love until it flows into the world and others can experience it. Let's go. Y'all say, well, preacher, where your Bible verse this morning? I got you, I got you. Stay right here. John 3:16. This is the foundation of Kingdom love. Y'all remember John 3:16, don't you? If you never read a verse, you read that one. Glory to God. Hallelujah. If you never remember a verse, you remember that one. Hopefully, through the Holy Ghost and the auspices of the Spirit this morning, I can give you an insight perhaps, to John 3:16 that you have not had before. It is again the foundation of kingdom love. There is no kingdom love without this verse. Amen. Let's read it. The Bible says, for God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish. Powerful stuff, man. But have eternal life. I love it. So let's take a close look. Let's take a deep dive this morning into this kingdom love, and let's just look at what this foundation is, is as it relates to John 3:16. First of all, he says, for God's For God— let's start right there. For God. For God. The first part of this foundation is God. You cannot have kingdom love without the King. The King is the foundation of kingdom love. For— oh, this is so powerful. In other religions, the gods command the people to love them. But in this kingdom, Our King says, I love you whether you love me or not. Oh my God. Matter of fact, our King says, I loved you before you loved me. Yes. Hallelujah. He first loved us. He's the foundation of this. So we got to understand that God is everything. Matter of fact, yeah, I hear you, Lord. Go to 1 John 4 and verse 8. Let's get this, y'all. Said the King, the King loves me. Come on, y'all say it. Said the King loves me. I need you to grab it. He loves you for real. Yes, he does. And he wants nothing but the absolute best for you. Amen. God have mercy. Well, every time I think about his love, I want to just lose it because he loved me, but love alone, in spite of me. Nothing about Michael Woods surprises God. Nothing about you surprises God. And he says, I'm gonna choose to love you in spite of you. And I'm a king, I'm the King of All Kings. Isn't that big? Some people won't love, and people get bent out of shape because a human don't love them. Man, please, are you coming to this relationship? You'll never get bent out of shape by the piece of flesh loving you again. Oh, y'all ain't got to help me. I'm just telling you the truth. Folks all bent out of shape because the marriage on the rocks. The problem is you ain't had the King in the marriage in the first place. Amen. If you put the King in the center of the marriage, glory to the name of God, even when you want to leave, you can't because that love will be so strong. Yes. And you'll find a way to work it out. 1 John 4:8. I'm sorry. The Bible said, whosoever does not love does not know God, because God is love. Yes, I'm gonna say that again. Who— oh boy, I'm gonna read it one more time because it's just all right to read the Bible. Whoever— that means whoever. Yes, it don't matter who you are. He says, if you do not love, you do not know God. And then that's why you got these people out here saying, oh, my God tells me to be a terrorist and blow everybody up and kill myself. No, that's impossible. You don't serve the God I serve because he don't want you to die for him. He dies for us. He said, if you don't love, you can't know God. That word is transliterated agape. If you don't have agape, if you can't love without condition, he said you don't know him. It's a lot of folk go to the church that don't know him because there's more hellcats in church. Y'all ain't talking to me here. And hateful bitter, mean-spirited people. And it's sad to say that we're supposed to be kingdom people, the ecclesia, yes, the called-out ones, called out of the system of the world, and you can find the meanest people in houses of worship. That's right, that's the truth. Let me tell you something, I fought my major battles Not with worldly folk. Y'all ain't got to say nothing to me. I've had my biggest fight with church Negroes. Lord, I want to say something else, but I'm at the end. I'm saved today. Glory to God. I want to say it. Glory to God. But I won't say it for the politically correct folk. But at the end of the day, y'all know what I want to say. I fought my biggest battle with church Negroes. Yes. Because church folk have a tendency to, instead of walking in eros, in agape, they walk in eros. And they need you as long as you fit their religious mold. But do something that comes short of their religious expectation, they'll fry you like a piece of Church's Chicken. Y'all ain't got to say nothing. They'll dip