When the King Comes: Making Room for Jesus

They thought the kingdom was going to be a political answer. They thought, our party is about to win. And they thought it was a political answer. But actually, before something can become, before the political can be strong, you have to be strong spiritually. You have to have a spiritual foundation for anything else to be able to prosper. Whether we're talking about families, or whether we're talking about politics, or whether we're talking about your business, or whether we're talking about your marriage, whatever it is, you have to have a strong foundation in Christ in order for everything else to flourish. [00:38:49] (39 seconds)  #SpiritualFirstFoundation

Now, you may look at yourself and you may say, well, I don't look any different. You may not even feel any different. But he's not, listen, he's not talking about your physical, your physical being. He's not even talking about your mental being. The Bible says that man is a three-part being. You are a spirit. You have a soul. And you live in a body. [00:47:19] (26 seconds)  #SpiritSoulBody

You may not look any different. But what's different is your spirit man is alive to God. Jesus called it being born again. When you give your life to Jesus, you become a born-again spirit on the inside. God comes to live on the inside of you, and from the inside, he begins to work his kingdom from the inside out. [00:48:39] (25 seconds)  #KingdomFromWithin

In other words, we don't regard you according to what you look like on the outside anymore. When you become a Christian, what he's saying is that we're a new race, not based on what the outside looks like. Not based on what's going on. How much hair I have? It's not based on your outside. Notice what he says. He says, we regard no one according to the flesh, even though we have known Christ according to the flesh. Yet now we know him thus no longer. [00:52:02] (28 seconds)  #NewRaceNotAppearance

In other words, we're looking no longer at whether you're a Jewish man or whether you're an African man or whether you're a European man or whether you're a man or a woman. He says, we're not regarding anybody after the flesh anymore. We are made brothers. We are made one. The Bible says that in Christ, there's neither Jew nor Greek, there's neither male nor female, there's neither slave nor free, for we are all one. How do we still look different? We're not regarding what you look like. See, now we're able to walk in unity. Now we're able to walk in love because we're not looking at each other according to the flesh. [00:52:48] (46 seconds)  #OneInChrist

Now, can you imagine what this is going to mean as this starts to get out, as people start to get a hold of this, as this becomes real to more and more people? This is going to mean that I can't treat you bad. I used to treat you, I could treat you bad because, you know, you weren't one of us. But now we're all us. We're all brothers. And now, now the laws of love apply to everybody. I've got to love you. I've got to love others. I've got to love people down the street or across the tracks or whatever you want to say. [00:54:06] (40 seconds)  #LoveAsLaw

Now, I'm not saying it's going to be easy because there are a lot of obstacles, a lot of things, you know, that we want to hold on to. We want to hold on to greed. We want to hold on to division. We want to hold on to racism. We want to hold on to our anger. We want to hold on to unforgiveness. We want to hold on to those things because, really, we think that those things protect us. [00:56:23] (29 seconds)  #LetGoOfFalseSecurity

We think that these things in the natural are protecting us. But listen, you got your guns. I got my guns. The things in the natural are what are destroying us. And Jesus came to bring us a brand new way, God's way. But the key is how many people are going to make room for Jesus in the days to come. [00:57:01] (39 seconds)  #ChooseGodsWay