Mark Morgan - KINGDOM WARS

Everybody said amen. Psalms chapter 68, and uh, if you'll stand for the reading of the word of the Lord. Psalms chapter 68. I'm going to read, uh, down through verse 11 and 12. Psalm 68:11. Amen. The Lord gave the word. Great was the company of those that published it. The kings of armies did flee a pace, and she that tarried at home divided the spoil.

Now, I'm going to tell you this, and I'm going to come back to it here in just a second. The word there that talks about company is a double feminine, which literally means women. For all of you scholars, Google it. You can trust Google. And basically, it says, "Great was his word and the company of women that spoke it." Amen. So I want you to remember that because we're going to come back to that here in just a second. Amen.

Isaiah chapter 52 and verse number seven. "And how beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, and publisheth peace; that bringeth good tidings of good, that published salvation; that said unto Zion, that said unto Zion, 'Thy God reigneth.'" That'll put you on shouting ground right there. I'm not going to go any further till you get it. Thy God reigneth.

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Thy watchmen shall lift up the voice. With the voice together shall they sing. For they shall see eye to eye, when the Lord shall bring again Zion. When the Lord shall bring again Zion.

I want to talk to you tonight about kingdom wars. Kingdom wars.

Father, thank you for these wonderful people. I thank you for the opportunity to minister your word. I ask you, as I ask you this afternoon, to let my mind be clear. I ask you, Lord, to let it flow through me. Help spiritual understanding and revelation to be in this place tonight. We need you, Lord, and we know that you're here and you're going to speak. You're going to try to enlighten your people as to the glorious kingdom that they are a part of. I give you glory and honor. I take authority in this service in the name of Jesus Christ. Confirm your word tonight, God, with signs following. I give you the praise, the glory, and the honor for it, in the wonderful name of Jesus. And everybody said, "Amen." Amen.

Turn, shake someone's hand while you're being seated and said, "It's a kingdom war."

Let me give you just a little historical setting to Isaiah chapter 52. The prophet, called the prophet of redemption, is writing, and he is seeing, and in this particular time, Israel was in bondage. Nebuchadnezzar had come, destroyed the city, the temple, carried the people of God into captivity. The people of God were beginning to question the kingdom. If we're truly the kingdom, Israel's the kingdom, then why in the world did this happen? How could our city be lying in waste and ruin?

But Isaiah, the prophet, said in our text that he seen something coming from the mountains. One translation says the gospel of a swift-footed messenger proclaiming the gospel of the kingdom. His proclamation was peace and salvation, which deals with the kingdom of God. And of course, if you really understand Isaiah chapter 52, you realize that it is actually talking about the coming Messiah. He's going to be the messenger. He's the one that's going to bring good tidings. You go from the 52nd chapter into the 53rd chapter. I think it's called the fourth song of the Messiah. And it begins to give you description. It closes 52 with rejoicing and celebration. 53, it begins to give you the description of the true messenger that was to come and preach.

Now, the message was simple. It was the kingdom of God. It was God still reigns. Understand when he's saying that to those people, the particular dilemma that they were in, Jerusalem is destroyed. To them, their kingdom had been devastated. They had begun to question the power of God. But then the messenger, his message, and the proclamation: God reigns. It doesn't matter how bad it looks. It doesn't matter about the devastation. It doesn't matter that you're in captivity in another kingdom. It doesn't matter about the temple being destroyed. Just rest assured, your God reigns. Your God reigns.

Then it starts talking about in verse number eight about these watchers. I, um, I, I, I, I, now, just, just everybody relax. I, I brought up a bunch of notes. I've been writing on this stuff. I'm not going to preach all these notes. So everybody just relax and chill. I know it's Friday night and it's supposed to be party night. There's no party like a Holy Ghost party, 'cause I get it. I get it. I understand. But I, I've been on this little journey and trying to really get some understanding. I, uh, I just don't want to know the times. I want to know what we should do. Issachar, the Bible says, would bear a double burden. I personally believe the double burden that he bore was he knew what Israel, he knew the times, the first burden, and the second burden was he knew what Israel was to do. I think we all could understand the times that we're living in. I think it's very obvious before us the times that we're living in. But it's not just a matter of having the ability to discern the times. What is the church supposed to be doing right now? What are the people of God supposed to be doing right now? I don't think that God wants to keep it a secret from us. I think he wants to open our understanding to what God has called us to do.

Now, verse number eight, it starts talking about the watchers. And so I, you know, I, I'm, now, now brother Wrighty gets into all this Greek and stuff and all. Me, I just go to Strong's Concordance and I can get dangerous with a Strong's Concordance. Some of you can too. Don't sit out there and act like you're such an intellectual. I got a Strong's Concordance on my phone. So you start using words, I'm like, "Make sure you're telling me the truth." And so I got to looking at that word watcher, and I, I was amazed to find out that, uh, it was almost used in the ideal of a spy, someone that was observing something in another kingdom, someone watching off in the distance somewhere. Then it, in that definition, it leads over and says, "A a metal or a level place on Mount at the peak of Mount Pisgah." And I was like, "Oh, okay." So when it says watchers, it's talking about people who are in an elevated position that has the ability from that high, lofty position to observe and to see future things about the kingdom of God. I feel the Holy Ghost right now.

And so I, uh, I, you know, it's my way I do it and all this stuff and all. Started drawing my lines and stick figures, trying to connect it all. And, uh, I, I, I, I realized, I said, "Now, wait a minute here." So this is this lofty place, watchers, they go to this lofty place and they observe and all this stuff and all. But this just this little nudge, I thought, "Well, what, what really is Mount Pisgah?" And so I got to looking at it, and then I found out that it's also referred to as Mount Nebo, same mountainous range. Now, Isaiah said that they're going to approach. Isaiah was actually talking about himself. I see from this position in the distance the Messiah coming. He's coming. His kingdom is approaching. Now, you're worried about the kingdom of Israel, but his kingdom is approaching. And when his kingdom approaches and he brings Zion back, there ought to be singing and rejoicing and all this stuff and all. You know, you know what takes your song away from you? When you get focused on the wrong kingdom.

There he is. All right. Now, you can climb your lofty pinnacle of Google and Facebook and news, and you can gaze from that high intellectual approach of yours off into the distance, and you can see all the gloom and the doom and Jerusalem destroyed, and you can see all of that. But you can't sing about it. No.

Now, I, I don't want to offend anybody here. I really don't. I don't want to offend anybody here. And hopefully. But I got the mic and I'm going to be right. People that are going through the tribulation, I don't see much joy in them. No. And I asked a question the other day. I said, "Jesus, oh, I'm, I'm getting off. I shouldn't." Jesus said, "As it was in the days of Noah, as it was in the days of Lot, they were eating and drinking and marriage and building and all this stuff and all until God brought Noah into the ark, and then the rain fell, and then he delivered Lot out of the city, and then the fire and brimstone began to reach." So I got to looking at the end of the tribulation, and I can't see anything in there that fits the description that Jesus gave. That's right. They're not going to be eating and drinking and married and giving in marriage and partying at the end of the tribulation. No, they're not.

Well, well, well, well, well. I tell you something else that I began to realize. You, oh, I shouldn't, man. I, yeah, I am going to, 'cause this is a part of what I want to preach about tonight.

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All this fear of the approaching Antichrist and all of his kingdom and all this stuff and all that's striking fear in the heart of the church. Then I got to looking at something, and I think it's kind of the law of first mention. I got to looking at it, and then you, you use some of it today. You got in Hebrews 11, you got Enoch mentioned. He has a testimony that he pleased God, and God took him. Now, whether you like this or not, he was raptured. Yes. Right. That's the only thing you. And the next historical figure is Noah. Yeah. Noah was going to experience the judgment of God on the earth. So God sets a principle. I always remove what pleases me before I bring destruction on the earth. Wow. It's always been a principle. Perversion, iniquity, lawlessness, a righteous factor. And then God says, "Before I bring judgment down on all this, I'm going to remove that righteous factor." We are not appointed unto wrath. So lift up your head. I know some of you look in the distance and all you can see is the Antichrist. But I see another Christ in the distance. And his kingdom is approaching swiftly, swiftly.

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Sit down. Sit down. Sit down. You're, you're taking up my time. Sit down.

Now, watchers on this high place. Remember that? Did we, we remember what I just said? Watchers on this high place. Where is it that God took Moses to and said, "I want you to view the promised land, the kingdom"? Yeah. Mount Nebo. Pisgah, same place. So he takes him to the top of it. Oh, it's going to get better than that. Hang on. He takes him to the top of it. He says, "I'm going to let you be a watcher." Now, you can't enter into it because of your disobedience, but I'm going to let you see it. I'm going to let you see. You're going to get a glimpse of it. And then God kissed him with the kiss of death. And Michael comes, and he wouldn't bring accusation, railing, and all this stuff. He just simply said, "The Lord rebuke thee. The Lord rebuke thee. The Lord rebuke thee." Remember all that? All you Bible scholars, remember all that.

