KINGDOM THEOLOGY OF THE BIBLE

Matthew chapter 13






Today we are walking in: Kingdom Theology Of The Bible










Job 21:14




Therefore they say unto El, Depart from us; for we desire not the knowledge of your ways. IYOV (JOB) 21:14 את CEPHER










KNOWLEDGE







Today we look to the word-KNOWLEDGE- H847 da'ath--knowledge, perception, skill, discernment













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




Genesis 2:9




And out of the ground made Yahuah Elohiym to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil. BERE'SHIYTH (GENESIS) 2:9 את CEPHER







Genesis 2:17




But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, you shall not eat of it: for in the day that you eat thereof you shall surely die. BERE'SHIYTH (GENESIS) 2:17 את CEPHER







Exodus 31:3




And I have filled him with the Ruach Elohiym, in wisdom, and in understanding, and in knowledge, and in all manner of workmanship, SHEMOTH (EXODUS) 31:3 את CEPHER




Exodus 35:31




And he has filled him with the Ruach Elohiym, in wisdom, in understanding, and in knowledge, and in all manner of workmanship; SHEMOTH (EXODUS) 35:31 את CEPHER




Leviticus 4:23




Or if his sin, wherein he has sinned, come to his knowledge; he shall bring his offering, a kid of the goats, a male without blemish: VAYIQRA (LEVITICUS) 4:23 את CEPHER




Leviticus 4:28




Or if his sin, which he has sinned, come to his knowledge: then he shall bring his offering, a kid of the goats, a female without blemish, for his sin which he has sinned. VAYIQRA (LEVITICUS) 4:28 את CEPHER




Numbers 15:24




Then it shall be, if ought be committed by ignorance without the knowledge of the assembly, that all the assembly shall offer one young bullock for an ascending smoke offering, for a sweet savor unto Yahuah, with his oblation, and his drink offering, according to the manner, and one kid of the goats for a sin offering. BEMIDBAR (NUMBERS) 15:24 את CEPHER




Numbers 24:16




He has said, which heard the words of El, and knew the knowledge of El Elyon, which saw the vision of El Shaddai, falling into a trance, but having his eyes open: BEMIDBAR (NUMBERS) 24:16 את CEPHER




Deuteronomy 1:39




Moreover your little ones, which ye said should be a prey, and your children, which in that day had no knowledge between good and evil, they shall go in thither, and unto them will I give it, and they shall possess it. DEVARIYM (DEUTERONOMY) 1:39 את CEPHER































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




1 Samuel 2:3




Talk no more so exceeding proudly; let not arrogancy come out of your mouth: for Yahuah is an Elohiym of knowledge, and by him actions are weighed. SHEMU'EL RI'SHON (1 SAMUEL) 2:3 את CEPHER




1 Samuel 23:23




See therefore, and take knowledge of all the lurking places where he hides himself, and come ye again to me with the certainty, and I will go with you: and it shall come to pass, if he be in the land, that I will search him out throughout all the thousands of Yahudah. SHEMU'EL RI'SHON (1 SAMUEL) 23:23 את CEPHER
















Nehemiah 10:28

And the rest of the people, the priests, the Leviyiym, the porters, the singers, the Nathiyn, and all they that had separated themselves from the people of the lands unto the Torah of Elohiym, their women, their sons, and their daughters, everyone having knowledge, and having understanding; EZRA V'NECHEMYAHU (NEHEMIAH) 10:28 את CEPHER




Isaiah 8:4




For before the child shall have knowledge to cry, My father, and my mother, the riches of Damascus and the spoil of Shomeron shall be taken away before the king of Ashshur. YESHA'YAHU (ISAIAH) 8:4 את CEPHER




Isaiah 11:9




They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain: for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of Yahuah, as the waters cover the sea. YESHA'YAHU (ISAIAH) 11:9 את CEPHER




Isaiah 28:9




Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand doctrine? them that are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts. YESHA'YAHU (ISAIAH) 28:9 את CEPHER




Isaiah 32:4




The heart also of the rash shall understand knowledge, and the tongue of the stammerers shall be ready to speak plainly. YESHA'YAHU (ISAIAH) 32:4 את CEPHER







Isaiah 33:6




And wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of your times, and strength of yeshu`ah: the fear of Yahuah is his treasure. YESHA'YAHU (ISAIAH) 33:6 את CEPHER




Isaiah 40:14




With whom took he counsel, and who instructed him, and taught him in the path of judgment, and taught him knowledge, and showed to him the way of understanding? YESHA'YAHU (ISAIAH) 40:14 את CEPHER









Jeremiah 3:15




And I will give you pastors according to my heart, which shall feed you with knowledge and understanding. YIRMEYAHU (JEREMIAH) 3:15 את CEPHER
















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



1 Kings 9:27




And Chiyram sent in the navy his servants, shipmen that had knowledge of the sea, with the servants of Shalomah. MELEKIYM RI'SHON (1 KINGS) 9:27 את CEPHER




2 Chronicles 1:10




Give me now wisdom and knowledge, that I may go out and come in before this people: for who can judge this your people, that is so great? DIVREI HAYAMIYM SHENIY (2 CHRONICLES) 1:10 את CEPHER




2 Chronicles 1:11




And Elohiym said to Shalomah, Because this was in your heart, and you have not asked riches, wealth, or honor, nor את the life of your enemies, neither yet have asked long life; but have asked wisdom and knowledge for yourself, that you may judge my people, over whom I have made you king: DIVREI HAYAMIYM SHENIY (2 CHRONICLES) 1:11 את CEPHER




