Satan's message translated into the Kingdom of God. Translated into the Kingdom of God. And as we read, starting on it, way back in the book of Genesis, with Enoch who was translated. And we try to get an understanding of the Word of God as we go because without an understanding of the Word of God, We sometimes can become false messengers. We can help lead people astray. And this New Testament age during this dispensation, that God's still bringing forth the first fruit. I think we're in the greatest time period of history and of any time or any era. and that we have to understand the bible we have to know the bible to do the work in these greater works that jesus declared under this new testament name this new thing that he's doing and if we would read that opening take away a little bit of our time if i read the whole thing but verse seventeen 18th of chapter 65, starting there, it says, Behold, I create new heavens and a new earth, and the former things shall not be remembered, nor come into mind. But ye be glad and rejoice forever, is that which I create for. Behold, I create Jerusalem a rejoicing, and her people a joy. And I will rejoice in Jerusalem and join my people. And the voice of weeping shall no more be heard in her, nor the voice of crying. There shall be no more thence an infant of days, nor an old man that had not feel his days. For the child shall die a hundred years old, but the sinner being encouraged a hundred years old. dying at 100 years old shall be accursed. And they shall build houses and inhabit them. They shall plant vineyards and eat the fruit thereof. They shall not build and another inhabit. They shall not plant and another eat. For as the days of a tree are the days of my people, and my elect shall long enjoy the work of their hands. That's a group of God's blessed people, the first fruits that would be occupying the kingdom of God in the millennial reign that God's blessing and His righteousness is with. But then it says, they shall not labor in vain or bring forth for trouble for they are the seed of the blessed and the Lord shall and their offspring with them. And it shall come to pass that before they call, I will answer, and while they are yet speaking, I will hear. The wolf and the lamb shall feed together, and the lion shall eat straw like the bullet, and dust shall be the serpent's meat. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all of my holy mountains." So we see the creation of a new heaven and a new earth. Simultaneously, there's something else going on. that God is to accomplish this purpose must be a time of judgment, a time of fiery judgment that begins at the house of God that he spoke of in the days of Noah when he said he wouldn't destroy the earth with water, he would never bring that flood but the next time that he destroyed earth it would be by water I mean by fire and a lot of people looking at the elements melting with fervent heat misunderstanding what is going on there. But we would see that the Lord is creating a new heaven and a new earth, not just physically, but spiritual, because the spiritual is what's correct. The spiritual is what's real. The physical is only temporary, just like we know our lives are temporary. The bodies that we dwell in is temporary. This is just a shadow of things to come and the reality is spiritual. So he has to translate us just like he translated Enoch Just like Isaiah. I mean Elijah was Translated a carrot to a different place That place we know that those two didn't go to heaven at that time when it says translated because we know only that he that ascended down is the only one who had ascended up. That was Jesus Christ. He's the actual first fruit. He's the only one man that ascended down from heaven and went back to where he was. And there's scriptures referencing that, that he's the one that went back. Enoch and Elijah being types of what happens with us, And if we see this new creation, and we're creating a new heaven and a new earth, let's start reading there at the 12th verse of Isaiah, the 61st, 5th chapter. Therefore I remember I will number you to the sword, and ye shall all bow down to the slaughter. Because when I call, ye did not answer. When I speak, ye did not hear. but did evil before mine eyes, and did choose that way, and I delighted not. Therefore thus says the Lord God, behold, my servant shall eat, but you shall be hungry. Behold, my servant shall drink, but ye shall be thirsty. He says, now behold, my servant shall rejoice, but ye shall be ashamed. the new heavens and the new earth and he was creating jerusalem of rejoicing in his people shall not cry feel pain to have these different things this is a mindset it's not physical but this is spiritual and that's two sets of people because one set of people he's cursing one set of people he's a lying deaf and the sword to come up on but his servants he says His servants are a different class or group of people. He says, therefore, The Lord God said, behold, my servant shall eat, but you shall be hungry. My servant shall drink, but you shall be thirsty. Behold, my servant shall sing for joy of heart, but you shall cry for sorrow and shall howl for vexation of spirit. And you shall leave your name for a curse unto my chosen. For the Lord God shall slay thee and call his servants by a new name. wow that he who blessed himself in the earth shall himself bless himself in the lord god of truth and he that answered in the earth that sweared in the earth shall swear by the god of truth because the former troubles are forgotten and because they are hid from mine eyes The form of things are gone away, the form of troubles and everything shall be forgotten. We need to see what's going on here. But there's a lot of language in here that's just symbolic language that we have to be students of the Bible to understand the symbolism of what stands, what it is, just like Jerusalem here. Jerusalem is not geographical place. It's not just geographical, but the new Jerusalem that cometh from above is the city of God. It's the place of God. It's that Zion that comes down in the new earth. And we know that Jerusalem will be worldwide. It's not a little geographical place there in the Middle East that we travel to that they are fighting this battle because they lack understanding over there. Netanyahu doesn't have a clue as to what's going on as