Harry Pitts argues Christianity is a sovereign government, not a religion of performance. Believers are ambassadors of heaven whose bodies are embassies of the Most High. Sickness is an illegal trespass on sovereign territory; prayer and fasting are governmental alignment practices, not merit-earning rituals.
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This program is brought to you in part by the friends and partners of 514 Grace Ministries. Coming up next on the Grace Nation Broadcast. This is not just another sermon or a message about the cross. This Is a call to see what really happened on the cross of Calvary. This ain't just a song; it's a statement. Grace is our sound. The word is our stage. Go go go go! Woo! Go go go go! Hey! Go go go go! Five! Go! Go go go go! Family, we're going to need to hear the word of God in the season and time that we're living in. This message is part of a series that we've been teaching on kingdom authority. I want to title this message Rediscovering the Kingdom: The Rule, the Authority, and the Representation. Of the King of Kings. But I know that there has been a great deception that has taken place, and I need everyone listening to me to hear me clearly. There are moments when a message is not just taught, it is sent by God. This is one of those moments. Amen. This word carries weight this morning. It confronts what has held people bound for years. It exposes lies that have been dressed up as truth. It reaches into places people don't want to talk about. Pastor Keith. Amen. Minister Tracy, Minister Philia. Because this type of message is going to deal with shame, cycles, hidden struggles, quiet defeat, and it brings light where darkness has tried to live unchecked. This is not just another sermon or a message about the cross. This is a call to see what really happened on the cross of Calvary. We look like— what looked like loss on the cross is not actually loss. What looked like weakness was authority being restored. What looked like an ending was the beginning of your freedom. Amen. I believe this morning this word is going to disrupt patterns. It will break agreement with fear, guilt, and condemnation. It will challenge the status quo and their mindsets that have kept people stuck in darkness. Change. Now, we're not anti-church. We're not anti-Christianity at all. We've got to unpack the truth because This message will awaken something in those who are ready to step out of survival and into the authority, the kingdom authority that the Bible speaks of. Amen. The kingdom of darkness does not lose quietly. It gets overturned when truth is revealed, and truth is about to be revealed this morning. If you've been bound, you won't leave the same. If you've been searching, you're about to find clarity. If you felt stuck, something is about to shift. This is more than inspiration this morning. Listen to me. I need you to focus, sit still, and hear this word from God. This word made me free. I can't take credit for a word that was sent from God because this message, this is liberation. And I need you to lean in this morning and stay open. God is about to move in a real way. Amen. Because the church has been sold a counterfeit gospel. Amen. And the evidence is written in the spiritual exhaustion of God's people. For generations, believers have been conditioned to think that Christianity is fundamentally about getting saved so you can go to heaven when you die. Amen. We've reduced the most explosive world-conquering government-establishing message ever delivered to humanity into a religious evacuation plan. Amen. We've traded the crown of governmental authority for a pew and a bulletin. Yes, Lord. But Jesus did not come to earth to start another religion. He came to establish a government. That's right. That's right. When Jesus— I'm not upset, so this is just the zeal of God has consumed me. So, if I get a little loud, don't— I'm not upset at all. It's God's zeal. When Jesus declared, the time is fulfilled and the kingdom of God has come near, he was announcing a new church program or denominational movement. He was not announcing a new church program or denominational movement. Amen. He was proclaiming that the sovereign government of heaven had invaded planet Earth, and the rightful King had arrived to reclaim his stolen territory, to restore his displaced governors, and reestablish the divine order that human rebellion had dismantled. Amen. Listen to me. I need you to— if you don't get anything I say, please write this down and get this. If you misunderstand the kingdom, you will misunderstand your entire existence. Let me say that again. If you misunderstand the kingdom of God, you will misunderstand your entire existence. Now, this may go viral. That one statement may go viral. That's okay. Don't email me because I'm not gonna read them. You'll spend your life begging God to rescue you from a world he actually commissioned you to govern. You will live as a spiritual refugee when you don't understand the kingdom, when heaven's constitution, which is your Bible, declares you are a governmental representative. You will pray like a homeless person outside the palace when you carry the legal credentials of a citizen who belongs on the inside. Amen. Amen. See, the issue is not whether you can speak religious language. Millions do this while living in complete governmental ignorance. The