2 Chronicles 1:12




Wisdom and knowledge is granted unto you; and I will give you riches, and wealth, and honor, such as none of the kings have had that have been before you, neither shall there any after you have the like. DIVREI HAYAMIYM SHENIY (2 CHRONICLES) 1:12 את CEPHER




2 Chronicles 8:18




And Churam sent him by the hands of his servants ships, and servants that had knowledge of the sea; and they went with the servants of Shalomah to Ophiyr, and took thence four hundred and fifty talents of gold, and brought them to King Shalomah. DIVREI HAYAMIYM SHENIY (2 CHRONICLES) 8:18 את CEPHER




2 Chronicles 30:22




And Yechizqiyahu spoke comfortably unto all the Leviyiym that taught the good knowledge of Yahuah: and they did eat throughout the feast seven days, offering peace offerings, and making confession to Yahuah Elohiym of their fathers. DIVREI HAYAMIYM SHENIY (2 CHRONICLES) 30:22 את CEPHER




Ruth 2:10




Then she fell on her face, and bowed herself to the ground, and said unto him, Why have I found grace in your eyes, that you should take knowledge of me, seeing I am a stranger? RUTH (RUTH) 2:10 את CEPHER




Ruth 2:19




And her mother in law said unto her, Where have you gleaned today? and where wrought you? blessed be he that did take knowledge of you. And she showed her mother in law את with whom she had wrought, and said, The man's name with whom I wrought today is Bo'az. RUTH (RUTH) 2:19 את CEPHER













Job 34:2




Hear my words, O ye wise men; and give ear unto me, ye that have knowledge. IYOV (JOB) 34:2 את CEPHER




Psalm 119:66




Teach me good judgment and knowledge: for I have believed your commandments. TEHILLIYM (PSALMS) 119:66 את CEPHER




Proverbs 1:7




The fear of Yahuah is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction. MISHLEI (PROVERBS) 1:7 את CEPHER










Today I want to do something very interesting. I want to talk about what they never talk about in Bible schools and in seminaries. I have a degree in theology from a university, a very famous one here in America. I completed three bachelor’s degrees from that university all in four years. I obtained a master’s degree with honor, I’ve never heard any school, no seminary, no Bible school, make that statement. You see, they just don’t teach Kingdom theology. Matter of fact, the term is not even mentioned. And as I sat in my classes in university—four years studying theology—they made me read German writers, they made me read Catholic priests like Saint Augustine, they made me study commentaries by Calvin, John Wesley, they made me study the deep thinkers that dealt with eschatology and rapture and all this stuff, but no one talked to me about the Kingdom, and it’s the only message Yahusha preached.

So I am challenging all schools. I don’t care how famous they are. If you claim to be teaching and preparing people for the ministry, or for life, why don’t you focus on what Yahusha focused on, which is the Kingdom? So I call it the original purpose of Elohim. Let’s talk about theology a little bit because most of you—just like me—you are laymen. You are a business person, you are a retiree, you are an investor, you are a housewife, maybe a secretary, or maybe you are just a student—whatever you are. Big words like theology frighten you, so I thought it would be good to talk to you a little bit about some of these misconceptions about what things mean.

First of all, make this statement—write it down: Christianity is a religion. That is a very sad statement, but it’s true. If you ask anybody to name the first four great religions of the world, the answer would be Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism. In other words, Christianity is thrown in with the rest. If you look at a form that you have to fill out and it asks you, “What is your religion,” and there’s a blank, you’ll probably put Christianity because that’s what it is. You meet somebody from another religion and they say, “What religion are you,” what would you say? Christianity. You see, that’s what it is. So if Christianity is a religion, it’s important to define what a religion is because Hinduism is a religion too, Islam is a religion too. So if you are in that category, you are no different or better than them. This is why there are clashes between Muslims and Christians all over the world, because they are competing for the same market. They are religions. This is why the Hindus are burning Christian churches in different parts of Pakistan, and Muslims are burning Christian churches in different parts of North Nigeria, because they are all religions.

What is a religion? Write this down. A religion is the worship of a deity through a set of beliefs expressed through a set of rituals and customs and rites, producing a sectarian distinction on a unique group of people. That’s a religion. And that’s what you are if you are in a religion. If you are a Christian, or a Buddhist, or a Muslim, or a Hindu—that’s what you are. All of you are the same. You are simply a group of people who worship a certain deity.

The Muslims chose Allah. Allah is the god that the pagans worshiped in the land where Abraham was born. Abraham’s father and family group in the land of Ur worshiped a god of the moon and the stars—Allah was their god—and Elohim told Abraham, “Leave that place.” This is why when you look at Islam, the symbol of Islam is a moon and a star. They claim they worship your Elohim—ask them if it’s the same Elohim. Tell them, prove it.

So all religions worship a deity, and from that worship they get certain beliefs. The Muslims believe in their religion—they got their beliefs all worked out. Hinduism believe in their religion. Christians believe in their religion. Buddhism believe in their religion. Yoga believe in their religion. Mormons believe in them. Everyone got belief systems. So having your belief system is no big deal—everybody got them. Doesn’t make you better than them. So if you are a religion, you are already in trouble. You are in competition—that’s all.