to how Satan is using him and are drawing some all nations into this cataclysmic Seismic event that's going on and it's good terminate in a new heaven in a new earth And these are willing vessels that are not answering the call of God and don't understand God He says my people perish because of the lack of knowledge We have to get to know God and what's going on. I So that Jerusalem, that coming down, we know that people from all over the world, that seed of Abraham that walks by faith, they'll say, let us go up to the house of the Lord and hear his instructions and hear how to live. All roads would lead to Jerusalem, but it would be a spiritual Jerusalem, even though that manifestation, the reality of Jerusalem will start to manifest itself right here upon earth. You have to visualize that. That's going to be my first point. Visualization. Visualization comes from God's word. It comes through faith, living faith. Because we have to be born again to be able to visualize this or conceive this in our minds and hearts. We have to. Jesus told Nicodemus, he says, Nicodemus, you must be. You must be born again. There's no other way around it. Jesus answered and says, I surely solemnly say unto you, unless a person is born again, that is reborn from above, spiritually transformed, renewed, and sanctified, he cannot ever see or experience the kingdom of God. That's a fact. Jesus said that. That's a fact. And he had sent preachers to declare this statement that would awaken, that would quicken, that would make his people alive. He sent out his messengers, his angels in the earth. These are the ones that are preaching his word. It is by his word. His word quickens. His word makes alive. But in order for the people to hear, they must have a preacher. They must have a preacher and that's why as Isaiah we studied back in some of the other chapters as he prayed that thy kingdom come and that God would come down his presence that he would literally come down the presence of God and it dwells in each and every one of us through the Holy Spirit. That's the earnest of our inheritance. That's the fact that that's what generates us. But how does this new birth come about? comes about by preaching. Faith coming about by hearing, hearing the Word of God. Now see, we have to be careful how we hear, and that's what I was talking about earlier. We have to be careful who we're listening at, or who we're hearing, because some of it is twist and contorted, and it causes us to be twist and contorted. And we know that the true worshipers of God are those that worship Him in spirit and in truth. And that this kingdom comes by truth. You established in the truth of God. And He established us through His gospel. So this kingdom that's coming down, it's a literal kingdom. We see a millennial reign, a kingdom of God promised, in which humans would exist here on earth, ruling and reigning with Christ. And it's in our prayer, we say, we pray that thy kingdom come. So for his kingdom come, there must a necessity be an ending of the kingdoms of this world. all of the kingdoms of this world has to be neutralized and the book of Daniel those ten kingdoms, those ten toes that the stone fell on and crushed and it was a stone cut out without hands and it smashed all of the other kingdoms to pieces and it was Jesus Christ's kingdom that was established at that time. It was established, that's a prophetic vision that Nebuchadnezzar had sobbed, and then Daniel starts seeing and realizing this. But what had happened at Jesus Christ's death, he rose with all power at that resurrection that was given to him in heaven and earth, and to establish a kingdom that would never pass away. that kingdom would have a thousand-year reign where life would have a longevity to it. That men would live hundreds of years just as in the day that Adam ate of the fruit, Adam lived 900 some years. He was cast away. Now physically he died, spiritually he died, but we see his physical being continued for some 900 years, but he was separated away from God. He was separated away from God so he couldn't become complete because he lacked the knowledge that the tree of life would have given him eternal life. He didn't have eternal life to start with. He could reside in the garden as long as he was obedient. But the day that he ate of the fruit, He died. And so you start seeing the world the way Satan. Satan is the God of this world, and that's what's happening to all of us, and that we were born under that corporate head, Adam, and we all are condemned to death, from thus we come to thus we return, because we're living in a world that's not just literal, but a figurative world in which we're influenced by the things of the world and the love of the world and the people of the world. So here's the source, so some seed, good seed, but in comes the devil and he sows wicked seed. Adam and Eve ate of that seed. God cursed man and along with cursing man, creation was cursed. And he lacked contact with God. He couldn't see God. And you remember I told you our sins, our iniquities have separated us from God. And he cast Adam out of the Garden of Eden. and he couldn't visualize or see God. In the book of Proverbs 29th chapter says, where there's no vision or no revelation of God in his word, the people are strained or the people are perished. But happy and blessed is he who keeps the law of God and those that walk in that word that God gives sight to. And that's what he had given us is sight. Jesus came as a light in darkness. He was the light of the world. We must look up on Jesus Christ. He commissioned us, he commissioned us in that great commission to go into all of the world and preach the gospel. That gospel is which lighted all men that coming in the world. It plants that seed of faith. It plants that seed that causes us to grow and at the revelation of Jesus Christ. In other words, when Jesus gives us sight, it says he gives sight to the blind. Remember my mother used to be saying that there's a man in the city and he's healing. He's giving sight to the blind. That's when we rejoice, and by His stripes, that's the one that help heal us. So, as we were born again, as we being born again, and He says that He's creating a new heaven and a new earth, but you see there's a whole lot of contaminants here on this earth, down here in this world, because Satan is the God of