The Story of a King, Part 3: "Born to Restore" | Dr. Mike Woods, Sr. | 8 December 24

of glory. It's the Lord God, strong and mighty, mighty in battle. Let the king come, let the king come. Let the king of glory come. Come on, the worshipers are worshiping. Who is the King of Glory? Who is the King? Lift up your head, O ye gates, and be ye lifted up, ye everlasting doors, and the King of Glory shall come in. Elevate your worship experience. Elevate your time with him. Lift up your heads. Lift up your heads to another dimension, another realm. Let those of you joining us live— we just came out of great praise and worship. I dare you not to scroll. I dare you to stop where you are and let the glory of God come into your home. Come right where you are watching this video right now. Come on, give God glory. Lift up your head, elevate your worship intelligence. Lift up your head, let— into another realm. Another dimension, another place. God, we want more. We're not satisfied. We're not satisfied. We want more. Hurrah, Baba! Yes, God! Hurrah! We bless you, Father. We bless you, God. We love you. We love you, God. We love you. Yes, God, we love you. Yes, God, we honor you. Yes, God, we bless you. We bless your name, God. You're the Lamb upon the throne. You're the Lamb upon the throne. You're the Lamb upon the throne. Oh God, I— We love you, Jesus. We're in love, we're in love, Jesus. Come on, the worshipers are worshiping. We love you and adore you, God. We bless you and honor you. Come on, just a few more moments. Exalt him. Ketando soto, rabbi. Come on, give him glory. Hallelujah, hallelujah. We bless you, God. If you got a prayer language, worship in it. It's not— it's a worshiping language and a prayer language. Worship in it. Worship out of your spirit. We give you glory, Lord. You alone are worthy. You alone are worthy. Lekula shai. Nese landolebe. Oh. Let your glory fill this place. Hey, man, let your glory fill this place. Let your glory fill this place. Oh, feel this place. Feel this place. Oh, feel this place. Ikondo Shabaya. Lord, fill this place. Oh, fill this place. Fill this place. Feel this place. Oh, feel this place. Feel this place. God, we ask you, Lord, feel this place. Oh Lord, feel this place. With your glory, Lord, fill this place. With your power, with your might, oh, fill this place. Oh, fill, fill, fill, fill, fill this house. With your presence. Let your healing fill this house with your presence. Heal this place.

Oh, let your healing fill this place.

Fill this place, Lord. Fill this place. Oh, fill this place. We give you the glory, Jesus. Fill this place with your presence. —until nothing that's not like you remains. Fill this place until we're transformed. With your glory, with your power, fill this place so that the priests could not stand to minister. Fill this place We worship you, God. Come on, lift your hands and worship. Come on, give him glory, give him honor. Oh, feel his presence. Oh, feel. Heal this place, Shabba. We bless you, God, and we honor your name. Father, we thank you for your very presence even now. Thank you for what we've already experienced in this place. Father, we give you glory. And as we enter into your word this morning, send the anointing that destroys yokes and removes burdens. Cast the devil out of the mind, break down every stubborn will. We say yes, Lord. Yes to your will. Yes to your way. Father, we thank you for the light, the illumination, and the intelligence of the Holy Ghost. Have your way in us and through us today. May your people be blessed by you and never impressed by me. We give you the glory, God. Let our worship be as a sweet-smelling savior in your nostrils. Receive our worship, receive our praise, and we bless you for it now in the matchless and mighty name of Jesus. We do pray. Amen. And thanks be to God. Come on, clap those hands and give God praise. If you're live with us, clap those hands and bless him. Glory to God. We give him praise and glory. He's a mighty God. He's a great God. Listen, if you're joining us live this morning, please share this experience for those of you who are watching us. We're currently streaming over 5 different platforms. We're streaming via Facebook, 3 pages, YouTube, and Instagram. So wherever you're watching, please do me a favor and share this experience with someone. Well, there's a word from the Lord. We're going to get ready to preach, but before we do, Mario, play the video for the message, and I'm gonna come back and we're gonna preach. Glory to God.

Could have been a night just like this one. The air filled with anticipation. And that light, so bright in the night sky that it beckoned for shepherds and wise men to follow. Imagine to their surprise when they arrive and find a tiny baby laying in a manger surrounded with nothing more than farm animals. Joyfully-yam. How could this be their king? How could the Savior of the world be here in this place? And yet they were compelled. They bowed down right there and worshiped him. You see, they knew that something beyond comprehension had just transpired. The hope of all mankind has just shown up before them, that Jesus, although a baby, had come for you and for me. He came to give us a hope and a future. He came so that we might have joy and light. He came so that no matter what circumstances we find ourselves in, all we have to do is call on his name and we would be saved. This is the story of Christmas. This is the story of the greatest gift ever given. The story of a king, the savior of the world, born in a manger for you and for me.

Hallelujah! Come on, give God praise! Come on, give your king a hand! Glory to God! Wonderful savior! God is so good! He's so great, he's so amazing. Y'all agree? Hallelujah! Glory to God! We're continuing our series on the story of a king. I want you to go to John 3. Um, we're going to read that again just for context, because as I said last week, this king came into the world Glory to the name of God, so that he can give us life. Amen. This season, while we celebrate the beauty and lights and all of those things— we don't preach against those things— but this season is about him, and it's about giving. Amen. Somebody said it like this, they said Jesus is the reason for the season. Amen. And we believe that. John 3:16. Glory to God. I want you to read it with me if you can, those of you watching us online. Glory to God. The Bible says this, it says, for God so loved the world— notice it says he loved the world and not the church. Y'all see that? He loved the world. It didn't say he loved the church. He loves the church, but this act was for the world. Watch this, that the world might become the church. So he brought his love into the world so that the world could be transformed and become the church. Glory to God. That he gave his only begotten Son. So it also says something about love. Love is also giving. So wherever there's love, there's going to always be giving. Glory to God. You can't really say you love and you never give. As a matter of fact, if you come into any relationship and you didn't come to give, you came to take. I'm gonna say that again. If you didn't come to give, you came to take. And you— when we show up in relationship, we should show up to give. Amen. It's— watch this— in relationship, whether it's a marriage, whether it's a friendship, whether it's with family, we should always demote ourselves and not make the relationship about us. It should be always about the receiving party. Glory to God. Now, we don't let people abuse us, but we take a posture of a giver because that's the posture of our Father. That he gave his only begotten Son. That lets me know that Joseph was not Jesus's natural daddy. He was the Father's Son. Are y'all hearing this? He's his only— not Joseph's only begotten, he's God's only begotten— that whoever believes in him should not perish but have everlasting life. I love that. So Jesus was born that we can live forever. Amen. For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through him might be saved. Somebody say saved. Touch yourself, say I'm saved. And if you're watching and you're not saved, glory to God, we're gonna make sure you get an opportunity to get say before we leave here. Amen. The word save there is sozo in Greek, and it means to rescue. It means to make safe. Watch this, it means to restore to right standing. So this morning I want to talk about him being born to restore. God was born that he can restore us back to him, or really to reconcile us back to him. Glory to God! Why does he do that? God wants to reconcile us back to himself or restore us to right standing. Listen to me, family, because he needs us to unite so we can advance the kingdom. Say that with me. Say it: God wants us to operate in unity to advance the kingdom. Now, in previous teachings— I've taught this twice so far— I talked first about Born to Reign. So we talked about the King. You cannot have a kingdom without a king. Last week I talked about born to redeem. So God redeems the citizens. He buys us back with his blood because we're kingdom citizens. Are y'all hearing me? Touch yourself, say, I'm a citizen of the kingdom of God. And y'all cut that heat down now. We want heaven in here, not hell. Jesus, glory to God. Praise the name of Jesus. Glory to God. We, we want heaven. Praise Jesus. Hallelujah. Yeah, because listen, I'm living too right to be experiencing any part of hell. I feel hell right now. Glory to God. Yeah, thank you, Jesus. Glory to God. So say, I'm a citizen. Y'all excuse my folly. In the kingdom of God, glory to God. God has called us to citizenship. So you can't have a kingdom without a king, cannot have a kingdom without citizens, people who operate under the rule of the king. Now let's talk a little about being restored to actually move the kingdom forward. In order to do that, we got to unify. And that calls— watch this— for reassembly. Say that with me. Say reassembly. I need you to understand something. In