you in that grease so fast. Glory to God. And you wonder how in the world this one loved me yesterday. My Lord. And check it out, I'm gonna give you an example. This is Palm Sunday. The Bible said Jesus today on Palm Sunday in history, Jesus rode in on a donkey. They're waving palms, they said, Hosanna, Hosanna, King of the Jews. Honoring him. Yes, come on, Apostle. And the same Negroes, yes, they were waving the palms. Are y'all hearing what I'm saying? And praising his name. Thursday, put him on the cross. And, and, and just, just, just for the record, preachers, don't put Jesus in the grave on Friday ever again. Because the preacher be preaching, he died on Friday, and then Sunday morning he got up. That can't happen. The Bible said he was in the grave for 3 days. How you in the grave for 3 days and you go in on Friday night? Friday evening to Saturday evening, one day. Yeah, y'all ain't got to talk, so that can't work. So let's stop doing it. But later that week, yes, the same ones that were praising him was killing him. Yes, that's— I've been through that. I've had in my Mississippi church, church full of people, I'm paying their bills, got them out of jail, cast devils out the children, saved their marriage. Y'all not talking to me here. And the moment I fell short of their expectations and made a mistake, Joker started putting up their finger, going out the door, finding them another church. And you just don't know how that feels, that sting of people walking away when you've been nothing but loyal. Y'all ain't got to say nothing to me. But the church has to learn agape. Yes, yes, we do. Especially we got to be an example in marriage. I keep hitting this, I don't know why. Maybe somebody's gonna watch this that's going through something that's marriage, they're trying to get a divorce. All right, see, we— divorce is too easy. Y'all ain't got to say nothing. So somebody burned their toes, I'm getting a divorce. That's crazy, man. Burnt toast, you're getting divorced. Y'all don't believe it. I've seen it happen because really it was something that was brewing beneath the surface before the toast got burnt. Something they never addressed in love. They all— they were planning their exit for a long time. But when you really got the love of God You find a way to fight for the covenant. Yes, you do. He says, if you don't love, you don't know God. That's it. That's heavy, man. He said, because God is love. In essence, you can't escape love because you can't escape God. So Running away from love, living the opposite of love, is living the opposite of God. We gotta love without condition. The King is the substratum of kingdom love. He's our greatest example of what it looks like. This text shows us. Let's keep reading. He said, for God— so he's saying the King is the, it's the beginning of love. The King is the beginning of love. So let's say it again. Say, the King is the beginning of love. So watch this. So for the King so loved. So his second piece to the foundation, love is a verb. So loved means that he took action. He did something. Ain't no need saying you love somebody, ain't no action behind it. Love has a language and it's verbs. Love has an expression, that's action. You can't tell me you love me and you never show me. That's it. I can't say to my wife I love her, I never show her I love her. That's it. I'm lying. I almost rather hear people say say nothing and just do it than say I love you and never show it. That's right. Oh, that's, that's crazy because that's so hypocritical, especially to live with somebody that's constantly, oh, I love you, I love you, I love you, and they ain't never cooking, they ain't never washing. Y'all won't clean up the bathroom. What? I thought you loved me. Y'all hear me? My stomach is suffering. Glory to God. And you walk around here hollering you love me. Glory to God. No, man, you need to get that together. Love is action. I remember, uh, Prophetess TJ buried her dad, and I was kind of— it was a couple of years ago. I was kind of knee-deep in that, the whole process, praying for him before he died, and text her back and said, "Daughter, love is a verb." Yes. And that's it. That's why I did what I did. I didn't do it for pay. I didn't get paid, wasn't trying to get paid. I did it because of love. See, we gotta check our motives. Why do we do what we do? That's the truth. Some people don't really love you. They got a motive to take what you got. Hoo-wee! Let's go. Okay, let's look at it. Let's go to Romans 5, verse 5. I'm almost done. Just sound long. Romans 5. Oh Lord. And verse 5. Say, love is action. Love is action. It says, and hope maketh not ashamed. We are