And then that belief system produces what? Rituals. The Muslims’ ritual is—three times a day, they gotta find where the east is, and then they put their mat on the ground and they pray in airports, anywhere—they pray as a ritual. They’re supposed to face Mecca and pray. Christian ritual: we have to meet every Sunday morning, we have to have so few songs, we gotta have some testimony, we gotta have some offering, got a little sermon for 10 minutes, and then you have a little altar call—you go home. That’s our ritual. Hindus—they got to go to that temple, bow to six million gods, light an incense candle, burn it before the lord, cross their legs, and they gotta send their prayers up for a good harvest—ritual. You’re no different.

Our theologies must be checked. Customs and rites. Rites are important. Rites, for example—yes—all religions have rites. Sometimes you see the Hindus bathing in a certain river in India and they wash themselves in the water because that’s one of their rites of passage—they got to cleanse themselves. You got Judaism—they got to go bathe in a certain type of pool to wash themselves before they go into the synagogue—it’s all rites. Christians got rites, right? Says you’ve got to be baptized after you make a confession of faith—it’s a rite, a passage. Everyone have rites. It’s religion.

The worst part is the last part: all religions create a sect—a sect that distinguishes them from others—and this is where the fight comes. The fight comes when the sense of being different from you clashes. You know, if a Muslim build a synagogue right next to your church, I wonder how you would feel. And by the way, it’s coming to a town near you. It’s a different sect. Therefore they distinguish themselves by the way they dress. The Hindus dress differently, the Muslims dress differently, the Christians dress differently. I mean, what’s your problem? They wear their tie, you wear your tie—ain’t no different. Everybody got their little sectarian distinctions. It’s all religion.

Here’s the good news: a Kingdom is not a religion. I could go home now. I could quit. I’ll finish my lecture. A Kingdom is not a religion. Yahusha Ha’Mashiach never introduced a religion to earth. First of all, He never joined one. He was never a Pharisee. He was never a Sadducee. He was never a Herodian. He never was a member of the central council. He never submitted to Caiaphas the high priest. And He only went to the synagogue so He could expose His message.

The Bible actually said He went to the synagogue on the Sabbath day as was His custom. In other words, the word synagogue is important here. The word synagogue is actually pronounced synagogue. Synagogue means place; a gog means meeting. The synagogue was not a temple. It was a meeting place. There was only one temple in Judaism—it was in Yerushalayim. All the villages of those Jewish people had a synagogue, and the synagogue was kind of a replica idea of a community center because that’s where the people went on the weekends—Shabbat, Sabbath. And they went there not just to worship as people think. They went there because that was where the community met every weekend. If you wanted to know what’s going on, you go to the synagogue. It was like a center of media—like this, you know—explanation for news, what’s going on, you know. That’s why women and men went, because everybody wanted to know what’s happening. You go to the synagogue. And of course they would read the Torah in this community center because the whole life of the community was built on the laws of the Torah—that was really their political center.

Ha’Mashiach went there because everybody was there. He didn’t go there because He believed in what they were doing. It was called marketing. That’s why you advertise on TV—you go where the people are. The people in their houses with a remote. If Ha’Mashiach was here today, He’d want to be on CNN. Why? He want to get His message out: the Kingdom of Elohim is here. You go where the people are. He never joined the religion. As a matter of fact, the truth be told, His number one opposition was not sinners—it was religious people.




Because His message was completely opposed to what they taught. They’re the ones who instigated His trial. They’re the ones who called for His death—religious people. Think, think—how do we get like this?

Write this down: a Kingdom is a country. And this takes a very strong paradigm shift. To shift you from religion to country is difficult. To help you change your thinking from rituals to rights—R-I-G-H-T-S—is difficult. To change you from membership to citizenship is very difficult. Religion has members; countries don’t. Countries have citizens. And they’re completely different creatures. Members have no power; citizens have power. They got rights.

So if you are in a religion, you are already in trouble because you have positioned yourself to be completely powerless. Rituals keep you busy. Customs keep you busy. That’s why you go to the meetings all the time and you have programs all the time and you’re going through all these motions all the time, and yet you’re broke, sick, and depressed. Why? You get busyness but no power. The power comes from citizenship, not membership.

What is a Kingdom? It’s a country governed by a King with all the components of a nation. That’s why Yahusha’s message was difficult to understand because He was speaking to a community of people first who were ruled by religion. This is why His first word in His entire ministry—the first word He used—is in Mattithyahu 4:17. Make a note of that. His first public statement is Mattithyahu 4:17, and the first word of that statement is this word: repent. Repent means to change the way you think. He was attacking concepts first. He said, “The way you’re thinking is wrong. You have to change your thinking. Your thinking is corrupted. You think as a religion. You think in terms of rituals and customs and traditions. I come to give you something completely different. I come to give you the Kingdom of the Shamayim has arrived.” He says a country is here. It’s tough to teach there. So this is our challenge.

There we go. What we ended up with is a century of conflict. I want you to make a note of this: the theology of the 20th and the 21st century is not the principles of theology in the Bible. How’s that for a shock? I dare anyone to challenge me. Anyone watching this CD—call me, argue with me. As a daring statement: that the theology of the 21st century and the 20th century—the one you lived in and the one we just came to—the church in those centuries have produced the principles of the theology that are not in the Bible. Do you know why? Because they are products of Catholicism.

Don’t forget that a Protestant is a Catholic. Oh, there you go. I gotta explain that, right? Okay. The founder of Protestantism is a little Catholic priest whose name is Martin Luther. He’s a German. He lived in a monastery. He died as a Catholic priest. He never stopped being a Catholic priest. What he did was, he read the Bible himself one day. Now in those days, no one was allowed to read the Bible except the priests. People were not allowed to touch the Bible. It was illegal to read the Bible in the Catholic church. The Catholics believed that only the pope and the bishop had the will of Elohim—and they still believe that today—so the people were not allowed to even touch the Bible.