the body of Christ, reassembly is required. And you know, often when you buy something that requires assembly, it'll say something like, assembly is required, and then it'll say, instructions are included. Now, when it comes to reassembly, I need you to help— I need you to understand something. People just don't know how to unite. They don't know how to reconcile. They don't know how to reconcile to God and reassemble with him. And reassemble with one another because people are so individual. So there really are no instructions. So this morning I want to give you some instruction on how to reassemble, but first I want to give you some concepts of kingdom because we— I gave you concepts of king, citizens, but we need to understand kingdom as well. Can we do that? So First, let's get a working definition of kingdom. I might as well teach this, I'm here. Glory to God. The word kingdom is basileia in Greek, and it is the rule, the domain, the authority, the wealth— watch this— and the glory of the king. So the rule, the authority, the majesty, the wealth the glory of the king. That's what the kingdom is. So there really is no kingdom again without the king. Here's an interesting thing. The Bible says that the kingdom of God is in you. So if the kingdom of God is in you, that means the majesty, the wealth, the glory, the power, the authority, the resources of the king are also in you. Rub your belly and say, the King is in me. Glory to God. I thank God I done lost some weight. Usually I didn't have to go that far to rub my— I just be right, right. Glory to God. Thank God for Jesus. Praise God. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. So you got the King and his kingdom in you. The key is assessing it, and assessing it requires two things basically. One, prayer, and two, worship. Every time you pray, you have an opportunity to go into the kingdom. Matter of fact, as I was exhorting us this morning, the Holy Spirit had me saying to you the scripture in Psalms that says, lift up your head. Lift up your head, O ye gates, and be ye lifted up, ye everlasting doors, and the King of Glory shall come in. What does that mean when he says lift up your head? The Hebrew word for head is transliterated to mean intelligence. So right, there needs to be a paradigm shift in your intelligence toward heaven. So that our intelligence is not carnal, but our intelligence is locked into the mind of God. So in other words, through faith, I lift up my head, my intelligence, that one, the King is real for real. You can't enter into this dimension or this realm if you don't believe that the King is real for real. Say that with me. Say, the King is real, for real. I need you to grab that. He real. So in everything you do, you got to understand that that King really dwells on the inside of you, and you got to raise your mindset to a heavenly perspective. He said, lift up your heads, or lift up your intelligence, oh ye gates. So watch this. Inside of your gates— inside of your head are gates. In your physical head, there are gates that enter into portals in your spirit. Your physical head has some gates. First, your eyes. Your eyes are gates. Say, 'Eye gate.' So what you see enters into your life. So you have to be careful what you put your eyes on. One of the things in the world is the lust of the eye. So if you look at something too long and start lusting after it— y'all ain't got to say nothing— it enters in and it becomes desirable. Y'all ain't got to talk to me. I'm telling you, that's why I don't look at stuff too long. I don't scroll. I don't look— stop and look at pictures too long. 'Cause if you let that stuff enter in, oh, look how y'all looking like, y'all. Y'all quiet this morning, y'all still sleeping? Glory to God. The reality is you have to focus on what's above. 'Cause the lust of the eye is dangerous. So you gotta control that gate 'cause if you keep your eyes locked on something you shouldn't too long, It ignites desire that leads to demonstration. You start working out plans to do it. Oh boy, glory to God. That's why I talked about this last week. You shouldn't be watching— a couple weeks ago— you should be watching pornography. I wish the people that's watching this live get delivered from pornography because I'm tired of talking about it. Please get free. Glory to God. It's not okay for you to have your eyes locked into an imaginary scenario of sexual activity. And now watch this: if you're married, you're putting pressure on your spouse to perform stuff you done watched. Oh, y'all ain't got to talk. You want her to turn on them flips and do all that stuff you watching. Come on, get free! Glory to the name of God. And close your gates. Oh boy, because you— what happens is your spirit and your emotions start practicing what you see in your mind. But lift up your head and lift up your gates. So that's your eye gate. You also have your ear gate. You got to be careful what you're listening to. That's why all music ain't good music. I don't care how good they rap, how good the beat sounds. You don't need to be listening consistently to music that doesn't edify you. The root word of the word music is muse, and a muse is oftentimes mute. A muse is stuck. Are y'all hearing this? A muse have been drawn in and mesmerized through entertainment. So you get entertained by the music. Watch the word entertainment is inter-tie-in. Which means you step into— you go through a door, a portal, and you get tied or bound into what you go into. So you better be careful what you listen to. Glory to God. I, I— some— it's some Christians, their children are in the other room dancing with the devil with headphones on. You in your little room with a little TV watching TBN, and they ain't worried about what they got in their ears. Are y'all hearing this? They listening to lyrics that are tying them into a culture that is anti-God. Oh boy. So you got to be careful with your ears. That's why you can't be in every conversation, man. Folks go to talking negative when I'm around, I dismiss myself because I don't have time for that. Listen, you have to make up your mind that you're going to guard your ears. Watch this. Faith come by hearing. And hearing by the word of God. So if I want elevated ears, I need to be listening to the word. That's why you— even with cussing, you know, folks go to cussing all the time. You need to dismiss yourself from that. That's a spirit. Glory to God. You got preachers who cuss, worship leaders who cuss. The devil is a liar. How you gonna have blessing and cursing coming out the same mouth? The Bible said it can't be so. You got people that go to church every Sunday, cuss every day. They, they cuss every day because they think it's okay, because they hear a culture of cussing. And here's your other gate, your mouth. That thing comes out of your mouth. So use your mouth to speak those things that are not as though they were. Use your mouth to exalt God and worship him. So you gotta lift up your gate so you can open the door so the king can come in. Because guess what? He ain't coming in if Jay-Z in your spirit, y'all. And you don't let Jay-Z in the gate. Okay, all right, okay, all right. Yeah, so somebody said, okay, well, yeah, I'm just telling JAY-Z need to be saved. He think he God. He, matter of fact, he call himself Jehovah or Hova. The devil is a liar. He's a demon that he has demons that need to be cast out, and he need to be saved. You can't let that stuff get in your spirit and expect the fellowship with God. You can't hang out in the club on Friday and expect to come to church and tap right in on Sunday. Oh no, no, it don't work that way. You got to get that stuff out of your spirit. You've been in the club all night, but you come to church and then you want to have a praise break. But we need to get behind the veil and fellowship with God. I told a musician, I said, the reason you can't tap in when you come in here on Sunday is because you playing in bars and clubs all night on Saturday and you hindering the flow when you come in here on Sunday. He didn't like it because he was like, well, I make money, that's my— I have to make that extra money. But listen, yo, yo, spirit ain't clean. So when you— but in the nights you don't have to do that, that's when you tap in the strongest. I would always see the difference. I would always know when he'd been in the club. Y'all ain't got to talk. I always know when he'd been playing for a worldly artist, because at the end of the day, you, you got to have some consecration. Matter of fact, for there to be a heavy anointing to flow out of your life, there has to be deep consecration. The church don't want to pray. I posted that we were having 5 days of services the first week of the year. Basically 5 days. We have New Year's Eve Tuesday, we have church Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. That's 5 days. Somebody inboxed me, said, Apostle, people ain't gonna come to church that many days. I said, that I understand. I said, but we gonna set it up where they can if they're hungry. I don't know about you, I want God. I want God and whatever it takes for me to— I'm not— I don't want to sit at home and just be lazy. Are y'all hearing this? I want him. So we're talking about kingdom. We gotta lift up our gates, our ear gate, our eye gate, our mouth gate, so the King of Glory can come in those doors. Because the eternal doors open when your elevated eyes, ears, and mouth are functioning in alignment with the ways of God. A few things about kingdom. I want you to write them down, all right? I want you to remember this about kingdom culture. Say kingdom culture. Number one, the nature of the kingdom is service. God has not called not one person in the kingdom to be a celebrity. He's called us to be servants. I'm gonna say that again. And for you celebrity preachers that be sneaking and watching me, and some of you that go and preach the stuff I preach, I want you to understand you were never called— and I know you ain't gonna never invite me, and guess what? I don't care. Listen, you were never called to be a celebrity. You were called to serve. We are servants of the Most High. Are y'all hearing this? We are called to be in the background of the King. The center of the kingdom is the King. Oh my God, I'm here to exalt him. I— one, one preacher, he— oh, popular preacher, heard him say, he said, "Well, the church, you know, is about one man basically, and people gather to see that man. And so we have to build the brand of that man." I said, "Okay, you know what? I'm gonna let you do that. But what I'm gonna do is build the brand of Jesus. I'm gonna exalt the name of Jesus. You keep building your personal IG, keep building your brand. I'm gonna lift up the name of Jesus." And when it's said and done, the Bible says, If I be lifted up from the earth, I'll draw all men unto thee. Not if I lift up Michael Woods. Not if we exalt our personal self. This thing is about God. So the kingdom is about service. Say that with me. Say, the kingdom is about service. Watch this, number 2, write it down. The dynamic of the kingdom is that everything gets better. So when you're in the kingdom, nothing digresses. Everything is progressive. When you're a kingdom citizen, life gets better. As a citizen of the United States, life can get bad. 