Dr. Tony Evans

Tony Evans - Unleashing the Kingdom

November 16, 2025 | 28:40

Dr. Tony Evans is known as a relevant expositor and is a pastor of pastors and a father in the faith.

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Dr. Tony Evans | Tony Evans - Unleashing the Kingdom | November 16, 2025

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Tony evans: how is god using you to advance his name?
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How is god using you to advance his truth?
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How is god using you to meet the needs of others?
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That's why the bible calls us to serve one another.
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That's why it calls us to make an impact
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In the culture.
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Because it's not just about me.
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It's not just about you.
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You are to give acceptable service.
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Tony: hebrews 12:28 says, "since we have received
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A kingdom that cannot be shaken."
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The kingdom is the jurisdiction of divine rule.
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It is the realm of divine authority.
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The greek word kingdom, "basileia,"
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Refers to a rule or authority that involves a realm.
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God exists in a realm.
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It is an invisible, spiritual, heavenly kingdom realm.
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God's goal when history was created,
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Since he exists outside of history
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And so does his realm, was to bring the imprint
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Of that realm into this realm, which is why we say
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In the lord's prayer, "thy kingdom come,
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Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven."
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That what god has sought in creating mankind
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Was to deliver the heavenly kingdom
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In the earthly environment.
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Since the earthly environment is a physical environment,
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He created physical people to carry out,
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Bringing the kingdom that you cannot see
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Into the environment that you do see.
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So he created humanity to be the post office mailbox,
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The delivery, the postmen and women
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Who deliver this environment
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Down to this contemporary environment
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Or to the world of the five senses.
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So god has a kingdom, a jurisdiction,
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A sphere of rule, that he wants transferred
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From up there to down here.
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Sometimes it's called the kingdom of heaven
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When it's referring to the location.
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Sometimes it's called the kingdom of god
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When it's referring to the person.
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So the person, the kingdom of god,
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Or his location, the kingdom of heaven,
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Both terms are used interchangeably
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In scripture to define and describe this jurisdiction.
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You and i were created to be participants
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In extracting up there and delivering it down here.
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That is your purpose.
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Anything that doesn't fit into that,
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You're operating outside of your purpose
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Because that is the king's goal.
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When god created man, he didn't create him
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As a family.
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He didn't create him as a married couple.
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He created him as a single, and as a single man,
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He was given a divine purpose.
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The family was to plug into that purpose.
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So he was given as a single person
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A divine purpose, because his calling
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Was to be his identity.
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His family was the support system
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To achieve that across generations.
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So when you understand that you and i were created
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For a kingdom purpose, it changes your whole template,
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Outlook, and perspective on life.
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Now you have to understand, we are in an environment
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That offers a rival kingdom.
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The bible calls it the kingdom of darkness.
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There is an enemy that wants to build
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A rival kingdom and to shift your purpose
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From the kingdom of god to the kingdom of darkness.
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He wants to steer you, me, us, away from the purpose
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For which we are and have been created.
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The author of hebrews says, "since we belong
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To an unshakable kingdom."
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Far too many people, christians, are living their lives
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In falsetto.
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They're living outside of the normal range
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Of their creation.
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They're singing outside of their created purpose
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For being, because they have not yet linked
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Who they are and what they do to this kingdom jurisdiction,
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Divine rule, which is the purpose
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Why each of us were created and then converted.
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You are created for the kingdom, but because of sin
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We needed to be converted for the kingdom.
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But a lot of us who have been converted
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Have missed the reason why we were created
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Because we bought into the ant farm
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Of a rival kingdom.
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And as a result, we are missing the purpose of god.
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And so he says, "since we have received
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An unshakable kingdom."
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Again, psalm 115, verse 16, "the heavens belong to god,
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The earth belongs to man."
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So god up in heaven wanted to transfer heaven to earth,
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But he placed it in the hands of man
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Because men were to physically carry out
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This divine purpose for which we have been made
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And for which we have been redeemed.
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Very few people today will watch the football game
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From a tv in the kitchen, 'cause the only reason
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You have a tv in the kitchen is to be able to glance at it
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While you do other things.
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Most will watch the game from the den or the tv room,
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The media room, because they want everything else
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To be a addendum to the reason
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Why they were there.
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A tv in the kitchen, you glance at
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Because you got other reasons to be there, to eat, to cook,
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To do other-- but once you sit in that den,
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In the chair, you want everything else
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To facilitate that.
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God has too many of his people in the kitchen
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And not enough of his people in the den,