filled with hope, y'all. Yes, the moment you got saved, the spirit of hope infused your life. Yes, you know what hope is rooted in? Love. Now abide these three: faith, hope, love. The greatest of these three is love. But the moment you got saved, one, you were infused with faith, and you grow from faith to faith, but you also got hope. Hope is hopostasis in Greek, and it means a vibrant, passionate expectation. Oh boy, touch yourself and say, I'm full of hope. See, you should never not be expecting something when you live under the banner of the love of God, because his love is always active. He's always trying to progress us through love. He's— oh my God, he's always trying to make us better through love. So the Bible says that we walk in hope, we won't be ashamed. Question is this morning, what are you hoping for? You feel the hope, but what are you looking for? Do you have this escapism mentality where you're just trying to get out of earth and go to heaven? You ought to have some hope for some kingdom progression in the earth. You ought to want to see the things of God manifested in your life. Hope maketh not ashamed. Romans 5:5, watch this: because the love of God— hear this— is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given to us. So when we receive the baptism in the Holy Holy Spirit. Watch this. What happens now, the Bible says that the love of God begins to cover our heart, and then it becomes shed abroad, which means it goes from us into others. Yes, because the Holy Ghost doesn't come just for us to operate in gifts. And have wonderful, amazing services under the banner of the Holy Spirit. I'm not so much impressed— I've been casting out devils for 30 years, I've been prophesying for 30 years. I'm not impressed with gifts. What impresses me is our ability to love outside of the church building, our ability to be so in love with somebody that needs the gift outside of church. I say to prophets all the time, when the last time you prophesied to a sinner? Yes. When the last time you had compassion and loved a sinner enough that God gave you a word for the sinner? I'll be in Walmart, God will speak to me something for someone. I'll be in a restaurant, God will speak to me something for a waitress, and I'll tell them what thus saith the Lord, not to be seen, but so the love can be shed abroad out of love so they can hear what the Lord said. The Lord. He said this love ought to be shed abroad in how we treat people. Kindness, how we act. 37, say love. Love. It must be shed abroad. It must be shed abroad. It's action. It's a verb. God so loved. Kingdom love is always active, is always moving. All right, I'm moving. Number 3. Well, that was number 3. No, I'm sorry, that was number 2. Number 3, watch this. He said, for God so loved the world that he gave. So here's the other piece to the foundation: kingdom love gives. Yes, you can't tell me you love God and you're not a giver. You can't tell me you love your spouse or your significant other and you don't give to that situation. And I'm not just talking about money. Anybody that comes into any relationship that did not come to give, they came to take. I'll say that again. If you didn't come to give, you came to take. But everybody ought to show up the table to give something. Yes, because that's the nature, that's the fiber, that's the substratum of Kingdom love. It's always trying to give something. Do you realize when you become a lover in that sense that every time you give, by default you receive? Yes. Hallelujah. People who are always asking for something and never receiving, it speaks to their life of giving. Wow. You— I discovered this when I was walking in those realms where I was not giving like I should. I was not giving to people, I was not giving money like I should, I wasn't even giving them my time and my talent like I should. I wasn't giving myself the prayer like I should, but I was always asking God for something. But as I have matured over the years, I spend very little time asking for stuff. That's right, because my giving life supplies what I need. Oh, that's for grown folks. Y'all ain't talking to me here. Because people spend time on me, Lord, give me this, Lord, I need this. Listen, I wanna fellowship with him. So the time I got, I wanna seek him. The scripture says, seek ye first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and the things would be, oh boy. He said, you ain't gotta ask for 'em, I'm just Adam. So you seek me, spend time with me, love on me, Give yourself to me. That word seek is zito in Greek. It means to pursue hard after with uninterrupted focus and intentional sacrifice. Hallelujah. So seeking