'Cause everything is always up and down. So that's why you need to take your rightful citizenship from your home country, which is heaven, and be a citizen of heaven. Because in the kingdom of God, everything progresses, everything gets better. Say it gets better. Oh boy. Matter of fact, nut somebody. Now y'all freezing me to death. Just cut it off. Glory to God. Listen, Jesus, just turn it off. Glory to God. Just put it to off. Y'all took me to hell, now y'all taking me to the North Pole. Come on, church. Glory to God. So it's blowing. Glory, that fan is blowing. Praise God. Jesus, I don't want to get sick no more. Remember, in the kingdom everything get better. I don't want to go back to the flu. We want to stay better. Glory to God. Thank you, Jesus. Hallelujah. So the dynamic of the kingdom is everything— say it— gets better. Come on, say it again. Better. All right, number 3, write it down. The power of the kingdom— watch this— is force. For the kingdom of God suffereth violence. Matthew 11. But the violent taketh by force. That word force is harpazo in Greek, and it means that we violently apprehend what belongs to us. We take territory. Kingdom citizens don't wait for people to give them things. They take what's theirs. Watch this. The earth is the Lord's and the fullness thereof, them and they that dwell therein. So we gotta take what's ours. The things of the earth, glory to the name of God, belong to us. This stuff is not created for the world, it's created for the people of God. And we got to take our rightful place in domination, and we do that by force because they ain't handing it over easy. And how do we do it by force? We don't walk up with Uzis and guns and start a revolution. We take our position and our posture in prayer. And we war in the heavenlies as stratospheric warriors, and we take back in the heavenlies what belongs to us. Hallelujah! Say, 'Force.' You ever been forced to do something? Most people that are forced to do it, they don't want to do it. That's why you had to be forced. You didn't want to do it for real. And God just said, no, keep going. God forces me around a lot. I'm just going to tell you right now, hallelujah. He's the boss. He gives me an example what force looks like, because there'll be some day like, I just don't want to do it today, I just don't know. He said, okay, yeah, but you're gonna do it anyway. Glory to God. Force. But there's a blessing in yielding to the forceful hand of God. So that force has a dichotomy. We take from the enemy by force, and many a times when our flesh is rejecting the plan of God, he forces us. Glory to God, because he know we ain't gonna yield except he force. Oh boy, okay. Uh, write it down. Number 4: the culture and order of the kingdom is structure. So a kingdom has 4 walls. Basically, it has spiritual wall, which is the chief wall. It has a system wall, which is the way the kingdom works, the way that things function. It has a social wall, which is our outreach, where we have to socialize with the world to reach them. But the kingdom should also have structure, rank, order. Okay, I said I wasn't gonna do this because I got to get into this other stuff, but I need to do it. Go to 1 Corinthians 12. I think that's where I want to be. I want to show you what rank and order, what structure in the kingdom looks like. Glory to God. Thank you, Lord. I think that's where I want— come on, my pen. See this unplanned stuff? See this force? This is force. This is not planned. This is force. Glory to God. I got to go to this scripture and y'all got to wait because I got to find it. All right, yeah, that's what I want. I want— glory to God— 1 Corinthians. We're gonna go 1 Corinthians 12 first. All right, y'all there? He says, verse 1, now concerning spiritual gifts— touch yourself, say, I'm gifted. Come on, say it again, say, I'm gifted. And say, I'm a gift to somebody. That's a blessing. Glory to God. He says, I have you to know this, brethren. I don't want you to be ignorant. He said, you know that you were Gentiles, so you were once not saved. You didn't believe this stuff. He said, you were carried away unto these dumb idols. Oh boy. So there are a whole lot of people I was just talking about that. Who are carried away with dumb idols, who put the spotlight on themselves. Oh, that's dumb to do that, and this is the kingdom of God. Religion is a dumb idol. There's some people that's been in the church for 40 years and they ain't gonna never leave because this is my great-great-greedy-greedy-greedy-great-great-grandmama church. And they stay there because that's the church they grew up in. Listen to me, if you're watching me now, you're dying spiritually and you're worshiping a dumb idol. It was good for you then, but you're sitting there now dying. You're not growing, you're not being fed, you're not expanding. You don't understand the deeper things of God. You're shouting, you're dancing, you're worshiping, you're going through the motions, but you you worship a dumb idol that has no benefit to your future. Get out of there and save yourself. Oh God, help us. Don't scroll, please. I said that in love, but you need to get out of there. Grandma did. Grandma in heaven done found out that there's more to this thing And if she could talk to you, she'd tell you, get out of here quick, please, fast and in a hurry, because it's just idol— idolatry that keeps you in this cycle where you never really find God. It's dumb to do that, so don't be dumb. So just bring that dumb stuff to Jesus. And get transformed. Somebody— some people are emotionally attached to things that's got them bound. Oh boy, I'm supposed to be talking about the kingdom has structure. Let me read. Even as you were led, he says, wherefore I give you to understand that no man speaking by the Spirit of God calleth Jesus a curse. And that no man can say that Jesus is Lord but by the Holy Ghost. Wait a minute, so you got people in churches who are saying Jesus is Lord? Oh my God, and they ain't even got the Holy Ghost. So they really can't validate that because they don't know him as Lord. Somebody told them he was Lord. Lord, and they decided to repeat what they heard, but they really don't know he's Lord. Oh my God. The Bible said anybody that does that speak it from a cursed place because they don't have a relationship. So the first order of the kingdom is to get to know the king. So if I'm gonna be a kingdom citizen, I need relationship with my King, and I get that by being filled with the Holy Ghost. Some people say, oh, I got the Holy Ghost, Apostle. Yes, I do. But you never spoke in tongues, you never prophesied, you never moved in power, you never operated on the anointing, you never have been drunk in the Spirit. All those things that prove you have the Holy Ghost. You don't have no spiritual gifts. So what kind of Holy Ghost you got? You got the Holy Ghost but you never speak in tongues, you don't never get drunk, you'll never prophesy, you'll never have word of wisdom, word of knowledge, word of faith. You don't have no discernment, you never hear him speak. What kind of Holy Ghost do you have? Question is, I say that, Lord, have you been filled or just been thrilled? Some of you just got thrilled and you really ain't been filled. You've been around the presence, but you didn't let the presence get in you. And when you get filled, you start acting like him. You start operating in his fruit. How you tell me you feel and you ain't got no love? Well, Holy Ghost you got and you can't love people? You saved and still mean as a rattlesnake? You ain't got no Holy Ghost? You telling me you got the Holy Ghost and you ain't got no joy? You always down and depressed. Come on, you got Holy Ghost, you got some long-suffering, you can go through, you can wait on God in patience. You got Holy Ghost, come on, if you got Holy Ghost, you have the ability— oh my God— to have self-control. You got temperance. How you tell me you got the Holy Ghost and every time I look up you wilding out? Yeah, glory to God. You doing your thing, you ain't got no Holy Ghost. You got a ghost, he just ain't holy. Okay, let me move. Glory to God. First, so that's the first order and structure in the kingdom. I need God, I need relationship with the King, and I gotta understand he's King, he's the first in rank. Glory to God. He says, and now there are diversities of gifts but the same Spirit, and there are differences of administrations. This is structure. Administ— whenever you see the word administration, it's talking about structure. Uh, diakonia is administration, which means, glory to God, structured service. So God says the service is