this world. Now, when we're born again, we start leaning and hearing God's word and we are able to be established. It's the gospel that establishes us and empowers us by hearing of the word of God. That's how we are strengthened. That's our nutrition. That's how we're sanctified. That's how we're set apart. That's the regeneration. That's why we don't forsake the assembling together by ourselves. That's why we hurry in. That's why they say, let us go into the house of the Lord and hear what thus saith the Lord. It's through his instructions. And we've all rebelled away from Him and not listening at the Word of God. It's like a child that's not listening and honoring his parents. Those are built-in precepts in those commandments that to honor your parent and listen at their instructions. Those instructions cause us to grow healthy. They cause us to grow strong, to have integrity, to have a being, a sound being, to have character. My mother used to tell me about eating vegetables and eating certain things. And we hear in the education system about a balanced diet. And we remember Michelle Obama was in as First Lady. And she focused upon the schools, them eating a balanced diet, and tried to switch back. And there's a ton. And that's why we start visualizing times that when I used to go to Changerville, when they would cook those good red beans and have the rolls and cornbreads. Each school had cooks that were cooking. That's just like in France now, they cook, they still cook food or whatever, but we serve this slop here in the United States of America, pizza and all kinds of things, unbalanced diets, and they have all kinds of selection, but most of it is bused in or shipped in or microwaved, warmed up or whatever. And there's no one that has decent meals in the house. Satan has worked through the home and has had it where the family doesn't eat again. The feminists have sent the women into the workforce or whatever. The children are not eating when they come home in the afternoon. The governors and people are fighting against nutritional programs. So they are tearing apart through an influence of Satan. Satan has planted his tears in the earth. He's planted his tears in earth, but I tell you there's a simultaneous work going on where God's creating a new heaven and a new earth See because he made man good He created man in a way that was good all that he saw in all that he made. He said that's good He made everything good and he said I'm gonna rest now and when he rested here comes Satan in and he contaminates And just as we sleep and as we're not studying and being alert, and Peter says, be alert because your adversary, the devil, comes in. He's gonna try to get to you through your spouse, through your children, through your parents, through any means necessary, he comes to rob, kill, and destroy. He comes through the television, he comes through the radio. In this age of misinformation, I see where, I think it's Brazil or some country, they did the right thing when they banned Twitter or X or whatever, Elon Musk or whatever. That's a devil, you better watch him. You better watch him. Some of the statements that he's making in his misinformation and disinformation. We better watch social media. But throughout the world, and I pray for countries as Brazil and different places that's aware of these things that's going on. That the tears, and we see God's people awakening, that God's preaching and teaching, no matter how small or no matter what means that the word is, way is going out, God's people are hearing the word of God. They're being woken up because this is something he said he would do. Who is he? He is Jesus Christ. He's the workman. He's the one that was sent in there because he's the author and the finisher of our faith. So he has confidence in what he has done. Listen at this, and that's why I say let's visualize that everything goes back to being good. It relies upon the promises of God. God promised the Redeemer that was going to bruise the serpent's head. In other words, that was going to put him to death. But he would bruise our heel, it will be a fight. We're in a fight now, but we're not wrestling against flesh and blood, but against powers and principalities, against darkness in high places. But they use instruments, they use people, they use creation, they use all kinds of devices to get to you. Watch it, don't be used. Watch those that are user because he's gonna root all those out He tell us to fret not thyself because of evil doer. So we have to just like reading a book Is it good to read a book? Without that Bible. We have a problem if you able to read and study to show yourself approved and Rightly dividing the word of truth in other words. He's gonna help you through that book because he gives you the earnest of this He gives you the Holy Spirit to lead you and guide you in all truth. I advise you to always Read the book before you see the movie Always read the book. I grew up. I was telling my wife last night I grew up reading books and novels and that that that's what opens the mind and sets the mind It gives you an analytical mind. And you can create your own world through the reading of those books. There are some authors that are very literate, and there are very literative authors that can, if you have a vision, to help you get this vision, the strength. And at the end of your further study, I use some words in there. Now, we're not talking about witchcraft here, but words like conjure. Conjure means to summon or by invocation or whatever to bring to mind That word conjured to summon by as if by invocation and in contact incantation to affect effect as if by magic, but not magic now we're not talking magic and But it's just like the witch at Endor. She didn't actually conjure up Samuel, but it was in Saul's mind that it was. But if we focus on the Word of God, hear the Word preached and taught, that's what faith is. Faith is, you can't see it. But it's the substance. It's the substance of God's Word. It's the substance of His promises, of His hope. He had given us hope. His words give life. If we would just focus and read the Word and call upon... It's not magic. Now, a lot of people use religion in magical ways and talking about putting hexes and things up on people. We're not talking about that, and that's why when you hear people talking about conjuring up