And Martin Luther one day—a little priest in that monastery—began to read the Bible himself, and he read Romaiym chapter 1 and he read verse 17. That’s all he did. And it said, “The just shall live by faith.” He read that and he realized that his church—the Catholic church—were actually justifying people by penitence. In other words, they had to come and give money and then to get their sins forgiven, and the Catholic priests would, you know, let them confess their sins before him, and then they would be free. And they had to pay penance—penance. They had to come, you know, and bring some offerings, and then it was kind of like buying your salvation. And he said, “This is amazing. This can’t be right.”

So he went to his bishop and he says, “I read this.” His bishop says, “What are you doing reading that?” And he said, “Something’s wrong with this.” The bishop says, “Are you crazy? We can’t talk about this.” Why? The whole machinery of Europe is built on penance, man. We the most powerful church with more money and even government. Brother, you can’t challenge Rome. And that’s how it began. He began to protest against—Protestant. He was brought on trial and he refused to recant, so he remained a Catholic priest in exile. He loved the Catholic church to his death. He was a Catholic.

A few years later, the king of England—his name was Henry the Eighth—they were all Catholics. All of Europe was Catholic. Henry VIII was a Catholic. He still is, even his grace. And Henry VIII had a problem with women. You all know the story about him. Henry was married eight times. He had eight wives. And his first wife that he had couldn’t bear him a son, and he wanted an heir to his throne because kings’ needs is to carry their legacy on, and his wife could not conceive. So he was in a dilemma. The Catholic church did not allow divorce—it’s against the Catholic laws. So he was a Catholic, and the king was actually the president over the Catholic church in England—he was the leader of the church. So what do you do? You need an heir. Your wife can’t conceive. Your kingdom is about to be lost because you can’t pass it on, and your religion says you can’t get a divorce.

So Henry decided, “I’m going to change this myself.” So he passed a new law. First he appointed his own bishop who he called his pope. He named him the Bishop of Canterbury. That’s the name of the little city that he established for the head of his church. And the Bishop of Canterbury became the pope of a fraction of the Catholic church controlled by Henry VIII. So even today, the bishop of England is a pope. That’s why they can’t get together with the Italian pope, with the pope in Rome, because they are in competition. This is the problem. Henry created his own pope and then told the pope what to do.

He told the pope to rewrite the theology and get permission for divorce. Of course, if someone hire you, you got to do what they say. So the British Canterbury wrote a new theological amendment, and divorce became possible. Every day he got rid of his wife, married another woman, and he called his church the British church—the Anglo-Saxon church. That’s Britain. That’s where we get the word Anglican from—Anglican. When they moved to the west became known as Episcopalian. They are all Catholic still.

So the creed of all western religions—Baptist, Methodist, Anglican, Pentecostal, Church of Elohim, Church of Elohim in Ha’Mashiach, Assemblies of Elohim, Charismatic—they are all Catholics. Check the creed of your church. Go read it: “We believe in Elohim the Father and Elohim the Son and Elohim the Ruach Ha’Qodesh, we believe in the Ruach Ha’Qodesh…” All that was written by the Catholic church. You don’t know your history.

Here’s my point. My point is, you think you are all right. A Protestant is simply a Catholic who believes you are saved by faith. And Anglican is simply a Catholic who believe you can get a divorce. Don’t complicate it. And Yahusha came and preached something completely different. The theology is wrong.

Write down this number two: the Kingdom concept is the foundation of all Scripture. If you don’t understand the Kingdom concept, I guarantee you will misinterpret the Bible.

Sometimes I feel so lonely out here by myself. Sometimes I ask Elohim, like the apostle Paul, “Why me? Why’d You do this to me?” I feel like a spectacle because I’m going to be attacked by everybody. How do I—I’m like a voice crying out all in the world by myself saying, “Don’t you get it? Go back and check it.” I’m not trying to impress you. I’m afraid for you, because you can live your whole life on a lie.




Yahusha told the Pharisees, “If I had not come and spoken to you the truth,” he would have an excuse. He said, “But because I have told you the truth that My Father gave Me, you will die in your sins.” He told that to the religious leaders of His day, and I’m saying the same thing today. You don’t need to believe me, please—just go back and read your Bible yourself. What you’re hearing in this room today, great prophets and righteous men wanted to hear and didn’t. The Kingdom of Elohim has come back. It has re-emerged, and you are alive to see it.

Write this down: the Kingdom concept—it is necessary for correct interpretation and application of Scripture. What I mean by that is if you don’t understand the Kingdom concept, you can never apply the principles in the text of the Bible correctly. I sit many times and listen to preachers preach, and because they don’t have the Kingdom concept, their conclusions and their applications are erroneous, and therefore they don’t get the results Elohim promised. You got to follow the right—not just instructions—but the right concepts to get the results promised by the manufacturer.

You turn to any page in the Bible—any page—and show it to me, I’ll find the Kingdom there. Any page.