God, I have to seek him with intentional sacrifice. Oh God, I gotta give something. He said if I do that, I got to ask him for a Bentley. I'll slip you one. Yeah. I'll just add it to you. So if I seek him, I'll slip you a Bentley. I'll slip you a debt-free $1.8 million house. Just come after me. I'm telling you, it works. I know it works. Glory to God. But loving in the kingdom says I'm giving something, and by default I receive. Yes. Are y'all getting that? Yes, sir. Go to Romans 5:8. Hallelujah! Glory to God! Thank you, Jesus! Let me show you how this thing works with God. And while you're going there, Romans 5:8, let me say this: we will never, as kingdom people, reap a harvest in a field where we have not sown. I'm gonna say that again. If we're gonna take over the world, we gotta sow doctors and give doctors as a seed to the medical kingdom so that doctors can arise and take their throne in that kingdom. We gotta sow politicians in the political kingdom. So kingdom-minded, Holy Ghost-filled politicians can rise up. We gotta— so, oh yeah, I'm talking economic people in the economic kingdom so we can reap a harvest. We got soul educators in the education kingdom. We gotta plant kingdom-minded people in the world through love. And we got to do it with that intentional mentality that we come to take over. Yes, because we should be running the earth, not the world. That's right. Romans 5:8, let's read. But God demonstrates— oh, there it is, action— given his own love for us in this: while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us, yet sinners, yet sinners. Harmisia, harmisio in Greek, which is a sinner, one that misses the mark, coming short of the glory of God. So while we were living a life coming short— I know some people ain't never came short, but this is for those of us that have. Glory to God. For you perfect people out there, this ain't for you. But for us that understand what it means to be a sinner, yes. And that's why, you know, y'all stop saying in your testimony, oh, thank the Lord, God delivered me from a miserable life of sin. Oh glory, it was so miserable. Sin wasn't miserable, y'all. Sin was pleasurable. I could think of some sin that'll take your whole check. Are y'all hearing me? I think sin will make you pay more than you want to pay, stay longer than you want to stay. And if you've been there, you, you, you can, you can put perspective on this, that while you were missing the mark— see, this ain't valuable to people who still in sin. Come on, you still living in sin, this ain't really valuable to you. But it's valuable if you have missed the mark and you understand that while I was yet sinner, he didn't wait till I got it right. The Bible said he died for me anyway, knowing everything he knew I was doing, was going to do. He said, I'm gonna die for him anyway. Because this is how I love. So that when people look at him, they can see the kingdom love. When, when people look at her, they can see the love of the kingdom because they know the only way they could have got out of that is that through my blood that I washed them and cleansed them and made them whole. And now we could testify that while I was a sinner, I'm telling you right now, and I prophesy to you now, we're going to see a day where we're going to see see the people that God already died for. Yeah, that are in sin, they're gonna start coming to him. Yeah, let me say this here. You— there are people now who are drunks, who are alcoholics. I'm telling you now, Christ already died for them. Don't judge them. Give them a minute. They're about to come to Jesus. There are people that are strung out on crack. Y'all not talking to me here. God already died for them. Oh, don't judge them, just give them a moment. The blood is coming their way. Lord have mercy. Oh my God, there are prostitutes and whoremongers and homosexuals who God already died for. I'm telling you right now, if you're living in sin, I want you to be very clear, God already died for you. All you gotta do is surrender and give your life to God. And I'm telling you, they gonna start showing up at the church and we gonna look at them and say, man, he used to be used to be a drunk, now he's a deacon. She used to be a crackhead, now she's a preacher. Oh, y'all not talking. She used to be a prostitute, but now she's living holy. I wish somebody give God praise for the love that gives, the love that sacrifices. I don't know about you, but I was a wretch undone. I was on my way to hell and enjoying the trip. Y'all not talking to here, but the blood of Jesus. He shed his blood and gave his life, and on Christ, the solid rock, I now stand. All other ground is