Uniting Generations: Seeking the Kingdom of God

We're small I remember Lauren When she was a little girl And yeah That is good Good memories And of course Over years I've been I've been coming here And for fellowship And always enjoy This time together Worshipping God And praising him And also praying together And And sharing the word of God And sharing You know my Whatever I share The word of God I share I'm trying to share Out of my experience It's I'm not good In preparing messages You know my messages Usually come from The revelation Of the word of God And I'm so glad Also to see So many young people here And I like to work Because I'm working now I think in mostly I'm working with young people And it excites me And when I can Invest When I can really Impart What God has given me And we have a special time In Poland now Where really God is doing something Something special Concerning the unity Between generations Of course My heart is for unity In general But one of the areas That he is working now Is unity among generations And it is based on On the scripture That from Malachi It says That the Elijah spirit Will come And he will turn the hearts Of the fathers to the sons And sons to the fathers And I believe this applies Both to the biological families As well as to spiritual Spiritual relationship Between the fathers And the sons Spiritual fathers And spiritual sons And I have So great So good So valuable experiences With the young generation People there are Hungry for God They are really They have become Students of the word of God And this excites me So when I see you You know And I'm just excited Because I know that That this You have something God has something For this generation For young generation To bring To bring to the church You are not the future Of the church You are You are the present Present How to say it You are the Present Yeah For the church So I was young Once I was young And we have a saying Once I was young And handsome Now I Was young and handsome And now I'm only handsome But my daughter You know This is young She is not Now young But my daughter says When I said that one time She says Not daddy Is the only end Remains So this is How the children are They will tell you the truth Yeah so I mean We have five children We have eleven grandchildren And we are so So excited about our family We can be close together And I've been in I've been born again When I was 13 And in the age of 16 Really My ministry started God has called me For the ministry The first period of time Was music ministry And then I became A pastor I pastored for 23 years And after 23 years In 2007 I God just called me To another ministry To more like a Ministry to Help to plant New churches And to oversee churches And work with Generations And work also Beyond the Borders of denominations They always were In my heart The unity Was a key thing The unity Between Between people You know When I see the church I don't see church As an institution I don't see church As a building I see church As people People God's people People that belong To Jesus People that are Born again They are New creation In Christ And those That confess it Those that Have this Testimony Of being Born again These are my Brothers and sisters No matter Where they come from And I have this Privilege really To work with Different groups Different people From different backgrounds Including Catholics We have quite a movement Movement Within the Catholic Catholic church Movement Charismatic movement So many many people More and more people Coming to Christ And you know When you are One of those meetings Catholic meetings Where I am Very often Now You know If you don't know If you didn't know That they are Catholics You would not recognize Even That there is This Catholic Because They worship They read The word of God They preach The word of God And they pray And they believe In the Holy Spirit They believe In the gifts Of the Holy Spirit And those gifts Are manifested During those meetings So it's Really God is doing Something So I am Very excited To be part Of this movement Of this What God Is doing In our country And You know One of the Main Not one of the My main Subject That I Share I teach And I believe This is so important Is the subject About the kingdom Of God And People in Poland Know me When they say About my name They say They knew He was speaking With the kingdom On the kingdom Of God And in Matthew 6 33 Jesus says Seek first The kingdom Of God And his Righteousness And all things All these things Will be given To you as well Seek first The kingdom Of God So Jesus Was doing His ministry He was really Determined To bring The kingdom To help people His people His disciples To bring Revelation Of the kingdom Because To the kingdom To understand The kingdom To leave The kingdom You Requires The Requires Revelation It's not just Our mind It's not enough To really Understand The kingdom In Romans 4 14 17 And 18 Paul says For the kingdom Of God Is not a matter Of eating And drinking But of righteousness Peace and joy In the Holy Spirit Because anyone Who serves Christ In this way Is pleasing to God And receives Human approval Or other Translations Is acceptable To God And approved By men So But this Says Jesus says Seek first The kingdom Seek first What does it mean Seek first Beyond everything The kingdom Has to be first Kingdom has to be Priority Knowledge of the kingdom Revelation of the kingdom Should be Your priority And interesting Is that he puts This verse He puts it In the When he says About About [00:46:16] (Making raw clip | Making vertical clip | )