issue is not whether you attend services faithfully. Uh, that's not the issue. Attendance or without alignment from the kingdom produces activity without divine authority. Preach, preach. The issue is whether you have awakened to the government of God. Recognize the absolute authority of the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords and step into your legal assignment as heaven's official representative on planet Earth. We are not here to discuss theology this morning as an academic exercise. That's right. We're here to rediscover or recover your original mandate given by God, our Creator, and to restore your governmental consciousness and permanently dismantle every religious substitute that has kept you performing instead of governing. Amen. Now, we've got to deal with the understanding of what we're talking about today when we talk about teaching on kingdom authority. Amen. Because believers have been taught something different. It is a hybrid type of gospel. So when Jesus— I need you to stay with me— when Jesus taught his disciples to pray, he did not give them the prayer of desperation. He gave them the prayer of dominion. He said, Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name. He didn't say Our Father on earth. He said, Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name. Listen, listen to me. Listen, listen. He says, Your kingdom come, your will be done. Make it plain, brother. Make it plain. On earth as it is in heaven. Notice the governmental architecture of this prayer. Before Jesus teaches you to ask for daily bread, before he teaches you to ask for forgiveness, before deliverance from evil, he demands that you first establish governmental priority. Before you bring your needs, your fears, your personal agenda, you must first acknowledge the King's name, summon the King's government, and align yourself with the King's will. Amen. This order is not accidental. It is in fact constitutional. The modern church has completely reversed this divine order. That's right. We've mastered the prayer of desperation. Lord, help me. Help me fix this. Change that. Give me this. Let me have that. But we've forgotten the prayer of alignment. Lord, govern me. We want kingdom results without kingdom submission. Right. We want God's intervention without God's jurisdiction. But Jesus establishes the non-negotiable order of the kingdom. Before bread, there must be government. Before provision, there must be alignment. Before the king releases resources, the king must have jurisdiction. In the territory in which he governs, the kingdom come is not a passive religious language whispered by sentimental believers hoping heaven eventually arrives. Now I'm going to break some things up. What does he mean when he says thy kingdom come? It is a colonial. Decree issued by an authorized representative demanding that the culture, the order, the resources, and government of the home country be manifested in the occupied territory. The culture, the order, the resources, the government of that country be manifested in the occupied territory. Thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Amen. In governmental terms, earth is heaven's colony. Amen. You are the colonial representative stationed here by the government of God. Amen. When you pray thy kingdom come, you are giving heaven legal permission to invade earthly chaos through your surrendered life. You are positioning yourself as the conduit through which heaven's order flows into earthly disorder. In heaven, there is no sickness. In heaven, there is no confusion. In heaven, there is no poverty of purpose. When the kingdom comes through you, Yes. And when the kingdom comes to you, these illegal occupiers do not negotiate. They must evacuate now. Amen. But you cannot honestly pray thy kingdom come while actively resisting God's government in your private life. Amen. Wow. You cannot summon the king's reign into your circumstances while rejecting the King's jurisdiction over your character, your decisions, your relationships, and your thought life. Yes. The prayer of the kingdom begins with surrender first before it reaches supply. It begins with government before it reaches provision. And we need a faith revolution because in order to understand how God moves We've got to understand him and understand the language of the kingdom. Amen. We've got to go from religious performance to governmental authority. Amen. And we've got to prepare and to know what truth is. So this morning, prepare to have everything you thought you knew about faith completely demolished. And rebuilt on its proper governmental foundation. That was the introduction, but I need you to deal with me right now and listen to me right now because we're about to give— we're about to flesh this thing out and give some meat to these bones. The church has been teaching faith incorrectly, Pastor Keith, for generations. And the evidence is in the spiritual exhaustion and confusion and disappointment of God's people. Because when you walk into churches across the world, and you will encounter the same religious performance masquerading as biblical faith. Preachers tell you, they tell you that you must release Faith. You've heard that expression before. You have to release faith as if faith is a prisoner sitting in handcuffs inside your chest, waiting for you to perform the correct ritual to