Forty-three years of struggle. My father was a Baptist preacher—still is—but he sits in my church on the front row now taking notes. I grew up in a pew. I was a member of the Brethren church assemblies. I became a Baptist. Then I moved my mother to Pentecostal church, and I went to the Methodist, and then I went to the Church series of Elohim. I went to Church of Elohim. I’ve been to all that stuff—Anglican. My wife was a pure Anglican. We’ve been through all of this. So I’m not bashing religion—I’ve been in it. My father was a pastor. Some of y’all were pagans—you grew up on the block drinking liquor, man. I grew up in the choir.

I’m an expert at religion. I used to play the piano for the choir. I was a Sunday school teacher. So I’m speaking with authority here. I know what it isn’t.




I ran into Yahusha and He tripped me down, and when I looked up He says, “Get it right.” And I started reading Mattithyahu, Mark, Luke, and Yochanan for the first time in my life as a teenager, and I read them seven times in one sitting. I didn’t move the whole day, and Ha’Mashiach jumped up the page and I saw the Kingdom, and I became a revolutionary in my country at age 17. All the churches attacked me at age 17. I was in the papers every day. The pastors called me a cult. You can’t criticize me—it’s too late. When you get the Kingdom revelation, it’s impossible for you to be accepted by religious people, just like Yahusha. The message is so revolutionary, it shakes all the rites and customs and rituals of religion, but it’s the only one that’ll set you free.

Write this down the best you can: the Kingdom concepts are the main subject throughout Scripture. The Kingdom subject provides the foundation for understanding the motivation, purpose, plans, promises, and actions of Elohim. If you want to understand what Elohim is doing and why He’s doing it all through history, you have to understand the Kingdom concept. Elohim is a King. He’s not a prime minister. He’s not a president. He’s not a mayor. He said He’s a King. The concept of King doesn’t exist in America, so you begin at a disadvantage right away. You never lived under a king, so even the rules of kingship is unknown. Your democracy is completely opposite to a king. So if your concepts are democratic, how are you going to read the Bible properly?

So Ha’Mashiach says, “Repent.” What repent means: change the way you think. That takes a fearful transition. We are afraid to change our thinking because we are so comfortable with our thinking. We don’t want to disrupt our thinking, so we refuse the message. “Hey brother, I’m a Baptist—I’ll die a Baptist.” “And I’m a Catholic—I’ll die a Catholic.” That’s how people talk. “But I know what you’re saying is true, but brother, it’s too late.” “I’m a Seventh-day Adventist—I gotta get stabbed…” But I don’t see. And we got this whole block—this block—this hard, callous heart because it’s so frightening to change your thinking.

And yet the Bible teaches, “As a man thinks in his heart, so is he.” So you will never change into another man until your mind change. You can’t understand Elohim.

Number five: without the Kingdom concept, biblical understanding and theology is defective, and that’s where we are right now. I’m teaching with great respect, please. I’m not attacking any one of you, but I have to challenge your thinking—that’s my job. We have defective theology.

If I was to reveal some of the defects to you, you think I’m a heretic. For example, let me give you just one and then you’ll see that I’m a heretic. Watch this: Calvary is not the gospel. But you got me a heretic by saying that, because your whole church is built on Calvary. Yahusha never told us to preach His death. He told us to preach: “As you go, preach this message.” He says, “The Kingdom of the Shamayim has arrived.” Very specific instructions. Distinctive instructions. How can we miss this?

We close our eyes. Our eyes are not closed—we close them. We’re not blind—you know—we just closed them. Take a deep breath. Should I show you that in Scripture that we close our eyes? I better show that to you because you look at me really funny.

Turn your Bibles to the 13th chapter—13th chapter of Mattithyahu. Mattithyahu 13. Take a deep breath. Tell your neighbor something’s coming. Say, “Neighbor, hold on to your religion—you’re about to lose it.”




Chapter 13 of Mattithyahu is one of the most important chapters in the Bible. You should memorize it. In this chapter, Yahusha Ha’Mashiach is talking about the Kingdom. Mattithyahu 13—get the pen. I want you to underline some things here.

Verse 1: Yahusha went out of the house and sat by the sea. A great multitude of people came to Him, and He sat in the boat and told them to listen. So He’s about to teach them a big seminar. He’s in the boat sitting there, and they’re on the shore, so there’s probably hundreds of thousands of them—I don’t know—but He’s about to have this big class. It says in verse 3: then He spoke many things to them in parables. How did He speak? Okay—very important words—you know He spoke to them in parables. And He began—one of the parables was this: “Behold, the sower went out to sow.” So He’s explaining the Kingdom, but He’s using all kinds of symbols to explain the principles of it. He says the Kingdom of Elohim is like a sower who goes out to sow.

In those days, sowers—you know, farmers—they would sow by putting the seeds in a big basket, put it around their neck, and they walk through the fields. And the field was not like the fields today where you have big combines to level the field. They had fields with soils and rock. If you go to Yisra’el today, it is still the same way—rocky country. So they had to throw the seeds out over the rocks, and wherever there was a little soil between the rocks, if a seed fell there then the plant would grow. If it fell on rock it wouldn’t grow at all. If it fell on thin soil with a little bit of rock, it’ll grow up and then die. So the seeds are being thrown out and they land on different types of ground.

He’s teaching the Kingdom. Watch this.

And of course all of you notice the story—He talks about, you know, this different type of soil, and then He says one fell on good ground, and of course it bring forth—let’s just read that for some of you because some of y’all messed the Scripture up and preached about money, okay.

Mattithyahu 13:8. Read it. “But those that fell on good ground yielded a crop: some a hundredfold, sixty, thirty.” Okay. We use that to collect offerings. He ain’t talking about money. I want to prove it in a minute, but we use it as a gimmick because we don’t know the Kingdom. We manipulate people. Remember, we’re Catholics, okay? We know how to make money.

