Two Kingdoms (Video) — Dean Taylor

The Church’s Prophetic Witness Between Two Kingdoms

You know, we are supposed to be prophetic. The church is called to be prophetic to every generation and there's a trap on either involving ourselves with the politics and the sword or the other side is to retreat into some sort of isolationism or to into into cloistering to this side.

And Jesus wants us to be his kingdom prophetically speaking and prophetically living in this world.

The person of Jesus Christ. I'll highlight you, Dean, and you can...

I'm gonna change, even though this is broken, I'm gonna trade to this reader because I don't like having to go like that on the Zoom with my bifocals. So my apologies to my wife who's embarrassed by my funny presence.

Those are better. Okay. Yeah, I've got some worse ones that she really didn't want me. Okay. We could put a we could put a collection together tonight to give you some. No, I haven't. It just fell off.

I was just kidding. Well, praise the Lord. It's great to to be here with you all and the topic that's been on my heart a lot is just looking at our world and the different things that how it happens and I'd like to take a look at two kingdoms and just politics in general.

If I get to it, I'd like to get down to a little bit of how we respond, how kingdom and Anabaptist people have responded in the past and and perhaps ways that we could do that better. And so although now that I've seen a close-up, that's kind of funny-looking.

So I'll go back to this. But anyway, so let me share my screen. I'm also gonna try something tonight where I'm trying to learn on Zoom. Clark's been having me swivel over to Google Slides, which has been great and it has this really nice speakers notes, but you can't do that and do Zoom.

So I'm trying to figure out a way to do that. So I'm gonna be going back and forth between this screen and this screen, but let me find my Zoom screen here. Right. Let's try to share and present that and then Okay, we're having my share button.

Okay, it's the share button. I really work with this every day. So I'm surprised I'm having such a hard time. Okay, here we go. Share screen and there. Okay. All right. So this is my slideshow here to kind of go along with this and I have and children watch.

I even have a little cartoon for you to watch that I tried to create. All right. So can everybody see that two kingdoms there? All right, so it maybe some of you heard my testimony, but when I I was raised in an evangelical background and embraced the teachings of Jesus, my wife and I, as we began to read the New Testament and take it seriously.

Conscientious Objection and the Conflict Between Civil and Divine Allegiance

And when we became conscious objectors in the Persian Gulf War, which is a long story for another time, but of all that you have to do to be a conscious objector, I think one of the most impressive or the most, the scariest part, which I thought was gonna be not a scary part, was my interview with the psychiatrist or psychologist.

I don't know what she was, psychologist or psychiatrist. But when I went in there, thinking it was just supposed to be a kind of a token routine visit, as soon as I walked in the door, she looked at me and said, you're not gonna be here very long.

You don't even need to sit down. And I was like, what do you mean? Yeah, you, you, you conscious objectors, conscientious objectors. I, I'm, I've got you. And I was like, wow, this is sort of much more adversarial than I thought it would be.

And I, and I said, well, what do you mean you've got me? And then I quietly sit down. And she said, I've got all you conscious objectors. I said, okay, what do you mean? She said, all right, I'll ask you a few questions.

I said, okay, please do. She said, okay, so you say you want out of the army because you do not feel that you can support what the army stands for, what the army is doing in war, and you say you can't do that.

Is that correct? I said, yes, ma 'am, that's correct. And she said, I have the second question for you. And I said, okay. You know, really wondering what it would be. And she said, do you pay your taxes?

And I said, well, yes, ma 'am, I do. She said, see, I've got you, you're inconsistent. You know, like this is nonsense. And she was going to advise that, you know, that this whole thing becoming conscious objector was, was inappropriate.

So I said, and I was new, I was praying and everything. And I said, well, well, here's the thing. You got to understand, I live by the ways of a book. And that book is the Bible. And the Bible tells me to love my enemies, but it also tells me to pay my taxes.

And I don't necessarily know how to put all those pieces together. But I obey. And from that obedience, I follow Christ, something like that. And when I started to say that, it really made her mad. And, and she began to say, do you realize who I am?

And she went on to this long list of different volunteer things and different things she does and her activities. And she finally gets to the very end. And she, she was banging on her little desk there and say, and besides that, I'm a card carrying Methodist.

And I should have done this, but I was young and didn't know better. But then I said, could you just repeat all that again? And she got very upset and then dismissed me out of the, out of the room. But the whole story made me think over and over again, how this concept of the two kingdoms is so often misunderstood.