Then the other day, I said, "Hey, what is the Mount of Transfiguration?" What mountain do they say is the Mount of Transfiguration? You ready? Yeah. I Googled it. Most Christians believe that Mount Nebo is the Mount of Transfiguration. So Moses had been on that mountain before, and he really wanted to see the future. And God said, "No, I can't show you that kingdom now." But he brings him up on the Mount of Transfiguration, and you got Elijah and Moses, the law and the prophets, and then you got three apostles. So you got the law, the prophets, and the apostles, all about to bear witness of the sonship of Jesus. But you got to remember, it's on that mountain that Jesus is radiating. He's glowing. I mean, he's like a lit-up light bulb. It wasn't shining on him. It was shining out of him. It's where there is no flesh. There's no flesh to veil the glory, showing the state of glorification.

Now, John, only that high position of his, looks over to the end of time when the kingdom of God is all that's left. And he said, "In the city where the Lamb is the light, and his throne is the throne of God, and his Christ." He got to look over into it and see in the glorification of Christ. They got to see all that over there. They, they were. And it's John on the Mount of Transfiguration. I mean, John just like, "I've, I've seen this before." Yeah. Exactly. I've lost a whole bunch of you right there. I, I, I seen this before. The future kingdom of our God.

Now, now, okay, now. All right. Now, everybody just pause and give the fat man a minute here. Now, here's, I, I'm looking at all this. "How beautiful are the feet of them." And guess where it leads me to? It leads me to Romans chapter 10. And it's like the Lord said, "You'll never understand Romans chapter 10 until you see it through the lens of the kingdom." Okay, let me just highlight a couple of it here for you. And, uh, Romans chapter 10, Romans 10:15, or well, let's, let's start with Romans 10 and 8. "The word is nigh thee, even in thy mouth, and thy heart: the word of faith, which we preach." Good news, it's nigh thee. Now, in, in a little bit, we're going to talk about when Jesus calls the 12 and the 70 and says, "I want you to go twos in twos. I want you to go into the cities, and I want you to preach, repent, the kingdom is nigh." The kingdom is approaching. You are messengers, your heralds, your harbingers, your preachers. This is your responsibility. I want you to go tell those cities that the kingdom and the King is approaching.

Now, the whole connotation of that basically is about a conquering king or kingdom coming to a city, and he sends messengers into it and says, "Now, if you want peace, and I can find peace here, I'll bring peace." Yeah. He tells the disciples, he said, "Now, look, if you get there and you pronounce peace upon them, and the son of peace abides there, which means there's someone there that wants this peace, that will accept this peace, has peace in their heart, looking for the peace of the kingdom." He said, "Then now my peace will abide there." But if they reject it, he said, "Leave it. Wipe the dust off of you and announce to that city, it'd be better for you. It'd be better for you, Sodom, it's better for Sodom in the day of judgment than for you."

What he's saying is, is look, if you don't come to terms with me as the king and the kingdom approaching, I'm going to try to bring peace, but if you don't accept it, I'm going to bring punishment. Well, it's like a king approaching a city with his kingdom and looking at it and saying, "I need some messengers to go, and I want you to tell them who I am. And I want you to tell them that my kingdom is approaching. Let's try to strike an agreement here so we don't have to go to war. 'Cause I'm going to conquer you. That's what's going to happen. And if you want some peace, I'll bring peace to you. But if you reject it, if you reject it, he said it'd be better for Sodom and Gomorrah in that day than you." I mean, he pronounces his judgment against the cities that didn't. And he starts calling cities that apparently when they went, they didn't accept it.

Now, I, I, I want to make a statement here, and I, I want you to understand what I'm about to say. And hopefully, this doesn't come across with doubt, fear, and unbelief or anything. But my job and my understanding is not every city and every person is going to accept it. You're going to go to some cities and they don't want it. All right? Yeah. It's the truth. All right. Now, I'm not trying to discourage you home missionaries here, but you're going to have to come to terms with this. The truth. Yes. 'Cause if you don't come to terms, you're going to get frustrated.

Brother Barnes, before he passed, he called me over. I was at the Eastwood down there preaching. He said, "Come over to the cottage. I want to talk to you." And just right before he passed away. And so I go over there and, and I go in, and, and first of all, he was in the cottage when I walked in. It was hotter than Hades in there. That old prophet had the heat turned up. I mean, he must have had poor circulation, 'cause I'm telling you right now, he had the heat turned up. And I walked in, I thought, "Oh, oh Lord, I'm going to have to go to hell to cool off around here." I mean, this is hot. And he, and he never got off the couch to greet me. He didn't come with a holy kiss or anything. He just said, "Hey, boy. I'm in here. Come in here." Oh, greater fire. Further into the fiery furnace is where I'm headed. And so when I walked in, he said, "Kneel down." And so I knelt down in front of him. He reached over, he laid his hands on me, and began to prophesy some things. Things that he seen about coming fire and all the stuff and all, cities that would be set on fire. He said, "It's literal flames of fire." He went through all that stuff and all. He said, "But I need you to understand something." I said, "What's that?" He said, "I seen you guys going to cities and you left rejoicing." Well, this is going to be a downer. He said, "But I also seen you leaving cities. Your heads were down." Yeah. And he said, "You have to understand when you take the gospel to these cities, it's a two-fold thing. It's a double-edged sword. You're not just there to convert them. If they don't accept conversion, you're there to bring judgment against them, and so they can't say, 'Never heard it. I did hear the gospel of the kingdom, but I didn't accept it.' So the king of that kingdom has a right." So, not everybody you go witness to is going to fall out talking in tongues. There's going to be some. Jesus said, "Hey, if you meet them in the way, don't carry, don't tarry there with these people. Get on down to the house that I got you to go to. Get on down to a house of peace that I want you to abide in."

And so, you know what? We really got our church in this whole deal about going in the streets, and we call it the Go Team and all this stuff and all. And I, so I told him about this, and this is where I started in this a little bit. I said, "Look, here's the thing. You're going to get out there, and there's some people, they're going to let you pray for them and all the stuff and all. There's going to be others. They're going to laugh at you, spit on you. They're going to ridicule you. They're going to be demon-possessed people." And some people that think they're demon-possessed that you're going to meet. I met a lot of them. Amen. And I said, "Here's the thing. Share with what you got to share with them. And if they don't accept it, yeah, they're not." Jesus said, "If they receive you, they receive me and the one who sent me. If they reject you, they reject me and the one who sent me." They're not just rejecting you. They're rejecting the message of the kingdom and the King that sent you.

Now, now, now, are we, are we still good? Yeah. Okay. You know what? They're serving after church tonight, huh? It's going to be good. Well, it depends on what it is on how fast I start moving right now. Okay.

Now, now I want you to go back to Romans chapter 10 and all this stuff. The, the word of faith is nigh thee. The kingdom is nigh. Even in thy mouth, heart, the word of faith which we preach. He preached the good news, and the kingdom is nigh. Romans 10:9, "If you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus," meaning he's going to be your king. People say, "I confess that Jesus Christ is Lord." You don't just walk down to the front of a church, say, "I confess that Jesus Christ is Lord." That's right. "I confess that he's the Son of God." To confess his lordship means I accept his rule in my life. He's going, and his commandments and his word is going to govern my life. I'm not going to be king of my kingdom anymore. Okay. All right. All right. All right. All right. I, I, I need to hurry here. All right. I need to hurry. And that's Romans, where was I at? Romans 10 and 9. "If you believe in your heart, he is risen." Basically, he's king. Romans 10:10, "For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; but the mouth salvation." So the heart is for righteousness. The mouth is for salvation. Romans 10:11, "Scriptures say, 'Whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed, dishonored, or put to shame.'" Romans 10:12, "There's no difference between the Jew and the Greek. It's the same Lord. Same Lord over all who is rich unto all that call upon him." Our King gives kingdom riches to all who confess that he is their Lord and King. Stay with me. His kingdom, not just the Jewish or the Greek kingdom, but his kingdom. Romans 10:13, "Whosoever calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved." Then he says in 14, "You can't call if you've never believed, and you can't believe if you've never heard. And how can they hear without a preacher?" So I looked up word preacher to herald, as a town crier, especially divine truth. The gospel preacher proclaimed to publish. Then you go down 15 to skip. And then 16, "They have not all obeyed the gospel, the good news. Isaiah said, 'Lord, who hath believed our report?'" And remember, "If they receive you, they receive me." Then "faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God." 18, "But I say, 'Have they not all heard?'" He said, "Yeah, there verily their sound went into all the earth." All the earth. But in there, it talks about how beautiful are the feet of them that bring good tidings.