sinking sand. I dare not trust the sweetest plain, but holy, on Jesus' name, I'm saved, I'm sanctified. Anybody else in here? Saved and sanctified and full of the Holy Ghost. If you're saved, give him glory! He died for us while we were yet sinners. Y'all sit, I got to get through. Sit, please sit. Thank you, God. Somebody ought to thank him for dying for you. Hallelujah! Thank him for dying for you. We give you the glory, God. This is for peace of this foundation. I got to go, y'all. I didn't mean to preach that hard, but there's something— I get joy, like the old mother say, when I think about what he's done for me. Glory to God. You don't know like I know what he's done for me. I wish I had some help here. Glory to God. He— I can't talk for you, but he's done great things for me. Glory to God. And it's marvelous in his sight. Thank you, Lord. Here's the fourth piece. I got to move with this kingdom. Thank you, Lord. The kingdom love requires belief. Yeah, it's for God The King so loved the world— action— that he gave sacrificial giving. Yes, that whosoever believes on him— you got to believe it works. Yes, somebody say believe. See, kingdom love— oh boy, here we go— when it is fueled by belief Watch this, y'all. It eliminates impossibility. My God, the reason we inadequately handle impossibility and things that appear impossible is because we really don't believe. But when you really believe Impossibility has to bow at the feet of your belief system. Belief is so powerful. You gotta believe your business can be successful. Hallelujah. You gotta believe you can have a happy marriage. Yeah. You gotta believe your children are blessed. Yeah. You gotta believe that God will give you a debt-free car, debt-free house. He'll eliminate your You gotta believe it. Yes. Hallelujah. I'm telling you, welcome. Thank you, Jesus, to the season of possibility. I, I came this morning to announce to you that if you walk in kingdom love, you'll never view anything as impossible again. I'm gonna say that one more time. If you walk in kingdom love For real, my God, you will never view anything as impossible again because you'll know I can do this because he loves me. Yeah, I can handle this because he loves me. Touch yourself and say, he loves me, he loves me. Let me show you. Y'all don't believe it? Go to Mark 9:23. I'm getting out of here. Hallelujah! Jesus, I love you! You know, I'm married to one of those people that when we watch movies— so we was watching a movie last night and 2 minutes into the movie, here come the sleep demon on her. Sleep my child, sleep my child. So I'm like, I'm like, okay, y'all. So I just start, I really didn't watch the movie neither. I started praying and I started putting this message together. So while I'm sitting on the sofa, supposed to be watching the movie, she sleep. The Lord's talking to me, glory to God. But yeah, that's interesting. I mean, anybody else's spouse? I mean, the person that do it, just go, we go to the movie, she's like, why are we here, Jesus? And you know, because I didn't want her to beat me down, I took a selfie of us on the sofa last night, was about to post it and just ask the question, anybody else go through this? 2 minutes into the movie. Jesus, glory to God. Mark 9. Yeah, I know you're tired. Appreciate the effort. Thank you. Mark 9:23. The Bible says Jesus is talking. He said, if you can, says Jesus. I'm gonna pose that question to you right quick. If you can, if you can, if you can find it in yourself to follow these instructions of Jesus Christ. If you can, said Jesus, Mark 9:23, everything is possible. Yes, for the one who believes. The word believes there is pistuo in Greek, pistuo, which means absolute reliance. Total confidence in, total loyalty and commitment to an entity, a person, a place, a thing without wavering. Posture means I am totally relying on my belief system. I am absolutely confident that my belief system works. I am totally dependent on what I believe. So Kingdom Love says, I believe in the system of the kingdom. I believe the Bible as the infallible word of God. I believe I can do what it says I can do. I believe I have what it says I have. I can go where it says I can go. Oh, I can be what the scripture says I can be. I believe the word of God. Oh God, I believe God is King of Kings and he's Lord of Lords. I believe I'm the head and not the tail. I believe I'm a lender and not a borrower. I believe I'm above and not beneath. I believe I'm blessed in the city, blessed in the field, blessed when I come, blessed when I go home. I believe with his stripes I am healed. I believe that one day Jesus died for real on a bloody Yes. Hallelujah. And