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Where god is good while i do other things,
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But he's not the centerpiece, and other things
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Have to plug into that.
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And when you miss that, you miss the kingdom,
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You miss the centrality, the purpose, the goal
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Of our created reason for being.
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If cars on a train are not linked in to the engine,
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Those cars aren't going anywhere,
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Even though they may contain valuable things.
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By your creation you contain valuable things,
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But if you're not hooked into the engine,
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You're not going anywhere.
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That is, you're not arriving at your creator's
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Intended destination.
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So what the enemy is seeking to do
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Is to steer us away from this kingdom purpose.
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And what you need to know about your kingdom purpose
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Is that you are custom made.
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You're not off the rack.
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And the proof of that is your own fingerprints.
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No two fingerprints are alike because you weren't supposed
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To be like anybody else.
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You have been uniquely created, uniquely crafted,
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Uniquely called, uniquely gifted for a kingdom assignment.
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And if you're not kingdom minded and kingdom oriented,
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You will miss your kingdom assignment
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And wind up settling for a career
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While losing a life.
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Because that's what many people do.
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They live for the career and never arrive at the life
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Because it never got plugged in,
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Connected to this unshakable kingdom.
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So the kingdom is the jurisdiction,
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It's the rule, it's the realm of god,
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And he claims a monopoly on his creation.
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He says you were created to fulfill a piece of the puzzle
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To the bigger picture.
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Or as ephesians 2:10 says, "we are his workmanship,
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Created in christ jesus for good works
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Which he hath created beforehand that we should walk in them."
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We are his workmanship, created in christ jesus
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For good works that we should walk in
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That he himself has created.
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God has a purpose, but to discover it,
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To live it out, you must be kingdom minded.
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That is, you must have a mindset of the rule of god
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Operating in all of life.
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That's why 1 corinthians 10:31, "whether you eat or drink
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Or whatever you do, do all to the glory of god."
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He does not even want you eating and leaving him out.
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"whether you eat or drink," he wants it
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Down to the most regular, normal things that you do
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To be plugged into him.
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The moment you unplug it, you lose the power
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That's supposed to go through it, okay?
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So god's goal is his kingdom.
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Now, why does he say this?
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He says, "therefore, since we have received
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An unshakable kingdom," or a kingdom
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Which cannot be disturbed, shaken, disturbed.
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Well, he's used the word "shaken" previously
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In the verses preceding it.
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Let me read verse 25, "see to it that you do not refuse him
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Who is speaking.
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For if those did not escape when they refused him
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Who warned them on earth, much less will we escape,
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Who turn away from him who warns from heaven.
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And his voice shook the earth then.
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But now he has promised, saying, 'yet once more
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I will shake not only the earth, but also the heaven.'"
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The expression "yet once more" denotes the removing
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Of those things which can be shaken
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As of created things so that those things
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Which cannot be shaken may remain.
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"therefore, since we have received a kingdom
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Which cannot be shaken."
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So he is now making a contrast between things that are created
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That shake and the kingdom of which we are a part
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That is unshakable.
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He makes this contrast between the shaking
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And that which does not shake.
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The word "shake" means to disturb
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The natural order of a thing.
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When god shakes things up, disturbs things,
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When the normal order of the way
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Things you believe are supposed to go
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Or the way they've always been begins to flip and flop
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And twist and tweak, he says, "do not refuse him
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Who is speaking."
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So when god disturbs something, it's because he talking.
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That's hebrews 12.
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It says when god shakes, the natural disturbance
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Of a thing is because he wants you
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To pay close attention because he has something to say
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And he knows you won't listen unless he mess stuff up,
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Flip stuff up, change stuff up.
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So when he disturbs the natural order of a thing,
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Do not refuse him who is talking
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Because god has something to say.
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God will allow or create turbulence in our life
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And in our circumstance in order for us
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To pay closer attention, because now we wanna hear
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More of what he has to say in the turbulence
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That we're going through.
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If he wants to move you to a new career,
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He'll create turbulence in the career you're in.
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If he wants to move you to a new circumstance,
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He'll create turbulence in the circumstance you're in.
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If he finds out you love money too much,
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He'll start breaking stuff down
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To take away your love for money.
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He will create a turbulence in the situation
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Because he wants to hear us.
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He wants you to hear him a lot closer
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Than you were previously listening.
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So when god wants to make sure that you are more attuned
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To listening, whether you choose to or not,
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Because he says you can refuse it,
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He will allow or create turbulence