About all the worries That we have As people He puts it in the He says Don't worry About your life Don't worry About what you Gonna eat Don't worry What you Will wear Don't Don't worry About tomorrow Because God Cares For you And it is so Important That we can Put all our Cares On him And it's In the context We see That only When we really Have a kingdom When we understand The kingdom We can be free From all the worries Of the fears Of the future Of the things We have So many reasons Today In this world With so many reasons To worry So many things To worry Because everything Nothing is predictable Anymore We see And so many people Are living in fear Because of jobs Because of The situation Different Because of sicknesses And other things And because of What's going on In the world The wars And Jesus says In this Don't worry About it Don't worry What does it mean Just rely on me Because the kingdom The first thing Of the kingdom of God Is that we believe That God is In charge That God is ruling That God is reigning And he is under control No matter what we see With our physical eyes And this is something What makes us Makes us strong Makes us people They can face All those difficult situations Because we really have him And we really rely on Rely on him You know This is This is This is Very very Very important thing So So Also in When I would like to To Read the scripture From first Peter Verse Chapter five Verse six and seven When When Peter says Humble yourself Therefore under God's Mighty hand That he May Lift you Up in due time Cast all your Anxiety On him Because he cares For you You see There's very similar things Because Jesus says Don't Don't worry Don't worry And here he says also Put your cares on him But the first he says Humble yourself Before the mighty hand of God What does it mean for me? It means that It's really required Humility To really trust God To really put our cares To God Then Then Then We You know We all have a Problem with pride Because the pride Is the The first The general This original sin That came to To the human And from this All the other sins Came But You know But So the Bible says About humility Humility means That we Understand Who we are We understand Our weakness We understand That That we are That we really are Poor Without Without him Jesus said Blessed are those They are poor in the spirit In spirit Because they are the kingdom So being poor in the spirit Means that we Know who we are And we know that Without him We are nothing We are nobody That without him We can do nothing This is This is what What I understand Humility means So if you If you are humble We are able Really To see the kingdom Only when you are humble When you know I am not enough I cannot do myself Things I have I need you Lord I need your rule I need your reign In my life And then I become Stronger And I can face All the All the All the situations Situations That are That That are coming To To To our lives And You know So when he says Seek first the kingdom It means the kingdom Has to be our Our priority And And , uh Jack Taylor Who is the Really Who is the Was He's passed He passed away But he is the Spiritual father To many leaders In America And Including Bill Johnson As you know And he says something Like He said this The kingdom of God Is Is everything If it's not everything It's nothing So You can see How important Is for us Really to To have this This insight To understand To have this Revelation What is the kingdom Of God Really Really about And You know Jesus says Jesus used Many many Parables When he was explaining The kingdom And one of this is Is this In the In Matthew chapter 13 Verses 34 44 and 46 46 [00:53:38] (Making raw clip | Making vertical clip | )

When he was with those disciples, he was teaching them all the time. He was teaching, and the Bible says he taught them the kingdom of God. He wanted that they will understand the kingdom. They would have the revelation of the kingdom because he came from heaven to bring the kingdom down. But he said, I'm going, but you remain here. And you are in my place to bring the kingdom of God, to demonstrate the kingdom of God, to manifest the kingdom of God. This is what he said. This is what he did. And he was teaching them all the time. And the Bible says in Acts chapter 1, it says also that after his resurrection, Jesus for 40 days, he would meet with his disciples and talking to them about the kingdom of God. So look, see how important it was for him that even after resurrection, for this short time that he was, he was doing what was the most important for him. He was talking to them. He was talking to them about the kingdom of God. So how the kingdom of God, what is the condition for us to be with Jesus? For me, to be with Jesus is to really, to be close with him in his, to stay in his word and in prayer. [01:00:58] (77 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


