UNDERSTANDING THE KINGDOM

Matthew chapter 13






Today we are walking in: Understanding The Kingdom








Numbers 24:7


He shall pour the water out of his buckets, and his seed shall be in many waters, and his king shall be higher than Agag, and his kingdom H4467 shall be exalted.





KINGDOM



Today we look to the word-KINGDOM- H4467 mamlâkâh, (mam-law-kaw') -dominion, (abstractly) the estate (rule) or (concretely) the country (realm):—kingdom, king's, reign, royal



The Torah testifies...............


Exodus 19:6


And ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests, and an holy nation. These are the words which thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel.


Numbers 32:33


And Moses gave unto them, even to the children of Gad, and to the children of Reuben, and unto half the tribe of Manasseh the son of Joseph, the kingdom H4467 of Sihon king of the Amorites, and the kingdom H4467 of Og king of Bashan, the land, with the cities thereof in the coasts, even the cities of the country round about.


Deuteronomy 17:18


And it shall be, when he sitteth upon the throne of his kingdom, H4467 that he shall write him a copy of this law in a book out of that which is before the priests the Levites:




The prophets proclaim..................


1 Samuel 10:18


And said unto the children of Israel, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, I brought up Israel out of Egypt, and delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians, and out of the hand of all kingdoms, H4467 and of them that oppressed you:



Isaiah 9:7


Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even for ever. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will perform this.




Jeremiah 18:9


And at what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom H4467, to build and to plant it;







The writings bear witness...........................



1 Kings 9:5


Then I will establish the throne of thy kingdom H4467 upon Israel for ever, as I promised to David thy father, saying, There shall not fail thee a man upon the throne of Israel.



1 Chronicles 17:11


And it shall come to pass, when thy days be expired that thou must go to be with thy fathers, that I will raise up thy seed after thee, which shall be of thy sons; and I will establish his kingdom H4467.


Psalm 145:13


Thy kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and thy dominion endureth throughout all generations.