So is Romans chapter 10 can only really be understood in view and in light of Isaiah chapter 52. It's about the approaching kingdom. That's what it's about.

Now, you ready? So Jesus says this statement. He said, "Since the days of John the Baptist the kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force, and men presseth into it." So, the approaching kingdom, in other words, I go as a messenger to someone and say, "Look, I want to introduce you to my King. I want to give you some good news. I want to tell you about the kingdom of God." See, here's our deal. We say we preach the gospel, but really, we're supposed to preach the gospel and the kingdom. Right. Right. Because the gospel is kind of the introduction to the kingdom. Oh boy. We got a lot of folks can't even preach the gospel. No, seriously. I'm amazed at a lot of our preachers that don't even know how to preach gospel. My God. My God.

I seen something here a while back. Moses, he's preaching them out of Egypt. He has to preach a certain way and minister a certain way. He's dealing with Pharaoh. This is like getting them delivered out of Egypt. So he has to minister. Now, this is kind of where I say that Paul said to Timothy as a pastor, "Do the work of an evangelist." You're going to have to learn how to minister to people that are in the clutches of Pharaoh and Egypt and get them out. Right. Right. You're right. You're right, sir. But his ministry transitions. Now, what, the way they get out of Egypt is they, you know, all the Passover and all that stuff and all, which is all a type of Calvary and all that kind of stuff and all. But then they get to the Red Sea and they're kind of trapped there, and then this cloud shadows over them, and then it gets behind them, and it separates them. And Paul says to the Corinthians, he said, "I don't want you ignorant concerning your fathers. Were they not all baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea?" So he said there's two things about baptism. The cloud and the sea. The cloud is Holy Ghost baptism. Right? All right. And the Red Sea, according to Paul, is water baptism. So what brings you out of Egypt and puts you on your spiritual journey is gospel. You must be born again of the water and of the spirit. Nicodemus, don't marvel. I said this here a while back, and I've said it probably a million times, but I'm going to repeat it. He said, "If you're born of the spirit, you can see the kingdom." That, that don't put you in the kingdom. Where he says, "I have not seen, not heard, neither into the hearts of men the things God's prepared." He ain't talking about the church. He's talking about people that don't have the spirit. He's saying without the spirit, you can't see it, you can't think it. You can't even hear it. For the deep things of God search. It's the spirit of. But when the spirit comes, it resurrects. It brings life. When Adam fell, his eyes were darkened. He come into blindness. Quoted to the day about those that don't believe, they're they're blinded. What do you think happens to people? They're spiritually blind. They can't see it. Jesus said, "But when you're born of the spirit, you can see it." But Nicodemus, there's a little bit more. "Except a man that's born again of the water and spirit." They go together. You can't separate them. That's not natural birth versus spiritual birth. He's very [Music] He's very clear on it. "Except a man is born again of the water of the spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom." Now, this is what I say, and it could be wrong, but I said, "Holy Ghost puts the kingdom in you. Water baptism puts you in the kingdom." You're right. You're right. That is right. Good.

Do you know I'm, I'm, oh, you know, I'm, I'm about to mess up right here, and I'm going to go down here. Home missionary. If you don't know how to deal with Pharaoh and preach them out of Egypt, quit waiting on the evangelist to come. Paul says to Timothy, "You're a pastor, but do the work of an evangelist." You can't even afford an evangelist. I'm just waiting on somebody to come floating through that knows how to pray people through. Oh, I'm, I, I, this is locking down right now. I mean, it's really locking down right now. You don't know how to just rare back and lay a little foundation out and preach the kingdom and the gospel. I'm, I'm going to help some of you right here. I'm going to help some of you. I told some guys today. I said, "You need to let the learn to let the word work." That's just not my nature. These evangelists, they just spitting and screaming. I mean, my God, Charles Robinette, he just screams and spits, and he wears me out just in his introduction. He's just, "Oh, come on. Give us a break here a little bit." You know, you're making me look really bad. You know, with that, I, I got to be able to do that to pray people through. Moses, did God send you into Pharaoh's court or not? Did God say, "You represent my kingdom, Moses, and I'm putting you into the kingdom of Egypt to tell that king, let God's people go." You're going to have to learn how to rare back. Look at the spiritual problems and situations and addiction and bondage. And you're going to have to learn how not timidly, not, "I hope this works. I pray this works." You're going to have to learn how to look Pharaoh right in his kisser and say, "You are going to let God's people go. I've been sent here by God to preach these people out of Egypt, and you made your first mistake, Pharaoh, by proclaiming to be God."

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All right. Sit down. Now, Moses got to change his ministry. I see five-fold ministry all through this. Now he's got to change his ministry. Now he's a pastor, shepherding God's people. Takes them to Mount Sinai. 18 months, two years. Cloud never moved. We got a lot of folks that missed the mountain. Oh yeah, they did. They missed the mountain. What do you mean? See, on the mountain is where God says, "We need to get some stuff established." And the first thing that needs to happen is you need to know how many guys there is. And I'm going to cover every area of your life. And I'm going to get you looking right, talking right, being right. Because when you get over there, I don't want you falling to that relevant nonsense and them converting you. So you need to know who you are. There needs to be distinction. You are one God covenant people, and I don't want you to fall into that nonsense. Feel like preaching here just a second. I don't want you falling into that nonsense. So he camps them for 18 months, two years. Now, remember Jesus said when he, the Spirit of Truth is come, he'll lead God in all truth. It's the cloud. So the cloud's guiding them and leading them and leads them over here to Mount Sinai, another mountain, and he camps there for 18 months, two years, and then it takes them from there over and journeys around, finally brings them over to Kadesh Barnea. So you're going to have to learn as a pastor and a teacher to train and to teach and to instruct, pastor apt to teach. Well, brother Morgan, you're putting all of it on me. Well, yeah.

Now, I think that there's another dimension that's living in the promised land, which is spiritual maturity. I see new converts. I see people learning and being trained and taught and how to live for God. And then I see over here maturity. I see infants, young men, and fathers. That's what John said. Infants, young men, and fathers. I see all three dimensions in there. And you got to learn how to minister in all three dimensions. Yes, sir. You're going to have to learn how to operate as an apostle. And maybe even a prophet over here when you're in the promised land. It's spiritual maturity. You're supposed to really be taking territory. Little by little, you're supposed to be conquering. You're supposed to be living. The, the book of Ephesians and the New Testament is the Old Testament book of Joshua. It's about conquest. And that's why Paul kept talking about riches and abundance and all. You've been over there in the wilderness where you only got manna that just was enough for the day. But when you get over here in spiritual maturity, God's going to give you more than just enough bread for you to survive today. He's going to give you fields of it. He's going to give you cities that you didn't build. He's going to give you vineyards that you didn't plant. And oh, hey, by the way, the old corn that's in the barns, last year's harvest, it's waiting on you. And the new corn in the field right now, it's waiting on you. So don't get discouraged. I missed a harvest. Could be that God's got it in a barn.

Sit down. I feel kind of crazy tonight. You like my new haircut, Sister Dylan? I do. You told me that today. She said, "Oh, I like that new haircut." I said, "Hey, Brother Wright told me that a couple years ago. It didn't near do for me what she said. I may be from San Francisco, but I don't want you telling me I got a pretty haircut."

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You can tell me, but all you men. Now, here's, let me get back up here. I've done enough damage down there. Now, you still here? Now, what? What's watch What's this? It's about kingdom wars. It's about kingdom wars.

Now, the reason why I said that the gospel is the introduction to the kingdom. "Except a man is born of the water spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom." Now, if you'll remember, the Bible says here, here's the deal. Jesus said, "Now, when you go into that city, to the 12, he said, 'Cast out devils, heal the sick, and raise the dead. I want them to see the power of my kingdom.'" That's right. To the seventy, he said, "Lay your hands and heal them." I want them to see the power of my kingdom. See, I'm, I'm really, look at this real strong. They went out two by two. Now, I, I'm not here advocating that's the only evangelism that there is. But I want you to hear me. Ecclesiastes says talks about one and the power of one. Then he says, "But two, two, there's more warmth. There's more resources when you got two together." And then suddenly he says, "But a three-fold cord is not easily broken." Yeah. So two suddenly becomes three. And it's kind of like Jesus is telling them when you go as two, understand? It will suddenly become three. Wow. 'Cause you're not going by yourself. I'm going with you. And so when you think you're by yourself and you look at that person that you need to lay hands on and pray the prayer of faith in the street, and you get to thinking, "Well, I don't know if God's going to do it." You just remember that's exactly what God calls you to do. And for you to understand the power of the kingdom, and a three-fold cord is not easily broken.