Verse 9: He ends it by saying, “He who has ears to hear, let him hear.” He who has ears—hear—say hear—let him hear.

Now, He spoke to all of them in parables. Remember that. Look at the next verse. Later on, His disciples came to Him and says, “Why do you speak to the people in parables? They are confused.” You see, He never spoke to the people plainly. Just tell them—why all these stories? And He answered them—now read verse 11—“Because it has been given to you to know the mysteries of the Kingdom of the Shamayim, but to them it has not been given.” He’s talking about the Kingdom—a country—but not given to them.

He says—that’s a whole new teaching altogether I could give you on that, but let me explain summary what he means: a parable is designed to conceal truth. Write it down. Parables are designed to hide truth until the listener is ready to receive it. Why? Because Elohim doesn’t waste seed.

Some of you are trying to convince your atheist brother about Elohim—you’re wasting your time. He ain’t ready yet. So just tell them stories. That’s what He means. These people, He says, they don’t want to hear the truth yet, but I’ll teach them the Kingdom in stories and I’ll leave the stories with them. And they go to their farms and their fishing companies and they take it with them, and then later the story will make sense and they’ll say, “Aha.” That’s what parables do. Parables allow you to discover truth for yourself. Why? Because nothing is really yours until you discover it.

Some people take my books and they read them and they try to preach my books—you don’t get it yet. You read the book until you say, “Aha.” Now it’s yours. That’s why you study. You study to make things yours.

He said it’s been given to you to know the mysteries, but not to them.

Now here’s a second explanation. He says only you I tell the plain truth to about the Kingdom, but to the people outside I say it in parables. Now what makes the group different from the people? Here’s the answer: Elohim does not volunteer information. This is important principle. Elohim only gives you what you want to know. He’ll only tell you what you want to know. He’ll only show you what you desire to see. He hides everything else. And this is why most people can’t see the Kingdom. Why? They don’t want to. He hides it. And that’s the purpose for a parable—to hide it. Why? Because Elohim only responds to hunger. Write it down. If you are hungry you’ll attract Elohim. If you really want to know something, Elohim will run to you.

You know, some years ago I was shocked. As a teenager, I’m reading the Bible and I got confused about two verses in the Bible. One verse says, “I am Yahuah Elohim, and I fill the earth. If you make your bed in She’ol, I am there. In the highest heavens, I am there.” I’m reading the verse and I’m thinking, Elohim is everywhere. And then I read another verse—confused me—it says, “You will find Me only if you seek Me, and that with your whole heart, then I’ll let you find Me.” I’m like, wait a minute—you everywhere, but then I gotta find You. Yes. What He’s saying is, I am everywhere, but I only reveal Myself to those who want to see Me.



Your cousin, your uncle, your brother, your sister—they are not atheists, they just ain’t interested yet. One lump in the breast and some colon cancer—they come look for you. You know, right now they got some money, they’re doing fine. One slap from the devil—they’ll run to you: “Please, where’s your Elohim?” And then Elohim—He reveal Himself to them. He said, “You’ll find Me if you seek Me with all your heart.” Not casual interest.

That’s why He said to you guys, I’m gonna tell you all plainly. Why? You left your business, your fishing company, your wives, your children, and you have come and attached yourself to Me. You are personally running after Me. You gave up everything for Me. I’m gonna tell you all everything. But then people—they’re interested—they just want fish and bread free. They come for miracles. They don’t come for the message. That’s the problem. Amen. HalleluYah.

You being in this conference—please don’t take this lightly. The Kingdom of Elohim is everywhere, but He says, “Seek first.” It doesn’t just show up in your life—you discover it. You gotta look for it. You coming here this morning, driving away from your house, your camper, your job—already made Elohim excited. When you entered that Glory Road Avenue there, Elohim was saying, “I’m so proud of you. I’m gonna teach you some stuff today,” because you abandoned some things to come learn the Kingdom.



Don’t take it lightly that you’re here. That’s why when you try to explain the Kingdom to your family they think you’re a foreigner. They really think you’re crazy because they can’t see it. He said, “I hide it from them.” He says, “You don’t believe Me? Read the next verse.” He says, “For whoever has, to him will be given more, and he will have abundance; but he who does not have, even what he has will be taken away.” He’s saying, look, if you ain’t got no interest, gotta make sure you never get it. But if you got a little interest, a passion for it, I’ll give you more.

He said, a lady came to me in Naples yesterday before we left. She said, “Dr. Munroe, when I first heard you speak on the Kingdom,” she said—matter of fact, this would be a good story for you, Pastor Phil, the Bible—she told me, she says they drove from Naples up here because they heard I was coming here and they saw one of my YouTube messages on the Kingdom. They never heard the Kingdom—very wealthy people. And she said she drove up here with a friend and came to Christian retreat—that’s where I was at the time—and she came in here and she said she sat in the back right where you’re sitting in the back there, and she sat and wept the whole session because her father—very wealthy, powerful, multi-millionaire—said to her as a daughter, “This Elohim thing ain’t real,” and he almost convinced his kids. And she said she knew there was something missing in my life, and she heard one session on YouTube that I taught on the Kingdom, and she made a decision: I gotta find that man. And she just so happened to receive a flyer that I was going to be here in Bradenton, Florida, and she made her way here—drove all those hours to get here—sat in the back. She said on—she said she had never heard such things about a Kingdom. She said it felt so sweet, it was so real. She said, “That’s what I’m looking for.” And then she said she was on crutches—she said, you know, she had broken her leg—she said she hobbled outside after the session and bought everything on the table—everything—spent almost eight hundred dollars. She went on, she said, with boxes and bags of the books on the Kingdom and books on relationships and books on marriage and books on leadership, and she said every CD on the table on the Kingdom. She said, “I bought it.” She said, “And for the next six months I soaked myself up.”

