If I tell you God is powerful and I know
it, I should be able to demonstrate
God’s power. So if a man has a
challenge, if I know the power of God, I
should be able to bring that power on
the scene and create a change in his
life. There’s no point telling people.
And then the third thing that makes the
kingdom of God is the wisdom of God.
Because God does not just want his will
to find expression. There is a how. He
wants his will to find expression. that
how is his wisdom. And so as you study
your Bible, you’re going to discover in
Matthew 16:19, Jesus said, “Behold,
I give unto you the keys of the
kingdom.” Those are the wisdoms of God.
So anywhere you find the wisdom of God,
the kingdom of God is there. Take for
instance, we just had an organization a
moment ago that their preoccupation
is to raise funds and bring people out
of poverty whom they have no blood
connection with. Now you know in the
world system that’s foolishness because
the world system is selfish and
self-centered. But when you come into
God’s kingdom, you discover that another
wisdom is at work, which is a selfless
kind of wisdom where a man can take his
savings and support a person he doesn’t
know and he may never meet that person.
So why in the world you are encouraged
to gather for yourself in the kingdom
you are encouraged to scatter so that
others are blessed. Now those are
contradictory wisdom. They they don’t
align but that is where God is separate
from Satan. And so when you see that you
are operating by another modality then
you know you are in the kingdom of God
because the wisdom of God runs his
kingdom. Finally when we speak about the
kingdom of God we speak about the
authority of God the realm of divine
authority where the power and the
dominion of God finds expression. In
Luke 11:20, Jesus said, “If I by the
finger of God cast out devils, he said,
then the kingdom of God is in your
midst.” So when we talk of the kingdom
of God, we are talking about people that
can embody divine authority and when
they show up, anything contrary to
divine standing, they can alter it.
We are talking about a people that can
cast out devils. We are talking about a
people that can change circumstances. We
are talking about a people that can
enforce divine dominion because they
embody divine authority. This is what
God has brought us here for. We are not
alive just to breathe oxygen. The goat
is doing same. The dog is doing same. We
are here to advance divine life. We are
here to advance divine wisdom. We are
here to advance divine will. And we are
here to embody and communicate divine
authority. This is who you are. And if
you walk out of this conference without
embodying what I have said, then you
didn’t come here. Because one thing God
must do this morning is to initiate you
into the kingdom.
Now, quickly, let’s look at the the
project of man
to let you know this is God’s plan from
the beginning. When God created us, this
was his plan. He wanted his life, his
wisdom, his will, and his authority to
dominate every sphere. But there was a
need for an agent to be used. And so God
decided on account of his benevolence to
use us. Now, he didn’t need us because
he’s sovereign.
You know, before God began creation, God
was.
God didn’t begin with creation. He was
before creation. That’s why he’s called
creator. Now imagine where there was no
space, time or matter. And when there
was no spirit realm and God was, where
was he?
That means God lives in God.
The dwelling of God is God himself.
The Bible say God is light and the Bible
say God dwells in light unapproachable.
So God was before creation began. And
even when God was creating, he didn’t
need the help of anybody. He created the
world all by himself.
Genesis 1 vers1, in the beginning, God
created the heavens and the earth. He
didn’t need an angel. He didn’t need a
man. So when God invites you to partner
with him, it’s not because God is
handicapped. It’s a privilege.
He didn’t need you because it’s a
trinity.
Because the way it works is that you
know when we say father, son and spirit,
you need to understand what we are
saying. When we say father and son, we
are not necessarily saying one is bigger
than the other. He’s eternally co-equal.
The father and the son are eternally
co-equal and eternally coexistent. When
we say father and son, we are not saying
father is bigger than son. When we say
father and son, this is what it means.
When god wants to work, when god wants
to do anything, God speaks and god
leaves god to carry out the assignment.
So the god who is present is called the
father because father means origin. Abba
the God that proceeds from God to carry
out the assignment is called son because
son is offspring. So if God say bring
the microphone God will go and bring the
microphone God will still be here. The
God who is here is called father. The
one who goes to bring the mic is called
son.
So God does not need you and I. We need
him.