Showed what is your purpose, how you're going to use this lockdown for your purpose. You know, God is always doing, in all the situations, he's doing his plans, his purpose. So here, what I've heard, I believe that I have from him. And he said, first thing, I want my people, I want every believer to take full responsibility for his spiritual, for spiritual life and spiritual growth by spending time in the word and in prayer. So this is the, this is the first, this is the foundation for our spiritual life and spiritual growth, your personal time with Jesus in the word and in prayer. [01:02:28] (45 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


You know, I think that what, also what he, what I felt then when he was speaking that so many of us, so many people, Christian people, they, their life, their spiritual life is based, based on prayer. It's based on what they hear, on the messages, preachers, they go for conferences, even they are very active. But really, everything is just from outside. But what Jesus wants, he wants to have, to have fellowship with us. He wants to fellowship on everyday base. He wants to teach us his word. And so the word can live in us, inside of us. [01:05:53] (38 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


If, if you, if there is no word of God in your heart, the Holy Spirit doesn't work in you. He doesn't have a base to, to, to work. He doesn't have anything to work because he said he will remind you, remind you, he will bring out the, the, the word that, that is inside of us. So this is so important that we, we understand that the word of God has to be placed, placed in us. You know, when I was, I had this privilege from very, when I was in, in, in the church in Sunday school, even before I get, I, I met Jesus personally. The, the, the word of God. I was, was really invested in me. I had, I had to learn scriptures by heart and I let, learned a lot of scriptures and, you know, through my life, those scriptures in many situations, they would come to me and they, they really, they were really changing my life. They were really helping me to understand because the, suddenly the Holy Spirit is reminding you something, you know. So when I was, when I was, when I get married and we had the children, I made sure that my children also learned the Bible, Bible. So I taught them. So I taught them Bible scriptures. And I believe that if those scriptures, if it is plant, will be plant in them, you know, this scripture will always come back even if there's something, something wrong happened, happens with, with, with, with my children. And really we had a situation with my, my youngest son and I just want to share this with you. And because of some crisis in his, in his faith life and I'm speaking, I can share this because he allowed me to do it. [01:08:13] (94 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


And, and we could do nothing. But the one thing we do, we've been praying for him. And, but I also. I believe this is what came, what came, I believe because the word of God was planted in him, this word of God will, will, will bring him back. I, I believe very, very, I believe really strongly. And every day when we prayed for him, we, we just, I was confessing he doesn't belong to the world. He doesn't belong to, to this. He belongs to Christ. He belongs to the kingdom. He's kingdom person. And we would just, we'd be just doing this and, and, and waiting. And, you know, the one. One of the things he, and he, one time we, we talk, I tried to communicate with him. And one time he said to me, I had pastor in my, in, in, at home, not the father. [01:11:59] (50 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


And he, he really, he really came back to, to, to the Lord. And what more he, he asked me to be his mentor, to help him. You know, so, so, but, but I'm saying this because this, this was completely new level. This beginning of new, completely new level of relationship. So, you know, as I told you, I was involved. I was involved in this, this generational stuff, you know, working with generations. And see the young people growing in Christ. And the same time I saw my, my son in this situation. And then, so he comes now. So for me this was, again, it was a kind of proof of God's faithfulness, you know. When my son also came, came back. And we have today, we have a really hard, hard connection, you know. We, we can talk. He shares, he shares things. He's struggling or something. And I believe that he's, he's coming, he's coming back to the, to the ministry. Because there is a, there is a calling of God, on God. There's anointing on God, of God on his life. And so now he was, his, his girlfriend also, he was very open. He was, we talk, we, we pray. [01:17:27] (75 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