unlock his cell. Others insist you must speak your faith with specific words, with volume, with resignation and repetition. As if the sovereign king of the universe has a hearing problem or wears a hearing aid. Then there are those who teach you must give financially to activate your faith, as if the throne of heaven operates like a cosmic vending machine that dispenses miracles after you insert the correct monetary denomination. Right. Every single one of these approaches contains the same fatal governmental error. They make faith about what you perform rather than about who he is. They transform faith from a governmental response into a religious transaction. They turn the kingdom citizen into a spiritual beggar who must execute the correct ritual before the king will acknowledge their legal standing. But the government of heaven cannot be bribed, manipulated, or purchased by religious technique. The king's authority does not increase Based on the volume of your declarations or the intensity of your emotional performance. Amen. This is where it gets heavy. Faith, Pastor Keith, contrary to what people have been teaching, what people believe, I'm sorry if you're watching right now, but faith is not an emotion to be worked up. Faith is not a prisoner to be released. Faith is not a formula to be executed. Faith is a legal— listen to this. Ah, this, this changed the trajectory of my life. Listen to this statement. Faith is a legal response to recognized authority. That's what faith is. Faith is a legal response to recognize authority. You that are watching, write that down. Faith is a legal response to recognize authority. Listen to me, I'm going to prove it to you. The centurion, he gives or creates a legal argument. The centurion in Matthew chapter 8 is about to permanently— listen to me— he's about to permanently destroy every religious formula you have ever been given about faith. This man is going to blow it up. He's going to obliterate it. This Roman military officer approaches Jesus about his paralyzed servant in Matthew chapter 8. When Jesus offers to come to his house, the centurion stops him with the most theologically precise statement about authority ever recorded in history. Amen. Listen at what he says. He says, Lord, I do not deserve to have you come under my roof, but just say the word And my servant will be healed. For I myself am a man under authority with soldiers under me. Jesus, at this moment when he saw this and he heard this, Jesus, the King of Kings, is absolutely stunned at what he just heard. Amen. Jesus is stunned. He's enamored by what he just heard and what he's seeing with his eyes. He declares he has not found such great faith in all of Israel. Why? Because the centurion did not bring religious tears or emotional performance. He brought a legal argument based on his understanding of governmental structure. Amen. This military commander understood that a traffic officer— listen to me, listen to me— a traffic officer does not stop a massive truck through physical strength, but through governmental backing. The badge on her uniform represents the entire, entire legal system standing behind her with her hands raised to stop this truck. The truck stops not because of her muscles, but because of her authority. Amen. The centurion looked at Jesus and recognized something that Israel's most educated religious leaders— listen to me, you don't want to miss this— their most educated religious leaders had completely missed Jesus was not operating in personal charisma but in constitutional authority backed by the throne of heaven itself. He reasoned from the lesser to the greater with devastating governmental logic. Listen at what this man says. He says, I am under authority. When I speak, soldiers obey because of the governmental system I represent. Oh, don't miss this. Don't miss this. Say it. Says, now I'm standing before one whose authority infinitely Exceeds mine. He does not need proximity because authority does not require physical presence. The man says, "Just speak the word. You don't have to be there because this authority does not require physical presence." Just speak the word. The sickness. must comply. Distance is irrelevant. The only thing that matters is the authority of the one who speaks. Amen. Listen at this. This is gonna blow your mind. This is the paradigm-shattering revelation. Faith is not an emotional state. Listen to me. My life is never gonna be the same after the Lord showed me this. Faith is not an emotional state. Faith is a legal response to recognize authority. The woman with the issue of blood who had faith that was silent, silent faith that draws the dunamis power that the believer needs. Amen. If the centurion established the theory of governmental faith, the woman with the issue of blood demonstrates its practices in the most explosive way imaginable. 