Authority of the Kingdom Agenda

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This is the alternative Dr. Tony author, speaker, senior pastor of Oakland Bible Fellowship Dallas, Texas, president of the urban alternative to many Christians build their lives around what people say about the Bible instead of what the Bible says about people today. Dr. Evans explains why that's such a dangerous temptation as he talked about the real authority for kingdom, Christians must join you there teams in any football game but in the middle of the field as a 13 team of officials that do not belong to either of the other two things they belong to the league office. The kingdom on Park Ave., Avenue sets the rules about how things run on the field. The job of the officials to reflect the rule of the kingdom from Park Avenue on the field of play.

When the battle is a carry bag job is not to join your team, because they independent of both teams went official operates by his own rules, he loses his authority because his hourly is only realized when he is raving. According to league standards to ensure that unofficial football field is operating with the legal standard given a book to study that will memorize that both utilize that book decision he makes on the field he makes on the field has to be able to be validated by the book when he makes a decision that cannot be validated by the bulk of the support.

I believe because Anna is a football game gets to rule in the book agrees with this agrees with the decision overruled by the commission because it is designed to reflect the commission off the field.

His representatives on the field is officials.

We have a name of the Lord Jesus Christ.

Christ has been ties. If you will, by God, the father to lament what happens in history, the Bible says there is one mediator between God and man. And that is the man Christ Jesus. Jesus is the Commissioner and his job is to the officials on the field. The officials on the field of believers. Those who come to Jesus Christ for salvation to function properly. Our Commissioner kingdom has given us a book called the Bible is what control over decisions that officials want to have a decision in the field of life would make visions by means of its agreement with the book.

One of the officials believe they lose the commission.

One of the reasons were not saved in the kingdom disbands from the king that we rent now book and officials) book, they only get to implement the book. That is the truth about the commission you and I belong to a kingdom we have a K and he is to be the final court of appeal on all matters that he agrees to and he agreed to heal the kingdom. Gender is the visible manifestation of a copy of the rule of God over all of my why do you need to know this. You need to know this because your experience of the kingdom of hourly is tied to its connection to the book from a connection to the you lose me of the kingdom and the benefits of the king. In other words, many of God's children on their own because last time the book, not knowing that the same time sidelined the king in the Scripture Reading your hearing from Exodus 19. He takes a couple of our key words he says in verse five. If you obey my voice and keep my company remember what you operate under my governance shall be my own possession among all the people is mine and you shall be to me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation you going to be special, unique, only mean special set of productivity do not go to be average ordinary you going to be in a class by yourself. If you operate my covering. You will not be my kingdom. Why authority why individual's being controlled by everything but God.

Why is family immigration being caused so that families are falling apart. Wow is our charge or charges. God's covenants and for the individual to family the church in the society laws the government and God wants to leave all of because he said all the earth is mine, but he will by means of his word, his word. Let's get this straight.

The Bible is simply words about God is the word of God may people learn about God from the Bible, which is legit but you don't quit. There is the voice of God in print the word… Not merely words about God as though God were physically is is written down. The Bible claims the following Jesus put it this way. He says in John 1034 and the word of God cannot be broken. Be cannot be a no cancel or may void how you view the Bible and how you respond to the Bible will determine your authority or lack thereof, that is your ability to rule authority is your ability to rule. Let me just take you back to remember this, God told Adam from every tree of the garden you may freely of the tree in the midst of the garden you shall not eat it, lest you die.

He said, tell you how we will retail we will roll freedom only treatment except don't mess with that one thing that one will kill you. Adam decided to try God.

And he did with most of us do.

He chose reason over revelation. I know God said to leave a message tree, but let me just take a bite shows the malice into the tree of the patient independently from God rather than relation to his information directly from God, and all hell broke loose because when you live in the room so we can exercise dominion so you can exercise based on the word you are supposed to be in charge of your life under God. God based on his console of the forces of the powerless can take over you because we believe the word of the family or the church through his word problem with the problems problems.

The problem is most of human opinion. Most of living all of human opinion.

I think we think they think my mama taught me my dental meet my cousins taught me TV taught me. My teacher told me we live in a human opinion is always changing drink coffee don't drink coffee drink deeply.

JJ is good for you and destroy your kidneys wanted opinion so long as trial and error when we try to try that trial and error what God is saying is if you would consult the book on the front end. You would have to be living a life trial and that's what David said in Psalm 19 says Shelley revealed to me showing my stuff and see most of us have gone through trial and we say what it is when we need to understand is why you can trust you or anybody you know because you and everybody you know their finite, that is, they have limited information, you know, no matter how smart they are all waiting on limited data. That's why things changed because people discover later that they didn't know yesterday and so when they discover this new thing can change the whole thing that I used to think was nothing because it keeps changing. God is the only person who is infinite know anything about everything you don't know anybody like that. And trust me you're not like that and neither of God is the only one information on every subject, you'll never deal with hourly row on the field of life people being tackled down around us, but you got the kingdom, the ability to see God in your circumstances read to you. Deuteronomy for this is very convicting. As I walk through it because I was a soft fresh how God feels about his word he says in verse one now Israel. Deuteronomy 41.

Listen to the statutes and the judgments which I am teaching you to perform so that you may live in go in and take possession of the land which the Lord, the God of your fathers is giving you start but they fix pay attention why why why why cannot pay attention.I'm going to tell you how to get what I have given. I'm going to tell you verse once again what I've given you. Remember you have already been blessed with all spiritual blessings.

Ephesians 13 in places like everything God give you. You already have. There is nothing new.