Understanding The Kingdom


Today we are going to be looking briefly at understanding how to seek the kingdom. That’s your topic for today, understanding how to seek the kingdom. It’s very difficult to do something that you don’t know how to do. As a matter of fact, it is impossible to do it. I don’t think Yah would leave us wondering how to carry out his command if he gave one. Yah‘s priority is not something you need to guess about. Yah‘s priority is something that you don’t need to pray about. What I like about prioritization is that you know where to put your time and your energy, your talent and your strength. When you know what to do then you know you’re not wasting your time. I want to begin by reading Matthew chapter 13. Yahusha only preached one message and that message was introduced by him in Matthew chapter 4. When he began his ministry on earth. Verse 17 of Matthew chapter 4 it says I quote, and from that time forward, Yahusha began to preach repent, for the kingdom of heaven has arrived. And from that point forward that was his only message. In Matthew chapter 13 he tried to explain the value of the kingdom, and he gave a parable, about a farmer who went to sell seed in his farm, and he talked about some of the seed falling on the good ground and rocky soil and on stone and some falling among thorns and thistles. He said the kingdom of Yah is like this farmer who goes out and he so seeded of course the disciples heard Yahusha speak every day about the kingdom, and he used many different types of parables, and this one disturbed them because they couldn’t quite understand this one. As a matter of fact, they were a little bit perturbed by now because he kept speaking on the stories and multitudes, and they didn’t understand what he was saying, so that disciples asked him a question and they asked the question in chapter 13 verse 10. They said, why do you speak to the people in parables? And verse 11 is the answer, and Yahusha replied the knowledge of what? Secrets. Of the kingdom of heaven has been given only to you not to them, referring to the multitude. Verse 12 he continues whoever has will be given more and he will have an abundance of what? You have to refer to verse 10. He who has? He says it is given to you to know the secrets of the kingdom of heaven, verse 11 he has more will be given he who has what? The secrets of the kingdom who has just a little bit he says will get what? More. He who has the knowledge of the secrets of the kingdom of heaven will be given more, and he will be given an abundance of secrets. In other words, there’s so much to learn about the kingdom secrets. It’s going to take you your whole life. The more you desire to know the more he will tell you. And if you get a little bit and you get a little bit more and he will give you much more, and he keeps opening. He says if you pursue the kingdom it opens up to you. Look at the next statement, which is very important, he who does not have. Does not have what? The knowledge of the secrets of the kingdom. That means if you don’t want to know it, he will not tell you. If you do not want to pursue it, he won’t show you, and if you talk against it, he will hide it from you. Remember I keep trying to tell you for the last few years that Yah does not volunteer information. He is too pure, his motives are always pure. So Yah will never show you what you did not ask to see. Who does not have, even what he has he already does not have. In other words, if you are dumb and ignorant, that’s one problem, but if you think you know, even your ignorance will become ignorant. What a way to talk, he said, if you do not have even what you have will be taken away from you. This is why he speaks to them in parables. Now, if you will, please read verse 18 blessed are you and your eyes because they see in your ears here, hear what? The secrets of the kingdom. He says you don’t know how blessed you are to be in a place where someone’s teaching my secrets. of what? The kingdom. He says eyes should be happy to look at the verse and finally understand it. Ears should rejoice and sit and finally listen and hear the original message of Yah. As a matter of fact, the next verse clarifies it. Look at verse 17. For I tell you the truth, many who? Prophets. That’s everybody in the Bible. Moses, Joseph, Daniel, Joshua, prophet, Ezekiel, Daniel, Joel, Amos, Zephaniah, Zachariah, Malachi, all of the prophets, this is important, he said, even though they got information they never quite got revelation. many prophets and who else? And righteous men, Abraham, men who were in right standing with Yah still didn’t get it. Didn’t get what? Go back to verse 10. Didn’t get what, the knowledge of the secrets of the kingdom. Do you feel special today? This makes me feel so special, he said there is stuff coming out that Moses didn’t understand. You are getting revelation he says that even Abraham himself didn’t get. The Bible talks about the patriots and the prophets in the 11th chapter of Hebrews and it says they believed, but they didn’t understand and they were walking a joint and they were going and they had faith but they just didn’t understand, they only believed. He is talking to the disciples, and he is talking to you, and he says I am going to make sure that you are not like them, you will not be like Abraham, you will not be like Moses and Joshua and Isaac and Jacob. You’re going to understand the message. Look at the last statement. Many prophets and righteous men longed to see what you see but they did not, and they longed, and they waited and desired to hear what you are hearing but they did not hear it. I am so afraid to teach sometimes because I don’t want anyone to get the wrong idea about anything about me. One time Paul became concerned about the prosecution he was getting. Paul’s persecution came from religious leaders. The number one opposition was the same that Yahusha had which is religious leaders. And the scribes used to hunt Paul down and when Paul had a meeting in the town, they would move that town just to get to him. Paul was harassed by them, they attacked him, they crashed into his validity, his credibility, his apostolic. I mean they attacked the guy and one time Paul couldn’t take it anymore and he said " Most High, I am