12 years of bleeding, 12 years of physical deterioration, financial ruin, and social isolation, because under Jewish law, her condition made her ceremonially unclean. That's right. Legally banned from worship, forbidden from human touch. For 12 years, she had been living as a governmental outcast. But Mark 11:28— oh my God, Mark, excuse me, Mark 5:28 records her internal reasoning with stunning precision. Mark 5:28: For she said within herself, if I may touch but his garment, I shall be, I shall be whole. The religious performance Teachers will tell you that faith must be spoken aloud with sufficient volume and conviction. But this woman's faith was completely silent. It was internal governmental reasoning. She did not perform religious rituals or give offerings to activate her faith. No rituals. No offerings, no shouting. That's right. No rehearsing. She reasoned within herself. And that silent internal governmental reasoning became the most powerful act of faith in the entire gospel narrative. She was constructing a legal argument in her mind. Everything I've heard about this man tells me he is the living word of God made flesh. If his word carries the full backing of heaven's government, then his very person is saturated with that governmental authority. If I can make contact with the living word, heaven's government. must respond to that touch. Woo, that's good. She pressed through the crowd, which was itself an act of legal defiance. Her condition prohibited her from touching anyone, but she had made a governmental calculation. Listen to me. The authority she was reaching toward infinitely exceeded the religious law She was breaking to reach it. Yes. She touched the hem of his garment and immediately the fountain of blood dried up. Jesus stopped and asked, who touched me? Everyone was physically touching him, but only one person made governmental contact. Listen to this. You're going to want to listen to this. Jesus explained somebody had Touch me, for I perceive that virtue has gone out of me. The word virtue— listen to this— the word virtue is the word dunamis. You spell dunamis D-U-N-A-M-I-S. Dunamis is governmental power, divine authority, the legislative force of heaven's rule. She touched him with her faith, not just her fingers. When he found her, he said, Daughter, thy faith hath made thee whole. Not her performance. Yes. Not her religious technique. Not her emotional intensity. Her governmental recognition of who he was and what legal contact with his authority will constitutionally produce in this realm. That's good. Listen to this. You don't wanna miss this. Let me take my time on this part because this is gonna change your life. Your body is a kingdom embassy. Your body is a kingdom embassy. Sickness has to go. Amen. Now we're going to venture into revelation territory that will permanently transform how you understand your physical body and your authority as a kingdom ambassador. Paul declares in 2 Corinthians chapter 5, verse 20, that we are ambassadors for Christ. Read that. It says Paul declares in 2 Corinthians chapter 5, verse 20, that we are ambassadors for Christ. This is what Apostle Paul said. I didn't write that. I didn't record that. I didn't write that at all. Paul wrote this. But in legal and governmental terms, the ambassador is their home country in that foreign territory. Amen. They are that home country in that foreign territory. When an ambassador is stationed in a foreign nation— I know that people want to be parliamentaries, they want to be senators, they want to be officials. No, I want to be an ambassador. When an ambassador is stationed in a foreign nation, listen, the embassy building they occupy is legally considered sovereign territory of the territory of the home country. That embassy is the territory. For instance, if the United States is in France, that embassy, the land that, that, that was purchased to build that embassy is United States territory. Amen. It is sovereign territory of the home country because the ambassador is the representative of that home country. He is not a person. He is a country. He is a territory, even though it sits on foreign soil. That building operates entirely under the jurisdiction of the sending government. Does that make sense? Yes. If you are an ambassador of the kingdom of heaven, Yes. This is where it gets heavy. Then your body is not merely biological tissue subject to random earthly diseases. Your body is the official embassy of the Most High God. Somebody say that with me. My body is. My body is. My body is. Can someone stop that? Unplug it. Thank you. My body is an embassy of the Most High God. Of the Most High God. If you're an ambassador of the Kingdom of Heaven, then your body is not merely biological tissue subject to random earthly disease. Your body is the official embassy building of heaven's government on earth. Amen. It is sovereign kingdom territory under heaven's legal jurisdiction. Don't miss it. Your body is sovereign kingdom territory under heaven's legal jurisdiction. Apostle Paul just said in 2 Corinthians 5:20 that we are So when sickness— Pastor Keith, when sickness attacks the body of a kingdom ambassador, sickness is not merely attacking a human being. Sickness is invading the sovereign territory of the kingdom of God. Because your body is the temple, the territory of God. It is crossing a border it has no legal right to cross. It is occupying property that belongs to another government entirely. Sickness is not just a health problem. It is an act of criminal trespass against the sovereign government of that king. You've touched sovereign soil sickness. So now the government has to deal with you. In the natural realm, when a foreign— when foreign entities attack embassy property, it triggers a full diplomatic crisis between sovereign nations. That's right. The home country has the complete legal right to respond with the full