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Or what he calls the shaking or the disruption
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Of the normal activity
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Or the normal movement of things.
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So rather than get mad at god when there is turbulence,
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He says you better listen more carefully to god
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When there is turbulence.
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He says god is speaking when there is disruption.
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Now the good news is god is still talking.
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You need to worry if he's not talking, okay?
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God is speaking using circumstance, disruption,
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To get our attention so he can reveal to us.
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And that's good news in a bad situation,
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Because he says what he's doing
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Is he is creating a separation.
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He says, "the removing," verse 27, "of those things
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Which can be shaken."
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So he's getting rid of something,
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Of created things, whoa.
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He's trying to change something in the physical to replace it
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With something in the spiritual.
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You know why?
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Because he sees we've gotten too attached
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To the physical, as of created things,
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The things that the five senses partake of.
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When we get attached illegitimately
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To the wrong kingdom, then he will create
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A disturbance to detach us.
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He does not want us overly connected
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To this kingdom, to this world.
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We're supposed to be in it, but we're not supposed to be
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Tied to it.
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We're not supposed to have it as our ultimate obligation,
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And so disruption is what he will bring.
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So when god creates a disturbance,
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It is an uncomfortable situation designed to produce
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Something better from the spiritual realm
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For our lives.
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When god creates a disturbance, it's generally not comfortable,
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It's generally not desired, it's generally not preferred,
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You don't want it, but if you will tune your ear
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To listening, 'cause he's talking
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When he disrupts the natural order of things,
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Then he says you will discover that you are
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A part of a, watch this, unshakable kingdom.
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Oh, watch this now.
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"i'm going to show you," he says, "why you can't be
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Overly tethered to this world, this culture, and this kingdom.
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And the reason why you can't is i'm gonna shake it up
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And i'm gonna show you, if you put all your eggs
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In this basket, you're gonna be shook up too,
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'cause you're attached."
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You know, if there's an earthquake on the ground,
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Folks in the plane aren't shaking,
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Because they're not attached.
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It's the things that are attached
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That get shaken in an earthquake.
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But what god wants to do is lift us up
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To a new spiritual reality of a kingdom
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That's not attached so it doesn't shake
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When everything else around you is tore up from the floor up.
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When everything around you has been disturbed, is shaking,
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It's discontinuity and disconnected.
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So god is allowing the shaking to reveal the unshakable kingdom
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Because you're listening to his voice.
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See, when you know to whom you are attached,
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Then while everybody else is going through all of this,
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Your connection to god's kingdom purpose
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Will stabilize you because his kingdom up there
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Can't be shaken by circumstances down here.
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It doesn't mean those circumstances aren't real,
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It just means they're no longer in control.
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They're no longer dictating.
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They're no longer calling the shots
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Because it is an unshakable kingdom.
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When your world is turned upside down,
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When things are in discord, god is saying,
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"time to go deeper, time to go deep."
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Disturbance is to call our attention
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To time to go deeper, okay?
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So how do you go deeper in god's purpose?
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Well, look at what he says.
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"therefore," verse 28, "since we receive
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The kingdom that cannot be shaken,
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Let us show gratitude."
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I want you to be thankful.
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Now, the tendency when our world is shaken
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Is to complain, and that's the natural.
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I mean, "i don't like this, i don't want this,
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I don't agree with this," you know, is to complain.
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He says, "let us show gratitude."
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But how can i show gratitude if i'm in a disturbance?
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You're not showing gratitude for the disturbance,
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You're showing gratitude for the purpose.
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You're saying, "lord, i don't like this,
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I don't want this, i don't agree with this,
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I don't desire this, but because you're talking
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And because you have something to say,
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Which means it's worth hearing, i want to thank you
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For how you're going to use this to take me deeper
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In my purpose with you."
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I'm not thanking god for the problem.
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I'm showing gratitude for the purpose.
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God was taking israel from egypt to the promised land.
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The purpose was the promised land.
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The wilderness was development for the promised land.
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He says, "i let you get hungry so that you could see
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I could feed you.
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I let you get thirsty so you could see
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I'm your provider for your water.
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So yeah, i let you get hungry, i let you get tired,
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I let you get weary, i let you get thirsty,
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Because i knew you would depend on me more
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To have to come through.
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Why did i do that?"
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Deuteronomy says, "so that when you
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Get to the promised land and when you got houses
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That you did not build, farms that you did not develop,
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Blessings that you did not-- that you should not forget