structured. How? I'm not saying you starch and religious. I'm saying you go by God's order. You obey what God says because the King is in charge. I ain't talking about you got a piece of paper that say order a service and you go by that paper. Y'all ain't got to talk to me. And we ain't deviating from that paper. Now there's some churches, they do for praise and worship, they do 3 fast, 2 slow. They think that's gonna set up the glory. We're gonna do 3 fast and 2 slow and God gonna come in. Now God might come in on the first song, and you got to yield yourself to whatever he do and how he want to do it. Are y'all hearing this? That structure, letting the king be in control of the administration, letting him guide the way you do things. Are y'all hearing this? Administration means you execute the commands of the king. Whatever he says, do, do it. That structure— say, the kingdom has structure. Now write this down. Number 5: The anointing of the king is gifts— of the kingdom is gifts. So the way the anointing is expressed is through gifts. Let's keep reading over there in 12. So these gifts come from the same Spirit. That's why we got to unify. I'm going somewhere, I promise you. The Holy Spirit is weaving a tapestry with this teaching this morning. So if I'm operating in prophecy and Shannon's operating in prophecy, Lady Felicia operating prophecy, Sharia operating prophecy, Tanya operating prophecy, and we all prophesy, it should come from the same spirit. Are y'all hearing this? It shouldn't emerge out of flesh. And when it comes from the same spirit, that means it's going to have the same— glory to the name of God— effect when it's spoken. I may say it different than Shannon. Shannon may say it differently than Lady Felicia, but the effect of the prophetic word— and it may be a totally different word altogether— should be the same. It should point people to the King because it comes out of the same spirit. Are we here this morning? Glory to God. But when you got people offering their own stuff, buying prophecies— you got me, you got prophets out here that call themselves major prophets, master prophets. The devil is a liar. Yeah, that's a whole nother message for another day. Buying prophecies from witches and warlocks. It's a— I mean, I can start listing names of ones out here that's doing it, have made themselves popular and profitable because they buy prophecies from familiar spirits. If you're watching me, yeah, I'm talking about you, because I pray for real and God talks to me. And I see you, and you've been doing it for years. Glory to God. Dumb idol. Yeah, that's what that is. Okay, all right. Yeah, I slept good last night, if you can't tell. The anointing of the kingdom is gifts, real gifts that flow out of the Spirit of God. Not to hoodwink people, not to get them to give money. Gifts are to display the anointing, to show people that God is real. Are y'all hearing this? And you know what happens when the anointing shows up? It removes burdens and it destroys yokes. Lord have mercy. So that means when the anointing shows up, somebody ought to be changed. Some yokes ought to be destroyed. I don't see— if the gift is coming out of heaven and heaven is flowing through you, glory to God, when you get up off the floor, you're gonna be changed. I don't see folk go to church, fall out on the floor every weekend, they still ain't changed. That some people, number one, they just got a proclivity to fall out. It ain't that the preacher really that powerful, they just got a proclivity to fall out. They on their way to church, 'Well, I'm gonna fall out today.' They already been in here, 'I'm gonna get in the flow today. I can't wait till he touch me.' Listen. You shouldn't be predisposed, glory to God, to getting in the floor, because if you don't change while you're down there, it makes no sense. If you don't have an encounter with God, it makes no sense at all. Keep— just keep standing until you receive something. And preachers, stop trying to push people down. Let heaven flow through you. Some, some preachers ain't satisfied till you fall. Glory! They gonna keep going, bend your neck, break your neck. Glory to God! To get you on the floor. Listen, if you don't fall out under the power, stand up. Glory to God. Matter of fact, next time preacher try to push you now, say, look, man, I ain't going out, so just pray. Glory to God. Because guess what? It shouldn't even be a choice, because when the anointing is there, heaven's gonna flow through the man or the woman of God, and you're gonna go out. We're gonna have revival here in January. I know it's gonna be a lot of people go out. 'Cause the power is going to be here. Me and Apostle Brandon going to minister together. It's going to be phenomenal. It's going to be bodies for real. But it has to be the power of the living God. Glory to God. Somebody say thank God for power. Glory to Jesus. Come on, write it down. Number 6: the success of the kingdom. I love this is generational dominion. And that's, that's what we exist here at Rhoda Church to do. Rhoda, the word dominion in Hebrew, is to create an atmosphere and a culture where we can create generational dominion for you and your family. Not just for our church, but the success of the kingdom is when we teach everybody in our line how to dominate. 8. Rub your belly and say, poverty stops with me. Say, sickness stops with me. Say, the curse is broken, the shame is gone. Say, I will establish generational dominion, and therefore I will have success in the kingdom. You know what that looks like? If you're in ministry, if you're in business, you're not successful if you're the only one successful. My job is not for me to just be successful in ministry, in business. It's to make sure you are. It's to take the knowledge in my head and give it to you, not to charge you $1,995 to come to a prayer summit to teach you how to pray. You know, I love wanting to bite them, but that's just a dumb idol. And you dumb if you pay her $1,997 to go learn how to pray. She has no deep revelation on prayer that costs $2,000. Y'all ain't got to talk to me here. She done bought that building out there at TBN, and there's a mortgage on that building. She got to make sure it get paid. Y'all make sure y'all share all this and tag these people, because at the end of the day, they need to hear it. I love the lady, I promise you, but Juanita, you out of order, lady. Oh God, I slept good, I promise you. I'm telling you, did y'all see that? She's actually charging too. I'm not lying. She's charging $2,000 to come to a prayer conference to hear her teach you about tapping into intellectual dimensions of prayer. The devil is a liar. Glory to God. Jesus said, if you want to learn how to pray, ask him. The disciples came and said, teach us how to pray. I got you, give me 2 grand. No, Jesus didn't do that. Jesus said, okay, when you pray, pray in this manner. Glory to Jesus. No $2,000, lady, come on. And then you still, you leave and the only bank account fat, oh boy, glory to God, only personal account fat is her account. So you gotta learn principle. What that is is duplicating marketing and, oh my God, distribution strategies of the world that charge this money to get in the presence of icons. Like, you go see Tony Robbins, it's gonna cost you $2,000 to go see him stand up there and talk and be mystical. But we're not to bring that in the church. I know you have expenses, you have needs, and there's sometimes it calls for registration, but $2,000? Okay, to teach you how to pray. Okay, all right, somebody say, Apostle, they gonna get you. Come on, I'm at 410 Santa Fe Trail, Ellenwood, Georgia. Come on, I'm here, I ain't going nowhere. Write it down, number 7. Glory to God, the currency of the kingdom is faith. Glory to God. So the way we exchange money in the kingdom is through faith. Shantike celebasu. The Bible said without faith is impossible to please God. So the currency, the way we make exchange between heaven and earth, is through believing him. Watch this. It is given to every man a measure of faith, and that measure should go from faith to faith. So your faith should be increasing and growing. How does it increase? How does it grow? I gotta hear the word. Faith come by hearing, hearing by the word of God. How can they hear without a preacher? How can he preach except he be sent? So you need to be sitting listening to a preacher who's been sent. Oh, but that's a whole nother message for another day. But the word apostle is apostolos in Greek. It means sent one in its simplest terms, one sent by God to act in the place of God, to do what God would do if he was here. An apostle has gubernatorial authority. An apostle has— oh my God— pleni potentiari status, which means he can move in all the gifts of the Spirit, or she can move in all the gifts. He can move in and out of all of the offices. I have time to teach about that, but what I want you to understand is an apostle also has the government or the authority to send. So a preacher really ain't sent. Oh, we're talking about order structure. The preacher really ain't sent unless the gubernatorial apostolic authority— God calls you, the apostle sends you. Ah, oh my God, help us! We got too many people just going. They just went. They wasn't sent. The apostle sends. It's a sending anointing. It's a deploying anointing. Oh boy, so you got a lot of— we talk about false prophets and false pastors. You got a lot of false pastors. Are y'all hearing this? 