Sit down. Sit down. Sit down. Sit down. Okay. All right. I'm done with all that. Now, hang on. I've got some chicken scratch over here. It was kind of before church. Now, see, I get it in my brain and I see it. And I know the way I get it. It's just communicating it. So, Jesus said, "So, okay, let's back up a second. So when you go, you have to understand you were going as a messenger or a herald to announce the approaching King and his kingdom. You've got to get that. You're not just preaching a religious message. Come on. You're not just giving them UPC doctrine. All right. Thank you. You have been called by God to go into that city as his messenger, knowing the King is right behind me. And you really Why do you think he said, 'I'm going to send you as lambs among wolves'?" I used to read that and say, "Boy, that's not a good deal. I don't like that verse." I'm going to make it the nearly inspired version. And I'm going to take that verse right out of there. And then it dawned on me one day. I didn't say you're going by yourself. Well, sheep can't get away from the shepherd. Well, wow. You think you're going by yourself. The only protection that you're going to have is the great Shepherd. So, you're going to feel like you're all by yourself. You're going to feel lonely. You're going to see the devil and all that kind of stuff. And, and you're going to be like, "Oh my God, I'm over here by myself and just a couple of us out here and it's just, you know, I just don't know what I'm going to do. I, my God, I wish some apostle would show up." And you [Applause] are the one sent to preach the gospel. Rare back with the authority that God has given you and your understanding.

Now, watch what I'm about to say. Not of the church, but of the kingdom. Now, you all got a good understanding of the church, but I don't think we quite caught on to the kingdom yet.

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All right, man. We're fixing to have fun in here now. Now, so Philip goes to Samaria, and the Bible says he preached the gospel and the kingdom, and all of a sudden, you got miracles happening. Right. Right. I mean, he's, wasn't he a board member in Jerusalem? No, seriously. Wasn't he a part of the seven that? Well, I know, but I mean, he's a part of the seven over there in Jerusalem. And he says, "I'm going to go." Yeah. You may have one position in that city. You may hold a completely different position in another city. All right. Oh boy. I, I don't want to get into that. I don't want to get into that. He goes down there. He preached the gospel in the kingdom. And guess what? Miracles started happening. Wonders started happening. They started baptizing people. That's right. They having a little trouble getting the Holy Ghost. So they said, "Hey, Peter and John, come on down here. We need a little help getting the Holy Ghost." Of course, he gets down there, and he meets Simon the sorcerer. It's always a kingdom war. He meets Simon the sorcerer who had bewitched the people that he was the great power of God. See, the false always presents a great one. Did I need to repeat that? The false always presents a great one. The true always brings great joy. Wow. All right, I'm going to say it again. The false always brings a great one. He had bewitched the whole city that he himself was the great power of God. And God said, "Nope, nope, nope. I'm fixing to teach you a lesson, buddy. Your little kingdom of dirt, it ain't nothing compared to my kingdom. And I'm about to send an apostle down there. And I'm going to send Peter down there, and he's going to handle you and deal with you is what he's going to do. And I'm about to show you that I got some things over here in my kingdom." Oh, Peter ran back and said, "Your money pairs with you. You can't buy this kingdom. You can't purchase who gets the Holy Ghost and who doesn't get the Holy Ghost." I've been around some Simons in my lifetime that wanted to be the ones to determine they got it, they didn't get it. Okay. All right. Sit down. Sit down. Sit down. Sit down. Oh, man. And it's still early now. So you got that going on. So you see all that now.

Now, Jesus starts talking about this, um, this, um, the kingdom is like a grain of a mustard seed. The kingdom is like leaven. Both of those, when he says it starts out really small, but it increases and it grows. And the prophet said, "And of the increase of his government and peace, the increase of it." It's not to stay as a seed. It's not to stay just as a little leaven. It's to influence everything that's here. You know, when Jesus said, "Salt has lost its savor." This is what's amazing. How does salt lose its savor? When you start mixing other ingredients into it, that causes it not to have the influence that it's supposed to have. And as long as we keep the ingredient, the right ingredient, and we don't start trying to add a little this, a little of that, a little this, all that's left is you're just trodden underfoot. You represent God's kingdom. You don't have the right to change the rules. I'm going to say it again. You are a messenger for the kingdom. You are not the King. You don't get to determine the rules that you want and the rules that you don't want. That's iniquity and lawlessness. And brother Wright covers all that. That's exactly what that is. You're not the King. I'm fixing to really bust that wide open here in just a second. You are not the King. You were king of your kingdom at one time, and then the gospel was preached, and there was a clash of the kingdoms, and you had to determine, do I want to stay king in my own kingdom, or do I want to press my way into the kingdom of God where He is my King now?

So you start talking about all this stuff, starts out kind of small, and then it grows and it increases, right? But also remember Jesus's prayer. "Our Father which art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come." What's the next part of it? "Not my kingdom come. Thy kingdom come."

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See, the kingdom operates by the will of the King. The kingdom operates by the will of the King. So for his kingdom to manifest itself, you got to do his will. "I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable." What does it say? "Holy, acceptable unto God, which is your." All these folks running around here, holiness is just not reasonable. Holiness is just not reasonable. You need to come current with our culture. Holiness living is just not reasonable. Well, Paul said it was reasonable. You think your culture is much different than his culture that he lived in? "Don't be conformed to this world, but rather be ye by the..." That you might prove what is that? "Perfect will of God." Whose will of God?

I'm really fixing to mess up.

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See, I don't think the altar is a place of prayer. I don't think you can preach the altar as a place of prayer. You can pray at the altar. The altar is a place of death. You can pray but not have an altar, but you'll never have an altar and not pray. Thank you. We got a lot of folks praying, but the problem is you ain't dead. What's not dead about you? Your will. It's my kingdom. I'm going to run it the way I want to run it. I'm the king of this kingdom. I know what I think ought to happen. And I know I think this ought to happen, and I think this ought to happen. And God said, "You know what? If I could ever get you to the altar and you die out, okay? And I'm really going to mess up right now. Just trust me. I'm about to mess this whole service up." Uh, I need, I need a young preacher here or a preacher's got his wife here with him. You have a wife here with you, sir? Would you on my boy? She's got this panic. Okay. I need you to come stand right over here. I need one more. Preferably husband and wife. Okay. Right here they are. Okay. Now watch him. "Prove what is that? Good, acceptable, perfect will of God." He said, "I say to you, man should not think of himself, then he ought to think, for God has dealt to every man measure." I've heard people say, "When you got the Holy Ghost, you got the measure of faith." I don't know that I believe that. No, I don't. How does faith come? By hearing. By hearing. By hearing. Where you from? Alaska. Alaska. Okay. I think it works in Alaska the same way it works here. I imagine so. "Faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the word of God." Okay. So when God speaks to you, he sets the perimeters of your faith. Amen. Yeah. So I'm going to be God. Okay. And I'm gonna pick on you. Okay. I'm gonna pick on you because I don't think you do this. Okay. Now, I've been wrong before. Okay. So, I'm God. And I say, "I want you to stay right back here." Okay. I say, "All right, sir. I want you to take three steps and stop." All right, that's three. And you stopped, right? See, I set the perimeters and the boundaries. Now, I come over to him and I say, "I want you, sir, to go seven steps and stop." Well, there's some big steps, buddy. I mean, that's a hundred foot and [Applause] you must be thawing out down here in Mississippi moving like that. Now, here's what happens. You ready for it? You're sitting there going, "Wait a minute. That's not fair. He got to go seven steps. Only go three." See, success with God is not about numbers. It's about obedience. If God tells you to go put your head in that corner and not move till he comes, and he's got somebody over here that builds a 50,000 member congregation, you, sir, in the corner, are just as successful as the guy that God told to do that. Quit measuring yourselves among yourselves.

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You're going to get frustrated or some guy. Now, here's what I'm going to pick on you. Okay. Now, he would be okay with that. Well, you know, I want to congratulate my buddy from Alaska. You got to go sit and stop. Now, her, come on. She gets up over and says, "Well, he got to go seven steps. You only got to go three steps. There must be something wrong with your ministry. My mama was right about you. You don't have any ambition. Now, why don't you get a little initiative and you take those four more steps?" You know those four more steps. And I'm telling you right now, you're just as good. I mean, he's from Alaska. Where are you from? North Carolina. Oh my God, that's worse than Alaska. And all you folks from Texas, sorry, brother Good Rose, I always tell people say, "You can tell a Texan. I'm from Texas." I said, "Yeah, we can tell you're from Texas. Problem is, we just..."

