 What's up for Jesus tonight, Pace family? Come on, let's, because he first loved you and he first loved me, amen, he's so good. While you're standing, go ahead and take out your prayer and praise with me. And as the Bible says in 1 Peter that we can cast all of our cares on him. Why? Because he cares for us. And I know about you, but I got a lot of cares. And I'm glad he said all and not just some. And whether you're talking Greek or Hebrew, all means all, amen? So let's go to the throne of grace tonight. Let's cast all our care on him. Father, we thank you for your goodness tonight. We thank you for your love for us, God. We thank you that you're more than enough, Jesus, that you're forever faithful. God, so tonight we lift up the needs on this prayer and praise tonight, God. We ask that you would save to the uttermost, God, those who need salvation, those who need a healing right now, maybe you're watching, you need a healing. Right now, Jesus, healing in your name, we speak it forth in faith. God, we're praying for lost relatives to come home. God, we're praying for salvation. God, we're praying for healing, God. We need it in this hour. God, deliverance right now from drugs and alcohol, right now the bondage broken in the name of Jesus. Right now, God, we thank you that you are faithful. She began a good work and you're faithful to complete it. In Jesus' name, amen, amen. Go ahead and cross the aisle and shake a brother and sister's hand. Hallelujah. I love. Yes, we're so glad that you're with us this evening. So glad that you'd be a part of the PACE family. See that you're watching from all over, from Kenya, Sicily, Italy, Brasov Valley, Texas, Hawaii, India, Pakistan, from all over the world. Thank you for joining us tonight. We're standing in faith and believing you for a miracle on your behalf. God bless you this evening. Hallelujah. Let's give it up for Jesus one more time. Let's give Will a hand cup to our worship leader. Amen. Praise the Lord. The Bible says give and it shall be given. Press down, shaking together and running over. I don't know about you, but I'm ready for that running over kind of blessing. Amen. So you can give their buckets in the back. We do have online. There's a QR code, you can mail it in. Also, I encourage you to download the app if you haven't already done that, but let's bless the offering tonight. Father, again, we come to you just thanking you for your faithfulness, God. Thanking you for the gift and the give or like. We ask that you would bless the offering to meet the need of the kingdom in Jesus' name. Amen. Praise the Lord, everybody. Glad to be here tonight. Praise God. I'd like for you to take your Bibles and turn with me to the book of Second Corinthians. Second Corinthians, thank you, sir. Chapter number five is where we're going to be in the study here this evening. God bless all of you for being here tonight and all of you that are watching online. It's a blessing to have you join us as well. Those of you that are watching online, if you'll take time to share the broadcast this evening, then you'll be able to help us get the word out even further. That's what we need to do. That silence is messing y'all up, isn't it? Praise God. I'm just getting ready. Let me just mention to you very quickly about a few things you need to be aware of before I jump into this lesson this evening. Praise God. I don't know if this is my normal lighting, but please check that if you don't mind. I'm getting some shadows up here that my eyes haven't seen before. Smile at your neighbor right now. Some of you are as nervous as a cat on a hot tin roof. And I'll take a little bit more of this too. All right. So let me just mention to you that the upcoming presidential primary for early voting for Santa Rosa County, election day for Florida statewide is 19th and March 4th through the 16th for the primary. And I want to encourage all of you if you haven't registered yet. Well, I think registration is over with by now, but I hope that you are registered so that you can make sure that you are voting. It is one of the highest privileges of a citizen of the United States of America to have that privilege. I want to make that abundantly clear. It is one of the highest privileges that a citizen of the United States of America has. If you don't take advantage of that, not only are you forfeiting your opportunity to be able to speak and have a voice, and God knows we need that, especially since the Secretary of State of West Virginia has discovered that the 2020 election had serious difficulties and he has since supposedly fixed that in the state of West Virginia. And with the bills that are being laid on Congress's desk to try to authorize every person who's come across the southern border to vote, it is important that you take the opportunity that you have as a United States citizen and vote. Pastor, how should we vote? You vote the Bible. That's how you vote. And if the platform of a party is against the Bible, it doesn't take a rocket scientist. You don't have to be a prophet or the son of one to be able to know what you need to do. I will be more specific and clear in the days ahead. And if you can't handle that from this pulpit, then you might be in the wrong place because if ever before the pulpits of America need to speak clearly to the issues, it is right now. And I will not hold back. And if the only reason why you're giving is for tax exempt purposes, you are definitely in the wrong place because the Bible says your heart should be the part that is giving and not your CPAs, whatever. So I want to encourage you to be able to do that. My wife and I will do that. I don't know where your particular location is, but you need to find it and you need to be ready. And you need to do that in a way that is not only pleasing to God, but taking the opportunity to be able to do that. And then while you're standing there marking that ballot, you should pray while you're doing that. Amen. And if all of the folks that call themselves Christians in the United States of America and stand for what they say, the Bible, then there should be a strong voice that reverberates around the world because we're in a mess. The Florida governor has called up the National Guard because Haiti is in an overthrow. And the president of Haiti that was a crook has jumped over to Puerto Rico and is causing havoc there and the gangs have taken over Haiti. They are expecting a landing by multitudes on the southern tip of Florida any moment. The National Guard is in place in the state of Florida. Have you ever in your lifetime seen the amount of National Guard called out to be policing both the subways of New York, Chicago, the borders of the state of Florida, and others? Friends, we need to pray like never before and stand like never before. You're looking at me like I'm telling you something. I hope I haven't lost my congregation here. I hope you won't vote me out, but I will keep on saying it whether you vote for me or not. Praise the Lord. That's enough of that, I'm sure you say. I need your prayers tomorrow. I'll be attending the sentencing of the gentleman who broke in last Thanksgiving into this building and stole more than $25,000 worth of equipment. We have not retrieved that back, so we've had to go back a little bit at a time and add back to the necessary equipment that we needed to be able to continue. And I need you to be praying. I've been subpoenaed to be there, and so I will be there representing this church and its interest tomorrow. I also want you to make sure you mark your calendars and are here in mass next Wednesday night. Next Wednesday night will be a night for Christians United for Israel. Our Kufi