'Cause they weren't sent. They just got a building. Oh, and started preaching. They got a building 'cause nobody wouldn't let them preach and open their door. But if you weren't sent, Buddy Rowe, you are a false pastor. Put it, pull it close to my face. Just zoom close. So I want to make sure they See my face. If you were not sent, you are a false pastor. The apostle has a sending anointing. If you just got a building, got some chairs, got a mic and a sound system, and preaching without gubernatorial apostolic government authority, a sending anointing in your corner You're a false pastor and you need to go back and do your first work over. All right, you can pull it out now. I think they got it. Glory to God. Wonderful Jesus. Hallelujah. Glory to God. So the currency of the kingdom is faith in the King. Number 8, write it down: the strength of the kingdom is unity. We're better together. Whoo! Say that again. Say, we're better together. God has not called For the record, we shouldn't be unifying people who are operating out of order, who are operating under the auspices of the wrong spirit. We unify with people who celebrate our King, who have our DNA, who exist to advance the kingdom and not themselves. So say it again, say we're better together. That's in here. As in, see, Satan will— watch this— the Bible said kingdom divided against itself cannot stand. When that— when that— that— if read and study that verse, that's actually talking about Satan's kingdom. His kingdom is united. See, Satan will stay united in his ranks and divide us in here and divide the body of Christ. Because he understands we're not a real threat to him. Glory to God! If we're unified, if we're reconciled, if we're together. Lord have mercy. Y'all here? Say, we got to unify. That means I can't be over here in my own little corner and not be open to work with other people. We got to operate at a high level of unity. And you know, unity happens when everybody comes to the table a servant. No big I's, no little you's. We come to the table to serve. We all realize that I need you and you need me. What that big purple demon used to say that mesmerized them children, he's just saying that's a— I love you, you love me, we are one big family. Listen, the reality is, yeah, he was a demon. He made I mean, watch— okay, all right, that's a whole nother message for another day. I mean, Barney is the devil. Glory to God. And I'm glad he ain't popular no more. He's a devil. He'd be disappearing, doing all that magic, all that witchcraft, and them children just be— yeah, I mean, you can sit a 2-month-old and they'll just lock in. Glory to God, we give you praise. But God says We need each other. We need each other to advance his kingdom. I'm almost done, guys. I'm running out of time. Last one, write it down. Number 9: Access to the kingdom is understanding mysteries. Glory to God. Hallelujah. So I want you to understand something, that the works of the kingdom have a violent enemy. The devil hates kingdom people. He don't fight church. There really ain't kingdom churches. They're no threat to him. Church is generally I don't care nothing about the warfare arises when you have a people who have the desire of the king and say, whatever the king wants, I'm going to give to him. Say, reassembly is required. Go to 2 Corinthians 5. Y'all getting anything out of this this morning? I'm coming quickly to a close, as the old preacher would say. You know, I grew up in a church, and a lot of times we would have a guest preacher come by. He was more of a teacher, but sometimes preachers come in and they get to tuning up, and they would say, I'm getting ready to close. And then 10 minutes later, I said, I'm getting ready to close. 20 minutes later, I'm getting ready to close. Another hour ago, I'm getting ready to close now. And I would look at my brother and say, how many doors he got on that circle? He didn't go to close. Like, boy, if you don't go and close that message. We had one come preach so long, my daddy said, you know what, I'm about to give him the keys and tell him to lock up because we about to go. I'm telling you, man. And but I can't talk much because I do preach long, so y'all pray for me. 2 Corinthians 5:14. But I hope you're getting somebody's— watch this. The Bible said, for the love of Christ constrains us. I told you this, this season is about love. The King came because of the Father's love toward us, right? So the word here says that it constrains us. Watch this, synekho in Greek. It holds us together. So when we choose to unify Christ, when we let him inside of the equation, he's the one that holds us together. You hold your relationship together, hold covenant together. Watch this, to hold— we are designed to love on God, let him love on us, and the love of Christ constrains, holds us together. See, people that get divorced, they get divorced because they have kicked Jesus out of the marriage. Talk to me here. But when you let the love of Christ constrain the marriage, he'll hold you together when you want to leave. Because you ain't in much if you ain't never wanted to leave. I promise you, have a conversation with Alicia, there have been some days she wanted to leave. Y'all ain't got to talk. There have been some days I wanted to go, but the love of Christ, it constrains us. Because in every relationship there's going to be wronging and there's going to be forgiving, and you have to learn to operate under his love so that when you're wrong, you can forgive. Are y'all hearing this? Even when you don't feel like loving no more, let him love through you. I'm telling you, divorced people have given up on the— God never ordained for people to get divorced. Matthew 19:10. If you make that covenant, you gotta watch this. I, I've been divorced. And I thank God for his grace, but I realize where I dropped the ball. Well, we both dropped the ball in the previous marriage, so we gotta let the love of Christ constrain us, keep us together. Say that with me. Say, hold me together, Jesus. I'm almost through. He said, because we thus judge that the one died for all, then we're all dead. Verse 15, and that he died for all that they which live should not henceforth live— here we go— unto themselves. We ain't living just for ourselves. Amen. We ain't living for us. We live for each other. We, we exist, glory to God, to advance the kingdom together. Y'all hearing this? Say, I'm living unto someone else. That's hard to say sometimes because self-preservation indeed is the first law of nature, which is carnality, but it ain't the first law of the spirit. The first law of the spirit is to look out for others. It's to give and love like Christ loved. Are y'all hearing this? I'm almost done. The Bible says we don't live unto ourselves but unto him which died for us and for them who he died for. So we don't just live for others Say that with me. Say, my life belongs to God. I'm telling you, he was born to reconcile or restore you back to him. Gloria. So that he's the chief priority. I got to get out of here. Oh, watch this. He says Verse 16: Wherefore henceforth now we know no man after the flesh. Listen, you got to make up your mind in flowing in unity and being reconciled with other people that you don't operate with people according to your flesh. You got to deal with people out of the realm of the Spirit. Otherwise you will violate them. Where there's no revelation, there's violation. If I have not been revealed to you, you will violate me. If you have not been revealed to me I will violate you. How do I get revelation? I'm glad you asked. I gotta pray. I gotta ask God about people so he can reveal to me how that he sees them. Watch it, so I can see them how he sees them. Hard for trying the way God see him. So watch this, you got to get a revelation of yourself so you don't violate you. And watch this, so you can set a standard on how people treat you. Most of the time you accept things and what comes to you because you don't know who you are. You don't understand your value. You don't understand what you bring to the table. Oh God, today, Lord have mercy. Touch yourself, say, I'm valuable. You watch this, you can never be recognized Just like God, you got to be revealed. Stop letting people just recognize you after the flesh so they can see you through the eyes of God. People will size you up by your past, by your mistakes. Y'all, y'all ain't got to say nothing. There are people that still look at me, oh, that's just Mike. Glory to God. And I'll take that because they don't have a revelation. People still look at me, oh, he's just Freddie's boy, he's just Carolyn's boy. The devil is a liar. Glory to God. You got to get a revelation of who God has made you. That doesn't offend me when people do that because I know who I am. Oh God, touch yourself, say, I know who I am. So we don't know each other after the flesh. Watch this, it says, yea, though we have known Christ after the flesh, Yet now henceforth we know him no more. So Christ walked the earth in the flesh. He was born a little baby, grew up to be— somebody asked a question, what happened to baby Jesus? He grew up. He ain't baby Jesus no more. I need y'all to stop praying that, Lord, sweet baby Jesus. No, he ain't no baby. He ain't no baby no more. He grown, done died and got up out the grave. Sitting on the throne. He a king. Let's try King Jesus, not sweet little baby Jesus. Please, God, that's why you ain't get no answer to your prayer. As soon as you say that, man, ain't no baby no more. Glory. He's a king. Glory to God. Hallelujah. He done growed up. Thank you, Jesus. Lord, y'all excuse my folly. Glory to God. Verse 17, watch this. The Bible said, therefore, if any man be in Christ, he's a new creature. Touch yourself, say, I'm a new creature. So when he comes to reconcile me and make me restored to him. He only restores the new creation me. He can't restore the old man. This doesn't work for people who are not born again. Those of us who have come into the knowledge of who our Father is and received his saving living grace. When you accept your identity, God says, I can restore you fully back to my person. I'll be Daddy and you'll be son, and I'll look out for you. I'll take care of you. I'll give you what you never had. It's hard to do that when you won't accept new creation. Say, I'm a new creature. That's big, because that means you ain't what you were. You're brand new. So if we in Christ, we become new creatures. That's the key— being