force and might of his governmental authority. This means when you stand against sickness in your body as a kingdom ambassador, you are not making a desperate request. You're not making some type of desperate personal request. You are invoking the full governmental authority of heaven against an illegal trespasser that has violated sovereign kingdom territory. Amen. Romans chapter 8, verse 11 confirms the legal basis. Listen at this. If the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit who dwells in you. Your body is inhabited by the Spirit of the living God. Yes. It is occupied kingdom territory. So when the enemy crosses the border and he steps and he tries to touch this territory that belongs to God, all the might of heaven is supporting you as a, ambassador of God. Amen. Sickness has no legal jurisdiction over kingdom property. Fear has no constitutional authority over the mind of a kingdom citizen. Depression has no legal right to occupy the emotional territory of heaven's ambassador. The grace of God covers the ambassador. Sin has no authority because you are sovereign territory of the country of heaven. So, we've got to get the governmental alignment right. That's right. The passage that has generated more religious confusion than almost any other is Matthew 17. As much as I tried to avoid this, I cannot. We've got to deal with this. This Matthew 17 is a passage that many preachers are afraid to deal with or touch, myself included. But thank God for the Spirit of God, his revelation. Matthew 17 is where Jesus tells the disciples that this kind does not go out except by prayer and fasting. Teach, teach. Religion heard that and immediately created a performance based power generational system that governs how you need to approach God. Religion says you have to perform. Yes. You have to operate. You have to do all the gyrations. You have to mutter. You have to, to, to pray this certain way. They concluded that prayer— religion has concluded that prayer and fasting accumulate sufficient spiritual force to overcome resistant demonic opposition. This is what they've determined. But Jesus was not prescribing more religious activity to generate more spiritual power. Now, I know this is going to upset some folks because they've been teaching you got to pray, you got to pray and you got to fast. Jesus was diagnosing their governmental problem. Look at what Jesus says first. Listen at what he says first before he says this type or this kind come out by prayer and fasting. He says, oh, faithless and perverse generation. He diagnoses the root problem as faithlessness, a failure to understand and rest in governmental authority. Amen. Prayer and fasting are not power-generating rituals. They are governmental alignment practices. When you fast, you are not starving your body to make God sympathetic. You are deliberating, subordinating the loudest voice of your earthly nature so that the governmental reality of the kingdom becomes the dominant voice inside of your head. That's right. So that the kingdom becomes the dominant frequency in your consciousness. Fasting silences the flesh so the government of God can speak to you clearly without being restrained. Amen. Or muted. Prayer in this context is not petition. It is governmental communion. It is the ambassador maintaining continuous contact with the headquarters so they never lose clarity about whose authority they carry and what legislative backing they possess when they speak. Listen to this. The disciples fell not because they lacked spiritual technique. They failed because they had lost governmental consciousness of who they were as citizens of the kingdom of heaven. They forgot who they were. People said, Pastor, we're not seeing miracles because you're not in alignment with the kingdom of heaven. You forgot who you were. That's right. The Bible said, O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you to believe a lie? The disciples had begun operating from their own identity rather than from the authority of the one who commissioned them. You're going to want to hear this. Demons do not respond to religious noise. They respond to governmental authority. Amen. Prayer and fasting restore governmental consciousness. They bring the ambassador back into full alignment with the headquarters of heaven so that when they speak, they speak with complete authority and the backing of the throne of God. So your complete governmental position changes about faith. Amen. Faith is governmental consciousness, the settled, unshakable, constitutionally grounded recognition of whose authority you carry. That's what faith is— trusting the authority that you represent, what the authority has legally established, and what heaven's government is obligated to produce when a properly aligned citizen and makes legal contact with the word of the king. Amen. This is why God could speak to the prophet Elisha. Elisha, who was being pursued by the Syrians. Thousands, more than 50,000 troops pursuing one man. One man. They show up and they encircle the town where he is. More than 50,000 troops pursue one individual. What was unique about this prophet of God? One man. More than— you send 50,000 people. This man had to be a bad boy. More than 50,000 people to pursue one man. What type of kingdom authority did this man possess? But something happens unique. Minister Philia, Minister