representatives will be here, specifically our special guest, and I promise you there's only a few places around the United States that he is going to be coming to speak, and I am thrilled that they have chosen Pace Assembly to be one of those places. Colonel Danny Terza will be with us next Wednesday night. You'll want to be here early. He will be making his presentation, and as I understand it, from those that are coming with him and the leadership of Kufi, they are telling me that his conversation to this congregation is going to bring insight that you will not hear on the news concerning the October 7th and since then events in Israel. Colonel Terza is in the highest offices and leadership in the military of the IDF, and I can promise you the material and the information he will bring will be certainly startling, informative, and then if we've got enough time left at the end, we will do a little Q&A that we'll bring and talk a little bit about some specifics, especially in light of the fact that our own leadership here in the United States has chosen to be able to stand against Mr. Netanyahu and to say that they are now poising themselves for a two-state solution for Israel and a ceasefire that is being called for by all. I would encourage you, if you want a little bit of information about that, to go on to the Prophecy Files Briefing that I just put out yesterday for all of you that are watching online. It deals with Israel and it deals with the United States of America's current position that they are taking right now. With all due respect to the office of the presidency of the United States, the only one that needs to come to Jesus' meeting is our current president and the leadership of America. Don't call that upon the prime minister of Israel. So let Jesus arise and let his enemies be scattered. Enough about that. That's right. I'm in rare form here this evening. So, Prophecy Files, we got that in. Let's study the Bible, shall we? Amen. Father, we thank you tonight for the privilege we have to study your word. Lord, at all things that are taking place in our world right now, God, there is no doubt that the Bible has the answer for all of it. And even this evening, Lord, as we study this lesson, I pray that you would bring to our understanding a clarity concerning what we should do as believers, as disciple believers, and not only just ourselves, but to disciple others in the Word of God and in the power of your spirit. And we give you praise for it. In Jesus' mighty name, everybody said a good amen. Look with me in a familiar passage of scripture in the book of 2 Corinthians chapter number five. Down in verse number 17, you've quoted it many times and perhaps you have and maybe you didn't know where it was, so mark it in your Bible right here. Y'all ready to study the Word? Amen. Push your neighbor and tell them, wake up now. You have no excuse for spring forward. It's been three days. Even Jesus got up on the third day. Come on, somebody. Amen. Here's what the Bible says. Therefore, if any man be in Christ, he is a new creation, a new creature. Old things are passed away. Behold, all things are become brand new. This is a complete change in that individual. We're talking about your salvation experience. All things, how many things? All. Become brand new. Become new. Verse 18, and all things are of God who have reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ. There's so much in this. And have given to us the ministry of reconciliation. So not only has the Lord given us reconciliation by Jesus Christ so that people through Christ can get to the Father for their, not only their salvation experience, but their communion and close walk because we've been separated by sin. But the Bible says now he's handed over to us the ministry of reconciliation. So it's not just that Jesus message is out there. We now have as disciples, we now have the responsibility of the ministry of reconciliation, bringing people to Christ. That's upon every one of us. Can you say amen to that? Verse 19 says to it that God was in Christ reconciling the word unto himself, the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them and have committed unto us the word of reconciliation. Now then, when I was reading that, I heard my mother's voice. Now then, son. Now then, we are ambassadors for Christ. As though Christ did beseech you by us, we pray you in Christ stead be reconciled unto God, for he hath made him to be sin for us, whom knew no sin, that we might be made the righteousness of God in him. That is one of the most powerful passages of scripture. You know, people often say, what's your favorite? I say the whole thing. Don't you? In these few verses that we've just read here is a power packed principles, thoughts and the mind of God for us. And I wanna break it down here this evening and talk to you in the discipleship from last week's lesson, just to bring you up to date. Last week's lesson, dealing with true discipleship and what it means to be a disciple. We dealt with that quite extensively. Tonight, I wanna deal with you being a disciple ambassador, someone who has been called to represent the king and the kingdom of God. And how important that it is that we don't misrepresent him. The ambassador is to represent and not misrepresent. Let me pause, put a pause on this right here and say I'm sorry that I dismissed the service this past Sunday morning when it was over with and let you all go because the after service was probably more powerful than even the main service. I can't duplicate it. I can just tell you you had to been there. But I encourage you to be here this weekend. I'm gonna continue in the book of Ruth and you'll not wanna miss this coming weekend. This thing is stacking on top of one another and there is favor in the house if you stay in the field. So with that in mind, it's important for us to be able to be what Christ has called us to be and he has called us to be his ambassadors. Discipleship is to be an ambassador for the Lord Jesus Christ. Every nation has representatives that represent the home nation and its interest to other nations. You see that all the time in the secular world. The kingdom of God is no different in that God's plan is to appoint ambassadors that is all of us who have been born again into this particular called and appointed position. So the ambassador defined as a diplomat, a diplomatic official of the highest rank sent by one sovereign or state to another as a resident, as its resident representative to speak for the home government. This is important for you to get a hold of. John 15 and 16 says you've not chosen me, but I've chosen you and ordained you that you should bring forth fruit and that your fruit should remain that whatsoever you ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you. Bible says in 1 Peter chapter two, verse number nine, you're a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation been called to show forth the praises of him who've called you out of darkness. We're looking at two kingdoms here. You're either a part of the kingdom of darkness or you're a part of the kingdom of light. He said he's called you that have been born again out of the kingdom of darkness, into the kingdom of light, the kingdom of our God and his Christ. First Thessalonians five and five says you're all the children of light. Those of us who have been born again, the children of the day, we are not of the night nor of the darkness. I'm emphasizing this point because we do not as a child of God, we do not represent the kingdom of darkness if you've been called out of that. You have a new nature. You're a new creation in Christ Jesus. You're not someone who is to represent