a devil or whatever, they're using words that kind of have mixed metaphors to them and that can lead you astray. But when I say visualize, I mean envision. Envision is to view or regard in a certain way. to have a mental picture, especially in advance of realization of something. And that's why I say I want you to start realizing the Kingdom of God. Visualize the Garden. Visualize Paradise. God's Word is history. It is poems. It is all kinds of things that's mixed into God's Word with similes and all types of languages. And it puts the realization of what God's talking about in you. It gives you eternal life. But you have to visualize that in vision. It's not just conjuring it up by magic or something, but it's word, it's power. They are life. Those words, the assimilation of that into you, the word was made flesh. And just like it was made flesh through Jesus Christ and in you, it gives you life. It gives you that life and you can walk in that kingdom of God. That's the new birth. You're born again, but you're in this same old body. You're in this flesh. Listen to that. Those that he had planted, his people, that seed, you remember I said he was talking about two different people. He was talking about those of his that were blessed, that was going to have joy, that was going to have peace. You have to visualize peace. Peace is inner. God gives you an inner peace. No man can take that peace away from you. No matter how they war in Ukraine, Israel, the Sudan, here in the United States or whatever, if God gives you His peace, nobody can take that peace. You have to visualize that peace. You have to bring that peace down. It's what God has given you. He's given you joy. And joy, no man can take his joy from you. Joy is not happiness. Joy is a state of mind that God says, by the renewing of your mind. The second point is transformation. by being transformed. That's where we get our title from in Colossians about being conveyed into the world of God. by Jesus Christ imputing his righteousness unto us. We're putting him on. We're getting ready for a world to come and he is that vehicle to get us to that world. To go somewhere else, to be conveyed somewhere else, you need something to transport you. Some people say a time machine or something. Well, he's that time machine. If we are in Christ, we're gonna have eternal life. If we're in Christ, we're gonna have peace and joy. Everything is in him. Listen at this now, Matthew the 13th chapter. Then Jesus sent the multitude away and went into the house, and the disciples came unto him, saying, Declare unto us the parable of the tares of the field. And he answered and said unto them, He that soweth the good seed is the son of man. The good seed are the children of the kingdom, but the tares are the children of the wicked one. The enemy that sowed them is the devil. The harvest is the end of the world. And the reapers are the angels, as therefore the tares are gathered and burned in the fire. So shall it be in the end of the world. The son of man shall send forth his angels. They shall gather out of his kingdom all things that are thin, and them which do iniquity. and shall cast them into a furnace of fire. You remember when I told you he was going to create a new world by fire? A lot of preachers preaching that the physical world, this world will catch on fire. No, it's not the world. It's not the physical world. That's why when he says, come out of Babylon, he's not talking about geographically. If you leave here and go to New York, trouble will be in New York when you get there. You can go where you want. The trouble is going to be right there. It's not geographical. You'll have to go away in your mind or renewal of the mind. That's why the Republicans fight this woke doctrine. Because when you wake up, when Christ wakens you, when he's given you consciousness, when he quickens you and make you up, the devil lose power over you. The devil don't want to lose that power when you realize that you don't die anymore. Once you in Christ, you have new life. You will never die. Don't let him get you in that frame of mind. He's a bad influence and people in religion, a lot of them, are bad influences because they're telling us or teaching something they don't understand themselves about the world being burned up. Creation is neutral. We're the cause creation was cursed. Man is to cause creation with courage. God created creation good. It was only after Adam disobeyed God that he said, thorns and thistles shall it bring forth. Part of the punishment. those that influence, those that got you against your parents, those that tell you if it's influenced at bad work, what a man soweth that he shall reap. So we see the devil sowed all this. We see the politicians sowing this. We see whoever, you better watch the word comes out of your mouth, because every idle word you have to give account for. So sometimes spouses leave out before other spouses. Maybe she or he was a bad influence on you. Maybe the parents or the children, whoever was the bad, God's doing this. We don't know what he's doing or how he's doing, but that's why we pray to him for understanding and knowledge. Show us with fear and trembling, we have to work out our own salvation. I can't stand for you. Now I can stand in the breach and I can pray for you and all this, but God, Jesus Christ is running this thing. He's power, I'm not doing it, he's doing it, all power was given unto him. I'm just a tool that he's using. I'm yielding myself unto him. That's why I stand for the truth. That's why I say it's the spirit of truth, the spirit of righteousness that dwells in us. That's what's going to empower us. That's why a man comes against us because Satan can see God's authority. He can see God's power in you. He can see God's light. That's why Jesus tells us a lie will light the soul shine that men would see your light and give God the glory. Once he steals that light from you, he's going to cast you to the side. He don't need you anymore. You just a tool. It's like the prodigal son. He had money in the people group to him. But once his pockets was empty the crowd left him Once Satan robs and steal you he's gonna leave you Once your spouse your parents your children or whoever it is get what they want. They go go on about their business Because it's not about the Word of God. It's not about the Spirit