It's misunderstood by, by secular people. It's misunderstood by Christians. It's even misunderstood often by Mennonites and pacifists of different kind, historic peace churches. And so today I would like us to look at some of the biblical things about being the kingdom of God, but yet being within a world with different politics and different things like this.

And there's some key passages. There's some key verses that I really want us to get. And here's the thing that I really hope that we don't do with this teaching tonight. I'm hoping that it doesn't just become like some sort of a doctrine that you tuck away.

Like, I don't know. I don't know. You know, what kind of wine do you use in communion or whatever, but that there's something organic about non-resistance, about two kingdoms, about the kingdom of God that should bring up worship in our heart.

It needs to spring from the person of Jesus Christ. And that's how this doctrine should come out and not like just some sort of academic thing. So that's my hope. Let's see here. So there's the famous, the famous coins that Caesar came.

Rendering to Caesar and Rendering to God

I think it's one of the most misquoted things in the Bible. You know, the, this is where the Pharisees were trying to trap Jesus into a trap of saying, you know, I, you know, who are you going to, who do you give tribute to?

And they showed him one of these Roman coins. And what does he say when they show it to him and thinking they were going to trap him? He said, render unto Caesars what is Caesar's and render unto God what is God's.

And he said, whose image is on that? Caesar. Render to Caesar what is Caesar, render to God's what is God's. And many people think that they can live this sort of double life where, you know, you can be, half of your life is secular, half of your life is spiritual, and you just got to be able to discern through those different things.

That's not what Jesus was saying at all. And, you know, if you think about it, there's a lot of deeper ways that the early church would have looked at this, but Caesar's image is on this thing, this money thing, this, you know, and give these types of things unto God.

And so we get to the deeper, the more real things that run this world. And he shows us something beautiful. And for a first text, I want us to look, look to it's sort of an odd text. It's a, it's one that we don't typically quickly go to with non-resistance.

But I'm going to take us to judges. So let me ask you a question first. When was the first time that the people of God in the Bible, when was the first time in the Bible that the people of God asked for a king?

Anybody know? When was the first time that the people of God asked for a king? That first person that I've found in the Bible, unless I'm missing something, was the story of Gideon. The story of Gideon.

Gideon’s Refusal to Rule and the Lord’s Kingship

If you have your Bibles, look at Judges 8 .22. And children, I want you to pay a lot of attention because I've got a little cartoon that I want you to remember. And I think that this is a beautiful passage that talk, that gives us an understanding about the role of those two kingdoms, the role of the kingdom of this world with its government and with its ways and the way of Christ with this beautiful gift that it has for humanity.

So Judges 8 .22 is interesting. So it says, Then the men of Israel said unto Gideon, Rule thou over us, both thou and thy son, and thy son's son also, for thou hath delivered us from the hand of Midian.

You remember the story, Gideon did all these great things. He defeated all the bell worship and these types of things. So he was getting really popular with this. And then Gideon answered. And Gideon said unto them in Judges 8 .23, I will not rule over you, neither shall my son rule over you.

And here's the important point. The Lord shall rule over you. Now we're so accustomed to just merely spiritual and to get this as, you know, some, well, yeah, Lord, what does that mean? He's my Lord. But the political nature of this and the reality that I think the people of God are intended to have this is so much deeper than just using it in some sort of spiritualized way.

The Lord shall rule over you. Gideon, I think, understood that. And then we get this really neat parable. This is why children, I really want you to pay attention. All right. So the rebellion and everything, one of the sons or half sons starts taking over and all this.

And finally, Jotham wants to give a parable about crying out about what's going wrong in the kingdom by wanting to make one of these men of Israel or men of God a king. And so it says here, when Jotham learned that the people had crowned Abimelech as king, he climbed up to Mount Gerizim and told them this story.

He told them this story. Let's look at this. All right. Are you watching, children? Here we go. All right. And he told them, Judges 9 -8, turn your Bible to this. It's a great parable. The trees went out on a time to anoint a king over them.

And they came unto an olive tree. Uh-oh. This is really not working well with my double thing here. All right. Went to the olive tree. I'll paraphrase. They went to the olive tree and said, olive tree, reign over us so that we can have a king.