tired of this. Every time I open my mouth these guys attack what I say. Then he prayed for Yah to remove the spirit of harassment. He said, Yah, I am tired. Give me something to preach and teach that they like and then he asked Yah to deliver him from the demons. Paul actually called them spirits, he’s talking about these Pharisees and scribes and religious leaders, and the Bible says, and the Most High said Paul I will not remove them, he says, for my grace is enough for you to handle their criticism. Watch this, he says, for the Most High sent to me that these spirits have been allowed into my life to buffet me because of the depth of revelation I have received. In other words, the more you get deep into Yah, the more religious people attack you. The closer you get to the truth, the real truth your greatest opposition will come first from religious people. Yahusha said it’s given to you and prophets and righteous men wanted to hear this for years and they did not. He says look, some of you are impressed with Abraham, but Abraham didn’t understand. Some of you are deeply moved by Moses but he says Moses never got it. Some of us think that Daniel was deep. We are impressed by Joshua, he said they didn’t understand the message, they longed to understand, and they wanted to see and understand, so they could see and understand, but it has been given only to this generation. That means you and I are going to understand the kingdom the way Moses never did, never, Abraham, never did, as a matter of fact, even some of the 12 right here and they didn’t understand it but you are understanding it right now. They were still looking for a nationalistic government to take over Rome. It’s found an act chapter 1 in Yahusha said, what are you talking about? You still don’t understand the kingdom. Now look at the next verse 18, he says let me explain to you what the parable means. First 19, when anyone hears the message about what? The kingdom and does not what? Understand it, Satan himself comes to what? Snatch away even the Lil you begin to understand. He said look, the parable is about the solar that’s the teacher who sold the seed, he says the seed is the message about the kingdom. Is that clear? He says the parable is when anyone hears the message of the kingdom, this is the seed. What is the seed? The seed is the kingdom. He said the only thing you and I are supposed to be spreading is the message about the kingdom. Then he says understand. Underline that word twice. The word understand is a dangerous word, he said HaSatan doesn’t care about any other message. He’s concerned only about the kingdom message but I also want to stress that HaSatan is also more concerned, he really doesn’t care if you come here and visit what he doesn’t want you to do is understand. HaSatan does not want you to sit down and pursue that thing. This is a powerful verse, he says, and if they do not fully understand that means if you just begin to get it, HaSatan leaves hell. Now you know HaSatan is not Yah, he is not omnipresent, he isn’t an unemployed cherub, so he cannot be many places at the same time. He is not omniscient and omnipresent, so Yahusha said you can tell where HaSatan usually is. He’s usually wherever people are being taught a certain message. He personally comes. He says let me find out who is dealing with this message so if you want to know where HaSatan is, I am presumed he is here and I want him to have a seat and listen to everything I say, because HaSatan, I am going to teach the people the kingdom of Yah. The Bible says he comes to do what? Snatch. He wants you to walk out of here saying that does not make any sense to me, I don’t know what he was talking about. I want an emotional preaching. He doesn’t want you to understand the secrets of the kingdom. The moment you begin to get it he loses control over your life. He is afraid that if you ever get it, it is over. So he doesn’t care if you don’t get the message of prosperity, faith, deliverance, baptism, blood. As long as you don’t understand the kingdom. Understand. Now he goes on and says every group there are four types of people, I hope one of them is in this room today. He said, in every crowd that the kingdom is being taught about there, afford types of people. I hope you decide which one of these you are. There are rocky people, That means they sit here and die while I’m teaching and it falls on rock and they walk out and didn’t understand anything. That’s why HaSatan is making you sleepy. He said look I am going to make sure they don’t hear it. I am going to put them to sleep. Four types of people in every crowd according to Yahusha he gives you a 25% chance of getting it. That means the possibility is that only 25% of the people reading this teaching are going to get the message on the kingdom. They are those who are listening. That’s the Rocky people, and then he says there’s another kind where the soil is thin. They are shallow and they want emotions, they want a message to make them scream and run around and spit and stuff, all they want is feelings. Shallow people. You come out sweating and have not learned anything, just foolishness, shallow people. And there are those who are here today and they are going to say amen to all everything I say, and then they are going to go out and forget everything they learned, he says they are choked by the cares. The cares choke what you heard. You say I know Yah told me not to worry about clothes and food but I have got to worry a little bit because I have children. You let the cares choke what you heard, you agreed but you did not obey. The third group then says this is the last group and I hope you are in this group and he said there’s a group of people that are like thick soil and they come to the teaching with water in the soil, already soaked, waiting for the sea to fall in. He says when the word of the kingdom hits them, he says it germinates right away and it begins to grow right in the meeting. He says when they leave they bear fruit. In other words, they become, there’s evidence that they understand the kingdom. So the key to you getting Yah‘s priority right is understanding the kingdom. Let’s read his priority please Matthew chapter 6, verse 33. You don’t need to wonder what is the most important