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The lord your god.
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So i let you go through a hard time
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So that you won't forget me.
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It is absolutely critical," he says, "to show gratitude,"
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Not for the problem, not for the pain,
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But because he's talking about a different purpose
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And it's amazing how god can use mess
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And create miracles.
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But we have to be open to his voice.
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He says, "do not refuse him who is speaking,"
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Because you can say, "i don't want to hear it,
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I don't want none of it, i'm gonna walk away from it."
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So he says, "with gratitude."
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And then he says, "by which we may offer to god
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An acceptable service."
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God is not looking for celebrities, okay?
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He's not looking for celebrities.
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We live in a saccharine celebrity world.
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Saccharine is sugar substitute.
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So everybody wants to have 15 minutes of fame.
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Everybody wants to be known by the world.
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It's okay if you have talent, you have ability,
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Or you have things that people recognize.
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The problem is when you think you're a celebrity.
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God is not looking for celebrities,
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He's trying to find servants.
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And it's amazing.
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You know, john kennedy said, "ask not what your country
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Can do for you.
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Ask what you can do for your country."
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We got folk filling churches wanting to know, "god,
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I want you to do this for me.
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I want you to bless me.
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I want you to give to me.
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I want you to do this for me."
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Ask not what the kingdom can only do for you.
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Ask what you can do for the kingdom.
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How is god using you to advance his name?
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How is god using you to advance his truth?
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How is god using you to meet the needs of others?
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How is god using you?
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Or do you just want to get from the king
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And his kingdom but the king and his kingdom
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Can't get nothing from you?
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He is saying that you are to give acceptable service
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Because it's not just about me, it's not just about you.
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That's why the bible calls us to serve one another.
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That's why it calls us to make an impact
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In the culture, because it's about you,
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It's just not only about you.
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That's why the bible calls you into a body,
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Calls you into a fellowship, because he doesn't just
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Want to bless you, he wants to use you.
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And why can you do this?
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Why can you, in the shaking, show gratitude and serve?
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Watch this.
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Because that links you into an unshakable kingdom.
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It means god will make sure that's what happening around you
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Is no longer controlling you.
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Because his kingdom which you
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Have been plugged into, if you have not veered from it,
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All is designed to not be subject
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To the circumstances.
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For our god is a consuming fire.
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He wants to get rid of anything that can't be connected to him.
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He consumes... he consumes it.
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He wants to get rid of anything that's not connected to him.
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You know, when you get a appliance,
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You get a warranty.
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New appliance, you gonna get a warranty.
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For a certain amount of time, they're going to stand
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Behind the product.
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They're going to say, "if this appliance
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Stops working, call us and we will,"
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If it's a reputable manufacturer,
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"we will fix or replace your broken-down appliance."
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You get a warranty.
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Then you may want an extended warranty
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So that they will be there for you
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When things break down.
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But if you pick up a hammer
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And start hammering the appliance
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And cracking and breaking it, you just voided the warranty.
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Not because they didn't get it, but because you didn't use it
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In the prescribed way for which it was created.
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And once you are no longer using the appliance
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For the prescribed way in which it was created,
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You are now voiding the guarantee of support
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That is designed to fix what's not working properly.
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God has a warranty on your life as long as you're plugged
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Into his kingdom purpose.
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But the moment you start living outside of his kingdom purpose,
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You living for me, myself, and i, you--
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Now god can't get you to serve, you're an ungrateful christian,
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Then what you're doing is voiding the warranty
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Of your covering from his unshakable kingdom.
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There are a lot of christians walking around
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With voided warranties, and they wonder
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Why god won't answer, why god won't come through.
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Because we have voided the warranty,
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Because we're not using our created purpose
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For the reason it was given, which is always to advance
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The king's name and the king's purposes
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On earth.
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You are to be god's kingdom representative
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In whatever you do, wherever you go.
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You are representing the king and his kingdom.
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Just like when you go to another country,
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You still are an american.
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When you go to your job, you still are a christian.
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When you go to your neighborhood,
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You still are a christian.
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When you go to your friends, you still are a christian.
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You are a representative of the king and his kingdom,
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And he is a consuming fire.
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So no, he's going to disturb something
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In all of our lives, but it's always designed
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To take us to the next level.
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Tony Evans - Unleashing the Kingdom

November 16, 2025 | 28:40

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