of God and the things of God. I So He's gonna send the servants to preach that word, and by listening, by being hearers and not rebellious, we'll be able to grow. God's gonna feed us, He's gonna bless us, and we're gonna become all He designed for us to become in this new heaven and new earth. He says, then shall the righteous shine forth as a sun in the kingdom of their father. Who have ears to hear, let him hear. See, we don't have to hide in a corner. We can preach this thing openly. It could be 1,000 people in here, but if I'm only talking to four or five, it's in that, he says, it's a cluster of grapes. All of the bunch of grapes are bad grapes, but he's gonna pick the good grapes out of there. He's the saved remnant. If you're the only one in your family doing right, if you're the only child, if you're the only one in the community, God sees what you're doing because remember I told you, what a man soweth, that he shall reap. See, if we're doing good, if we love mercy, if we are following the beatitude, see, because the beatitude is placed in each child of God, and those are the things that we're doing. That's why we mourn. It's not a lack of joy, the reason we mourn. We mourn because our children, our parents, our friends, and the people we know are going into a loss in life. They're going down, they're going down, and this hurts us. Job said, you know, it hurt me to lose all my children. God puts us in a world to we experience. I hate to see my brothers and sisters grow old and decrepit. I hate to have deforms and defectiveness in me. I hate to see my children and my grandchildren as I go through the grocery stores and everything. I'm not just looking at those people as people. I'm looking at them as my granddaughter 16 years from now, 15 or 20 years from now. That's why we stand up politically because these are our children, our grandchildren, that this thing is coming up on. And I don't wanna be a part of it, voting or going along with something that's a bad influence. We wanna, by faith, help establish the laws of God. So we must fight this day. They actually explained the parable. And see, while he was outside telling this parable, everybody heard it, but they didn't have ears to hear. And so he would explain it to him. And the weeds, he explained the weeds. He says, he, the one, I got it in amplified in, in the, a new living version about the weeds being those influences, being people. And we start to see the things that offend. Offend means someone who hurts or upsets another one's feeling, especially by being rude or disrespectful. We have one that's contending for political office nowadays. He's saying disrespectful things. about women, about other men, and about people. And that marks, when we say God marks his people, you know, Satan people have a mark also. They have the mark of the beast. If you follow rude people, if you follow disrespectful people, That's birds of a feather flocking together. That's how he sends those. He sends false messages. It's a false Christianity that would pull you to someone. I remember he said something about Hillary Clinton at one time. It stood out in my mind, and I don't want to make this a political sermon or whatever, but did you know we need to talk politics and religion because that's the major portion of our lives, and Satan has it to where some Christians are like some of the old Democrats was afraid to stand far forward. And it says the violent taking it by force. The Republicans over a period of time has made people think to be Republican meant that she was a Christian or a child of God, which is not so. It's a covering. That's a covering. And so what we see now to progressive in the new Democrat that's arising, what we're seeing is the arising of the children of God because a child of God is not necessarily a Republican, Democrat, or independent. Child of God is a child of God. That's who a child of God is. So if you see somebody being disrespectful and rude in a certain way, A tree is known by the fruited bear. A tree is known by the fruited bear. About words coming out of your mouth. And we know we have to give account for every idle word that comes out of our mouth. We know that the Bible tells us to speak not evil of any man. The Bible tells us how to talk. The Bible tells us what the Bible is. It runs our lives. And a lot of people say, well, you can't tell me how to run my life or whatever. Well, you're not a child of God then because you don't have any life if you're a child of God. You die to self, yourself, you die and deny yourself and take up your cross because you're being made a new man, a new creation in Christ Jesus. Every day is a new day. We have to put to death that old man. We have to modify the deeds of the body. And that's what's happening the day we have Christians talking out of both sides of their mouth. And see sweet water and bitter water can't flow from the same fountain. You can't eat from the table of the devil and of the Lord The devil might allow it but God doesn't allow it The word offense means also to cause someone's to feel hurt or upset in different ways and we talk about the old people and just like he was talking about Joe Biden being old and the way he was and Joe Biden delivered some powerful speeches here toward the end. But now he's the old man in the race. Now people are talking about him. Be careful what you say about others because you have to get old yourself one day. We need to be able to respect our old people. We need to respect the elderly. The Bible shows us where it says older men teach the younger men. What do you really, really would rather someone like Biden teaching your children and grandchildren or someone like Trump teaching your children or grandchildren? Notice the evangelicals that have followed him. Most of them have fallen from grace or are still out there being used as a Judas goat because you still need the devil to help sort out those that are not all the way in your corner. You know, there's a lot of people that are hiding in the church because that's their life insurance policy. You can run, but you can't hide. And God's messengers are sent to root you out of everything. You can run, but what's dead in the dark will come to the light. So his preachers are able to root up the tares without destroying the wheat. You know, that's what the messengers of God has said, the