thing to Yah. If you want to know what is Yah‘s priority you don’t need to wonder about it anymore and that is why I am so clear in my heart that what we are teaching and what the world is finally catching onto is right. Yahusha said do not worry what you will eat, what you will drink, what you will wear, where you will live, all these things he says, don’t worry about them, and then inverse 33 he says, but seek first. Everybody say first and say seek. Both of them are very important, but seek first the kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things shall be added onto you. Let it be added Most High. He said you don’t need to seek a lot of stuff. Just seek one thing, seek what? First. First also means there are some other things you can seek, and there are some other things competing for your attention and your energy and your talents and your gifts and your passion and your strength. They are trying to get you, but he says put them aside and put all your energy and vision and stress and passion on one thing, it is the kingdom. And everything will be added onto you. Let me give you this. Yah‘s number one priority is kingdom first. Seek first. It’s the priority. Remember we learned this series. So far priority means first means first what is that? First things first. The kingdom of Yah is what you must seek first. The first thing is the kingdom of Yah, seek the kingdom of Yah. Now he did not just say the first thing is the kingdom. He said you have to first seek the kingdom. If you put it first, then you have to do something to make sure it is first, which is you have to seek. Seek for the kingdom of Yah is a divine command, there’s no choice for you if you are his disciple. What is his priority? Kingdom first. What is his priority? Kingdom first. He said you see the kingdom first, that's my priority so the first word I want to focus on is the word seek because you don’t know sometimes what something means, how do you do it? The word seek first of all means to pursue. That means you can’t casually stumble upon the secrets of the kingdom of Yah, you cannot get it by mistake. You have to pursue it. Number two seek means to study. When I saw these words in the definition, I was really deeply impressed. You can’t just read the teaching once a week and get the secrets. My job is to make you hungry, to make you want to go and get more. My job is to make you thirsty, so you can go during the week and open the well in the book And cash your bucket down. You have to study. That is why we tell you to read the teaching over and over. Why? Because you never hear it for the first time. Number three the word sake means to explore, this is one is very important. When you go seeking for something that means you were exploring something. He said explore first, the kingdom of Yah. Take yourself on an adventure, study its mountains, it’s valleys, its hills, it’s rivers, it’s forest, it’s oceans. He said, go ahead and learn everything about the government of Yah, explorer. Explorer, kingdom, legislation, explore kingdom laws, explorer kingdom culture, explorer kingdom economics, explorer kingdom society, explorer kingdom relationships, explore kingdom habits, he says, don’t you stop just keep going, and the more you keep going the more I will show you. What is Yah? Priority kingdom first. Number four the seek means to understand. The net HaSatan‘s greatest fear is number four. He doesn’t mind if you pursue or study or explore as long as you don’t understand. Do you know why? Write this down. Nothing as yours until you understand it. Nothing is yours until you understand it. Don’t be impressed by Dr. J teaching and how I seem to know so much. Let me tell you something I know this for myself. It won’t become yours until you can say it and you got it. HaSatan doesn’t care if you hear he doesn’t want you to get it. So between hearing and I got it a demonic attack will come. People can sit in this place for the last six or seven months and still do not have it. HaSatan is hoping that you never get it. You have to understand. Number five the word seek means to learn. You have to learn the secrets of the kingdom, and number six the word sickness seek means to consider, that means to ponder, think about or meditate on. You cannot just pick up the kingdom once a week in a teaching, but you need to take The teaching and don’t read it once. It took me 33 years to understand this but how do you think you’re going to get it in one reading? Yah had to incubate me, he had to settle those things and test me in my life, and he had to teach me, and then he had to correct me, and then he had to repeat me and refined me, and had to reproof me and prove me, and he kept working until he got it down, and I understand now. The words seek means to desire to know. Let me quote the first for you there. To desire to know the kingdom of Yah. Just put these words in the sentence and you will get a revelation, but pursue first the kingdom, but study for the kingdom but explorer first the kingdom of Yah, but understand first the kingdom of Yah and these things that you need will come to you, but learn first the kingdom of Yah and everything will you need will come to you, but consider first the kingdom of Yah and everything you need will come to you, but desire to know first What? The kingdom of Yah. Yah‘s priority. The word seek means to have a passion for. Can I quote the verse? But have a passion to know for the kingdom of Yah and his righteousness, and all these things that you need to live, to exist shall be added onto you. I thought it was great, seek means also to be diligent. Diligently dedicate yourself to something means to seek. Ladies and gentlemen, you should not be able to wait to get the teaching. He says if you desire to know I will tell you the secrets. You desire and diligently dedicate yourself to it that means you know you see my Bible, I have been reading this stuff every single day the secrets. I keep marking up new things because the more you want to know the more he will show you. You will never know the kingdom if you only get the teaching once a week, that’s why you have to seek for food and for clothes and for water. Listen to seek means to diligently dedicate yourself to something. My dedication is to