"Can't tell you much." Well, there want a whole bunch of you right there. Okay. So, she says, "I mean, he's he's from cold Alaska and we're down here. I mean, you got too much tar on your heels. You can't even move. I'm telling you right now."

And I mean, he hears, "Yeah, yeah, yeah." But a man should not think of himself. Lord, please don't let me be working in discernment right now. I was doing that one time, I tried and said, "That's not you." It's okay. Now, hang on a second. So, she starts putting pressure on him. But here's the problem. For you to go beyond the boundaries, you think of yourself more highly than you ought to think. And what that really means is you have now assumed the position of God, and you know the next steps. And I'm going to help some more of you, and you're really not going to like this one. Not every move on a chessboard. Have you ever heard people say, "I ain't making no lateral move"? I've heard people tell me that. "I ain't making a lateral move." That whole North American culture is on you right now. Every move, success is always moving you forward. I hate to tell you, but you're nothing but a chess piece on a chessboard, and you're not the one that moves you. On a chessboard, not every move is forward. There's some that are lateral. There are even some that are backwards. That's right.

So, I mean, it's not just bad enough. He got to go, he got to go seven. You only went three. Now, God said, "I'm going to take you back a couple steps." Yes, sir. And you're really not going to like this last one. You ready for it? He can even sacrifice you for a bigger move if he needs to. Yes, sir. And if you don't believe that, resurrect John the Baptist and ask him. John said, "Is this really the kingdom that's supposed to be here?" He said, "I thought you were the king of the kingdom." And this is what it is. It's the whole thing with the Jews and all the New Testament. It's about the kingdom. It's all about the kingdom. I mean, they they even asked Jesus, "When you get ready to ascend, are you at this time going to restore the kingdom of Israel?" He said, "That's not for you to know. You're thinking one way about the kingdom." I tell you, all you need is go to Jerusalem, be indued with power from on high, and become witnesses. You just go preach the kingdom's coming. You don't need to know when it's coming. Just go preach it's coming. Are you he or do we look for? I'm going to have fun preaching tonight. Are you? After last year, I need to have fun preaching. I can tell you that right now. Or two years ago. You he, do we look for another? Well, my God, John on the banks of Jordan, behold. You ever been in traumas and seen people behold the lamb of God that taketh away the sin of the world? And now John says, "Are you heed? Do we look for another?" Oh, come on, John. And Jesus said, "You go tell John, I know the kingdom is not coming the way he thought, but tell him the power of the kingdom is manifesting. The lamb are walking. The dumb are talking. People are being healed. That's what my kingdom is really about." I'm setting y'all up. You just don't know it. That's what my kingdom is really all about. Oh, and by the way, blessed is he that's not offended in me. You know what I read one time translation? "You go tell John, let me run my business the way I want to run it." And a lot of us want to get into the business of God and start telling him how he ought to be running the business, especially when it comes to our lives. Son, that one stung. You know what? I don't know why God asked him to go seven steps. You can take it up with God when you get there. All right. Take it up here. And I know one thing. I don't think you do this, but I'm still going to pick on you. And for God's sake, all you women that are here, if your husband's doing what God told them to do, for the love of God, quit comparing them with every church in your district. Just let them do what God. You just do what God called you to do. And we're really not going to like this one, but there's what? One talent, three talents, and five talents. Okay, y'all. Thank you very much. Thank you for not getting offended. Thank you. You can be seated cuz now I'm going to throw a stick of dynamite out here. Remember I told you all ago, I told you all ago about the mustard seed and the leaven it grows. See, it's a kingdom war. It's about the clash of kingdoms. Jesus is out in the wilderness and the devil's tempted him. He said, "If you'll bow and worship me," which means make me your king, "I'll give you all the kingdoms. It's glory and its power, I'll give all that to you." See, the enemy is always trying to get you to exchange glory. You give me the eternal glory, I'll give you a temporal glory. Yeah. Yeah. I don't have time to get into. I can get into the glory and the hair on your head, women, and all that stuff and all. It's always about the glory. If that makes you mad, then I'll give you an altar call here in just a second. Amen.