And so they said, hey, olive tree, reign over us. But the olive tree said, would I give up my fatness, my oils, my fatness, wherewith by me they honor God and man and be promoted over the trees? They said, no.

He said, no, I'm not going to do that. So the tree said, okay, well, they didn't give up. Let's go to the fig tree. And so they came to the fig tree and they said, fig tree, will you come and reign over us?

Will you be a king over us? And that's what they did. Were you king? And the fig tree said, no, would I give up my sweetness? Would I give up the sweetness and my good fruit to come and go roll over trees?

No, I'm not going to do that. And so they didn't do that. Trees didn't give up. So they kept going. They came over to some vines. So they came to the vine and said, vine, would you come and reign over us?

Come and reign over us. And the vine said, no, would I give up my wine, which cheereth both God and man to reign over you? No, I won't go be king. So I said, okay, well, what do they do? So they didn't get up and they found this briar bunch, this, this bramble, as the King James says, a bunch of, you know, thorns.

And they said, come, you come and reign over us. And the bramble bush said, all right, I will come and reign over you. If you do this, if you put your trust in my shadow, and if you don't let fire come out of the bramble and devour you like the seeds, the cedars of Lebanon.

And so that the interesting thing about this really neat parable is that in each case, the fruit trees had a very special purpose. They, and they refuse to lower their standards. This is the interesting thing to become King.

They refuse to lower the true nature of what they're all about and why they exist in sweetness and fatness and, and cheering God and man and to go reign over people granted that maybe they need some sort of politics in some sort of way to rule men by reigning over them.

But that wasn't the purpose. That wasn't the purpose of why these special plans were made. And that is a really neat idea. It's a really neat idea of understanding the kingdom of God. Jesus has given us very specific and wonderful things that he wants us to be involved with.

We are given our own laws to rule and guide our lives. We have our own King that demands absolute loyalty to some scriptures that go with that. We are, we are to refuse to obey the laws that contradict the laws of God blatantly.

We are commanded to love, feed, warm and care. Even for our very enemies of the countries in which we live. Oops. We are, we are charged with the impractical marching orders that commands us to go into battle defenseless as lamb before wolves sheep for the slaughter.

Explicitly. We are told that our weapons are not to be made of earthly things. It says right in Ephesians 6, 12. Furthermore, we are instructed that we do not war in the flesh and contrast to old Testament, marching orders to destroy men's life.

We now instead have new orders to save them. And that's this beautiful fruit, defeating even death. We are told that dying actually is gain for us and that the cross is our example. Simply put, we are told that our kingdom is not of this world.

In the end, we are told that we defeat even the antichrist, but not with bombs, not with chemical warfare, whether it says, this is how we defeat the antichrist in the end, when things get really, really bad by the blood of the lamb, by the word of our testimony and not loving our lives, even to the death.

This is a beautiful, there's something worshipful. There's something wonderful in this way that we have this way of God, this way of Christ that comes out. This is the fruit. Okay. Let me see. Is there a way to get rid of this bar?

Let's see. Hide none. No. You can try dragging it to the bottom of the screen, that would be better. Okay. To accomplish this goal, Jesus has inaugurated a kingdom that would live out his teachings and manifest his plans for humanity.

The New Birth as the Entrance to the Kingdom

Now, here's the thing that I want. I want us to take deeply every one of us here, and not just to look at this in some sort of an academic pursuit or something, to be part of this new kingdom for you to understand Jesus at all.

He said that we must be born again. And this is, he means this in a real, in a very powerful way. He wants to create a new humanity, a new humanity that is born of the spirit of God. He says in John chapter one, verse 12, this is really important verse, but as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name.

And here's a really important part, which were born not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, but of the will of man, nor the will of man, but of God. And so this idea that when we come to Christ and we receive Christ and we, and we follow him, he puts with inside of us a power, and it becomes a new humanity.

We're no longer talk about our own genealogies, our own genealogy of the flesh. You know, the early church called each other brother and sister, but it wasn't just some weird churchy title. It was because they really thought they had, and they really knew whether they had a new humanity, a new family, a new kinship.

So when we're brothers and sisters in church, when we share our lives together, when we, when we live with each other, when we share our burdens with each other, it's because we're true family of our heavenly father.

John 3, 3 says it this way. Jesus answered and said to them, verily, verily, I say unto you, except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God. And this idea of seeing the kingdom of God is very important.