When Jesus said my father is greater
than I is administration.
Because when salvation became necessary,
God had to step down and be clothed with
flesh.
So God couldn’t do what he would have
done because he limited himself with
flesh. So it’s within the context of
divine administration that Jesus said
the father is greater than I. After
salvation was over, when he was on the
cross, he said, “Now the job is done.
Return to me the glory I had with you
before the foundation of the world.”
Are you following me?
So God does not need you and I. We need
him. But his love motivated him to
create you and I. And in order for us to
have meaning, he brought us into the
kingdom to participate with him in
building the kingdom. Just like a man
has a business, an empire, and the
moment the child begins to grow, he
begins to introduce him to the business
because his love wouldn’t let him until
the child understands the business and
eventually takes over the business. So
we are participating in the kingdom
because we the God was motivated by love
to give you an experience that operates
in the God class. This is why kingdom
participation is something you live for.
And this is what defined the project of
man. When God chose to create man, this
was his agenda. He wanted his kingdom to
advance. He wanted his kingdom, the
invincible kingdom of God to become the
reality in the visible realm with man as
the governor.
And so the Bible said in Genesis 1
vers1, in the beginning God created the
heavens and the earth. The earth was
void. Darkness was upon the face of the
deep. The spirit of God hovered upon the
face of the waters. God came and
recreated the earth. And now that he
recreated the earth, he didn’t want the
earth to be void. So he needed to put an
agent in the earth to advance the
kingdom. So in verse 26 of Genesis 1, he
said, “Let us make man in our own image
after our likeness. Let them have
dominion over the birds of the air, the
fish of the water, and everything that
creepeth upon the face of the earth.” So
you were created to be the governor of
the realm. You were created to be the
kingdom agent supervising and bringing
administration to God’s agenda on the
earth realm. Now, for you to be able to
do that, there were tokens God needed to
have implanted into you. And so, there
were five tokens God gave man. Number
one, he gave man his life
because man needed to carry the God life
to be able to represent God. He needed
the god life to operate in the god
class. Now this it’s interesting where
we are this morning. You are in the
United Kingdom. So you you love animals.
We love animals in Africa. But the
purpose for animals are different.
Here animals are pets. In Africa animals
are largely food.
Glory to God.
So you you can have a pig in your room
as a pet here. Yes.
But but in Africa, a pig is good for
barbecue.
Glory to God.
Hallelujah.
Now the point is this. No matter how
much love you have for your pig, your
pig cannot be part of your family
because your pig does not have the
capacity to live in the human human
class. It takes life order for a being
to come into a class. Your dog can even
lie on the bed with you, but there’s no
day your dog will speak English.
There’s no day you will send your dog to
the bank
to carry out a transaction for you. You
know why? Your dog does not have the
life that you have. So your love for
your dog cannot bring your dog to your
class. But you see, when God wanted to
create man, he needed man to talk in his
realm, to participate in his realm. And
the only way that was going to happen
was to give man the same life that was
in God. So God extended his life into
man so that man will be in the God
class.
So the first token we saw that God made
available for man was his life. Now for
the life of God to work in man, man
needed the nature of God. So God went
further and gave his nature to the man.
So in Genesis 1:26 it say let us make
man in our image after our likeness. So
the word image is the word selm and what
that means is that you carry the essence
of God. You carry the DNA of God. So you
don’t just have the life of God, you
have the DNA of God. And God didn’t stop
there. God gave man his own authority.
The authority God has that makes him
function as the ruler over creation. He
gave that authority to man. He said let
them have dominion. The word is radar.
Let them have the power, the governing
power that I have over the earth. Does
it not surprise you that the lion never
thought of eating the man?
The authority over creation that God
possessed, he gave man. So he gave man
his life. He gave man his authority. He
gave man his nature. And he didn’t stop
there. He put his presence upon the man.