Now, it's all that. So, here's this king Nebuchadnezzar, king of kings. King of kings. Brother Gro, he takes the people of God into captivity. He's the king that rules over other kings and kingdoms. Takes him into captivity. Then he has this dream and he can't remember the dream. So he calls for somebody, you know, come interpret the dream. Tell me, not only can I need you interpret, I need you to tell me what the dream is. And that was a deal. So, you know the story of Daniel. Well, Daniel sees this image. All you eschatology and prophecy people, eschatology and prophecy people, you you know all this stuff and all. So, he sees this image and he says the head was what? Babylon. Shoulders was Media and the Persians. The upper torso, the chest was uh uh Greece, Grecian Empire, and the thighs and all that was uh the legs was the Roman Empire. Is that correct? That's four kingdoms. Babylon, the Medes and the Persians. Now, folks, I'm telling you what God wants us to understand tonight. Then you got the Grecian Empire. Then you got the Roman Empire. But now that leaves the feet. The feet is the fifth kingdom, right? You you know all this. Are you a missionary? Jordan Turner, North Oh, there it is. North Carolina. That's what the Okay, so this is one kingdom. This the feet is the fifth kingdom. The fifth kingdom is a mixture of iron and clay. The fifth kingdom is the kingdom of the Antichrist. The old Roman Empire, parts of it, mixed in with newer nations, weaker nations. So you've got clay and iron, right? Okay. So that's what we see. That's our view. That's what we see. We see past kingdoms. This is to me, this is what I would refer to as the uh age of the Gentiles or the times of the Gentiles. It leads you all the way to this. So here it is. You got these you got these five kingdoms and here we are and the music's playing. You got to bow and you got to do all this stuff and all world empires, kingdoms, whatever you want to call it. And this is what we see. We we were over there with Daniel. Now our problem is is that we are now approaching the fifth kingdom and oh, all the other kingdoms were given descriptions, beasts and all, but when you get to the fifth kingdom, it's so horrible, they can't even give a real description. It just stomps and it devours. I mean, it's horrible. The kingdom of the Antichrist. And that's the way we see. Oh my God. The vaccination is the prelude to the mark of the beast. Somebody the other day said, "I think when they got that vaccine, they got the chip put in them." I said, "Well, they look at the needle." Boy, I'm gonna mess up right here. I'm telling you, brother Morgan, it may be a big deal, right? Well, there went about 80% of you. Big deal. So what? Yes, sir. You shouldn't be surprised. But man, we get to seeing that and our government and wickedness and all this horrible stuff and and certain political parties are now in and all of us apostolic, you know, you can't kingdoms. It's kingdoms. It's political kingdoms. And we get up on our lofty position of social media and boy, we see something approaching. We see it coming. I mean, my God, I had people tell me there's Chinese submarines right off the coast of California, and if and if if Trump doesn't get it and Biden gets it, they're going to attack. Where did you hear that? Oh, I I got it from a good source. Now, people always talk about this stuff, and I'll say, "Where'd you hear that?" I I heard it on the news. I I got on. I said, "Well, how do you know it's true?" You just accept it for face value. It's It's just true. Boy, you apostolic are squirming right now. I'm telling you right now, bless God. This is horrible and it's just unjust. And I mean, and all you can see is the kingdoms of this world. And one of the worst kingdoms is the political kingdoms. And it's got the apostolic distracted. Co has you distracted. Political parties have you distracted. Presidents have you Oh, yeah, they do. They got you distracted. They have us distracted. We're not talking about the kingdom of God. We're talking about these kingdoms. And you are becoming a messenger for those kingdoms. I'm telling you what's coming. I'm telling you what's coming behind me. I'm telling you what kingdom is approaching us. Well, I I understand the Antichrist and his kingdom is approaching us. That's that. I mean, that's been going on for a long time. Why are you surprised? John started back in his epistle already. The spirit of the Antichrist does the work. I know the spirit of it and the man of sin, all that stuff and all, but just just listen to me. We're so focused on all that and how powerful all this is and they're going to take all of our rights away and and buddy, we're all about to get our heads cut off and I heard people say they already got guillotines over in warehouses and and even if they do and what are you going to do about it? All right. Whose report? Will you believe? We ought to be giving the report of the Lord. We ought to be bringing good news if people needed good news. And for us to tell them, "Hey, I know this is all the kingdoms you see, but trust me, there's another kingdom." Here we go. There's a sixth kingdom. Oh, yeah. There's a sixth kingdom. I want to say it again. There's a sixth kingdom. I know in the image you only see five, but trust me, there's a sixth kingdom. And Daniel said, I'm so focused and in trepidation, all the stuff that I've seen, I'm so focused on it. He said, but something out of my peripheral view caught my attention. And he said, "I turned to see what it was and there was a small stone hewn without hands out of the mountain and it come hurling through the atmosphere and it hit the feet of that image and it brought it down and that little stone ended up becoming a great mountain." Now I'm going to talk to you about the power of the sixth kingdom. Some of you have given the Antichrist and that kingdom so much power that God says, "I tell you, all I need to bring down all those kingdoms, just a little rock." Not Arkansas, just a little stone. That's all I need. That's the power of the sixth kingdom. And my kingdom increases. And John said, "I seen him coming back." Amen. Woo. And he had a vesture dipped in blood. And he had a name written which is called the Word of God. And out of his mouth went a sword. I was sitting the other day and I'm I'm trying to wrap it up. I was sitting the other day and I just jotted some stuff down and this is how it comes to me. It's kind of like it's all about a sword fight. I'm like, "What?" It's all about a sword fight. Everything's about a sword fight. Hallelujah. The sword of the Spirit, which is the Word of God. Words are swords. Oh, yeah. They are. Sticks and stones may break my bones. Well, we're not going to hit you with sticks and stones. We're going to hit you with a sword. And a sword cuts. Words cut. Words wound. And the enemy here, here's how I put it. Faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the Word. Fear cometh by hearing and hearing by the Word of the devil. See, he's got a sword. Well, he's got a sword. So, whose report are you going to believe? You're going to open your mouth and a sword's going to come out. And I'm telling this end-time church, you're going to have to learn how to open your mouth. Now, listen to me. You're going to have to learn how to get past just all this emotional stuff that you get trapped in. And when you don't feel too good, you I just don't think God can do it. I I just Okay, sit down a second. I I'm I I'm not quite through here. I'm I'm going to Okay, somebody turn the air off. Sister Dylan's up here freezing to death, trying to help you. Thank you, dear. I'm sweating, but you're freezing. [Music] Now, I forgot what I was going to say. Sister Dylan, hang on. Let me try to remember what I was about to say. Anybody remember what I was about to say? Sword fight. Out of your mouth. Out of your mouth. This the sword. You know, we're gonna have to figure out what we're gonna let Okay, now I know where I was at. I I I told the guys this afternoon, I said, I was on a Saturday night prayer and it's just a special time and the Lord spoke to me on that Saturday night way up in the morning. I'll give you two revelations for the end time. I'll give you two revelations for the end time. I'll give you the revelation of sonship and I'll give you the revelation of my perspective about the miraculous. So he started doing me about sonship right there that night. Started writing, jotting some things down. Then he started into his perspective about the miraculous. He took me to the story of the Syrophoenician woman. "My daughter's grievously vexed with the devil." And she said, "I'm not allowed to take the children's bread and cast it to dogs." So when Jesus referred to the miraculous, he called it his children's bread and the nature of Father. Is your father still alive, son? Is he in the building? Where where's where's your dad? I mean, you may not want to claim him. I don't know. This is your son now. I I think I can tell. Have you ever had to go into your father's bedroom early in the morning and fall across the foot of the bed and say, "Please, Dad, get up and go earn some money so I