in him, not in the church, not in religion, not in legalism, not in rules, not in regulations. Patience, not having praise breaks, not crying at the church. He says, I need you to be in me. What's in that wall is an antique gray. To be in him means I inner penetrate his person. So if I jump into the wall and I inner penetrate the wall, you wouldn't be able to tell me from the wall. I would actually look just like that gray wall. This black sweater, these gray pants, my black skin would blend into the wall and you couldn't tell the difference. When you get in Christ, can't tell the difference between you and him. Hallelujah. So again, you still out here wilding out and playing the grace card You ain't interpenetrated. You're not a new creature. I used to wonder what that mother was saying when Shannon— when she would say, I looked at my hands and my hands look new. She'd be up just— I looked at my feet and my feet look new. I'm like, Mama, you might want to wear some closed-toe shoes next time. They look the same. Your hands still look the same. But she was seeing something in the spirit. Are y'all hearing this? I was just a little kid, I'm telling you. But the reality is, when you become a new creature, everything about you becomes like him. You got to decide, I want you. I just want you. I just want you, God. I want to look like you. I want to talk like you. I want to act like you. I want to live for you. He said he's a new creature. All things are passed away. You know what y'all say when people die? They passed away. They passed away. Yeah, so that means it's dead. When you're a new creature, that, that, that flesh ought to die. Fornication ought to be dead. Adultery ought to be dead. Lying ought to be dead. Cheating ought to be dead. Glory to the name of God. Homosexuality ought to be dead. Lesbianism ought to be dead. Yeah, y'all don't get a pass. You don't get to stay a lesbian, a homosexual, and we got to stop being whoremongers and liars. Okay, we serve the same God. So you got to get delivered from your sin too. Oh God, if I, if I, if I can't be married to my wife and have 3, 4 chicks on the side, you can't be gay. And my wife just hollered out, and I can't anyway, saved or not. Yeah, I'm scared of a chick for real. She'll fight. Hey, y'all think I'm lying? I'm scared for real. If I ever call y'all and say, look, I've been beat up, glory to God, my wife has abused me, I come in here with a black eye, y'all know what happened. I'm scared for real. But I'm telling y'all, you, you don't get a pass if you want to operate in this kingdom power, this authority, and fellowship with our holy king. You gotta let that sin go. You ought to be working every day to get yourself together. Oh boy. Okay, I'm gonna go, I'm gonna go. Let me keep reading. He says it's passed away, so kill it before it kills you. Some people in the body of Christ, Shannon, they necrophiliacs. A necrophiliac in the spirit is a person that sleeps with dead stuff. In the natural, it's a perverted individual that actually for real sleeps with dead bodies. I don't even get that. Why you want to go to bed with something dead? That's nasty and filthy, and that's craziness. But how nasty that is in the natural, that's how nasty it is in the spirit. For you to be claiming to be a new creature and every night you waking up in the wrong bed— oh, y'all, you got to get free so you can experience the glory of heaven. God is holy. The reason you're not having heavenly encounters is because sin is in your life. Oh boy, we're gonna keep moving. He said this stuff is dead. It's dead. We kill it. He said all things have become new. Old things are passed away. All things have become new. Places I used to go I don't go no more. I don't say no more. I'm new. People ought to meet you from your past and say, man, I remember you used to cuss folk out. Why you ain't cussing no more? I'm saved. For real. When I used to know you, all you used to do is lie. Now everything you say true. 'Cause guess what? All things have become new. People ought to see you, brother. Say, man, you used to have chicks in college. You had 4, 5 chicks all the time. Now you married and committed. I was watching a movie. This guy was trying to get his life together. Somebody from his past walked up and said, oh man, I can't believe you settling down. Because you in front of the new lady start telling everything he used to do. But you got to decide, I'm gonna be new, I'm gonna let that stuff die. Matter of fact, you need to funeralize it. I came this morning as a spiritual mortician, and I came to bury your past. Those things that need to pass away, and I command it to die in the name of Jesus so that you can experience the goodness of the kingdom. He was born to restore you. Watch this, let's go. Verse 18, I'm done. And all things are of God who have reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ and have given us the ministry of reconciliation. The word reconciliation is katalage. In— I love it— Greek, and it means to restore one to right standing, to put one back in his proper place. It means to raise one above the offense. So no matter what you've done, God says when you decide you want to be a new creature and reconcile with him, he'll raise you above your past. He'll raise you above what you've done. And watch this, he— as he has reconciled us to him, guess what? And I'm closing with this, he requires us, my God, today to be reconciled to each other. Oh boy. See, most of us want to come back to God, but we don't want to get along with each other. Watch what he says. He says, I've given you reconciliation. So no matter how powerful— I thank God for my son, Apostle Cornelius. People say I have favorites, and they're probably right. He's my favorite. I got sons and daughters all over the country, but he's one of my favorites. Because his heart for reconciliation. I've seen people that wrong, but the heart is so huge. I, I eventually reconciled. Glory to God. He embraced to raise people above the offense that they brought to him. Sometimes my wife is the same way. I've seen her embrace people, love on people that did her wrong, that talked about her, that violated her in the past, but she still have embraced them. That's the ministry. So no matter how well we preach and teach it, godly example of what the kingdom looks like. Say, reassembly is required. Honestly, today there may be some people you need to reassemble with that you're hoping We got to be restored to each other. And let me— I'm going to show you how to do it. I told you that instructions were not required, they were not included. I'm going to give you instructions. What you— I'm going to tell you what not to do. You cannot use what I call the C4 method of reconciling with people. You know what C4 is? It's an explosive. It's— if you put one stick of C4, that's how powerful the blast is. It creates— you don't want to blow up the reconciliation using this wrong method. It's a way you got to I don't want to do this. Watch this. A soft answer turns away wrath. And that ain't just speaking soft, it's actually a demeanor of humility. So even though they offended you, in effort to reconcile, you have to be humble. But let me show you what the C4 method looks like. Y'all ready? The first thing we do when we're trying to reconcile with people, we want to convince them— say convince— that they were wrong and we right. You already have failed at reconciliation because what you want to do, you say, look, I'm gonna put enough information in front of you You ain't gonna reconcile because all you're doing is sitting there telling them everything they did. That's not the way to do it. Matter of fact, that's over. And if you really forgive them, you ain't gonna talk about that anyway. So you ain't got to be running the list of what they did to make them clear. I'm gonna convince you I'm the right one in this. No, you're arrogant. So, so no convincing. Say it. Say, that's not my job in reconciliation to convince the other party that I am right and they were wrong. You know what? Because guess what? They already knew they wrong. They knew they were wrong when they were doing it. They knew the reason you guys have been estranged was because of what they did, and they were too embarrassed to come near. And you never mean that they come to Christ because you came in humility and forgave them. Here's the second one, all right? And we're real good at this. Secondly, you don't want to try to convict them. Okay, okay. Make them feel guilty about what they did to you, because you know what? Hurt people hurt people, and, and that means you still hurt. And what you need to do is go and ask God to heal you, because they can't heal you anyway. So you need to let God heal your heart, your trauma, your pain from the situation, so you don't spend time trying to convict them. I'm just gonna remind you of how I felt when you did what you did. That's not gonna work. That you, you're blowing up the reconciliation. C4. Watch this. The Holy Spirit can be— I never called us to convict him. Are y'all here? The Holy Spirit does the convicting. He came in the world not to condemn the world. So if I'm operating in him, I'm not operating in condemnation. Even with somebody that offended me, the Bible says I should forgive my brother 70 times 7 times in one day. So I gotta really, when I'm seeking reconciliation, be at a place where I'm ready to forgive. That's 490 times one day. I ain't never used that, all that, because nobody never offended me that much in one day. But that's amazing that God requires that, because you want to be mad, we want to be angry, we want to get back at them, we want to convict them, we want them to feel bad. You're going to hell because you— no, you want to tell people you're going to hell, we use that one quick. Or God don't love— God love me more. What kind of stuff is that, that you use your relationship with God trying to reconcile, telling somebody God love you more? How you