this world's kingdom. The kingdom of this world is the kingdom ruled by the darkness, by evil. Do you see what's going on today? That's the reason why it's so critical for us to understand which kingdom we represent because too many people who call themselves Christians are trying to hold on to some darkness and get into the kingdom of light at the same time and light and darkness will not intermix. When the lights are turned off in this building it's going to be dark except for whatever light may be left on. I can assure you based upon standing up here and 50,000 watts coming at my eyeballs, it is bright up here. I probably could see whatever it may be that might move all around me, but you shut those lights off and the dimmer it gets, the more ignorant we become. Let me make it plain for you. Cockroaches love darkness. When you turn the light on the cockroaches scatter they run to their corners to whatever it may be. This is important for us because the Bible says in Ephesians 5 and 8 it says this, for years you were sometimes darkness but now are ye light in the Lord walk as children of light. Can you say amen to that? So God is choosing. Now this is important for you to understand. How many of you understand God could do whatever he wants to do? Amen. And yet God chose to communicate the greatest message of all time, that is the kingdom of God, not through religious people, but by personal representatives called ambassadors. And when I say religious people, I'm talking about people that are not part of the kingdom of God. There are plenty of people that are spiritual today, would you agree? But that does not make them a part of the kingdom of God. You're a part of the kingdom of God because the fruit, John 15, represents what the root is. And if there's no fruit on the tree, the Bible calls it the fruit unto repentance. If there's no fruit, if there's no change, then you do not represent the kingdom of God. In fact to the business, when the principles of the kingdom of God are taught at that moment, your flesh will rise up in resistance against it because you're not part of the kingdom of light. So whenever I start talking about what the constitutional book of the kingdom says concerning tithing and something in you resists that, you can know that that's still part of something from that old kingdom back there. I'm about to help you here this evening. Y'all with me? In the eyes of rulers of other nations, the ambassador is the voice of that nation to other nations. I want you to understand the ambassador. That's the reason why there was such an uproar in Benghazi whenever our ambassador was drugged through the streets and murdered and slaughtered the way he was. And he was, and to this day, that entire catastrophe has never truly been dealt with in the way that an ambassador should be dealt with because he represented the United States of America in that country. It is the highest office that the United States could appoint to another country, an ambassador. You're gonna understand what it means to be an ambassador. It means you don't abandon your ambassador who's in a different country. If that's true, then what God would be doing is appointing us ambassadors and then saying, I'll see you when I get to heaven, if you make it. Stay with me, there's some good stuff in here. The ambassador represents not himself. He never speaks the ambassador's personal agenda, only what he is told to speak by his government and constitution. The ambassador, disciple, does not stand up and say, well, I think, now, why is that so important? Because in the time we're in right now, they're passing laws that are against this book. And you will see it in prophecy, if I'm gonna show you, about the time that I think, man, this couldn't happen in the United States because I've been living here all my life and this has never been like this, I've read articles today preparing for prophecy file update to let you know that whenever I say that the news media is corrupt to the core, I am not even exaggerating one ounce. I'm gonna show you in a couple of weeks one particular commentator who calls every one of you an insurrection, an insurrectionist and a Christian, you've been hearing this term Christian nationalist. I'm gonna explain it on that night because it is being used in a derogatory way towards you and whatever you do, if you ever even eke out any thoughts that you support Israel or the biblical way of living or any of that kind of thing, you are a marked individual. Now, why is that important? Because as an ambassador, you do not speak what you think it ought to be. So when a law is passed, I'm about to preach now. When a law is passed that goes against the constitution of the kingdom of which you represent as an ambassador, your opinion does not matter. You're to speak what the book says, you're to speak what the king says in the kingdom. Not what the preacher said, not what your cell group said, you are to speak what the constitution is and what you've been told to speak. Let me say it like this, the Holy Spirit, I'm getting ahead of myself, but the Holy Spirit is the power and presence of God representing the king on the inside of us. Not even the Holy Spirit speaks of himself or speaks of his own thoughts. He only speaks, the Bible says, what he is given of the Father. How dare us come in conflict, questioning and reasoning in our mind when laws are passed and we say, well, I think we should do this and this and maybe if we make a curve here and let's be conciliatory on this and ladies and gentlemen, I want you to understand the only way that the enemy, Satan is going to understand it and the only way you and I should understand it as an ambassador is not to speak what we think about it. That's where we get in trouble. Are you hearing what I'm saying? Let me make it plain here. Let's get it, I'm getting a little ahead of myself. The characteristics of an ambassador are these. The ambassador has been appointed by the king, not elected, not just, hey, I think this one, you are qualified and appointed. You are anointed and appointed by the king, not by a group of people, by the king. Same is true in the United States of America. We don't elect ambassadors. When the president comes into an office, he starts selecting those that are ambassadors to go and represent the United States around the world. Secondly, the characteristic of an ambassador means he's committed to the home government's interest. Wherever the ambassador is in a foreign country, it is the representative committed ambassador representing the interest of the United States government. In the kingdom of God, you and I are to be wherever that that may be at the grocery store, at the mall, at the car wash, at the church. We are the living, committed representative of our home government's interests. We belong to the one who sent us. We do not belong to that country. The ambassador does not belong, to the ambassador to India does not belong to India. As a matter of fact, the embassy that is there located in that country of the United States of America is sovereign United States territory. Did you hear what I just said? I'm about to shout. It's in the country, but the location where that is is sovereign territory. You may be in the country, but you're not of the country. Your home is sovereign territory. When you pick up your body and you get in the car, the car becomes sovereign territory. When you arrive at the office and you sit next to people around you, you are representing the king in a sovereign, you do not belong to all of that. Somebody said, well, I work for this company, I work for that company. I understand all that, but realize this, the Bible says whatever