know what HaSatan doesn’t want me to know. HaSatan knows the kingdom. He knows the kingdom because he doesn’t want you to know. He has all the blueprint he was there when Yah was designing the whole thing. He said if they ever get this I am in trouble. So you need to know whatever HaSatan does not want you to know, this is his number one goal he does not send any demons to prevent you from getting this. He comes himself. Some of you are going through a little hell right now because of the revelation you have been getting, but I promise you by the power invested in me by the king who I serve that your breakthrough is going to come on you and you will have no more bad days because when this thing breakthrough on you, he said you will have houses and land and mothers and fathers and farms, and you will be able to handle the blessing when the kingdom turns on you. The blessings will overtake you. See the harassment versus the double trying to discourage you from pursuing. Whenever HaSatan attacks it means you are getting close. So be encouraged by his increased attacks. He shows his hand by his presence and his pressure. The more pressure he brings on you that’s a sign that you are getting close. So if it seems like you are coming to the end of your rope, that means Yah‘s about to show you and throw you a lifeline. HaSatan doesn’t want you to go any further. He wants you to stop right now, but HaSatan is a liar. Listen to me, one of the greatest revelations I ever learned in my life is HaSatan is a liar. The greatest revelation about HaSatan is that he is a liar. That means that if HaSatan ever tells you this week that you can’t do something that is a lie, that's proof that you could do it because he cannot speak the truth. You always tell the truth by what HaSatan tells you you cannot do. Yahusha said he is a liar, the father of lives, and there is no truth in the spirit. That means if he tells you, you are not going to get healed. That means your healing is on the way. Whatever he tells you is a lie. If he tells you that your mortgage payment is not about to get paid off he’s about to tell you a lie. You might as well prepare yourself because he cannot tell the truth. Sometimes he speaks through your best friend. Do you remember Peter and Yahusha, he said you, Peter, you are full of HaSatan momentarily. That is why it is important for you to know the word of Yah so that you can rebuke your best friend. He says you have no interest in the things of Yah why? Yahusha knew the things of Yah and he says right now, my friend you are off get out of this room, he says. He says it is impossible for you to fail. HaSatan is a liar. Write this down to seek means to preoccupy yourself with something. All I can think about is the kingdom. Kingdom, kingdom, kingdom, kingdom. Everything is kingdom. That means I am preoccupied with the kingdom. What does the kingdom think about everything? That’s how you keep your life in order. Kingdom first. I tell you friends, If you do what Yahusha says, he’ll do what he promised. He said if you seek, then he will add. When you see, he adds. If you see, he adds. Write this list down please. First means priority. First means the principal thing. He says pursue the principal thing first. Pursue the first thing first. First means that which is before all others. Seek first means most important first means highest importance and value. Seek first the most important value to your life, which is the kingdom of Yah, the word first means above everything Seek above everything else the kingdom. First means to establish as primary. He says, establish as your primary interest the kingdom of Yah. You seek, he adds. You make it first, he makes you first. You make him a priority, he makes you a priority. Yah is going to blow your mind this week. Your days about guessing about a blessing is over. I’m telling you you don’t have to guess where you are coming out anymore because once you do what he is telling you to do then he will do what he told you he’s going to do. He says you seek and I add. Your days of blessing is over. He says your days of guessing about blessing is over. You will not have to anymore. Wonder whether you’re going to victoriously come out or whether you’re going to have championship belts in life he says it is a guarantee, this is going to be the most stress-free year of your life, you’re going to have low blood pressure and perfect body, mind and health, because you are going to have blessings that you can expect. You don’t have to be blessed. You seek and he will add. I guarantee that some of you are retiring and you’re going to get more money in your retirement than you got all your work in life. Some of you have been working hard on a job and you think you’re going to get blessed but Yah is going to mess up your mind because he is going to bring you revenue from streams that you don’t have to work hard for and they are going to bigger than the ones you’re working hard for because he’s going to add. Everybody say add to me. He is going to add. Add means that you weren’t looking, it just comes inside. Yah is going to drown you in your blessing. Are you ready for a blessing that is going to drown you. Yah says I’m going to take away your stress if you focus on my kingdom first. do you think your business is doing good? You haven’t seen anything yet, focus on the kingdom. He says stop thinking small. You seek I had. You seek and I add. Let me tell you something, this is the year that Yah‘s going to do Some things fast for you. If you seek my kingdom first, I’m going to add stuff to you so fast you are going to say slow down Yah. This is your season of addition. If you start seeking the kingdom, Yah says you will have houses in this life. I expect Yah to drown me and blessings. You cannot let the pastor seek the kingdom for you because the pastor is getting all of the additions by themselves. You have to understand this thing for yourself. Once you get to the point that the kingdom is your whole life. You will be debt-free in three weeks. You are a good place because you can understand things that Moses did not get and if Yah bless them, and they didn’t understand it fully how much greater. Kingdom first. Kingdom first kingdom first. There is no substitute for the kingdom.