So in other words, if you're here tonight, you're saying, you know, I just don't get Jesus. I, you know, it doesn't make sense. I don't know what to do with the sermon on the Mount. It, I can't make it practical.

I can't put it into, you know, something that I can wrap my head around that maybe the reason is that you're not seeing, you're not understanding the kingdom of God is because you are not born again. Jesus wants us to have this new spirit within it, within us and to have his spirit within us.

And then we get it. We see the kingdom. We understand the kingdom. John 3, 5, um, Jesus answered, verily, verily, I say to the, except a man be born of water and of the spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God.

So first he said, you're not going to even understand the kingdom of God. And without this new life, you're not kind of entering at all. So, you know, we look at that when we look, come to Christ. So that's why I'm bringing this, these things into our preface, into looking at the two kingdoms idea, um, is it many times it's, it's, um, we look at it in the wrong way.

Following Jesus Rather Than Constructing a Theology

And I, I want these kingdom teachings to flow from the very person of Jesus Christ, not building some sort of a theological construct, a theological doctrine, and then trying to, to stick in Jesus teachings out of us.

That's not the right way to look at it. And many times I, I I've said here, often what I have here, right, right answers to the wrong questions. If we start, if, if we get the right answers to the wrong questions, we may feel good about it, but there's something deeper that we're missing.

And I I've sometimes given the example of, it's kind of like, um, looking at, um, uh, what is his binoculars the wrong way? You know, if you look at the binoculars the wrong way, you know, what should be close up is really small.

And that's the way oftentimes we treat the teachings of Jesus Christ. We're, we're looking at the Bible the entire wrong way. And so therefore the teachings of Christ do not flow. And, you know, when we read something the wrong way, we end up with the wrong questions.

And if we do it long enough, the problem is that with a little work, we actually get the right answers to the wrong questions. Here's the right question. The right question is, does your life look like Jesus Christ?

Is Jesus Christ being manifested in you and your community, your church and your life? You know, the early Anabaptists here, Conrad Grebel, uh, in the revival that was happening in the 1500s. I love these two statements that Conrad Grebel wrote in, in some of his letters that he had.

And he said this, one of the ways he put the Bible in this term, he says, I believe the word of God without a complicated interpretation. And out of this belief I speak. And I really think that we all need to make sure we maintain this kind of simplicity as we come to the word of God.

It is simple. I remember one time I was at work and I was talking with, with, um, with someone about non-resistance and, and they were saying, you know, I, I started that we would talk during, you know, work and I wasn't doing anesthesia and we'd talk in surgeries and stuff.

You had lots of time in some of the long surgeries and I'd talk with the nurses and you'd get these, you know, debates going or something. And I remember one time they came and said, you know, Dean, I went back and did what you said.

I read the sermon on the mountain. I don't know. It's so confusing. And I said, really, what's, what's confusing about this? I don't know. Just, I mean, how, how could you ever do this? And, and that's the problem.

The simplicity of the word of God is missing. Now, Grebel also said something else. He said, the teachings of the Lord has been given for the purpose of being put into practice. Let me ask you all tonight.

Do you believe that? Do you believe that the teachings of the Lord has been given for the purpose of being put into practice? Again, I remember when I was dealing with some of these Jesus teachings, my wife and I, as we were coming conscious objectors, and I was an armor, the guys that take care of machine guns and things like that in the army.

And one of my jobs was position and things. And one of my jobs I had to do was to at that time when I was going through all this was to put some grenade launchers on some machine guns, some M16 machine guns.

I remember just thinking, I literally saying, because of a book I was reading, what would Jesus do? I remember actually saying, it's, it's so confusing, but you know, it's really not. It's simple. It's just that it's not always easy.

Jesus gave us the concept of the kingdom. So the way to put this cure for humanity, the way to, um, to usher in these Jesus teaching, he gives us the kingdom. I love John D Martin's quote, where he says that the idea of the church, the idea of the kingdom of God, the church on earth is to demonstrate to the world around what the whole world would look like if we would only obey the king so that the whole world can see this is what it's supposed to look like.

And if we can get a concept of that with our own local churches, with our own, um, communities and realize this is supposed to be a manifestation to the earth, a testimony, what Christ's kingdom should be.

I bring up sometimes it's kind of like an on judgment day. They should people who are judged and, and, and did not follow Christ. They should be able to say, oh, so that's what those guys were talking about all along.