can have something to eat"? You ever had to do that? Please, Dad, get up and go earn some money so you can clothe me. Well, why have you never had to do that? Do you think he got a manual when he became a father? This big thick manual that says, "This is your responsibility. Get up, go to work." There may be a reason why the scripture says a man that don't provide for his own household has denied the faith and worse than an infidel. I used to look at that and say, "Man, that's pretty tough." And then God said, "Let me tell you why it's tough. Because that directly opposes my nature." [Music] Where do you think your dad got the nature that wakes him up in the morning and says, "You need to provide and take care of your family"? See, when God created Adam, he put that in Adam. And if your earthly fathers, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto their children, how much more does your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask? So, you don't have to come to your Father and start begging him for a miracle. "Please, Father, I'm begging you for a miracle. Will you just please give me a miracle?" I I mean, that's like you going in there and begging him to take care of you. Jesus said that's children's bread. That's just the nature. Your heavenly Father, he wants to give you the kingdom, right? So I when God gave that to me, I had I I was like, "Oh man, that's great." And then he says, "I'm going to heal everything in the building tomorrow night." Whoa. Everything. Everything. Man, I got so excited. My God, we're going to have the bread. I went and bought loaves of bread. I've preached this since and I buy big. I preached at the Philippines last year in conference and I got all these loaves of bread and I get to preaching and I say, "Anybody need a miracle?" This how easy it is to get it. Just ask for the bread. I say, "I want bread." I just toss them a whole loaf of bread. I like to come down there, please, Brother Morgan. Boy, it's quiet in here. Why don't we get up to the altar and watch people? It's like they start getting in contortions and and they're, you know, I'm just trying to get enough faith to get me a miracle. Let me tell you what your dad likes. You like know what your dad likes? Let me tell you what your dad likes. He likes this, man. "You're a good dad. Thank you, Dad, for everything you've done for me." Buddy, you start that stuff. You got your daddy wrapped right around your finger. Not begging and pleading with him, just telling how great of a father he is. Worship will get you a long ways on a miracle. Oh, yes, it will. And brother right, you was talking about Hebrews and all, but he that for he that cometh, I looked that up one time. One of the definitions is worship. Worship. So coming to God is coming with worship, not praise, worship. And those that diligently seek him, study it. Okay, all you got your Strong's Concordance on your phone, look it up right now. It It's also worship. You could translate that verse. "For he that worships God must believe that he is." You can't worship something you don't believe in. So people are always coming up to the front trying to get this faith stuff going. And then, you know, and oh man, I'm I'm just, you know, well, we got to all have the same thought. I gotta make sure. Have you ever noticed just about time you think you got the right thinking and you got all some dumb thought pops in your brain? Just messes with your faith. I get right there. And it's like, "What are you going to eat in a little bit?" No. Okay. Hey, I'm the only human in the building here. I mean, you're trying so hard. Faith. I got to have faith. I got to get the right mental image and I got to do this stuff. You may tell you where you'll get your miracle. Worship for the Father. See, in Hebrews 11:6, you got man seeking God. John 4, you got God seeking man. Right. So, we get church. I'm I'm I'm right. We get to church that night or that day. Man, man, I preached sonship. I mean, Brother Right, they were climbing the walls, tearing chunks out of the sheet, rocking the ceiling. I mean, man, some of them were levitating off the floor. I mean, it was, man, I so excited. My God, we're having church. And then at the end of the service, I said, "Now, tonight we're going to have a healing service." And God said, "Everything in the building is going to get healed." I don't know what happened to the church that left Sunday cuz they didn't come back Sunday night. Sword. Sword. Sword. Sword. So, I'm preaching, man. This new revelation. It's the children's bread. It's kind of like, you ever preach a sermon like that? You're like, it went right right there and it just fell off and you're like, boy. Usually that's where we say, "I bind the. There's a devil in this place tonight. He's resisting the Word. I bind the devil." So I said, "Okay, I want everybody that needs a healing get in line." So they start lining up. The first person in line was Margie Maguire with Parkinson's. And her her arms all withered and drawn up. And I'm looking at that going, "You got to be kidding me." [Applause] Let me let me warm up a little bit with, you know, I want some backaches and headaches, stuff you can't see. You just got to trust us when you've been prayed for and we stick the mic in your mouth. You feel better now? Yeah. What are they going to say? No. I'm kind of like, "Oh my God." So, I I was I mean, they're lining up and it's it's it's not getting any better. So, I'm I'm I'm just kind of like, well, I'm like, oh, what am I going to do? Cuz I'm looking at the kind of faith I needed for this to happen. And I looked over in my checking account of faith. I seen the size of the check that needed to be written. And I looked at what was in my account. And I'm just telling you right now, I had insufficient funds. And what complicated it was, they weren't doing nothing. They weren't on God. This is where God taught me. Let the Word work. [Applause] So I come walking off the platform, got my bottle of oil. I need one person that needs a miracle right now. You need a You need a physical miracle. You You got your hand up fast. Come up there. Stand right there. I'm not even going to anoint you tonight. You believe the Word? The Word is a sword against your affliction. You just get ready. So, I get my bottle of oil and I start walking down and it felt like something draped on my shoulders and I turn around cuz my idiot brother was there was helping me at the time and I hope you're watching Jeff. I said the Word I need to say. Brother Shock, don't tell him. And so I'm walking toward him and this something drapes over me and I hear these words. "The gift of faith now rest upon you." And it all changed. See, God, the gift of faith is God looking at your deficit of faith and he says, "In that little checking account of yours called faith, I'm going to make a deposit. I'm going to give you some of my faith to cover the distance." Hot shot. You don't have enough faith to get this done. So here I'm going to let you use because I'm not going to confirm your your words. I'm not going to confirm your words. I told you last night what I was going to do. I don't care what they're doing out there. You disattach what you believe from their emotionalism. I don't care how you hand me a service. You can hand it to me dead. You can hand it to me up. You can hand it to me down. You can hand it to me. We talk about carpet and buying pizza after church. It doesn't matter to me. Once God speaks to me and says, "This is my Word and this is what I'm going to do." I I'm sorry. I could care less what the rest of you do at that point cuz I got my Word. You're going to have to quit waiting on something to get a hold of you and you you physically. Well, okay. You're going to quit waiting on something to get a hold of you and wrestle you down. And right, I'm I'm just waiting on this. No, no, no, no. You got to learn to let the Word work. Open your mouth and use the sword of the Spirit. Yes. It's a sword fight, sir. Yeah. Yeah. The enemy is using somebody over here. That's not going to happen. So, I got about right here close to that lady. I'd already had my cards printed up. Mark Morgan, faith healer, coming to town, coming to a church near you. And I got probably somewhere like right here. And all of a sudden, that lady went to spinning. Just that's what she was doing. She spun around about four or five times and then she stopped. And when she stopped, she's just like you are looking straight at me. And that's when I seen that arm go and her eyes got about that big around and she said, "Oh my God, I'm healed." You believe that? I don't have to pray for you. Let the Word work right now. There you go. There you go. [Music] That's it. Rejoice in your miracle. [Applause] I need one more. Come up here and rejoice with her right here. One more lady. I don't care. Come on. Come on. You're right. Come on up here and rejoice with her right now. [Applause] He's in his Word to heal them. He said, "I see the chains of affliction and bondage that's got a hold of you, but I'm going to send the sword of the Spirit, which is the Word of God, and it's going to cut through." [Applause]