You can get from God. It is already been in your account. Everything God is doing for you with you every blessing, you receive a little like God is deposited, but you have to get it. Revelation 22 makes it even stronger by Williams with this model is probably 22 verse 18 testified to everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book. If anyone adds to them, God will add to him the plagues, which are written in this book and if anyone takes away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God will take away his part from the tree of life, from the holy city, which are written in this book and play with my word just what officials don't get to the book, nor did I get the take away from the book they just implement the book but with the implementation of the book comes my watch what he says in verse five of Deuteronomy for CIF taught you the statutes and judgments were God, just as the Lord my God commanded me that you should do in the land where you are entering to possess it, tell you how to roll on the tell you how to do this stuff so you is your understanding in the People's war heal all the statutes word and say sure this great nation is a wise and understanding people. What nation is there God solely at the it as the Lord our God. We call you. I hope you miss that. He says don't turn don't turn to the state and see what you when you call me.

The formula on God. Prayer must be connected to his word for you to see an answer, asking from God that will be no response because Christians have left the word not yet christened around plaintiff is not the word of God, but by adding to and taking from and the main way we add to it and take affirmative human opinion.

We and what we think what the folks we know.

Think and as Jesus told the Pharisees in Matthew chapter 50 you make invalid the word of God with your traditions says the nations are supposed to know and see God's authority operating in the lives of individuals and families and churches and even in the society to serve the nation should see that you are you meeting people why because they authority, they will sleep you ruling rather than being when you leave the book you lose the authority kingdom authority you do not experience Dr. adventures kingdom believers sometimes wondered being unique people in ways that don't seem to make sense.

More on that when he continues her message in a moment but first I want to let you know that the message your hearing today as part of our year-end audio compilation called the best of Tony have and 2021 contains 20 of Tony's most requested lessons from this year covering the importance of prophecy, our need for spiritual armor how to find freedom from anxiety and much more. Right now we're bundling these powerful audio messages along with a special selection of bonus books and devotionals. You can choose from. You can get the complete best of audio collection along with your custom selected bonus resource is our gift to you. When you help support Tony's ministry with a year-end contribution get all the details and make the arrangements today when you visit Tony Evans.org or call our resource Center at one 800 832, 22 team members are standing by day and night to help you.

Again, that's 1-800-800-3222 right now Dr. Evans is back with more of today's message less joint.

Now let me explain something to be crystal clear on this, I mean no disrespect to God when I say this, but God sometimes can be weird in the words of Isaiah 55 my ways are not your ways my thoughts and natural thoughts that they are not even close as high as the heavens above the earth.

That's how different I am you so you can look at you another one who looks like you and decide for me because the way I will get in the way you will wait in the way way. That's why you have to limit yourself in your decision-making to the book because many of the things God says you will like some when God comes up with the expectation it will Joshua. Joshua will maybe go to Jericho walk around the wall once a day think they want to sell the day you want to scream way to spray now we you will military Academy strategic meeting in general we going to defeat Jericho walking around, we got this last, check the walls came tumbling down because my weight is not your way there a lot of things that God is going to say to you that will not question the know enough and have they been around enough and have you been doing this long enough to know what he is talking about. And there are enough of us here who made enough mistakes to know we don't know enough. We we've grown enough to know when we thought was okay and found out disagree with God when it did it anyway God is right and we will do so much of the Bible. I don't understand I got I got help you act on the two verses.

You do understand versus 129 the number 2826 you go to the doctor you say say that stomach examines you and he says okay you write a prescription trying to read you understand you understand it probably can't even read it before going to the pharmacist stopping man into the pharmacist stop you from taking it even though you don't understand very few of us ask the pharmacist to break down all the ingredients that made up the thing about will say give me the exegesis of the pill them down so that I know every syncretic element that makes up this particular pill that I'm going to put in my stomach will understand and to swallow with you. We believe what we could not understand because of account of the personal because you trust. You take up you didn't understand and know about because you will know not working as well was so sick when I because we have the word we have made it a religious word about God word of God is with me. It means you can no longer operate on what you believe to be true.

Okay, not authority. Authority means the ability to. You cannot write what you believe to be true. When I know my truth and the truth telling me you know what you believe to be true. The promise of God. John Davis, you will know the truth and the truth will set you free. It's the truth that set you free.

Not what you believe to be true because of what you believe to be true if the true when you have false belief even though you really believe it. All Scripture is God's correction and instruction in righteousness. Scripture gives you the truth is all true but unless you try.

So you will not know you can rule your world ruled let people know will station the conference of the kingdom, God's standard by which we measure so we close with this verse for special millions chapter 2 verse 13 says for this reason, we are constantly thanking God that when you receive the word of God which you heard from us, you accepted it not as the word of men, but for what it really is the word of God which also performs its work in you believe we told it to you but you didn't think it was just a man talk you received it for what it really is God talk the word of God, and that's why you check everything I say about the book. If I have a guest speaker. Check everything they say about a book when I don't have all call another path. You better make sure you think about the book because the list to be the standard decision-making. Dr. Evans will come back in a moment to wrap up today's program with a final comment first so the lesson you been hearing today as part of Tony's new audio compilation the best of Tony up and is 2021. As I mentioned earlier, this giant collection is available for a limited time is our gift when you help support Tony's ministry with a generous year-end contribution.

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Right now though is back with a final comment for today was in the old Negro baseball league umpire big strapping guy. She was calling again one day and night time a little third-base the back him up and feel bald.

He threw the ball to put the butt with a man that was so much around is all that you cannot do anything, so one team came out around the plate now speak what the Democrats saying one thing and another thing you say what the final, the alternative opportunity happens is brought to you by the urban alternative celebrating 40 years of faithfulness, thanks to the generous contributions of listeners like you