Drawing Down God’s Kingdom to Earth | Tony Evans Highlight

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we’re living in a world today that wants

to impose human rules on God’s house and

you are seeing the repercussions when

little old puny men wants to impose our

rules on the king there’s going to be

disruption in house on every issue of

life you want to ask the question oh

King what’s your rule in this house

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amen your Kingdom Come verse

10 your kingdom come now if you’ve been

here for any amount of time the word

kingdom is probably driving you

nuts because we Kingdom ISE

everything God’s concern the whole Bible

only has one subject the glory of God

through the advancement of his kingdom

he talks about it a million different

ways but that’s the only subject in in

the Bible his kingdom the Greek word p

basilia Kingdom means rule or

authority and so he says when you pray

to your daddy you pray that his kingdom

comes that is that heaven enters

history because he’s your father in

Heaven and you’re praying for the

kingdom his sphere of

rule is being made

manifest on Earth

now don’t miss this because you have to

understand that since Kingdom means rule

he wants to be in

charge he wants to be in charge of your

life he wants to be in charge of your

program he wants to be in charge of your

finances he wants to be in charge of

your decisions he wants to be in charge

of your relationships he wants to be in

charge because he wants to manifest his

kingdom his

rule when when you come in when you come

into my house on an Earthly standpoint

or I come into your house we are coming

into each other’s Kingdom I mean men

will say in a moment I’m king of my

castle they be lying but they be

talking but you come into my realm my

sphere of

rule now once I come into your house or

you come into my house there is an

obligation to follow your rules amen I

mean because it’s your

house so in my house I don’t have

astrays so you can’t

smoke I don’t have liquor

glasses so Jack Daniels is

unwelcome and Hennessy must stay

outside if you come into my house I’mma

correct you if you use profanity I don’t

allow profanity in my house okay if you

coming into my house with your your

boo you’re going to be sleeping in two

separate rooms if I let you stay

over now you might say but but that’s

not how I roll but you ain’t in your

house you in m and once you come into my

kingdom my rules rule amen

now the problem is the whole world is

God’s

house the Earth is the Lord is the

fullness thereof the world and all they

that dwell in it he said it’s my

house so I set the

rules and your job is to adjust to my

rules that’s right which may not be your

rules it may not be how you were raised

it may not be how you feel it may not be

what you think it may not be what they

taught you in school but this is my

crib and so you ought to pray When you

pray that my rule becomes

manifested thy kingdom come one of the

reasons we don’t see more of God is

we’re trying to POS impose Our Kingdom

on

him you all know what this is when you

have teenagers who want to build their

own kingdom in your house

they want to set up their rules while

they eat your

food I told y’all about

Crystal she shaking her head no but I I

got to tell you cuz one of the reasons

God give preachers his kids is for

illustrations

so Crystal is the intellectual one in

the family and you know she’s she’s kind

of the smart one oh excuse me now I

didn’t mean that Priscilla but she she’s

kind of you know she’s the intellectual

one you know and so she’s one day she’s

she’s arguing with me she’s she getting

a little sedid she getting a

little disagree and then so in the midst

of the

disagreement she

decides to walk

off

hello she decided to walk off

so I’m saying where you

going she said to my

room that needed some

correction she’s going to my room I let

her

sleeping cuz it’s my

house but some of you parents know what

it is when teenagers want to set up

their own kingdom in your house and

ain’t paying bill number

one we’re living in a world today that

wants to

impose human rules on God’s

house and you are seeing the

repercussions of what happens when

little old puny men mankind wants to

impose our rules on the king there’s

going to be disruption in

house

so your question is on every issue of

Life the kingdom ofenda is the visible

demonstration of the comprehensive rule

of God over every area of life you want

to ask the question oh King what’s your

rule in this house

amen this is your

house and our prayer to Daddy is that

your kingdom

comes that you be made visible your rule

will be be made visible you enter enter

the kingdom through

conversion you experience the kingdom

through

surrender when you accept Christ you

enter the kingdom when you come under

his

authority then you get to experience the

Kingdom so many Christians don’t

experience the kingdom because they

entered it but haven’t surrender to

it and if there’s not the surrender you

can be a rebellious kid in the

house or a rebellious culture in the

house now I will agree there is an

adjustment to this

house Different

Strokes Arnold and

Willis two kids from Harlem has now been

brought into the house of Philip

Drummond Philip Drummond is living life

Lodge there from the

hood now they’re in a new kingdom cuz

they’re in Drummond’s house but they

brought their Hood with

them so we’ve laughed when we watch

Different Strokes as Mr Drummond is

trying to make them sadid and

sophisticated and they’re bringing their

old ways with them and they have to go

through this ad judgment to their new

location

when you came to Christ you entered into

another

house but we bring our old stuff with

us and so God often has to bring things

in our lives to let us know that’s not

accepted in his

house thy kingdom

come the rule of God is the cry that is

his program and it Demands a priority

because he says thy will be done so

there is a paternity the father there is

the program the kingdom and then there

is the priority his

will that’s a hard

one merging onto the highway of God is a

problem we all know what it is to merge

onto a a Highway and sometimes it’s easy

and sometimes it’s

hard to merge onto a