he rose again from a grave with all power in his hand. I believe the word. Do you believe it? Yes, I do. The scripture says everything is possible. Yes. To the one that believes, which is individual. I can't believe for you. Your greatest example of faith can't believe for you. Yes, you got to believe it for yourself. Yes, you got to employ this system in your life. Yes, I said, God, I believe it against all odds. I believe what you said, come hell or high water. Yeah, I believe what you said. Yes, God. Sink or swim, live or die, I believe what you said. Yes, Lord. Go under or over, Lord, I believe. Yes, that's right. What you said. What you said. In or out, up or down, I believe your word. Yes, you may. And I know you cannot lie. Yes, God. Belief. Yes. Removes impossibility. There's a partner in my company, one of the companies I'm in, and this young man is 22 years old. He hit one of the ranks in the company where he's now making $250,000 a month. He's 22. I said, Lord, I need that additional stream in my life. How you do it? You know what the Lord said to me? Believe. He said he believed in himself. He believed in the system that the company teaches. He denied any way to doubt and he believed he would accomplish it. And in one year he went from, I think he was doing $50,000 a $100,000 a month to $250,000 a month. Hallelujah. It's belief. Yeah. Because belief says anything's possible. Yes. Are y'all getting this? Yes. There are no limits when you believe. Amen. So you know, I've set my goal. There's a, there's a rank in the company of $750,000 a month. Oh my goodness. And I said to God, That's what I want to hit. Glory to God. That additional stream in my portfolio would be wonderful. You know what the Lord said? You can. Believe. He said, just believe. It's going to remove impossibility. Yes. What are you believing for? That's Kingdom love. If you believe, you know he love you enough to honor your belief. Yes. And he cannot lie. Hallelujah. I'm outta here, y'all. Thank you. Number 5 is the 5th piece of this kingdom love foundation. Y'all ready? Kingdom love is eternal and it defeats death. For God so loved the world Notice right there, he said he loved the world, not the church. He loved the world, the whole world, not just the church. That he gave his only begotten Son. Yes, sacrifice his only Son, that whosoever believes— watch this— should not perish but have eternal life. Kingdom love eliminates death. See, death for the person that's in the kingdom and walks in kingdom love, even when you leave this body, death is not a period that ends life. It's a comma, it's a semicolon that continues you into the next life. You live forever. Yes. Now if you die wrong, it's still a karma. Gloria, you, you gonna go— you gonna live forever somewhere. You just gotta decide if you're gonna walk under love. Yes. Or are you gonna walk under hatred? Yeah. Are you gonna live in rebellion to God? Yes. Because if you die, you'll perish. Yes. Which means you have eternal death. You'll constantly be dying every day and you'll feel the pain of that death. People say, oh, well, how could God be so loving and send people to hell? That's not how that works. The Bible says that hell enlarges itself. Hell is a prepared place. For prepared people. People who go to hell, God doesn't send them there. He's preparing it for those that rebel against his love. His love. He ain't sitting in heaven, this mean, angry God, waiting to throw people in fire, uh, like Thanos, and waiting to kill. He's— that's not him. God is a loving God, and he wants to share his love with those that receive But those that don't, they have an eternal home. Those of us that do, we have eternal life. Yes, right. Now let me shed some light on that, because many times in this text, that's what we look at it as. Oh, I received the love of God, I'm going to heaven. But eternity should be experienced not just when we get to heaven. We should be living from heaven to earth, from kingdom to earth, and we should be experiencing eternal principles while we're on earth. Yeah. Eternity, the pattern of the things of heaven should be existing in our life while we live here. Listen, the Bible says that heaven, again, watch this, you got streets paved with gold. You got trees, they got leaves on them. The Bible said the leaves of the trees for the healing of the nations. You got rivers, a lot of things we got, right? Yeah. The only difference in heaven and earth— watch this— is God. Yeah, he reigns. He lives there, that's his home. Yes. But watch this, we can have heaven on earth too. Yes. If that's the only difference, because God can live in us and he can live in our