But this is the purpose of the church to bring this, this way in this, um, um, this way of Christ to the earth. One of my favorite scenes is there in John 18, when Jesus is before pilot. And it's one of the best scenes, I think that talk about this, um, this contrast of these kingdoms, but watch it.

Jesus Before Pilate: A Kingdom Not of This World

We oftentimes spiritualize this as well. Let's look at that passage pilot had heard that people were calling Jesus king. And so this is John 18. And he, so you remember the story, he says, are you the king of the Jews?

Jill, I always amazed myself at that moment when pilots there before Jesus. And he's saying, you know, imagine the scene again, are you the king of the Jews? I'm sorry about the, um, modern, um, uh, image of Jesus there, but anyway, get the idea.

Are you the king of the Jews? And, and Jesus took those words seriously and didn't just pass them off. Are you speaking for yourself about this? Or, or did others tell you this concerning me? And John 1836, he goes on.

He said, Mike, and he, and Jesus goes on and says, my kingdom is not of this world. Understand that deeply. My kingdom is not of this world. If my kingdom were of this world, my servants would fight so that I should not be delivered to the Jews.

But now my kingdom is not from here. And I just think this is a powerful thing that talks about that. If this kingdom was supposed to be in this world and of this world, then we as his servants of any place that we would fight would fight there.

But now it's different. Now his kingdom is not from this world and we're not to fight. So here's what we do. Are you a king then? So this, this is the point that I really want to hit. So we tend to then just sort of spiritualize Jesus's teachings.

You know, I mean, that's okay. That's great. You're you're, you're a king of a different world as a spiritual kingdom and all that kind of a thing. But right now we've got problems here on earth. If you haven't noticed, we've got rebellions going on, we've got coronavirus, we've got all this.

So right now we're going to deal with practical things. You know what I mean? So you said, are you a kingdom? Does that really count that you say you're not a kingdom of this world? And I think that's really important concept for us to get in that we typically, we tend to spiritualize Jesus's teachings out of the practical, out of the everyday, out of the, the cure for humanity.

Jesus answers it very well. You said rightly that I am a king for this cause I was born. That is one powerful statement in the midst of this. Are you really a king then? Is this really count? Is that, is that really mine for this earth?

He says, you say rightly that I am a king for this cause I was born. And then for this cause I have come into the world to tell people that just true, the truth that Jesus's teachings. I just think that is such a profound moment in the scriptures and what we see there that happens.

Bringing Heaven’s Order to Earth Through Prayer and Obedience

Jesus's teachings, he brings this concept of the kingdom forward. And like in the Lord's prayer, he says, you know, after this manner, therefore pray our father, which art in heaven, hallowed be thy name, thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.

So the way, so here's the goal. This is the design here in the Lord's prayer, that the way that the heavenly father has constructed the war, the heavens, we are, are praying daily to bring that existence to this earth.

That's the way we live our life. That's the way we're facing the tragedies and the crisis that is before us with all the, the crazy things that are going on today. Oh God, the way it is in heaven. We have here in earth, in my heart, in my family, in my, in my community have that way.

Seeking the Kingdom as the First Priority

Um, here's to make something in case you're wondering where to prioritize this whole, um, you know, concept of the kingdom. Jesus again, makes it very clear, but seek he first, the kingdom of God, the context was all the things to care about in this world.

You know, the, the, uh, the, the common things of life, the common needs that we have. And he wants to make us sure that we understand that this is a priority to seek first, the kingdom of God. We see this in when it goes through the gospels.

And then we also see it in the book of acts and in the book of acts. Um, one, three, it says to whom also he showed himself alive after the passion, after his passion by many infallible proofs being seen of them 40 days, imagine it.

Now the resurrected Jesus Christ for 40 days, speaking of the things pertaining to the kingdom of God. And I just marvel at that for 40 days, the resurrected Jesus Christ walking on earth, speaking to them and pertaining the things of the kingdom of, of, of, of God, when the foundation of the world, Matthew 25, 34 says, then shall the King saying to them on the right hand, come he blessed of my father, inherit kingdom, those, you know, to the poor and help and did those kingdom things of this cure for humanity, this, this whole new way of life that, that they, as a church, as a people made a difference on this earth.

And he says, you will inherit this kingdom. So we're living that kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world. This thing is a design of God from the very beginning when Jesus came and he gave his teachings and, and he ushered those in.