Now, I I I I want to say one more thing, and then we're just going to let God do what he wants to do. The Antichrist. The Antichrist. Just hold it. Just hold it. Wednesday night, Wednesday night when uh Brother Bounds was preaching at the end of the service, it hit me. I showed you a dream. I showed you years ago. I preached a message on a revelation graveyard soldiers. And I told you in that day, the day of the battle, my name would be greater, my blood more powerful, and my Word would be above it all. The day of that battle is now here. And it's a kingdom war. [Applause] Now listen, here's how the Antichrist works. He will seek to wear out the saints of the Most High. How does he do it? That's talking about mentally. Study it. It's mentally. How's he do it? By speaking great blasphemous statements against God. So, there's the Antichrist and his sword. And we're letting that sword cut us and wound us. And we got this battle going on in our minds and fears creeping into the church. My God, we got Co. There's another strand coming. How many more is going to be after that? And then we're, you know, the Antichrist is here and and and the mark of the beast is on the horizon. And on and on it goes. And we hear these words, these words. And then the here's great blasphemous statements. He starts speaking against God. "Where is your God? Why? Why is Jerusalem in devastation? If your God is so great, why is the church so weak and anemic it appears and living in fear and dens of intimidation? Why? Why? If your God is really your king and he is so great, why is all this stuff happening in your life right now?" And he just keeps coming after your mind and he keeps coming after your mind and he keeps coming after your mind and he keeps. I was sitting in here yesterday, give you a prime example, and all of a sudden, Brother Dylan sitting in the I start. "Oh God, I'm having trouble breathing again." Great. Now I will tell you and I feel a word right here. Yeah. You know how world wars start by one nation exerting its will over another nation? You know how church wars start? But one party trying to exert its will over the will of another party. My God. My God. And now you got a kingdom war. I'm in the Holy Ghost right now. Yes, sir. Now you got a kingdom war, church. You got a kingdom war cuz this is what I want. This is what I think. This is I think it ought to be done. And the other side is saying, "But this is what I want and this is what I think and this is how I want it to be done." And the next thing you know, we have war in the church. And guess who suffers? The body, the people. Kingdoms go to war. Who suffers? Not the presidents, not the presidents, not the prime ministers. It's the boys and the young men and young lads got to go to war. We lose them. And I'm talking to some of you right now. Your battle right now is you want your way. You want your will. And you're not even willing to go to the altar and let your will be crucified until you can find the will of God. And you've opened your ear to everybody telling you what the will of God is for your life. And they're putting stuff into your mind and in your thinking. And now all of a sudden, it's got to be this, it's got to be that. Well, I I I don't like it when God starts doing with me right now what he's doing. But it's here. And this is what you ought to do and this is what you ought to say and this is this this and this and this and this and this and this and you're not asking God for his will. You're letting somebody assuming the position of God to tell you what God's will is for your life. And the next thing you know, because you think that's the will of God, there's a clash and the kingdom of God suffers with these kingdom wars that are going on in the church. You tell you why we can't have revival. Because it said over there about those watchers, they've seen eye to eye. They all seen the same thing. We got too many people with their own little kingdom. I'm talking to all of us here tonight. I'm talking to Mark Morgan here tonight. My kingdom. This is the way I think it ought to be done. This how I think we ought to evangelize. This I think this ought to be done. This is the way I see it. This way I see it. I'm just picking on you. I don't like the way Robin Ed does it. I don't like the way Herod does it. I sure don't like the way David Smith does it. My God. My God. And the whole time the Holy Ghost is saying, "I'm just trying to get all these kingdoms eradicated where you get one kingdom. One kingdom. One kingdom. One kingdom." I'm telling you in prayer today, the Holy Ghost said, "There's a kingdom war going on here right now. There's too many kingdoms and it's not my kingdom. I need you to die out. I need your will to die out. I need you to forget how you think it ought to be done. I need you to get to the altar and I need you to crucify that old will of yours and get it under the blood to where I can speak to you my will. My will. My will. My will. My will. My will. My will." No. No. No. No. Not yet. Not yet. Not yet. I was preaching a church just here a while back. And I turn around, the two guys sitting on the platform. And I turned to him and I said, "You two need to quit thinking it's got to be about your will." I said, "It's got to stop." And I said, "You need to crucify this and come find the will of God." I said, "Cuz you guys are about to start a kingdom war." Wow. And it's the saints in this church that are going to suffer. Get to the altar. Get rid of what you think and how you think it ought to happen and find out what the will of God is. Did they do it? No. All hell broke loose in the church. They started calling me, "We need you to come fix it. We need you to come help." I tried to help you when it all started. You don't have to like me. I could care less right now. I tried to help you and told you what to do. Now that you've got atomic bombs going off, you've already got devastation. And I don't think any be fixed. Yeah. You got people leaving, going across town, starting another church. You got all kinds of division. And it all starts all starts with self-will people. And that is the biggest battle we're all fighting for revival right now is our self-will. And it's going to be this way. And this is the way I think. But I'm telling you, if we give the kingdom its advancement, it's got to be His kingdom, not my kingdom. I've got to learn to work. I've got to learn to work with every apostolic minister. Whether I agree with the way they do it or I don't agree, I've got to learn how to come together and say, "It's not about your kingdom, Mark. It's not about your kingdom." Brother Dylan, I was on a phone call today. They called me and said, "This is what they want to do. This is what..." And I felt it. I felt I felt that something come in. are trying to take something from me. I know what it's like to be deeply wounded. I know what it's like. I don't I don't care. I don't care. I know what it's like to be deeply wounded by the organization. I got so disillusioned. I was at an apostolic conference and I was in a meeting and David was there. Tattletail. And I was hurt cuz it was, "You're supposed to do this," and then all of a sudden, you're kind of pushed out. And so I was in there and I popped off about I was aggravated and I was frustrated and Greg and Dave and I got in his car and buddy, I just opened up. I just venting. I don't I don't need this. I I said, "This organization couldn't get an original thought if it slapped it upside the head. Always got to take somebody else's stuff." And I Yeah. And then I said, "You think I need this organization?" I turn my card in right now. And David goes home. Brother Ewing, I'm worried about Mark. What's wrong, Bubba? And I thank you for doing it. What's wrong, Bubba? He's hurt. He's He's bitter. There's some things going on. He threatened to turn his car in. Oh, I'm preaching in Alexandria and I'm driving to Houston for some reason on a Monday morning and the bishop called, "Hey, Bubba." "Yes, sir. I heard you was coming through town today." "Yeah. Yeah, I am. You want to stop and have a little lunch with me?" I said, "Sure." I said, "Well, I said, "Bishop, I didn't I don't want to bother. I know you're busy." "Oh, no, Bubba. Meet me out there at that chicken place. Ball's Chicken. Meet me out there at that chicken place." That's where the owner told me, "She said, 'If the Colonel would have had my recipe, he'd have been a general.'" I'm talking, it was good fried chicken. So I stop. We go in there. Yes. I sat down and Brother Ewing and Sister Ewing was sitting next Oh, German and uh we was eating chicken. How you doing? Kids doing okay? Yeah. Yeah, they're doing fine. Oh, that's good. Yeah, with eating. And uh you learn with Brother Ewing when he put his hand on something and started drumming his fingers. And then he kind of started doing that. I started seeing him doing that and I'm like, "Oh, I wonder what he's upset about." And this is how he started. Yes. The conversation. "Mark Morgan, are you so egotistical that you think you're the only one God can talk to? I got a bunch of young men. If I said that to them, they'd already be up high telling out of the place. I want you to be my elder till you got to correct me. I don't have to put up with that. Who made you God?" That's their attitude. "I don't have to sit here." I'm telling you right now, I'd have been afraid of a lightning strike to even think something like that. I said, I said, "No, sir, I don't." He said, "Well, apparently you do." I said, "Well, Bishop, what?" He said, "It's about this." And he said, "And I I've got news that you've been popping off about this." I said, "Well, Bishop, I was trying to explain a little." He said, "I don't want to hear it. I want to hear it right here." He said, "I'm telling you right now, a sword. A sword. He said, "If you don't put that sword up and you kill this baby and you divide it, you're going to stand in judgment and answer for it." He said, "Here's what you going to do. You're going to shut your mouth." Do you understand me? Yes, sir. No, he Oh. Oh, no. He just hit me with the right. The left was about to come. I wish I'd have known Brother Ewing. I I don't know if some of you really want to know Brother Ewing that way. He said I said, "Do you understand me?" I said, "Yes, sir." He said, "I'm telling you, not another word, not one word." He said, "But you remember God knows who he gave that baby to, but don't you divide it." Incredible. Yes, sir. Incredible. I thought he was done. No, he said, "And furthermore, you popped off in front of your my young preachers is what he said. My boys, you popped off in front of them that you going to turn your card in." And right there, I knew I'm I'm going to kill David Smith. It's all coming clearly now. I said, "Well, Bishop, I was just upset and hurt." He said, "No, no, no, no, no, no." He said, "Let me tell you how it will go down if the day ever comes that we need to turn our cards in." He said, "You see this man right here?" I said, "Yes, sir." He said, "When you see mine hit the table, then the rest of you boys can follow. But until you see that happen, I'm telling you again, shut your mouth and don't you ever pop off in front of other preachers." You know what he's telling me? Put that sword away. If you live by that sword, words, words coming out of a wounded spirit, words coming out of a hurt, a sword that was cutting. I'd been wounded, so I, you know, hurt people hurt people. So, I'm ready to cut somebody else with words, with words, with words, with words. I had to go to a general conference and listen to them promote the whole thing. Sat there. And I mean, boy, it was still working on me in that in the spirit. I mean, it was really working on me and my phone was burning up. Who's doing this? Are we doing it? Are they doing it? What's going on? It's a lot of confusion. I mean, it was just like again that just just like somebody just, you know, and I could feel and then I I could remember the sword that Brother Ewing used. And guess what? God led me through it. Restored it all. But I would have killed it. I would have killed my ministry. I would have fallen on my own sword. I would be like Saul. I'm glad for an elder that told me, "Put that sword up. Get the sword of the Spirit." Which is the Word of God. Be careful what's coming out of your mouth. Be careful how you're cutting somebody. Be careful how you're wounding somebody. Be careful when you want your kingdom to be exerted over the kingdom of someone else. We're supposed to submit ourselves one to another. Spirit of jealousy is as cruel as the grave. And you can get to looking around at somebody that got to go seven steps and you only got to go three. And jealousy creeps in and you start blaming God for it. And then you start getting a bad attitude and then words start coming out of your mouth. And what you don't know, sir, is you're taking a sword and you're starting to cut on your own kids. And you're starting to cut on your family. And your words, your words, it's a sword fight. And your words are cutting. And your words are wounding. And you're going to wound some of them to the point they'll never recover. And they'll get disillusioned and bitter about the work of God and the kingdom of God because all they see is biting and devouring and all the carnality and all this stuff and people clashing over what they want. What's it's got to stop. I'm pre I'm pleading with you dear tonight. I'm pleading with myself. It's got to stop. It's got to stop. What would happen if we all would just leave here saying, "It's not about my kingdom. It's about His kingdom. I'm not here to preach or promote my kingdom. I'm here to promote. There's a kingdom coming. There's a King coming. It's not me. I'm just a messenger. He's coming. He's coming. My God reigns. I don't care how much devastation is in our world right now. I don't care how much the enemy is telling you that God doesn't reign. I've come tonight to tell you it's His kingdom. He reigns. He's always going to reign. He's ultimately going to triumph over all of it. Our God reigns. I want to preach to somebody right now. It's got to get in your spirit right now. Our God reigns. You've exalted your problem. You spoke your problem. You've spoke your situation. You've made statements. I just don't think we'll ever get a break. I just don't think this is ever going to happen. I stepped outside. I I I'm sorry I'm going so long. I stepped outside of a restaurant. I was going through the trial of my life and I stepped out of a restaurant. Now I'm going come outside. I was so disillusioned with stuff and I looked at her and I said, "I don't even know if God exists anymore." She said, "Oh my God, Mark, what's wrong with you?" I said, "I don't I can't find him. He's nowhere near God. Why would he do this to me?" I don't even know if I I can't tell you how many times I've repented over it. I can't tell you I felt when I got home, begged God, please don't hold that against me. I'm just struggling. I don't understand. There's so much happening right now. But a sword came out of my mouth and the cut. I knew Nama was hurt by that statement. She was there in the heat of the battle standing in San Francisco. And then I took a sword and I cut. I cut. I cut. I had to go to her a few days later and apologize, repent. I said, "I'm so sorry for what I said." I said, "It's just a moment of weakness. I'm sorry." She said, "I just want to know, do you believe God exists?" I said, 'Well, to be honest with you, I can't find him, but yes, I know in my heart that he exists. I know God reigns. I'm looking from devastation. I'm standing in Jerusalem and all I can see is rubble. That's all I see right now. But I see a messenger on the horizon. And I see somebody coming. And how beautiful are the feet to them that bring good news. The messenger's coming telling you your God reigns. And tonight, I've been sent as a messenger for the kingdom to tell every one of you, I don't care what devastation, I don't care what hell you're living in. I've come tonight to tell you as a messenger, your God reigns. Your God reigns. Your God reigns. Your God reigns. Your God reigns. Your God reigns. You got to get it. Your God reigns. Your God reigns. Your God reigns. Your God reigns. He reigns. It's His kingdom. I know you're fighting hell where you come from. And I know the enemy slips into your room at night and he opens his mouth and he takes a sword of frustration and discouragement and fear and he cuts and he slices. And the Antichrist spirit speaks into your spirit and into your mind. But tonight, I've come to give you another message. It doesn't matter what he says. He's a liar and he's the father of all lies. All that matters is what does the Word say? And the Word says, "I will never leave thee and I will never forsake thee. Even to the end of the ages, I'm going to be there." So don't let the devil lie to you here tonight and make you think that God's not with you. He's not going with you. You just come to the conference, got a little refreshing, got a little hype, but the enemy's already got on your shoulder, whispering in your ear, "It won't change. When you get home, it's going to be the same. You're going to leave here and go back to the same hell. You're going to leave here and go back to the same stuff." I got news for you. That's a lie. It's a lie. I'm telling you that is a lie. Oh, no. No, no, no, no. That is a lie. You're going back as a messenger and you're going straight to the kingdom of darkness and you're going to tell Pharaoh, "I represent another kingdom and your kingdom is nothing to compare to His kingdom." And you got to go back and tell the fifth kingdom about the power of the sixth kingdom. I got news for you. We may be starting small and we may be a little stone, but trust me, this thing's going to grow in this city and it's going to become a great mountain and the kingdom of God is going to be established. That's what's going to happen. Now, somebody needs to take authority over the lies that has filled your mind and your spirit. And you need to declare victory in this place right now. [Applause] [Music] [Applause] Open your mouth [Applause] and let the sword of the Spirit go. [Applause]