She now owns a hotel right on the water—beautiful hotel like the Ritz—she owns it. She’s not 40 years old yet. In the hotel she has what she called the Kingdom embassy. It’s a beautiful hotel. People, guests come—you know, beautiful hotel—but she has a place called an embassy, and every Sunday they tune in to our service live, and she got the guests coming in to get teaching, and then she teaches the Kingdom herself. And now they got a beautiful little community in that hotel expanding. I went to speak there for the first time two days ago.

I wonder if you get that kind of hunger for the Kingdom, or do you just run past and go buy lunch? “To him who has,” He says, “more be given.” She had a desire—Elohim give her all. Some folks ain’t got no interest—Elohim takes away the rest. He even takes away the interest.

Verse 13: He says, “This is why I speak to them in parables: because seeing they do not see, and hearing they do not hear, nor do they understand.” Verse 14: “And in them the prophecy of Yesha’yahu is fulfilled, which says: Hearing you will hear and not understand, and seeing you will see and not perceive; for the hearts”—that means minds—“the minds of these people are grown dull, hard.” “I’m a Baptist, I’ll stay a Baptist, I ain’t never gonna change.” He said, see, that’s the problem—hard mind. “I’m a charismatic, I’m a…” faith teacher—faith, faith—what about the Kingdom? “I’m a charismatic man of Elohim”—what about the Kingdom? Your mind is just as bad as the Catholics—callous, callous.

Verse 15: “Their ears are hard of hearing, and their eyes they have…” sorry, there it is: “Their eyes they have closed.” Underline. He doesn’t want you to see. He didn’t say they are blind—you know what’s amazing? He said what? “Their eyes they have closed.” When you close your eyes, you impose your own blindness. Imagine telling Elohim, “I appreciate that, but I don’t want to see it. I know what he’s saying is true. I can see it in the Bible. But brother, I gotta stay with my religion.” You’re closing your eyes. No wonder why you will die in your sin. He says self-imposed ignorance is the height of stupidity and foolishness. You don’t impose ignorance on yourself. They close their eyes.

He says, “Lest they should see”—in other words, we don’t want to hear what you’re saying, Dr. Munroe, because we’re going to change what we believe. It’s all there. “I don’t want to read your book.” Why? “You can make me leave my church.” I didn’t say that. That ain’t my decision. My job is to expose you to the Kingdom. They are afraid to see. Says because if they do, then their eyes will be opened, their ears will hear—watch this—and then they’ll have to understand, and their minds will understand it, and they’ll have to turn—read it—and then I’ll have to heal them.

Oh, Yahusha Ha’Mashiach says, I want to fix you, but I can’t fix you until you want to be fixed.




It’s too late for me. You can’t convince me to change this. I’m a Kingdom man—it’s too late.

Listen, I’m having a good time. I flew here in my own jet—never prayed for it—it parked right over there. And I don’t preach prosperity because it’s not the gospel. That stuff comes with the Kingdom. Oh boy, I’m in trouble again. Look at that face. See—halleluYah.

Let me give you a word that kingdoms have. I was born in the kingdom, okay? In 1954. So I know what I’m talking about. I lived in a kingdom until 1973. Write this word down: commonwealth. That word is a kingdom word. I was born in a commonwealth in 1954. Look at the word. It’s actually two words, isn’t it? What are the two words? Common wealth. In a kingdom, the wealth is common. That’s why you don’t talk about prosperity—everybody’s rich. Oh dear—too deep.

That’s why Yahusha Ha’Mashiach said, “Seek first the Kingdom of Elohim and His righteousness”—that means being in right standing with the government’s laws—“and all the things you need shall be added.” You don’t go pray, bind, loose for them.

That’s why Christianity has so much stress, man. You gotta—you gotta believe Elohim for a car. “Yahuah, I believe in You for a…” “Elohim, I’m believing in the name of Yahusha, I need a car…” Believe—that’s hard work—stress. That’s why most Christians are sick—stress. High blood pressure. Free radical cells in their bodies under stress create tumors. A tumor is a good cell that has been under stress and it begins to multiply uncontrollably. It’s called cancer. It comes from stress.

Ha’Mashiach’s first word to you: “Why do you worry what you will eat and what you will drink and what you will wear and how you will live?” He said, “Stop this. Only pagans do that.” He says, “Don’t—look now, there’s one right behind you. If you pray for food, you are a pagan.” Yahusha says, “Take a deep breath.” It’s important, you know, because you’ll choke if you don’t. We are not supposed to pray for clothes—we’re in the Kingdom. The King is responsible for His citizens. In a democracy, the citizens responsible for themselves. Two different thinking altogether.

So when you ask Elohim for money and food, you insult Him because you are telling Him He’s a negligent King. So what does He say? He says, “Take no thought of these things.” He says, “Don’t even think about food and clothing. Don’t insult Me.” He says what? “Because your Father knows what you need.” Help. He says—Mattithyahu 6—all this in Mattithyahu 6. Either all you supposed to do is seek to get into the Kingdom—seek it, study it, pursue it, understand it, go after it, make it your passion—get into it, understand that. He says, and everything will be added to you.