root up the tares without destroying the wheat. Let them go into those mega churches. Let them go into those big large confined places. But me, we will grow right here in the kingdom of God. The kingdom of God is coming on down onto us. the word of fear he also means to cause to stumble or fall as iniquity refers to wickedness or sin therefore Jesus is referring to the removal of all that is wicked and causes stumbling from the kingdom so all those people that are preaching that are not sent to preach or that are causing others to be led away God has their mark now They were used, they were vessels. As Satan says, if you fall down and worship me, I'll give you all of these kingdoms. They were his to give, but there comes a time when that lease is up. The landholder comes. Jesus Christ is the landholder, God in the flesh. That's the landholder. What happens when the lease comes up? He says, I seen Satan fall from heaven. There comes a time. when we have to put an end to all of these things. We're the children of God. Now, as I told you, these two different groups of people that he's talking about, so we see that there's a fight here, some, and the devil's not gonna give up because he knows this is his end. If you about to kill anybody, anything, they're gonna fight for their very life, no matter if they're wrong. They're not just gonna roll over and die. Pharaoh's musicians, it's not talked about in the Old Testament, it's talked about in the New Testament when Paul said, spoke about Janice and Jambres, which stood Moses. If you look even at Caesar DeMille's, the Ten Commandments, you'll see up until about the third or fourth miracle that the magicians was working the same miracles that Moses worked. There's a way that they learn. You remember I told you about conjuring and incantation and charms and enchantment. All of those are evil words or magical words, but they are words that have power to them. So hoodoo and voodoo and all of these things and necromancing, speaking to the dead, those are dangerous things. But if we look, they're all in the Bible. God can raise the dead, man can't raise the dead. But see, the Egyptian magicians knew how to hold a cobra, a serpent, a certain place behind the neck that paralyzes him to where he can't move. And that's why those staffs were, like Moses' staff, didn't move. And when they throw that serpent down, it began to move because they no longer had that paralyzing hold on it. But Moses' serpents ate their serpents. We've seen this morning this on the news or something where Burmese piping was eaten by anaconda or whatever. Snakes do eat snakes. That's why they have king snakes of people that I told you about the other week about the man was upset because we kill his king snakes. Well, we know that Jesus is the king of kings, so there'll be kings many and lords many, but Jesus is the king of king and lord of lords. So there'll be God's many. There's a lot of things people worship out there and give hold to. But right in the place where God says that I shall call them not my people, I shall call them my people. And where I said that in the Valley of Achor, right where Achan was stoned to death, God says it shall be a place to pasture your herds and flocks. If we go back and look at literally what happened figuratively in some of these places, we'll see the literal meaning coming true in the New Kingdom and the New Heaven. We'll see that God brings about his word in strange ways. And I just told you that the creation was cursed because of man. Because when we think about the paradise of Eden, it says God created Eden in the midst of this gorg he created Eden. But all outside there was a world that was very dangerous that could have been something else. Notice that he casts Adam out of paradise. So we're looking for paradise regained. Listen at the book of Romans, the eighth chapter of Romans. It says, For I consider from the standpoint of faith that the sufferings of this present life are not worthy to be compared with the glory that is about to be revealed to us and in us. For the whole creation, that's all of nature, waits eagerly for the children of God to be revealed. For the creation was subjected to frustration and fertility, not willingly because of some fault in its own part, but by the will of him who subjected it in hope that creation itself will be freed from its bondage to decay. In other words, trees wasn't designed for the limbs to fall off and die. The fall is just part of creation as to what God made it be for us, for our object lesson. A literal object lesson, but creation, the trees to grow in the spring for the deserts to bloom. That's why he says the deserts would bloom and have water running in, because this was created for our aspect. I heard a preacher talking about no more seas and it wouldn't be seas anymore or whatever. Well, that's part of the beauty of nature. When I'm talking about my wife and I going to go on a cruise to Alaska, see the mountains and the hills and the snow. I remember we went on vacation to Rio Dos in New Mexico and all of the beauty it had there. Have you ever sailed the seas and seen the ocean? That's all of the beauty to behold and see that's why We want our sight back because the things that God had given the eyes to see. He had created the world good in all its goodness, but man has destroyed the earth. And that's why in Revelation, he says, he is going to destroy those that destroy the earth. So he's not talking about the literal seas not being here. It's a figurative statement of a symbol that man is to see. In other words, when he talks about the sea, he talks about a multitude of people. He talks about somewhere that's dark, dangerous, and very evil. When they talk about seeing the scripture, we think about Leviathan. We think about things in the depths and that man has never went to the bottom of the sea and what lies in the ocean. That's why he says there'll be no more danger in the earth. There's no danger in the sea. The sea is beautiful. So don't let no preacher jump up, oh, no more sea. Well, if the earth is two-thirds water and he destroyed all the water, where would the beauty be? Are you a capitalist? You know what a capitalist do? He go in and destroy all the mountain ranges, the parks, and all of the beauty that's in nature to build houses and brick buildings and all of these