In Hamilton as in Heaven - Pastor James Hooper

He dealt with injustice and he dealt with it when it was religious people. He dealt with it harshly with religious people because they are the ones that are supposed to be wanting heaven to come to earth, but they're out there being unjust to people. So we are to bring God's justice and God's righteousness to this community and to this world. [00:13:21] (26 seconds)  #GodsJusticeNow

In this world we are told in order to have safety and security we must have resources. That's so equated with safety with security as having resources. We want to be secure in our lives so we got to have resources and we can only serve others once we have those resources but the kingdom says that safety and security comes from serving others first. [00:26:10] (30 seconds)  #SecurityThroughService

his peace his joy we are to be conduit of God's resources whatever is needed on this earth if you just sow joy into somebody's life if you just sow peace into somebody's life if you just sow love into somebody's life if you just be God to people on this earth because you are a priest and a priest represents God to man so he says you are a kingdom of priests you're a royal priesthood so like or not you are a priest to this earth you represent God to those that don't know God and so we are to be his channel in this earth that's how we bring heaven to Hamilton [00:37:38] (57 seconds)  #BeGodsConduit

We are to bring the kingdom of God to Hamilton, and we seek first His kingdom. We do not seek for ourselves first. We seek for the good of those around us. That's how we bring the kingdom of God. Because the kingdom of God is ruled by love, agape love, which is a self-sacrificing, a self-giving, a love that is given with no expectation of anything in return. That's agape. That's the kind of love God has for us. Because, I mean, what can you give God? God don't need anything. But He desires us. He desires for us to give of ourselves to Him. And when we give of ourselves to our community, we're giving to God. [00:09:10] (58 seconds)  #SeekKingdomFirst

God was generous enough to create a garden with everything imaginable Adam and Eve could ever want and one tree they couldn't have. And what do we do? We look at that daggum tree that we can't have and say God don't want me to have something. God don't want me to have something. Well you just look around. Just look around. [00:23:59] (27 seconds)  #SeeTheAbundance

But God did not want that kind of world for himself. He wanted somebody to love him freely. So that's why he did not create, that's why he put us a tree in the garden. One tree. Listen, we have focused on that one daggum tree so long that we forget he created a whole garden. [00:18:20] (25 seconds)  #LoveFreely

Now listen, a lot of people get caught up in when churches get into what they call the social gospel and they don't like that when people get into the social. I'm here to tell you, I'm sorry, but Jesus did a lot of social things. There was a lot of social issues Jesus addressed. He dealt with poor people more than he did with anything. So we're going to have to deal with it. [00:12:57] (25 seconds)  #SocialGospelInAction

A whole garden. And so that tree is what has caused us to make our decisions in our life. We can't be generous because of that one daggum tree because something's going to be taken from me. When you've got a gazillion more trees around you, there's more where that came from. There's always more where that came from. We get this idea of when I can't be generous because if I give that away, I won't have that anymore. And not realizing there's more where that came from. [00:18:44] (35 seconds)  #AbundanceMindset