Tracy, listen, something happens unique. His servant, while the prophet is asleep, sees the soldiers encircling the property, encircling the house, encircling the town. Immediately fear strikes in him when he sees soldiers on chariots. Yes. So he goes and he wakes the prophet Elijah. And the prophet Elijah walks out and he looks. He does something strange. The prophet Elijah prays a prayer and he asks the kingdom of heaven to open his servant's eyes. Amen. So that is clear. There are 2 different type of realms. There is the territory of earth, but Elijah had an authority that was greater than the territory that he was in. Elijah said, God, heaven, the King, the Most High, open his eyes so that he can see that those that are with us is greater in number and more powerful. This servant now sees into the kingdom of heaven, and he sees the angel armies of the Lord God Sabaoth encircling more than 50,000 troops. Ah, I don't know if you get this. Teach, teach. But he saw into the realm of the country of heaven, and then when the layers were pulled back, he saw the host of heaven. And the joy that overwhelmed this servant of Elijah was palpable. He believed and he understood. Now I understand that I have divine kingdom authority that is greater than the realm of this earth. Amen. So when sickness touches your body, it is trespassing on sovereign territory. Understand that this authority that you have is established in what heaven's government is obligated to produce. As an ambassador, you represent the heaven, the kingdom of heaven on planet Earth. Stop releasing faith as if it is imprisoned. Yes. Start recognizing authority as if you are a governor. Stop speaking faith as a formula. Start standing in faith as a legal position. Amen. Amen. Stop praying faith as religious performance. Start living faith as a governmental reality. Amen. Uh, once you understand authority and have recovered governmental faith, you must step fully into the identity that makes that faith intelligible. Yes. Paul drops a governmental bombshell. Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, God making his appeal through us. You are not merely a religious adherent. Adam was not a religious leader. He was an ambassador. He was a governor on planet Earth. You are an official diplomat of the government of heaven, legally stationed on planet Earth, carrying the full authority and backing of the king who sent you. Amen. An ambassador never speaks their own opinions. They only communicate the official position of their government. Kingdom representation is not self-expression. It is faithful, uncompromising, constitutionally accurate representation of the king's will in that territory. But here's the economic revelation that will transfer your— transform your understanding of provision. Listen at this. Stop begging for what you already possess. An ambassador never pays for their own lifestyle. The government that sends them provides their housing, transportation, protection, and operational resources as long as they remain about the king's business. Yes. This is the explosive governmental reality behind Matthew 6:33. Seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you. That's right. When you stop living for yourself and start living as an official representative of heaven, you step into diplomatic provision. This is why people are living a life that is broken. You don't understand that you have diplomatic provision. Amen. The king's treasury sustains the king's officials. That's right. Amen. That's why Jesus told his disciples, Don't worry about what you will eat or drink because the King has already established provision for you as an ambassador in this territory. Ah, your citizenship is in heaven and you are backed by the unlimited resources of the kingdom of God. This means your workplace is not just your employment. It is a kingdom embassy where heaven's culture is being demonstrated on your job. Are you listening to me? Your home is not just a residence. Ah, when you're there, you are a colonizer. Your job is just not your job. Your home is not just your residence. It is a colonial outpost of heaven's government on earth. Amen. Your conversations are not just social interaction. They carry the legislative weight of a government that rules over every earthly power. Stop thinking like a spiritual refugee waiting for evacuation to go to heaven. We're just going to go to the by and by. Start functioning like a government representative executing your assignment on planet Earth. Didn't mean for you to go to heaven. God meant for you to rule this territory and colonize this territory with the kingdom's culture, economy, and resources, and changing the language to that of righteousness. Final verdict: Kingdom versus religion. And I'm going to hasten to a close. I need you to hear this. We must now deliver the verdict that this entire lesson has been building toward. Jesus told Pilate, listen, my kingdom is not of this world. My God, I can stop right there. He said, my kingdom is not of this world. That's right. Listen at what he's saying. He said, my kingdom is not of this world. So that means that if his kingdom is not of this world, what world is this kingdom of? So his kingdom is not just some ethereal place that is read about. His kingdom is a reality. It is a world. It is a country. It is a territory. Jesus said this. He gave description. He said, in