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[Music] previously in this series and you have to prioritize the kingdom seek first the kingdom for everything else to be added to you so this is all bad ground which means the good ground is simply this people who understand it people who take it seriously and people who prioritize it.
Now according to Jesus, that word of the kingdom is going to produce sons of the Kingdom. I know you like this part of this video series, but you're going to love the entire thing. I invite you to go back and watch the entire thing in sequential order. So if this is, if you're jumping in the middle somewhere, go back, watch the first video, then the second, then the third, like watch these videos in sequential order. They will bless you beyond measure.
Word of the kingdom is going to produce sons of the Kingdom. Let's all say sons of the Kingdom. Sons of the Kingdom. A son of in Hebrew is one bearing the characteristics of the nature of. That's why someone could be called a son of Thunder, you know, one of the disciples. Sons of really, you you are manifesting the nature of. So the sons of the kingdom are the people who, uh, embody the culture of the Kingdom, the mentality of the Kingdom, the, the characteristics of the Kingdom. That's what the word of the Kingdom produces, right? So the word produces sons. Let's all say that. The word, the word produces son. Produces sons.
But in the second parable, the seed was not the word. Come on now. Come on now. Talk to us. The seed was the sons. He now says, what it says, uh, that that a man sowed seed into into his field and then an enemy came and sowed weeds into the field. When he interprets it, he says, the good seed are the children of the kingdom and the weeds are the children of the wicked one. In other words, in the first parable, we've sown a word, the word produces a harvest of sons. Now we're going to take the sons and plant them as seeds, right? Where is he going to plant them? In his field. Here's what it says. The interpretation is as follows by Jesus. The field is the world. Not to the church. Oh, say that one more time. The field is the world, not the church.
So what the King was saying is, look, I'm going to preach this word of the Kingdom. It's going to raise up sons of the kingdom. When we have sons of the Kingdom, we're now going to plant them into the world. Okay? And of course, the world is not just a geographic mass. The world is, is an array, a complex arrangement of demographies, of spheres and sectors and industries and brands and corporations and cultures and subcultures. All of that makes the world. Tampa is not just Tampa because of its geographic, uh, location on a map. It has its own culture. It has its demography. It has its, it has its, its economy. It has its polity. It has its groups. So when Jesus said, I'm going to plant my sons into the world, what he's saying is, it's pure King talk. I am targeting territory and I'm going to put my sons, my children into those territories. Come on now.
Here's the problem. So is the enemy going to put people into those territories? And you, and unfortunately, see, there's a grass in Israel called Darnell grass. At the earliest stage, it is indistinguishable from wheat. Come on now. That's the weeds at the early stage. You cannot tell. Is that wheat or is that a weed? And so an enemy, typically a farmer would not, you know, grow wheat anywhere near Darnell grass. But an enemy came in and began to sow the Darnell grass among the wheat. But this required the patience, the patience of the farmer to say, let them both grow together. I'm going to come to something with that. Let them both grow together until the time of the Harvest. In other words, there comes a point in your maturation where you, where you are obviously distinguishable from everything else.
Interestingly enough, Bishop, Darnell grass and wheat. Darnell grass grows faster than wheat. But wheat grows taller than Darnell grass. Anyway, just, oh, that's that's beautiful. A caveat here. Here's the last point I'm going to make on that. It is that when Jesus says, let them both grow together, he is saying there is nothing the weeds can do to stop you growing. They cannot stop you growing. They can't. So instead of focusing on ridding your life of toxic, difficult, aggressive energies, focus on growing. Come on, man. Because as you grow, the distinction, the separation becomes an inevitable part of your maturity. Okay. Okay.
So, so, so somebody is going to see this in the UK and they're going to report you to the king because you're showing out, brother. You're showing out. So let me, let me say this. I'm gonna, I'm gonna, I'm gonna, I'm gonna bring it full circle and then we're gonna. By the way, for those of you who are here on Zoom, we will be back on Zoom tonight. I mean, we're gonna, I'm gonna do Bible study here in a few minutes. We'll be back from five to seven tonight. And this man is going, hopefully you're gonna finish a little bit about letting them grow together. You're going to go into a little detail about that because you're an already, you don't already opened the can, you might as well pour it out. Okay. So, so, and y'all don't, I promise you, if you miss your own birthday party in 2023, don't miss the night.
So the last thing I'm going to say is this, because I started with Matthew 6:33. But seek ye first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things shall be added unto you. What is the kingdom of God? And you've, you've already said it, but I'm gonna, I'm gonna give it to you in a sentence so you can begin to look for it intentionally instead of haphazardly. The kingdom of God. The word kingdom is a compound word that means King's Dominion. So the kingdom of God is when I yield my life to God as The Sovereign King Of My Life. When I understand that my mind is his and I think the thoughts he wants me to think, I understand that my mouth is his and I say the words he wants me to say, I realize my eyes are his and I'm looking at what he wants me to look at. My hands are his, I'm doing the deeds he wants me to do. My feet are his, I'm trying the path he wants me. I'm yielding my life to God as The Sovereign King Of My Life.
Notice I did not say I surrendered my life to God because the word surrender is not a Bible word. All the Jesus, I surrender, it sounds good, it's good for a song, but it ain't in the word. You cannot find the word surrender in the Bible, not one time, especially when it comes to man's relationship with God. But it's not just not in there, but the Bible talks about us yielding our lives to God. Surrender is something you do to a foreign enemy. Yield is something you can do to a friend. I yield my life to God as The Sovereign King Of My Life. When I yield my life to this God is The Sovereign king of my life, he makes me the king over an assignment. The carpenter is the ruler over the wood. The plumber rules over the flow of the water. The electrician rules over the flow of the electricity. It's not, it's not that people who are owned banks are kings and carpenters or not kings. Everybody's just king over, as Bishop said so eloquently, their thing.
So I yield my life to God as a sovereign king of my life. He makes me the ruler or the king over an assignment. You ladies, he makes you the queen over an assignment. Here's where, here's where the kingdom of God ends up. We use the assignment that he gave us to rule over to serve every human being we come in contact with. We become king servants, yielded to God, serving people. And when you do that, people will seek you out. When you can deliver something to them that they could not find by themselves, they will seek you out and they will happily pay you for the assignment that you ruled over and served to them. And that's why the scripture says, seek ye first the kingdom of God. When I'm yielded to God and God's sovereign king in my life, he makes me the ruler over an assignment, and I use that assignment to serve people. Those people happily pay me. Happily, I happily pay the people who served me. I happily pay them. So I yield my life to God as a sovereign king of my life. I rule over an assignment because he gave me authority over that assignment. And then I use that assignment to serve every human being I come in contact with, which goes back to what you said. Love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your mind, all your soul. And the second is like unto it. Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. Which, by the way, if you hate yourself, you can't love your neighbor, right? Right. I've never met somebody who hates themselves who doesn't struggle with loving other people. 100%. Anyway, and by the way, the reason people hate themselves is because they're walking around with a heart full of pride because they think their standard is higher than God's. Okay, Bishop, I gotta go. I gotta go. I gotta go. I gotta go recuperate from you. Yeah, I need, I need to create some space. Give it up for Bishop, y'all. All right. Stay blessed by the best.