you do, do it as unto the Lord. So if I'm gonna represent the king of glory in the company of people in my business, I should be doing above and beyond work. Come on, somebody, let's go to the next. The characteristic of an ambassador possesses all the authority of the one who sent the ambassador. Does that sound familiar to you? That God has bestowed upon each and every one of us as an ambassador, all authority. Look what Jesus said. Jesus said, all authority has been given unto me, both in heaven and in earth. And then what did he do with it? Peter comes up and says, thou art the Christ, the son of the living God. He said, blessed are you, Simon Peter. Flesh and blood didn't reveal this. Flesh and blood didn't pick you out to be an ambassador. I've selected you've had a download from heaven that nobody around here has given to you. And I say to you, you are Peter. And upon this rock, I am bestowing all authority. You're gonna read it down. He says, whatsoever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven. Whatsoever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven. Ladies and gentlemen, you have more authority than what you think you do. And let me say to you right now, the devil does not have any authority, only what the Lord allows him to have. So stop living up underneath the devil's threat. Stand up for the authority that you are in Christ Jesus. The characteristic of an ambassador means that the representative's voice sent with, he is sent with a message from the sender. You're not there to just occupy space. You are there to open your mouth and tell them what the king sent you to say. I wish I had some better help in here, but it'll be all right in the morning. I came to tell you, you're not there. You didn't get the degree. You didn't get the master's degree. You didn't get the blood applied. You didn't get the sanctification and the baptism of the Holy Spirit so you could fall out and have somebody cover your legs. You got the baptism of the Holy Ghost so you could open up and be the witness in this world that God has called you and me to be. I'm not baptizing the Holy Ghost just to speak in tongues. Speaking in tongues tells me that the Holy Ghost's power has arrived. He filled me with the Holy Ghost because I have something in the spirit to say to people around me. And when the Holy Ghost filled me, he didn't fill me just to bless me, bless me, bless me. This is what we've got in the world that we're in even in the church world where people come in as consumers and all they do is get themselves another blessing. They'll speak in tongues and have a spiritual service and all that's wonderful. But for what purpose? It is to go out of this house and affect and influence change because you are an ambassador of the King who called you, anointed you, and appointed you. I'm about to leave this building. I think I said all I need to say. All of these qualities and characteristics are embedded in the ministry and message of Jesus Christ who is the chief ambassador. Jesus came representing the Father to the earth. The fullness of the Godhead bodily dwell on the inside of him. So when he hit this earth, he didn't hit here with a little bit of Holy Ghost and a little bit of authority. He didn't hear, the Godhead is made up of God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Ghost. He didn't come here with one third of anything. He came here in the completeness of the Godhead bodily. He came representing another kingdom. That's the reason why people couldn't understand him because whenever he spoke, he didn't speak. Didn't they say that? They said, we don't understand what this guy is speaking about. Even his own disciples who've been following around he stands up in the middle of the boat because in the kingdom, there is no chaos. In the kingdom, there is no waves going up and down. It's peace and calm all the time in the kingdom. In the kingdom. Now, if you wanna live out there and have a double minded situation then you're gonna be up and down in and out and you'll be in chaos and there'll be no peace but wherever peace is found is where God is found. And he lay in the back of the boat asleep while the waves were bumping that boat up and down and the disciples were wondering what and the world's going on and how can you sleep in the middle of this storm? Jesus could sleep because he was of another kingdom. I'm already telling you right now, I just read the article. They're looking for another COVID device to come on and they're sending it out there little bit by little bit to get everybody's fear all stirred up. But you know what's not in the kingdom of the heaven? Fear, fear ain't in the kingdom. You didn't hear what I said. Fear ain't in the kingdom. God is not giving you the spirit of fear but power and love and a sound mind. You know what? I may be in this world that's full of fear but I will walk in faith and in peace because I'm of another kingdom. Doesn't mean that there's not gonna try to affect me but it does mean that I know where I came from. That's why church is so important because this right here is the embassy of God. And every time you come running up in here on a Sunday or a Wednesday, you don't need some pablum. You don't need my opinion. You don't need a bunch of nonsense and foolishness. What you need is the word of the constitution of the king and when the king speaks, things begin to move and happen. Oh, you didn't hear what I said. Let me throw a little something else on you. There is no disease in the kingdom of God. There is no lack in the kingdom of God. There is no a mind that's out of control in the kingdom. In the kingdom of God, there is power and love and a sound mind. Which kingdom of you are you of? I represent the kingdom of our God and of his Christ. Oh, pastor, what about sickness? That's because of sin. That's because of the kingdom of darkness. Well, you got sick, didn't you? Sure did. Got well too. Yeah, my pastor, my loved ones died. Yep, because the constitution said, it's appointed unto man wants to die. So don't be shocked because that happens, that's in the book. Have y'all read the constitutional manual right here? I'm trying not to say what I want to say about what I want to say, because it's too fresh and I've been warned twice. I'm getting a little froggy up here now. You better pray, pull both of your ears right now. Are you getting this tonight? I know you're living in this world and you got to go down to the store and buy groceries and you got to live and eat your eggs and exercise, do all the things you got to do, but ladies and gentlemen, you're not in this earth to stay. You're an ambassador of another kingdom. You got something to say and you better not keep your mouth shut, not in the world we're in right now where everything and anything is babbling what they want to say. You better go ahead and stand up and declare thus saith the Lord. You've got something to say because it's not you that's saying it. It's the king's words. It's the word of the king. If you don't speak what he tells you to speak, he has the power to snatch you out of that position. That's why Jesus said to the believer, to the ambassador, to the disciple, don't worry about anything. Matthew six, don't worry about what you're gonna wear, what you're gonna, come on somebody. Don't get caught up in all that. He said seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness and then all these things. You got some things you need? Let me tell you something, before you think you need them, the Lord already knows what you have need of. The Lord already knows. He said, don't worry about anything but focus on the kingdom and fulfill your assignment while you're still