things. Did you know all of the city and the metropolis and all of these things are not things, in a way, they're beautiful, but in a way that it replaces what God had created, the beauty for the eye to see. So these things that you are visualizing envision a new world and a new heaven to whereby God gives you the pleasures and the lust and the things within you. He creates these things in you. That's why I say, don't let, no one stops you from visualizing, for envision. And I'm not saying conjure these things up, but dwell on these things, he says. Meditate, he will give you the delights of your heart, all of those desires and things. But his desires he created and his word creates. He says, for we know that the whole creation has been mourning together as in pains of childbirth until now. And not only this, but we too who have from the fresh fruits of the spirit, Even we've grown inwardly as we wait eagerly for the sign of the adoption of our bodies, the redemption, the transformation of our body, for in hope. We were saved, but the hope of the object of this hope is Jesus Christ in that day. So I love living, but I don't wanna live like this always. I want a new body. I want new knees. I want all of these things. I want my sister up and running as she was. I want my brothers and sister to live a physical, to be blessed in spirit and in health, good health. I don't wanna be bedridden. I don't wanna be. hurt and lame and right now I get as much surgery as I can to help me do a little better physically if it's a surgery that's necessary. I'm not a vain person that's looking for cosmetic surgery or anything. But there is hope for these old bodies. So in these old bodies, we have aches and pains, and that's why we take medication and things. We're holding on, but we are hoping for one day these things won't be needed in the new heaven and new earth. So in this thousand year reign, we see death still here. that he says in verse 20, no longer will babies die when only a few days old, no longer will men be considered old at a hundred, that we'll be deaf during those thousand years. Those that don't come up to hear the word of God, to hear the instructions of God, Curses will be upon them. It says those that would be a curse because we need the instructions of God And that's why he's training us as the first fruits to roll priesthood the church So what does a priesthood do? priesthood speak and teach man about God So if you have a priesthood, if the church is a royal priesthood, wouldn't it have to be the heathen and the pagans that he ruling over and teaching the ways of God? If we will inherit the heathen, there will be heathens in the next life. So the priesthood is working with the people, pointing people to God. The priesthood have learned to be obedient unto God and to keep the blessings of God to show the people the way to God. That's why they say, let us go up into the house of the Lord to learn of the God. But they wouldn't have false preachers and false teachers. God's gonna remove the apostates. In other words, all of those that's in the church that's camouflaging now, and this is not their place in the place of God. This is my last point, I got to hurry through this, I belabored some of the other points too long. It says as we are transformed, we are also translated. You remember I told you about in it being translated in Elijah? Colossians 1, 3 through 14. We give thanks to God, the father of our Lord Jesus Christ, as we pray always for you. For we have heard of your faith in Christ Jesus, how you lean on him with absolute confidence in his power, wisdom, and goodness. And of the unselfish love which you have for all of the saints of God's people because of the confident hope of experiencing that which is reserved and waiting for you in heaven. You previously heard of this hope in the message of truth, the gospel regarding salvation, which is to come to you. Remember I told you, it has to come by the gospel. That's where the promises of God is. That's where the power of God. You're established by the word of God. So that's how the Colossians heard of it, and that's how you're being delivered from this world. You're being transported, transformed, conveyed, translated from this world. That physical material breach and the spiritual, we have to see God changing us by changing our mind, by being born again. We start seeing things from God's perspective. We start walking as God walked. It says, indeed, just as in the whole world the gospel is constantly bearing fruit and spreading by God's power, just as it has been doing among you ever since the day you first heard of it and understood the grace of God in truth, that he is becoming thoroughly and deeply acquainted with it. through the Beatitudes, when you hunger and thirst for righteousness, you're going to keep eating the Word of God. You're going to want to have church more than one or two times a day, I mean a week. You're going to want to have church as much as possible, because why? God's creating a hunger and thirst out of you. But those other beatitudes are there too. The mourning and the blessings. He says, you learn it from Epaphras. Epaphroditus came and told them. Epaphroditus had got old and things had happened to him. A lot of us, as we get older or whatever, sometimes we have, we're better teachers sometimes also. As we get older, and that's why we need old people. That's why we see, I was telling you about Biden, I was telling you about some of the older people, and that's what happened to us in schools. A lot of our black educators during the time of segregation, they removed them and placed them in the other schools. And we had the younger white teachers that was inexperienced teachers, so we learned less. Teacher has to have experience, so the teacher has to know when to bring out and how. I'm not being against segregation or anything. It all came about by God in his ways. Everything that has been done in my life and in y'all's life, God had done it, but we have to see that God was present the whole time. It's just that we wasn't aware of his presence. It says, for we were conveyed into his kingdom. We were transported into his kingdom. He says, you learn it from Epaphroditus, and he gave this unto you. Our fellow bondservant who is a faithful minister of Christ on our behalf, he also told us of your love. For this