And she, now they, they joined the church. They join, you know, where they live in, in Warsaw. And they said they were excited. We want to, we want to, to be. We want to be part of this, of this church. And last May they get married. So, so God, God just is bringing, is a process of bringing order back. Order to, to, to his life and to our family, family life. You know, when I, when I, when I read this scripture, seek first the kingdom of God and its righteousness. [01:24:08] (31 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


Or this other scripture, because the kingdom of God is not a matter of eating or drinking. But righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Spirit. I, I think that the, the word, the word righteousness in the simplest way that I can explain is the God's order. [01:26:19] (18 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


So when the kingdom of God comes to our lives, it brings order. His order to back. [01:28:24] (7 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


And when his order comes to our lives, the result of this order is peace and joy, harmony, beauty. And everything, everything. This is what we are created for. We were created for, to live, to have a life like this. [01:29:01] (15 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


But the only life, the only kind, this, this kind of life only is possible when we see the kingdom and we live for the kingdom. [01:30:24] (8 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


When we don't live anymore for ourselves. [01:30:53] (3 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


You know, the problem is that in, in a Christian world, so much we think, we tend to think that the God is for us in the first place. So we focus more, more. Only how, what kind of bad, what benefits I can have from my faith, you know, and we always have a desires. We have a request, so and so, and so many people get upset even, or offended by God when they, when they don't get what they want. [01:30:56] (29 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


But for me, this understand, they don't understand who they don't know God really, because the first place we are for him, we are created for him, for his glory. We were created that we, we represent him, his beauty, his character, his nature. Everything. He created us that we represent him on the earth. And then we, in his name, we you can, we can, we should rule on the earth. This was the purpose. This was a purpose. And when we bring, with a kingdom coming to our lives, we begin to understand, we begin to understand what does it mean to be in charge. What does it mean to rule with him. What does it mean to bring back the God. righteousness of God? What does it mean to bring his order back to this earth? And it starts inside of us. It starts inside of us. When we are born again, what happens when we are born again? What happens? First we repent, we come to Christ, we acknowledge him as our Lord, our King, our Lord over our lives, and then we are born again. [01:31:54] (68 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


The Bible says that by being born again, we are transferred from the dominion of darkness to the kingdom of God by the pulses in Colossians. And what happens? The Bible says that we become justified by faith in Jesus Christ. [01:36:32] (21 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


It's more like bringing God's order back inside of us. We are justified. We are justified. We are right. We are right. We are right with God, and we are right inside. And the result of this justification is the peace and joy and harmony. You know, everyone that has this experience meeting Jesus and being born again can say, okay, when Jesus came to my life, when he became my Lord, I experienced peace and joy. This is because all God's order comes into our lives. But this order doesn't end here. This is just beginning. So being born again, being saved is not the end of everything. It's just the beginning of everything. Because if we understand the kingdom, it means that we bring this God's order to every sphere of life. [01:37:14] (61 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


We bring it to our marriages. God's order is beautiful. When we can function under the kingdom, in our marriages, in our families, when we have relationship, when we have freedom, when we can share our life, when we can invest into each other in our spiritual life, when we can share and talk, this is the kingdom. This is the kingdom. [01:38:41] (25 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


So I told you that the first thing was, when the lockdown came, the first answer was, what God said was to to really care for spiritual, forever believer to care for spiritual life and spiritual growth. But second thing God said, the first place where church is living really, church manifests itself is your home. [01:39:46] (25 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


And it says, if it's not true in your home, it is not true anywhere else. [01:40:12] (6 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


I don't know if you understand. So the spiritual life, the kingdom life has to be natural everywhere we are. It should be natural. It should be supernatural becomes natural. We experience God in our everyday life. [01:40:16] (15 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


And so we experience it in our family by being united, being together, being close, being able to share. It's not embarrassing to share our spiritual life with each other, but it goes even farther. It goes to our businesses. It goes to our work, our job. We represent. We represent him and represent his kingdom and represent his order. We bring his order to the situations. [01:40:47] (30 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
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