here. Everything will be provided for you from the government of heaven if you'll take care of my business while you're on this earth. Are you with me right there? Here's something else for you. The ambassador has sent to represent the home government's mind, not yours. The will of the government, not yours. The purpose of the government, not yours. The intent of the government. Where? In the earth. Jesus not coming down here to do more work again. He's already finished His work and sat down at the right hand of the Father. Did you hear what I said? And He has appointed you and me to now perpetuate the kingdom of God. To enlarge it, to expand it, to make other disciples and other ambassadors so that His kingdom will be done here on earth as it is done in heaven. Anybody getting this message here tonight? I'm trying to hold back. I'm trying to be a teacher here. We are charged only to speak what our government speaks, not our own opinion. So when you get a public official who begins to talk about, well, I think, I know I'm a Christian, but it's all right for this same-sex marriage or it's all right for this abortion or it's all right for this or that or the other thing. You better mark it. Are you hearing me? Because don't call yourself a Christian. Now I'm not doing this, I'm not doing this right here. I'm just gonna say it because I feel like it needs to be said. I wanna thank God that we have a county commissioner who comes to this church, who sat up on that front bench here down at the county commissioner's meeting and it's taken heat like crazy because he stood up and said that he believes that the Bible calls the LGBT same-sex marriage situation as a sin and he has taken heat from every corner. But ladies and gentlemen, we're in a time when the pressure is being applied like never before and if you're gonna pray for somebody, you pray for him that God will keep him standing like he needs to stand for the principles of God's word. I said it for you, Sam, there it is, you got mine. Because we need righteous leadership. When the righteous are in charge, the people rejoice. When the wicked are in charge, the people mourn. When an ambassador is asked to comment on an issue, you have to speak what the government's position is on the subject. Well, what's the government's position? The constitution, what's the constitution? It's the Bible. The only way you will know the kingdom's position is to study the constitution. Now I'm about to hurt some feelings right here. Most of us, most all of us were raised in a democratic society. And we expect to vote and we expect to debate and we expect to discuss, change our will, whatever, looking into the face of the governing documents. But I wanna declare this to you tonight and help you to understand something. The Bible is not a democracy. It is a kingdom book written from the words of the king. God is not a Democrat or Republican or independent. He is not an elected official. He is the king of kings and the Lord of lords. And the Bible goes on to say, and of his kingdom, there shall be no end. So I don't care what Mr. Putin said today about we're ready with nuclear bombs. And I don't care what the Ukrainian president said. I don't care what Washington has to say or anybody else when it's all said and done. I don't care what the Palestinians say down in Gaza and what your feelings are about that. The book says that Israel owns all the land. And when the king of kings gets through dispersing to the people that he wants to have it, I can assure you he made a covenant promise with Abraham in Genesis 12 and he has never taken his word back. Now you should rejoice over that because if God keeps his promises to a thousand generation, then you better know your children's children's children are up underneath that covenant. If you put them there, help me Jesus tonight. Do you understand the covenant power of God's word? Now why is that important? Because they're trying to rewrite the book. Like they're trying to rewrite the constitution of the United States and make it a living document. Because they say that this 200 year old, 240 plus year old document of the constitution of the United States is outdated and it needs to be brought up to the times we're in. The only reason why we are still a sovereign leader in the world is because we have a document that has been written straight from this book with the principles of God that has lasted throughout all of the presidents, prime ministers, kings, potentates, queens, and everybody else. You're free tonight because the document, oh, y'all don't hear what I'm saying. You got a political, I'm gonna show it to you, you got a political newscaster who said this past week the people of America think that their rights come from God and not Congress. Well, how wrong you are. But if we toss out the constitution, we have nothing but man's opinion. But I came to tell you the constitution of the United States says that our rights come from a sovereign God. Oh my God, somebody, somebody, better get a hold of this tonight before the devil lies to you and steals your kids with fentanyl. The Bible said if they run away, he'll go and find the one and leave the 90 and 90. It's in the book. The Bible was written by the king of kings and the government of God is a theocracy government. In other words, he not asking your opinion. Well, I think, who are you to think? He let Job go on and on and on how he felt. I just want to die, Job said. I wish I was dead from the beginning. You left me out here. He let him pour it all out, pour it all out. I know none of you had done that, but Job poured it all out. And when God got tired of listening to the rest of the rhetoric over and over again, he said, Job, are you done? I got something to say. He said, where were you, Job? When I was flinging stars out into space. Where were you, Job? When I said to the moon, shine at night and to the sun, shine at the daytime. Where were you when I changed it from fall back to spring forward just to give you a little more light in the afternoon? You were nowhere around, Job. I want you to know I've got this thing under control. And if you'll come up underneath me, you'll be all right. I want you to consider something that in the first chapter of the book of Job, God knew what the last chapter was going to read. Whoo, I'm about to run now. Did y'all hear what I said? God's not having to sneak up on a blessing to get it to you. God knew from the time that he even suggested to Job and let the devil try to take over. He said, you can do everything, but take his life. He's already knew that Job was gonna stand, my God. And not only that, but he knew what the end of the story was gonna be. So don't fear, ladies and gentlemen, if you're an ambassador, the king has got your back. Put a wave of your hand at the Lord and thank him that he's got my back. Y'all need to calm down. It's Wednesday night. We don't have revival on Wednesday night. But I feel some residue of favor hanging out in this place from Sunday. I feel it dripping off the walls. Come on, somebody. I'm glad that the kingdom of God is a theocracy government. Cause if it was a government of the people and by the people, how many of you know we would have messed it up a long time ago? Not only that, but I'm glad to represent the king as one of his ambassador. You didn't hear what I said. I don't represent the United States. They don't even know my name up in Washington. And I don't even represent the assemblies of God. I'm just one of a whole bunch of other preachers. But in the kingdom of God, I am an ambassador and he knows me by my name. The Bible teaches us about a kingdom ruled by a king. Who is the king of kings? A