Thank you, Yahusha. Someday I’ll come back and teach on faith. I’ll really show you what faith is used for in the Bible. It was never used to get clothes and car and house. Faith is used to move mountains—that means things that are in the way. It’s to curse trees that don’t bear—not to get things. You live by faith in the Kingdom of Elohim—it’s your currency. You believe what the King says and the King does what He promises—that’s faith. But if you’re going to use faith in the Kingdom, He pointed at mountains. Want to get a meal? The meal comes with citizenship.

HalleluYah. Lift your right hand. Say, “Yahuah, I repent. I change my mind. I will never worry again about my life—what I will eat, what I will drink, what I will wear, how I will live. I surrender everything to You. I am Your servant. I am Your citizen. I am under Your government. The Kingdom of Elohim is my jurisdiction. I receive protection, provision from my King from this day forward. I have peace, love, and joy in the Ruach Ha’Qodesh. This is the Kingdom. Welcome home.”

Yo.




Oh, let me just finish this before we go get 13. I want to show you something. Look at verse 16. Take a deep breath. These last two verses are the important ones. Then He begins to talk about you in the verse—that’s the ones who are here this morning. He says, “Blessed are your eyes, for they see, and your ears, for they hear; because assuredly I say to you that many prophets and righteous men desired to hear what you are hearing and to see what you are seeing and they didn’t hear it.” He made you more important than Mosheh, Yirmeyahu, Yechezqel, Dani’el, Yoseph, Iyov, Amos, Ovadyah, Yonah, Miykah, Chabaqquq. He said they wanted to hear what you hear today. What were they hearing? About the Kingdom.

You don’t believe me—read the next verse. “Therefore let Me explain the parable to you.” He says—I like that statement. Ha’Mashiach didn’t explain many of His parables. This one He did. So please, pastors, don’t invent messages from this passage. Don’t make up sermons that He didn’t say. Don’t use this to raise money. He’s about to explain the Kingdom—the parable.

Now remember that it’s about what? Sower, sown, seeds, seeds falling in different places, etc. So He said, “Let Me explain to you what the problem is.”

Verse 18—verse 19 rather. Go: “When anyone hears the message about what?” The Kingdom. So what’s the parable about? The message about the Kingdom. “And doesn’t understand it fully, the devil himself comes to snatch it away.” Now you begin to understand the devil is so afraid of this message, the minute you hear it he comes to snatch it away. Now you know—you Assemblies of Elohim brother—don’t get caught up in that. I mean, on your way out the door he tells you that snatching.

Read the verse again. Verse 19: “When anyone hears the message about the Kingdom and does not understand it fully, then the wicked one comes to snatch away what was sown in his heart.” Heart—mind. “This is he who received the seed by the wayside.” And he goes on to talk about the fact that there are these two different groups—in every group when you read the whole chapter it says the seed is the message of the Kingdom, not money. And the soil is the minds of the people. Some will get it, some will hate it, some will refuse it, some will get excited and it’ll die and they’ll go back to their own ways—four different groups. And every group I speak to—that’s what He’s talking about. And He says the devil is after all of them to snatch that message away from them, because the devil knows if you ever capture the Kingdom message he can never control you again. HalleluYah.

That’s why I’m glad you’re here, my brother. You know, you’ve been in church for a long time—you and your wife been in church all these years, hundred—you know, 50, 60 years—and Elohim says, you know, at the end I want you to get the right one. He says, and He brought you here. He don’t want you to retire with the wrong thing.

Nicodemus was an old man and he was the pastor of the synagogue all his life. Pastor came by night to Yahusha. His question: how can I enter this Kingdom? That was his question. Ha’Mashiach was 30 years old—young fella just like me—young. “Are you going to be Pastor Miles? You know, I’m 70 and you young friend.” Yes—56, you know—you, uh, but tell me something—teach me this, please.

See, in order to keep your rituals, the Kingdom challenges your history. You got two choices: open your eyes wide and go look for it, or close your eyes and say, “I wasn’t at the conference. I don’t know what you’re talking about. I wasn’t—I didn’t hear a thing.” You got a choice: either go and seek it, or pretend it never existed, and you go back to your washing your hands.

Tonight we’re going to talk about ideas because theology is about ideas. That’s why you use the word ideology. What are the source of your ideas you believe? Where you get them from? Henry VIII, pope, Calvin, Matthew Henry, Martin Luther—where’d you get them from? Saint Augustine. The source of your ideas is the source of your ideology. Your ideology becomes your theology. Your theology becomes your philosophy. Your philosophy becomes your life. And there you have it. So if your ideas are wrong, your whole life is wrong.

Ready for this: and the word for ideas in Hebrew is the word word. In the Greek it’s the word dabar. And thus it says, “In the beginning was the word”—idea—“and the word was with Elohim and the word was Elohim. All things were made by dabar”—Elohim’s idea—“and Elohim’s idea became flesh.” So Ha’Mashiach was Elohim’s original idea coming back to earth. When an idea is exposed, it’s called a word. Prove it: you don’t know what I’m thinking till I speak. So Ha’Mashiach is called the word. He’s Elohim’s idea expressed. That’s why He is called dabar. So whatever He says is Elohim’s idea, and His first statement: “Repent, for the Kingdom of the Shamayim has arrived.” Have a good lunch today. His ideas.