So when you met the man, you will feel
divinity. You will sense divinity. That
was why he planted him in Eden. Eden is
not a place. Eden is a portal. So God
didn’t need to come in and out. The
Bible just said the voice of God was
working in the garden. So the presence
of God was the envelope of Eden. God
gave man his presence. So the man in the
garden had God’s nature, had God’s
presence, had God’s authority, and has
God’s life. So that anything God wanted
to do on earth, the man had the
competence and the capacity to do it. So
the first way God tested the man was
that the animals God created, God needed
the animals named and God brought the
animals to the man. And the Bible said
the names the man called the animals. He
didn’t say that was the name they were
called. He said that was the name there
was. So the names God gave the animals
when he was creating them. The man
entered the mind of God, excavated those
names and called the animals the same
name. So the man was operating at the
frequency of divinity.
When Satan saw it, Satan was troubled.
This cannot be. How could God photocopy
himself and put on the earth here? What
happens to us? And so immediately a
contract was negotiated in hell. Let’s
look for a way to dethrone this man
because he too is an entity of glory.
And they began to study man.
Unfortunately, there was no way they
could bring him down because the guy was
literally operating at the class of God.
The only way to bring this man down is
for the man to self-destruct because
he’s the only one who could destroy
himself. And the way he will destroy
himself was to rebel against God. And
when they discovered it, they came into
the garden, leured the man to rebel
against God. And when the man rebelled,
the man fell. Guess what was said in the
spirit? They know not. Neither will they
understand. You have fallen like one of
the princes. Psalm 82:5. For I have said
ye are gods. So the way God saw the man
was in the god class. You are gods. And
he told us why? Because you are the
offsprings of the most high God. You are
gods because you are born of God. He
said, “But because they didn’t know,
they fell like the princes. And from
that day on, the authority God gave man
was transferred to Satan because man was
the keeper of divine authority.” When
Jesus was on the mount of temptation,
Satan came to him and say, “Bow to me
and I will give you all the glories of
the earth.” He said, “For it has been
delivered unto me.” And Jesus did not
challenge the statement.
In fact, Paul came in 2 Corinthians 4:3
and said concerning Satan. He called him
the God of this world. Because man was
actually made the god of this world. He
was given the authority to represent God
in this world. And the moment that
authority came to the hands of Satan, he
began to plunder the earth. And so God
needed his kingdom to advance to the
earth. Now the first man was no longer
qualified.
But according to the blueprint of God is
a man that will bring the kingdom here.
So since the first Adam failed, God had
to send another Adam
because he’s the omniscient one. Satan
can’t take him unawares. So what did God
do? We now saw the reason why the gate
of the womb was formed. So what God did
was that he took off the garment of
divinity and he entered the womb of a
woman and he s sustained and and
suffered the humiliation of staying in
the womb of the woman for 9 months
following the protocol of humanity and
God was born as a man so that he will
undo the error of the first Adam. So why
the first Adam was a living soul, he
said the last Adam was a quickening
spirit. While the first Adam was of the
earth, he said the last Adam was the
Lord from heaven.
And he said something critical. The
whole reason for this is so that he can
include the first Adam in the last Adam
so that the agenda can continue. The
agenda is to advance God’s kingdom and
God’s kingdom can only be advanced by
men. Satan outsmarted the first man.
Therefore, corrupting the first
creation. God brought another man who
outsmarted Satan and brought back the
opportunity to man to become God’s
agent. So, the work of Jesus is to bring
you and I back into the program of
kingdom advancement.
[Music]
Now hear this. Although God is
sovereign,
he would have just sat in heaven and
said, “I forgive man. Go ahead.” But
that won’t work. Because if God did
that, God would have violated himself
because God is righteous. He cannot
overlook iniquity. And God already said
the wages of sin is death. Romans 6:23,
Ezekiel 18, the Bible speaks, it says,
“The soul that sinned shall die.” So God
cannot violate himself. So what God did
as he showed up in the second Adam was
first of all pay the price for the sin
and the penalty of the first Adam. Now
why am I saying this? Somebody may be
sitting here and they say, “What’s my
business if Jesus came into this world?
And what’s my business if he died?
What’s my business if he was crucified?”
If I tell you God is powerful and I know
it, I should be able to demonstrate
God’s power. So if a man has a
challenge, if I know the power of God, I
should be able to bring that power on
the scene and create a change in his
life. There’s no point telling