kingdom is diametrically opposed to a democracy. That's the reason why you can't fit this into the world. And the longer we live between now and the coming of the Lord, the harder it's gonna be for the ambassadors to represent. Take a look at the Benghazi ambassador that was drugged through the streets of Libya. That's the end result of the devil in your life when it comes time for you to get out of town. You know what? When the king gets ready, he'll pull you out. You know what? We just shut down the embassy in Haiti just a couple of days ago because it is a disaster and the devil has taken over the play. Are you hearing what I'm saying? I said the devil, you know who's in charge of it? A guy named barbecue. A guy named barbecue is the head of the government at Haiti. We wonder why when they're worshiping the devil the whole time, you're gonna get a corrupt king. But if the people of God of the United States of America will represent the king of glory in the voting booth, we can see a supernatural revival turn this country around. I wish I had some more help in here, but y'all just sit there and watch it pass you by. The reason why we got trouble is because we got too many thumb suckers and folks that are sitting on their hands doing nothing but they sure wanna tell everybody what they need to do. All the while you're paying $10 for a carton of eggs. The devil is a liar. God said if you disconnect from this world and be an ambassador for me, I will supply all of your needs according to his riches and glory by Christ Jesus. Somebody clap your hand, shout do something. My God, don't sit there and act like you're not a representative of the king. Help me, help me, help me. So a kingdom, the kingdom of God is not controlled by the people. The documents are written by God to be obeyed. The citizens of that kingdom, are you a citizen of the kingdom of God? Let me see your hand. Ain't asking twice. Getting hot in here, brothers. Do whatever you need to do, maybe it's just me. The kingdom's citizens are to live, speak and operate with a different mentality than those they oppose in the kingdom of this world. The first recorded words of Jesus public ministry in Matthew four and 17 are this, repent for the kingdom of heaven is at hand. He said I want you to know you've been waiting on the kingdom. Here I am. Ooh, you missed a good place right there. See you're standing there like Mary and Martha at the tomb of Lazarus and you're saying, well I know that you said that you are the resurrection and we'll see it one day. He said you don't understand. The resurrection is standing in front of you right now. I don't have to wait until the day of resurrection. I've got a promise before they ever lay my cold body in the ground. Help me, Jesus. Jesus came to reintroduce the kingdom of the world, of the kingdom of God into the world and into the earth because Adam and Eve lost the king's domain, the kingdom authority and the kingdom influence. They gave it up. It's the reason why he's gonna be the first when I slap when I get to heaven. Because I've been stuck by thorns, stung by bees. Right. Come on, somebody. Had to have my appendix taken out. All that stuff is because Adam and Eve relinquished the authority they had. Come on, somebody. I don't know, I wanna believe that somehow if I'm living in a perfect garden, walking with a perfect God in the cool of the day, I think, I think, I think just I could eat of every other tree except for the one. In fact, I'd probably take a chainsaw to that one and tear it down because I don't even wanna be tempted by it. Let me just drag it out, throw it in the shredder so I don't have any problem with it, Jesus. And here we are, come on down and let's talk kingdom. Adam and Eve lost all that. That's the reason why today, the world is in the shape that it's in and getting worse. Just because the world is in the shape that it's in does not mean that the ambassadors are supposed to live like the world. Because in the kingdom of God, the opinions and votes of the people don't matter. When I listen to that woman on Politico on MSNBC talk about these people think their rights come from God, but they come from man, I said, well, there'll be a day. There'll be a day. I can't wait to preach the Easter service. You know what the next day is? April 1st, just in case y'all didn't know. It's April Fool's Day. Here's my message. Can't fool me, can't fool me. He got up from the grave and he's alive on the inside of me. Can't fool me. I ain't gonna be no fool. You be an April fool if you want to. A May one, a June one and a July one. But I can tell you, as for me in my house, I represent the king on the earth and he can be proud and smiling me tonight. Well pastor, then how do I get in this kingdom? You must be born again. You gotta transform your mind into the mind of the king. Otherwise your mind that is already sinful in its thoughts will default to this world's thinking, which is ignorance. When you talk in the Bible about light and darkness, light is knowledge, darkness is ignorance. So when you read the Bible, you see darkness. I know you think dark outside, but I'm talking about ignorance. The kingdom of God, you need something to write. The kingdom of God is central to his purposes in eternity. I hope you understand, we're not just talking about, that's the reason why Jesus, when Judas even suggested, let's take over, let's take over the throne now and bring you to the place. He said, are you kidding me? That's not my reason for being here. I'm not gonna be a temporary king sitting on a temporary throne. What I've come down here to do, what I've come down here to do is not temporary relief. Take your aspirin if you want to. I'm not coming with temporary relief. I'm coming here to establish the kingdom that is coming. The kingdom is here and the kingdom is coming. The kingdom is here and the kingdom is coming. The kingdom is here and the kingdom is coming. The kingdom is here and the kingdom is coming. The kingdom is here and the kingdom is yet coming. I represent a king who's coming. Y'all didn't hear what I said. I said, I represent a king who is coming to town. Now people are gonna try to keep him away and they're gonna try to say everything they can to make it doubt and the most attacked doctrine right now on the face of this planet by religious people and on is the rapture, the pre-tribulation rapture of the church because pulpists won't speak about it. But let me tell you what the constitution said. It says, any day now, the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the Lord, the king is coming, hallelujah, to pick up his bride, both dead and alive. And this gospel, Matthew 24, 14, and this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations and then the end shall come. Hey, up there in the control booth, put up the places that are watching right now on live stream. We're here in little old Pace, Florida with one whole traffic light. No, no, no, down there at Walmart, that's P. Ridge. We are here with one traffic light. And from Pace, Florida, that wherever I go preach, they want to know where is Pace. I have to tell them next to Pensacola. Oh, because everybody thinks we're in Tampa. I have to explain, but the kingdom, if all of y'all that are crossing the border will get in the kingdom of God, because America won't be able to supply all of the needs of all the people. But the fulfillment of Bible prophecy and the kingdom expanding is happening while you're sitting in this building tonight. Only in recent history have we had the technology that God has given to us to take this service and spin it around the world on a piece of fiber optic cable. So tonight in Kenya, in Sicily, Italy, in