my Father's house are many mansions. Ah, so it has houses, it has territory, it has land, it has description. Right. He did not mean his kingdom has no effect in this world. He meant his— he meant its source, its authority and legitimacy are not derived from the world system. Amen. From this world's systems. The kingdom of God does not originate in human consciousness and human consensus and cultural trends or institutional religious authority. Paul confirms this, for the kingdom of God is not a matter of eating and drinking, but of righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit. Spirit. The kingdom is not located in an external religious observance, in your Sunday observances. No, it is manifested in righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit. Divine rule with visible, tangible, transformative fruit that people can see. Yes. When you walk in and someone's sick, you're supposed to take authority. over that situation and declare to that sickness that you are trespassing on foreign sovereign territory. Here is the verdict: religion is the greatest enemy of the kingdom because it gives people enough appearance of godliness to feel satisfied while never actually surrendering to divine government. Religion can preserve language without surrender. It can maintain perfect attendance without alignment to the kingdom. It can produce eloquent theological speech without governmental transformation. Religion lets people talk about God, sing about God, and debate about God while resisting God's rule and authority. Amen. The kingdom is categorically different. Religion asks, did you perform the correct rituals? The kingdom asks, are you under the government of the King? Amen. So, I can't feed my children. Well, um, this is why I'm not concerned about the systems of this world. I'm not concerned about people that are transgender, that are gay, that are homosexual. I'm not concerned about any of those things because I know this: they're religious, they're not kingdom citizens. That's the difference. Religion asks, did you perform the correct rituals? The kingdom asks, are you under the government of the king? Religion produces performers, the kingdom produces governors. Religion produces attendees, the kingdom produces ambassadors. Religion produces consumers of spiritual services. The kingdom produces representatives of divine government. A church may have impressive attendance, beautiful facilities, and eloquent religious language, yet completely fail to display the kingdom if righteousness, peace, joy, governmental submission, and faithful ambassadorial representation are absent. What you have is you just have a building full of people and you're a religious organization because the kingdom is not proven by religious activity. Amen. It is recognized where the reign of God is genuinely welcome, constitutionally embraced, and faithfully reflected and lived out publicly. Amen. I need to give a closing charge. You've not just heard a lesson, you've been issued a governmental summons. Thy kingdom come is not an empty religious language. It is a governmental decree issued by authorized representatives demanding that heaven's order invade earthly chaos. The centurion showed us that real faith is not emotional performance. Yes. It is legal recognition of authority. What is real faith? Legal, legal recognition of divine authority. That's real faith. It's not based on you having some formula because God's going to do this. As a citizen of the kingdom, you have health rights. Every country gives their citizens health coverage. Right. There is a system of governance that does not allow criminal law Every country has a military force. This is why Jesus could say, ah, he said he could ask and command 1,000 legions. That word legion is a military term. They have a host, an army that is in the country of heaven. Amen. We're gonna teach this differently because the woman with the issue of blood showed us that the most powerful faith operates in silence. You don't have to give any ooms and ahs and be, be repetitive with your prayers or, or howl or groan or moan. No, you don't have to say anything, but speak and declare internally. Yes. That I am. Make a declaration that I am. A kingdom citizen. Amen. Because she understood that her life was governed by a constitutional certainty, drawing dunamis from the living Word through governmental contact. You are not a member of a religion waiting for heaven to rescue you. You are a citizen, an official representative of the greatest government that has ever existed. Your body is an embassy, and force is sovereignty. Your faith is a legal position. Faith is a legal position. Faith is a legal position. Occupy it with governmental certainty. Your prayer is a colonial decree. We're just praying, praying, praying. No, your prayer is a colonial decree. Amen. Amen. Issue it with ambassadorial authority. Your life is a kingdom assignment executed with full backing of heaven's throne. The centurion did not astonish Jesus with his passion. He astonished him with his precision, his clear, unshakable recognition of authority. You want great faith? Stop chasing religious sensation and pursue revelation of his Kingship and his kingdom authority in your life if you want great faith. Your heads. Father, we thank you this morning for your word. Thank you. We know that faith is confidence in