He said it very plainly, repent, change your whole way of thinking, change your whole way of life for the kingdom of heaven is at hand. And I just think of here's the idea, our concept, our way that we are to live our life here on this earth again, is that get that image of heaven.

The Church as a Visible Foretaste of Heaven

All of you children that are here tonight, all you children that are watching, I want you to the closure are all of us just for a minute, minute, imagine what is it like in heaven? How do they sing? How do they worship?

How do they share their lives? How do they share life together? And that is the existence of what we're trying as the kingdom people of God to bring into this troubled world. We should be what is to become be what is to become that one day from the rising of the sun till it's going down, we know that Jesus Christ will reign.

We are to be that example. In Acts, the end of the very end of Acts and Paul has been being evangelist and preaching all over in Acts 28, 23. Now he's chained and waiting for his execution. And when they had appointed him a day, there came many to him in his lodging to whom he expounded and testified the kingdom of God, persuading them concerning Jesus, both out of the law of Moses and out of the prophets from morning until evening.

He got this all, you know, prophetically from the Holy spirit. The apostles got this 40 days with the resurrected Jesus Christ. And this emphasis, you see, the world is in trouble right now. The world has lots of things.

Um, but this is the cure all this time, morning and evening through the whole scriptures. And I know many of you have testified and I, and I, and I know I'm, I'm one of them as well, that when you start to see the, the, the Bible in this way, when you start to, um, get a hold of this kingdom teaching, the whole Bible comes alive in a different way.

The whole purpose of your life comes alive in the way I remember when I was teaching in, in Greece and I was teaching with the refugees and you had this, these are Muslims that are coming to Christ. And I remember just having this, this, this feeling like, wow, here's a people finally that have never been polluted by any other thing and having the opportunity just to show them the word of God.

And it was such a privilege to show them. I remember one time I was in a class, um, it was a, a, a people from Afghanistan and from Iran. It was a large class of people that were converted and, uh, speaking in Persian.

I had a Persian translator and I began to give the, I went through the sermon on the Mount. They had many questions about divorce, free marriage, about, um, a radical views of economics, about loving your enemies and, and all these things.

And it was interesting. And I gave that teaching and my translator, Salman, he looked over to me and I'll never forget this. He said, you know, that sounds like heaven on earth. I just, and I just, you know, it just made me feel great.

I said, that's exactly right. That's exactly what it's supposed to be. It's supposed to be this, this heaven on earth. So I don't know. I, I, I ponder now I actually have a whole nother section, but I realize I'm taking, it's already eight, eight, 10.

Responding to Politics Without Losing the Kingdom’s Witness

And so I think this would be a good spot for me to just to say this, you know, as I ponder that the things that, um, are going on in this world. And I ponder all the different, uh, disputes, the politics, the protest and these things we are called as a people to respond.

And we have a special way of responding, but let's remember that our Gideon passage there, that we have this beautiful fruit, we have this fruit, we have this nectar, we have this, this way to do that, that gives grace into this earth and makes it a different and better place.

We're not to do that in the way they do. Now, maybe if I get a chance, the next time I speak here on a Wednesday, I can go further with this and talk about some of the pitfalls of how we can fall into different things and how we, as a people will have sometimes, you know, into the different wrong ways to do this, but here's the bottom line for us to get for tonight.

Repentance, Surrender, and the Reality of the Kingdom

I want us to really get a hold up. It's Jesus Christ. Remember, he said, unless you're born again, you won't see the kingdom. And so if you're trying to somehow fix the world's problems, if you're trying somehow to understand Jesus Christ, and there's sin in your life, if there's an unrepentance that is blocking this, if there's something that you want to hold on to and trying to have your world and the world of Christ, I encourage you tonight, something that's very beautiful.

Surrender that, surrender that sin and repent because the kingdom of heaven is at hand. It is at hand. Let me stop sharing that. And so as we offer the cure for this world, as we offer this Jesus to the world, let us come out of our genuine worship.

Closing Exhortation: A Prophetic People Who Manifest Christ

And then his teachings aren't just some strange way to add on to it. It's presenting Jesus Christ. So when we think about this, let's think Jesus is Jesus manifested. If we think about a political agenda or way, and if I get to speak on this again, I'll talk about how we are supposed to be prophetic.