India, in North Carolina, Kansas, Illinois, Washington, Wisconsin, Alabama, Texas, Florida, Ohio, California, Georgia, Texas, Hawaii, Miramar, Burma, Pakistan, and multiple other places. I have no idea that's not listed up there. They're watching tonight. And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached and then the end shall come. God give us an embassy at Pace Assembly where the gospel of the kingdom can get out continually uninterrupted until Jesus comes. And what is the gospel message and mission statement? Matthew 4.17, Jesus said it, repent. Put it on the wall for me. Repent, repent for the kingdom of heaven is at hand. Repent for the kingdom of the heaven of heaven is at hand. It means change your mind. Think and change your way of life. That's what repent means. Repent, two words, compound. Re, return, pent, pinnacle. Return to the highest level of your existence. You know what God does? He takes the lowest level and when you repent, He takes you immediately to the highest level. Come on somebody. Anybody thankful for God and His plan of repentance? As a believer, you're currently living in two kingdoms. You're in this world, but you're not of this world. And we're sent forth as ambassadors to speak the word of the king and effect change for the kingdom of light. The ambassadors have authority to do that. That doesn't mean that every time an ambassador speaks that everybody's gonna like it. Be me, looking at you. Not everybody likes what I say. And if I wrote my sermon based on a democratic government, I would not preach because it would be a total disastrous mess because we would write it the way that we want it so we can feel good about it. I wish you would say, amen. We would write, I would write it so everybody went to my heaven cause I wanna be like, like, like, like, like, right? I mean, it's a party in my heaven, but you better read this book cause it ain't my heaven. And I don't have an opinion and I don't have a vote about who gets in. Well, pastor, don't you think they made it to heaven? Did they live like the devil? Then of the kingdom of darkness they are. You better live so that I can say something at your funeral if you want me to preach it. Come on somebody. Oh, pastor, it's such a wonderful funeral. The only reason why it was wonderful and peaceful is because the person who lived it told their own story. They were a kingdom citizen going down. There'll be a kingdom citizen coming up. And all that they left behind was kingdom principles and life. I could preach that. They've already preached it no big deal. Everybody lives, leaves out of the building going, man, we'll see them again in heaven. Praise God. But what people want me to do is preach the guy who's been a cantankerous, hateful, devil-filled individual all their life into the kingdom of God and I'm not gonna do it. I'm gonna preach Frank Sinatra's funeral sermon. You know what it is? I did it my way. That's right. And because you did it your way, to hell you will go. It's not me to put you there. You put your own self there. Let me suggest you get in the kingdom of God, live for the Lord by the grace of God and when your eyes open up after death the first face you'll see will be the face of the king of glory who lives and reigns forever. I feel like shout. Thank you for showing up right then. Let me wipe my mouth, get the mayonnaise off. How many believe the Sunday morning crowd needs this one? Well, they're not gonna get it. The presence of the ambassador means the presence of the government is represented there. I want you to let that news because when you go on your job tomorrow and some of you say I don't like going on my job there's all these evil people around and I can't live for the Lord and they telling me I can't put my Bible on my desk because I'm a teacher and all that kind of stuff. Tomorrow I want you to change your thinking. I want you to walk in and declare everywhere you put your foot is kingdom ground. Walk right on in there and take over. Now you don't have to announce it. You don't have to put a sign up. You don't have to tell everybody. You don't even have to lay the constitution out because the Bible said he has given to us the ministry of reconciliation. So don't worry about trying to drag Jesus down in some robe, walk around through your business so everybody can see it's Jesus. You are to be Jesus with skin on in that place representing the king. You're not Jesus, you're the ambassador of Jesus. Come on somebody. So if all I do is repeat what the king says then I own this ground and this. Oh, we just won this girl right here to the Lord. Yep, we own that ground right there. That's what the devil's afraid of is that you'll go in tomorrow and start staking the ground for the kingdom of God. Come on, so I dare you. I double dog, triple dog dare you to walk in tomorrow and in your caverns of your mind start dropping stakes down and say this one right here, I'm gonna take back the territory that the devil stowed. This one over here and that one over there. I got them in my sights now. I'm gonna represent the king to them. I'm gonna be the ambassador. And if they hear about Jesus and see Jesus at all they're gonna have to see him through me. You know what will happen in this church this coming Sunday, if you go back there and win people to the Lord I won't have to call Bishop Tim Hill or anybody else or even Bishop Joey Rogers. I can tell you revival will break out in here because we start taking the kingdom of God. The violence, listen, there's violence against the kingdom of God, but the violent take it by force. I didn't know this was gonna get this way but it is now. I'm about to have a good time right here. When you meet the ambassador of a nation you're meeting that nation. Y'all didn't hear what I said. Let me make it plain for you. You believer, you an ambassador, stand up. Now everybody that's a believer, stand up. Come on, you can do it. Get them bones moving if you're a believer. Now look what I'm talking about. He's gonna go on the job tomorrow by himself but he represents a nation. Did you hear what I said? I'm not coming to this thing by myself. Come on, I've been to a school board meeting by myself and they ate my lunch. I can tell you right now, I'm not going by myself, I'm going representing something and behind me are the angels of heaven and everybody else that's called by the name of the Lord, you can be seated. See what's gonna happen is you're gonna think about that tonight and you're gonna jump right up in the middle of your bed and do a two-step because you're gonna recognize that I'm not in this by myself. All the enemy wants to do is isolate you. I have to think and I'm using this as a reference here tonight but you saw it and I did too. When the ambassador in Benghazi was dragged through the streets and brutalized, I had to wonder if he was thinking, is my government abandoning me right now? And they did. You may not like what I'm about to say but when that Marine father who stood up in that meeting the other night screamed out about the Abbey gate to remember those Marines that were killed, I wonder what was going through those Marines' mind. Are we being abandoned out here right now by our government? And they were. Let me tell you about the kingdom of God. When you get ready to represent Him wherever you are, God said, I'll never leave you and I will never, never, never forsake you. So go ahead and represent. If you won't worry about the opinions of people when you give them the gospel, oh, I believe in healing, lay hands on the sick. I've laid hands on thousands, literally tens of thousands of people and guess what? Not all of them got well. Guess what? Ain't