reason, since the day we heard about it, we have not stopped praying for you, asking specifically that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will and all spiritual wisdom with insight into his purposes. and in understanding of spiritual things, that you will walk in a manner worthy of the Lord, displaying admirable character, moral courage, personal integrity, to fully please him in all things, bearing fruit in every good work and steadily growing in the knowledge of God, with deeper faith, clearer insight, and fervent love for his precepts. we pray that you may be strengthened and invigorated with all power according to his glorious might to attain every kind of endurance and patience with joy given thanks to the father who has qualified us the amplifier reads for rescue us he is could transfer it us to the kingdom of God. And I think in our reading scripture and opening this morning, as we read that from the King James, it says, giving thanks unto the father, which had made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in life, who had delivered us from the power of darkness and translated us into the kingdom of his dear son. Through his word, that translation took place. that materialization as we were conveyed. The word conveyed means that we will move from one place to another, but it was by his spirit. That's why he says, come out of her, my people, come out of her. How do we come out? By taking heed to the word of God, by listening at God's word preached and taught, but by doing that work. And as we do that, in closing this, as we do that in a transferred, out of darkness into light, where we can see the new heaven and the new earth being formed, there'll be no more remembrance of sin or of former things, according to him. Isaiah 65 and 17 it says behold I'm creating new heavens and a new earth and The former things of life will not be remembered of come to mind So all of that's the suffering and everything that happened to this life Won't be remembered You'll have a new mind a new way of thinking because now our thoughts would be his thought or be like his thoughts Our ways would be like his ways Hebrews says, this is under the new covenant, he says, for I will be merciful to their unrighteousness and their sins and their iniquities I will remember no more. He that saith a new covenant he hath made the first one old, now that which decayeth and waxeth old is ready to vanquish away. So just as that old covenant is waxing old and passing away, this old earth, the old heavens, it's a new heaven and a new earth. We are a new creation. All things are made new. So we're not talking about a physical earth. We're talking about spiritual, but it's the kingdom of God. Now there won't be anyone to influence you the wrong way. You can't be a Flip Wilson and say the devil made you do it. No, if you did it, you did it yourself. It wasn't the influence of your spouse. It wasn't anyone else, but this is who you are and what you are. That's why the spirit at that time will not do as it is working in this time. will learn of him. That's why it says take my yoke upon you and learn of you, learn of me. So in learning of Christ in these almost 70 years I've been there and in the body I am now in the millennial reign in that time frame, God extend the longevity of my life and I'm not under the law forced to eat unclean things, there was no distinction between unclean and clean, but I know certain things I shouldn't eat because that will slow down my lifestyle. Some people can eat greasy fried foods. I shouldn't eat a whole lot of greasy fried food. There are certain times that I should do things. So we've learned and we have to put that to work and that's what we should teach others and what we'll be teaching. And I told you, nature itself was subjected to these things. It says, listen to nature. You remember I said creation would be reverted back? He's removed the thorns and thistles. He says the wolf shall feed together, the lion shall eat straw as the ox does, and poisonous snakes shall no more strike. In those days, nothing or no one shall be hurt or destroy all my holy mountain. The holy mountain is the whole earth. There'll be no killing and hurting in God's holy mountain. These things will be removed. So there's an understanding to come to at that time because That's a period of time, listen at me closely, that's a period of time that's not the end time. How can I say this? When Jesus delivers up the kingdom to his father, that's the millennial reign, that's the human kingdom up on earth. So during that time period, death will still reign, but when Jesus Jesus is working his purpose and objective and in Corinthians when he say he delivers the kingdom up to the father Then he puts death in his cast into the lake of fire Death is destroyed. It'll be no more dying during that time when he turns the kingdom over to his father because What God was doing was creating man in his image, in his likeness, and in that day. That's why it speaks of that day. And when he says, let us make man in our image, in our likeness. So we go back to the day of creation in Genesis, where the Spirit, the Father, and the Son, plus us, we, we make man in God's image, in God's likeness. It's a day. and it's done according to Jesus Christ. That's when he turns it over to the Father. That's when the change comes, when our corruptible bodies are turned into incorruptible bodies. But you remember the pain and the suffering and all of those things are doing that thousand year millennium, they'll still be going on, but then God changes, that's a whole new time period. That's the end of the millennial reign when God's will, when all is done and God's purpose is complete. See, Jesus Christ came to effect. He was the second Adam. He's doing what Adam should have done. Adam corrupted the earth, allowed Satan to corrupt the earth, but Jesus accomplished God's purpose. God's purpose is never thwarted or stopped. And God allows the devil to go first. So in all of these thousands of years, we see that man couldn't do it, that Satan couldn't do it through man, but we can do all things through Christ who strengthens us, and there will be eternal life lived through Christ Jesus. That's when he changed our vile bodies into incorruptible bodies. That's when we're fixed and fitted in. Heavenly Father, we come before you, Lord God,