everyday existence. Yes, and he wants eternity to live in us. Yes, I want to come to life that's so eternal in nature that when it's time for me to die, yes, eternity is so heavy on my life that my body won't die. That's for grown folks. I'm telling you that you can live through death. When your body is deteriorated to the point where your body said, I don't want to be anymore, but your spirit man kicks in and say you live and you keep going because you still have purpose. I want to live so that I have to ask God to bring me to heaven. Yeah. Hallelujah. Okay, God, I'm tired now. Let me come on. I'm ready to go home. Are y'all here? Everybody's gonna die. Yeah. But the Bible never said you had to die at a certain time. Matter of fact, Enoch was translated. The Bible said he lived until he was not. He did not see death. He went from earth to heaven. Elijah was translated. Yes, Bible said Elijah caught up in a chariot of fire in a whirlwind and God brought him to That's it. Elijah knew he wasn't gonna die. He told Elisha, just stay with me because you're gonna see me go up. Yeah. Oh, what? I want that kind of life where I can say, look, y'all just stay with me, you're gonna see me go up. And one Sunday I'm in here, I'm gonna say, this is the day, y'all just keep looking. What would y'all do? Glory to God. Y'all just probably faint. Did they come here and find some folks just laid out in this room? Oh my God, what happened to y'all? The preacher just disappeared. We don't know where he at. We've been teaching y'all that it's possible. Yes, it is. 'Cause God wants us to have heaven on earth. Yes, he does. Come on, say it. Say heaven on earth. Heaven on earth. See, you know when you live from an eternal worldview? Yes. An eternal perspective where you don't view the world through the eyes of the world. Hallelujah. And view your life through the lens of the world, but view it through the lens of heaven. Yes. Everything looks different. Coronavirus look different. Your money problems look different. Your family looks different because you look at everything from an eternal perspective. Let me read this last scripture. Hebrews 8:5. The Bible says they serve at a sanctuary— NIV— that is a copy and shadow of what is in heaven. I want that to be the testimony. We start a new church here, of this church. This is the 8th church I planted, but I want this to be the testimony of this church, that they serve at a sanctuary that's a copy and a shadow of heaven. That means when people come into this sanctuary, I want them to experience heaven. Yes, I want heaven to superimpose itself upon our worship experience. I don't want people to say, I just, I went to church and it was okay, the word was okay. I want people to really experience heaven. Yes, how do we get there? We get there through fasting. Yes, we get there through prayer. We get there through consistent corporate unity that seeks the same thing. We don't want religion, we want heaven on earth. We want to type a shadow in here of what's there. Oh, that's good, man. Watch this. The sanctuary of your life, that's a sanctuary too. It ought to be a shadow of what's in heaven. Your life should look like what God says your life ought to look like. You don't want to see yourself the way God sees you. Yes. Hallelujah. Oh boy. Hallelujah. I love the Lord. Yes. He says it's a copy and shadow. Yes, it is. Of what is in heaven. Then he said, this is why Moses was warned when he was about to build the tabernacle. Yes. See to it that everything be made according to the pattern Mm-hmm. Shown to you in the mountain. So everything we do on the earth, we ought to be doing it as a pattern of the things in heaven. Watch this. Everything that manifests in life is the result of a pattern. Yes, it is. I'll say it again. Everything that manifests in life is a result of a pattern. If you have a successful marriage, there's a pattern that couple follows for that marriage to be successful. You have a successful church, a successful business, there's a pattern that makes it successful. If you have a failing business, a failing church, a failing marriage, there's a pattern that caused that. If we want to see heaven, we got to get the combination. The word pattern in Greek there means the combination that unlocks it. I already talked about keys. We've been given the keys. was that what we bind on earth bound in heaven. So we bind up religion, we bind up everything that's not like heaven, and then we loose heaven on earth. We loose the pattern, we loose the revelation. I don't know about you, but I don't want church as usual. I don't want life as usual. I want heaven on earth. Y'all stand, I'm done.