bothering me. I'm not the healer. He just told me to pray the prayer of faith. I did that anointing with oil and the Lord will save the sick and raise them up. I don't know why, don't ask me. All I can tell you is he's still a healer. You know why he's a healer regardless? Because the constitution said I am Jehovah Rapha, the Lord that healeth thee. Trust me tonight, ladies and gentlemen, there is no cancer in the kingdom. There is no heart disease and diabetes in the kingdom. Well, I want it right now. That's your problem. Ambassadors don't get it all right now. They have to keep standing in the face of opposition and keep repeating what the king says until the king brings it to pass. Did y'all hear what I said? Israel is in the fight of its life right now and the nations of the world like Ezekiel 38 and 39 are lined up against them. But you know what Mr. Netanyahu told him on Fox News? He said, I represent the nation and state of Israel and the Jewish people and I will do what I need to regardless of what other people say around this world. Now that, my dear friend, the Holy Spirit is the empowering authority of influence in the life of the ambassador. So please don't think you're doing this by yourself. You have the third person of the Godhead that is indwelling every part of your life. Now why is that important? As long as the Holy Spirit has control over your life then the Holy Spirit will give the authority in what you say. So tonight I just said he is Jehovah Roth, the Lord that healeth thee. I believe it. You can believe it or not believe it, but the power of the Holy Spirit backs that up. Whether it be in time or eternity is irrelevant. I want it now, I know and so do I. And God said not everything is gonna happen right now. If the Holy Spirit departs, watch this, then the kingdom departs with him. So this world is getting really, really, really resistant against Christians. I'm gonna show it to you in a few weeks. They're hating on, listen, churches are taking hits like never before because this evil world is getting sick and tired of the ambassadors of another kingdom. That's right. And one day soon when the Holy Spirit lifts the church off of this people planet, they won't have to worry about any ambassadors of Jesus Christ being here. Not until 144,000 evangelical Jews come with a seal in their forehead preaching the same thing that you and I are supposed to be preaching, the gospel of the kingdom. And you think they are mad at us now? Wait till two witnesses drop down with the kingdom authority and power and start walking around calling down fire from heaven and stopping the rain. They get so mad at them that they kill them in the streets and throw a party with their dead bodies in the street. And every eye will see it. But because the king, he don't leave his ambassadors behind. I hear the Marines talk about, we don't leave any man behind. Can I tell you, the Lord is not gonna leave us behind whether we be dead or alive. When the Bible says in three days suddenly the spirit of life is gonna come back in them and every eye is gonna see through the lens and on their phone as two witnesses rise because they came speaking the king's word and the king said, I'm not gonna leave you here. Joseph told him, when you get ready after 400 years to leave Egypt, you make sure you take my bleached out bones with you. I wish y'all'd stop. I'm trying not to preach, but I'm telling you the king is walking around the room trying to find ambassadors. Are you available? Somebody stop me. We don't make policy. We enforce policy. We speak and act according to the constitution. So when someone says same sex marriage should be legal, when someone says and pick it out, it's out there today. You don't have to get in an argument. You don't have to get fussy. It's not your words. Right. I'm just here to represent. Well, what do I say, pastor? Well, this is what you say. Well, it is the position of my government that that is a sin. Now, hold up now, because see the most dangerous thing is is that we have this contemplation that if it happened to us, then we're gonna soften it and lower the bar. Ambassadors don't do that. Even if you have been in that sin or problem. See, this is hard for a lot of people because you know what? My son, my daughter, my this, my that, my divorce, my this, my that, it makes no difference. God is not categorizing sin. Right. It's not a one sin and a 10 sin. So you can get over that mentality because we didn't write the book. Sin is sin across the board. And if God calls it a sin, then you and I as ambassadors have nothing but an obligation to be able to call it what it is. And it doesn't mean I have to get all fussy. Doesn't mean that I gotta jump up on the hood of my car or start throwing placards at somebody. I just state the position of the king. This is what the book says. And you know what else the book says? He will show mercy to whom he'll show mercy. In fact, he says it like this. He said, you can find, if you'll search it, you'll find grace, the throne of grace and mercy to help in time of need. By the way, that's also in the Constitution. Here's something else. Love thy neighbor as thyself. You nearly scared me over there, man. That dot was coming this way. I thought somebody was about to shoot me. It's all right. Take the picture. I saw that dot coming. I thought, wow, was it something I said? That's Robert, he's a good guy. It is a responsibility, I gotta hurry. It's the responsibility of the ambassador to maintain connection and communication with the king. We've seen this play out recently. I don't mean to be so relevant, but the other day we watched the secretary of defense go into the hospital and not even tell the president that he went in. If you don't talk to the king on a daily basis and stay in communication in prayer, come on somebody. The things may change and you don't even know it and there you are out there messed up. This is what the book says in Revelation 11, 15. And the seventh angel sounded and there was great voices in heaven saying, the kingdoms of our God of this world have become the kingdoms of our God and of his Christ and he shall reign forever and forever. Let me show you something real quick as we're running out the door. Jesus is the king of kings and the king of the kingdom of God. And this is what the book says. The kings never voted in or out of power. The king is the king by birthright. Come on somebody. The king's word is final. The king owns it all. The king's presence is his authority. The king's citizens are blessed and prosperous in the kingdom. The king's name is the essence of his authority delegated to us that if you ask anything in the name of Jesus according to the will of the Father it shall be done unto you. Ladies and gentlemen, you're not by yourself in this thing. Here's what the Bible says. As long as we concentrate on the king's interest and represent him faithfully as an ambassador in his will then you can expect full support of the kingdom of heaven. You can expect a full funding to take care of your finances and need from the kingdom of heaven. You can expect that he will defend his ambassadors if you'll stand for him and you will expect that whenever you need help you'll find full assistance coming by Jesus Christ in the name of the Lord. Somebody get up on your feet if you're an ambassador and give him the glory that is worthy of his name. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, I gotta say it like this. If you stay in the field you'll find favor, favor, face somebody and tell them you got favor as an ambassador of the Lord. Shake hands and be friends. I'll see you Sunday morning. If you stay in the field you'll find faith.