figure I just read it. God so loved the world. He's in love with the world, and he wants to redeem the world back to him. All right, number 3. So you can't convince— say, I'm not here to convince you, I'm not here to convict you. Number 3, here we go: coerce you. You're not there to coerce them to reconcile. They may not receive your reconciliation, but you've done your part by trying to reconcile. Glory to God. I mean, sometimes people don't receive us, we'll say stuff like, well, I said I was sorry and you still upset with me. I said, why are you still talking about that? Because they ain't over it yet. Glory to God. You can't coerce people with that because the translation that is said, I've done my part and you should be fine now. You can't rush people to be okay. Glory to God. It's not your job to get them there. They got to get there. They got to be ready. And when they're not, you just have to bow out gracefully and try again later. Are y'all hearing this? Glory to God. We give you praise. We give you glory. Hallelujah. Watch it. And we'll even go deeper in the coercion piece. And I move on. I already apologize. You should be okay. And if you ain't okay by now, something wrong with you. You're blowing up the reconciliation because you're insult— you can't rush people to be where they need to be. Last one, and I'm closing. That's one. Here we go. We cannot try to control the reconciliation. Bones and goofy dust. All witchcraft requires is a medium. A medium is used to gain control. In the instance of reconciliation, the medium— as if you were burning a candle, the medium would be the candle. And whatever they say over the candle, none of it works unless you believe it. But the control piece would be the pain, the trauma. You're using the fact that you were hurt to try to control the narrative of the reconciliation, and you don't get to do that. Are y'all hearing me? That's not right. You can't control somebody else because you hurt by what they did. Again, they may not be ready, and you can't make them be. Watch this. Many times when reconciliation is trying to happen, especially if— just think if you was on the other side and you're the one that needs to be reconciled to someone that you did something to, and you said to them, I'm sorry if I offended you, but The reality is what you did made me do it. Nobody can't make you do wrong. Oh, y'all ain't got to say nothing, it's the truth anyhow. If you listen, the reality is you are in control of your own self. You control your body, your mind, your mouth. You want to do this? I want to say that. No, you said it because you wanted to say it. You did that because you wanted to do it, because you could have made another choice. Even if the person that's coming at you is wrong, you could choose not to respond wrong. Somebody said, no, you hit me, I'm gonna hit you back. Slap me, I'm gonna slap your mama. No, you can't do that. Jesus said turn the other cheek. That's hard. My wife is better. I'm glad. See, you married to people that can do what you can't, because she'll turn it. I'm gonna turn it and then come back swinging. See, I'm gonna turn it, I'm gonna just go, because at the end of the day, I'm learning. Glory to God. I don't have to retaliate immediately. There's a space between stimulus and response. I had to practice this just the other day. I needed to stop and get some air in my tire, and my thing on my car was telling me my air pressure was low. I went to the place, pulled up, white guy walks out of of the thing looking at me with this mean thing like, "What do you want, man?" And I'm looking at him and my flesh almost immediately said this, and the Holy Spirit said, "No, you don't wanna be that guy. He's dead. Just be at peace." And the dude had a wrong spirit, but I didn't respond to him the way my flesh wanted to respond. And you have to put it in practice on little things, because if you do one thing one way, you do everything that way. So you got to practice this in all scenarios. All I'm saying is, don't blow up reconciliation. It's a ministry. Matter of fact, you want to make sure that you allow the Holy Spirit to lead you in the timing of reconciling. You have to make sure the timing is right, that everybody's ready, and that is successful. Because watch this, it's a ministry. It's designed— any ministry is designed to lead people to Christ. So it's designed to bring people back together so that if that other party ain't in Christ, they can come to Christ, and that together you too can be an example to lead others to Christ. Say, he was born to reconcile, he was born to restore. I'm done. Everybody stand there. You know, people so arrogant, they'll say stuff like, man, you got offended by that? That one offended most people, but something wrong with you, you immature. That's why you got to be careful, people. That we don't cause others to stumble with our words and with our actions. Glory to God. Everybody stand, we're gonna pray. Thank you, God. I love you. He's a good God. Glory to Jesus. Wonderful Savior. Glory to God. Hallelujah. Thank you, Jesus. No, keep it on. I'm— I need music. Glory to God. We give God praise. He's glorious. Thank you guys that are hanging in there with us live. Glory to God. God is good. God is great. God is mighty. Just close your eyes and begin to worship him. We give him glory. Come on, open your mouth and bless his name. Come on, fill this room with your voice. Thank God that you've been restored. Thank God that you've been redeemed. God, come on, just begin to thank him. If you're watching us live, just right where you are, begin to thank God that you've been reconciled to God. Come on, just begin to worship him now. Hallelujah! That you have access to the kingdom, you have access to God. Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah. God, you have access to us today. You have access to us today. Come on, just begin to worship the King. We give you glory, God. We give you honor. We give you praise. Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah. Holy Spirit, you're welcome here now. Come on, worshiper! The worshipers are worshiping. We give you the glory, we give you the honor, we give you the praise. Rebansatai. Come on, worshiper. Rebansatai. Oh, thou art welcome in this place. So Father, today we thank you for your word, God. We thank you for your word. We thank you, God, that you so loved the world that you gave your only begotten Son. And we thank you that Christmas is not just about the lights and gifts, but Christmas is about the greatest gift. You gave your only begotten Son that whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have everlasting life. And God, you have called us to carry eternity. So Father, as I'm praying this morning, I release an eternity in the people that is in this room, that they'll begin to live from an eternal perspective. I decree and declare, God, that nothing carnal, God, will be able to stop them, that no burden— Ota Shiku Rabata. No odds, no obstacle, oh God, no offense will be able to stop them. God, I release the spirit of reconciliation. God, I thank you that you have reconciled us to you. God, you knew all about us, God, but you still chose to bring us back to you, God. And so, Father, help us to maximize this reconciled place. Help us to live in purity. We bind up every thought, every lust of the flesh, every deed of the flesh, every sin of omission and commission that would hinder us, God, from the purity of flow from heaven, God. You told us to put difference between that which is holy and that which is unholy. And so, Father, give us the boldness to make a statement in how we live. In the name of Jesus, may we live lives that's pleasing to you, full of honor, full of integrity, full of holiness. May our pneumaticos, our behavior, be a reflection of heaven. In the mighty name of Jesus, I'm praying for people that will watch this live or by replay. I'm praying, God, in the name of Jesus, God, that they will operate in holiness, that they will operate in right righteousness, so that they can unify in the kingdom to advance your holy kingdom. God, I release the revelation that having good church ain't advancing the kingdom. And I decree and declare that we will understand that our goal is to show up in the world and superimpose the king on earth, so they'll know who you are. Stir every gift in this room and that's live with us today. May the spiritual gifts emerge, and I release and deploy these gifts into the world to be impactful. Faithful to bring about change. Shabban soto rabba bhai. To make a difference. And we give you praise. And we give you glory for it. You were born to restore. Say this with me. Say, Heavenly Father, I receive the word. And I I believe you were born to restore, to reconcile. Say, in the name of Jesus, I thank you for reconciling me back to you. Say, I will maximize this place. I will live holy. I will live right. I will mortify the members of my flesh, that I may please you and you may get the glory out of my life. Say, Father, in Jesus' name, help me to reassemble, to reconcile with any person I need to reconcile with. Say, in Jesus' name, Give me the power to operate in the ministry of reconciliation and bring many to you because of this, in Jesus' name. Say, I decree and declare, I don't lack a thing, I don't have a care, all my needs are met, I have the desires of my heart because the King lives in me. In Jesus' name. Come on, clap your hands and open your mouth and give God praise in this very room. Come on, Zion! Come on, Zion! I need you to bless him. Come on, Zion! I need you to bless him. Come on, I need you to bless him. Hallelujah, hallelujah, we bless you, God. We say hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah to the Lamb. Hallelujah to the King. Hallelujah, to God be the glory. Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah. Oh God, we're in you, God, and it's in you we live, it's in you we move, it's in you we have our being. Hallelujah! Glory to God. Glory to God. Listen, perhaps you're watching us still, live or by replay, and you're not born again, listen, Jesus saves. The Bible says if you confess with your mouth and believe in your heart that Jesus died and rose again from the dead, the Bible says you shall be saved. The Bible says repent Repent in Acts 2:38, every one of you, for the remission of your sins. Be baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and be filled with the Holy Ghost, and you shall be saved. Listen, tonight I want to— today I want to take you through the first part of that, that you may repent of your sin, that you may invite Jesus into your heart. And that you may be saved. If that's you and you're watching us live or in this room and you say, I want to be born again, I have not given my life to God and I want to give my life to God today, say this with me. Say, Heavenly Father, in Jesus' name, I repent of my sin. Say, Lord, I believe that You died and rose again. Come in my heart and live in me. I decree and declare now I am saved, in Jesus' name. Listen, if you prayed that prayer with me, I want to tell you today you're born again. I want you I want you to write me at info@roddochurch.com and say, hey Apostle, I gave my life to Jesus, and I want to help you in your walk with God. I want to give you the next steps. I want to help you be baptized. I want to help you be filled with the Holy Spirit so that you can live out this kingdom that the King was born for you to represent. We love you and we pray for you often. Come on, give God praise again, everybody. Amen. Hallelujah. We're going to take a moment to give. Glory to God. Those of you that are still online watching us, don't go anywhere. Hallelujah. It's more blessed to give than it is to receive. Thank you, Lord. The ways to give are up on the screen this morning. Hallelujah. The Bible does say that it's more blessed to give than it is to receive. I need every person this morning to get seed in the ground up and above your tithe. Glory to God. If you're connected to this ministry, your tithe is in order. Glory to God. You bring that first. Glory to God. That's a part of structure. And then you bring your seed, your offering, on top of that. I need every person watching me to get a sacrificial seed. Every person in the room, get a sacrificial seed. We want to make sure we meet our budget for January, so every time we give in December, we're lending toward that. Glory to God. So we're not down to the wire trying to make sure we meet budget. I need every person— I've been giving all week. Every time God blessed me, I give. Glory to God, because I believe it works. You know, giving and receiving is God's exchange system between heaven and earth. Glory to God. So let's get our seed. He has a future on his mind. Glory to God. You could put the ways to give up again. Glory to God. Thank you, Jesus. Father, I thank you. We're worshiping in our giving. Thank you for Whether you got physical cash, you can bring it and lay it up here. Glory to God. You got a check, make it payable to Rhonda Church. However you're giving today, get your seed in the ground. There are 5 ways to give. They should be on the screen online and in the sanctuary. We're believing God that as you sow— I'm still standing on that word that Isaac sowed in famine. Glory to God! And he reaped a hundredfold return. Just lay it down. Yeah, just lay it, just lay it. He reaped a hundredfold return the same year, same year. 10,000%, 1,000 times more. I believe that for you. As you sow, I'm believing God that before 2024 would end, I'm believing God, you will reap a thousand times more, a hundredfold, 10,000% on your giving. It's the word of God. We believe it, we decree it, we declare it in Jesus' name. Glory to God, glory to God. Bless every giver today. Do it as we have spoken it, God. May they reap a hundredfold return this year, as Isaac, who sowed in famine, did. We release it on their life now. God, thank you that every need we have as a church is met. We don't lack one thing, and neither do we have a care. All of our needs are met, and we have the desires of our heart, and we praise you for it. In Jesus' name. Amen and amen. We thank you for your giving. You can take it down. Glory to God, we appreciate you. Glory to God. We're going home, we're going home. Glory to God. Just a few announcements. Uh, we pray on Thursdays from 7 to 8. Glory to God. I'm here in the sanctuary praying. I want to invite you guys to meet us here on Thursday night. We teach from 8 to 9 if the Lord say the same. Glory to God. And, um, I don't know if you got Thursday night teaching, but if you missed it, go and watch it. Glory to the name of God. It will be beneficial to you. We talked about Born to Redeem. So we've had Born to Reign, Born to Redeem, Today we had Born to Restore or Born to Reconcile. We're going to continue this series. I believe it's being a blessing to somebody. Amen. Um, yeah, so I posted the flyers for the meetings. I need you guys to go ahead and start sharing those flyers. Another video for those meetings will go up this week. Share all of that stuff every day. Invite your friends, send them texts until they get tired of you and say, I'm coming. We want to fill this place up for New Year's Eve night and for our revival. Apostle Brandon and myself are going to be ministering together. We're going to do tag team every night, uh, and on Sunday. It's going to be powerful, so I need you you guys to get here. Get here. Let's feel this. You've been planning a visit. Some of you been telling me you're coming, so start the year off right in church. I'm telling you, get— if you give him them 5 services, ain't no telling what your year gonna be like. First of all, you're gonna get the word. You're gonna be in the midst of his glory. You're probably gonna end up getting a prophecy and some prayer. To get your year ordered, you need to be in this building all 5 days. So that's New Year's Eve, we're gonna take a break, you'll have New Year's Day off so you can wash your clothes, eat greens, whatever y'all do, black-eyed peas, whatever y'all do for the new year. Glory to God. And then we'll be back Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday with Apostle Brandon Cornelius and myself. It's going to be phenomenal. Let's fill this building. Y'all help me do it. Would y'all help me do it? Let's get people out here. It's going to be a blessing. We're going home. Everybody stand. The First Lady, you got something you want to say? You good? I love you with the love of Jesus and Michael. Glory to God. Hallelujah. Y'all stand. We're going home. Come on, Minister Tanya, say the final word. Bring your mic and get us out out of here.

Glory to God. Thank you, thank you, Jesus. Hallelujah. We thank you for that wonderful, powerful word from Pastor. Pastor, we don't take for granted. We thank you that we walk it, he talk it, and we just give praise and thank you, Lord God, for this truly man of God. And we thank you, Lord God, for, for, for your sacrifice and everything, Lord, that you, that you download into us. We don't take it for granted, but what you're doing, Lord God, and we, as you're— we are following you as you're following Christ. And we thank you amongst everything that is out there that we are truly serving a real true man of God. Thank you, Lord. So we thank you, Lord God, for another opportunity that we came and sup and commune with you today. Thank you, Holy Spirit, for being here today, being amongst us, being in the midst of the presence. We thank you, Lord God, for your Shekinah glory, Lord God. As we leave this place, but definitely not your presence, Lord God, that the ministering angels be encamped about us, protecting us from all hurt, harm, and danger, Lord God. We thank you, Lord God, that as as we go forth this week will be a prosperous week, Lord God. Lord God, we thank you that no evil or corrupt— no evil will come our way as we go forth this week. Let prosperity be with us, Lord God. Let supernatural increase lead and guide us today, right now, in the name of Jesus, Lord God. Let our hearts and our minds and our eyes continue to be stayed on you, Lord God, for your Your word says, Lord God, if we keep our mind stayed on thee, you will keep us in perfect peace. Let everything that we touch prosper this week in the name of Jesus. Let doors, new doors open this week for us. Everything that we have prayed and ordained, Jesus, Lord God, let your word be revealed right before our eyes, become rhema, Lord God. Let miracles, signs, and wonders happen before our eyes this week in the name of Jesus. Let the redeemed of the Lord say so in the name of Jesus. Lord God, let people come from the north, the south, the east, and the west to come to ride our church in the name of Jesus. Let them know that there is a ministry that is out here that believe in the miracles, signs, and wonders, that believe in deaf ears opening, blind eyes seeing in the name of Jesus, lame walking. Lord God, we thank you, Lord God, that we walk in favor this week. Let your favor be revealed, Lord God, this week in the name of Jesus. Whatever we've been praying to believe in, Lord God, let it be so in the name of Jesus. Lord God, that we leave this place but not your presence. We thank you, Lord God, that we come before you, let it— we come before you with praise and thanksgiving and adoration unto you as we continue to worship your wonderful name, as we continue to glorify your name, as we, we continue to love on you, Lord, just because of who you are, Lord. You're worthy, you're worthy to be praised, you're worthy to be worshiped. Oh, come let us adore the risen Savior. And we thank you, Lord, Lord God, for another opportunity, Lord God, to be in your presence. It's in your wonderful and precious name we pray. Amen and amen. Amen and amen. Oh, we sing amen to you, Lord. Amen to you, Lord. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Thank you, Jesus.