highway to get on to the root where

things are

going God is going for his kingdom and

to do that there must be the priority of

his will that’s why he says seek ye

first the kingdom of God in Matthew 6:33

uh the idea is to merge on to where he

is

going now let me remind you that there

are two categories of

will there is the conditional will of

God and there is the unconditional will

of

God the unconditional will of God is

what he’s going to do regardless amen

regardless of whether you pray or not

regardless of whether you obey or not

regardless of of anything he’s decided

to make a sovereign decision to do

something in other words no condition

are attached to it he just says this is

what I’m going to

do that’s

tough when what you’re asking him to do

is not what you’re praying

for not what you’re asking for not what

you’re Desiring not what you’re wishing

not what you’re fasting for this

unconditional Sovereign will of

God but then there is the conditional

will of

God these are the things God will only

do if you meet the

conditions which typically boil down to

prayer and

obedience if the conditions are not met

and it’s his conditional will then he

won’t do it although he would have done

it James 4:2 says you have not because

you ask not because so you didn’t you

didn’t pray about it you didn’t pursue

and pray about it I was going to do it

you know there is over a billion

dollars of gift cards that go

unused every year over a billion dollars

of gift cards that go unused how many

prayers have gone unanswered because we

didn’t cash

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in there is the conditional will of God

where when you meet the conditions he

responds in his own way in his own time

but he responds because you’ve met the

conditions if it’s the unconditional

will he’s going to do it because he’s

made a sovereign decision like it or not

that this is what is his desire for

whatever this situation is so I will be

honest with you personally and I want

you to be aware of this that The

Sovereign unconditional will of God

sometimes hurts amen

amen The Sovereign unconditional will of

God sometimes hurt particularly when he

doesn’t bother to explain

it the Bible is full of things that God

has done that he didn’t he never

explained to job why his life was turned

upside down in 24

hours he never told him job ends the

book with him knowing nothing about what

happened in chapter one that’s right

something was happening up there that he

had no knowledge of because God in an

unconditional decision that he will only

have to explain in eternity I decided

this now for this reason and I decided

not to tell you but we shouldn’t be that

surprised because all of us as parents

do that with our kids amen make

decisions that we don’t bother to

explain and all we say is cuz I said so

cuz I said

so that is his unconditional

will but there is his conditional

will you say but how do I know the

difference you

don’t that’s why the Bible says pray

about all

things because you don’t know which ones

are conditional or unconditional unless

it’s expressly stated you don’t know so

you pray about all things that’s why

Paul can say in 1 Thessalonians 5:17

pray without ceasing because he says

bring everything to God amen

amen because you don’t always know which

one is

which Ephesians 1: 10 and 11 God says he

does all things after the counsel of his

will his goal is to get his will done

now he can do it with you or without you

God will always reach his goal the

question is will you be a participating

party in him getting there cuz he can

skip you and go to somebody else he’s

never God has never locked down to you

or me so that’s why you can never become

prideful right you know you can be

blessed but you better not get be of

Diddy with

it okay Nebuchadnezzar he said this is

the great Babylon with J if you ever

hear me say this is the great o cliff

and in the word I come after that stop

me before I go crazy

okay you never become prideful CU then

you join the devil in his pride for

Rebellion against God thinking of

yourself more than you ought to think

that affects not only how we relate to

God but how you relate to other people

you’re not better you may just have

more so God is after his will he wants

us to give him the keys to the car of

Our

Lives because like a drunk driver we

stagger with our lives in our decisions

we stagger we we stagger we think we

going right but we going left and we you

know we stagger so we need somebody

behind the wheel of the car of Our Lives

that knows where he’s

going

yes so there is the paternity he’s your

daddy there is the program his rule

there is the priority he wants to do his

will but the Lord’s Prayer is divided in

the two halves those first

things have to do with

God his name his program his

priority but now he switches to us

because the the next three things have

to do with us so he’s not forgotten you

he just wants you and me to be in our

proper

place after

him so paternity program priority now he

comes through

provision verse 11 give us this day our

daily

bread or to put it on another way as

you’ve heard me say a million times only

God is your

Source One

Source on all

matters only God your father is your

Source everything else is a

resource is a means that God uses and he

can change resources that that the

beautiful thing about that is that means

that nobody can own

you nobody can own you because nobody is

your

Source God can replace things people

times changes circumstan he can do it

suddenly he can do it gradually so only

God is your

Source God Is So comprehensive in his

sourcing that he even uses bad things to

accomplish his Good Will amen

that’s he uses the

devil that’s

right to accomplish his will he uses the

sin of other people to accomplish his

will he took an unclean bird to feed the

Prophet

Elijah All Through the Bible God is

using things that are for him and using

things that are against him cuz he going

to get where he want to go even if he

has to use bad to get there

but he is your

provider notice the

word daily is twice in this verse he

says give us this day our

daily bread that’s physical

provision give us this de day our daily

bread your daddy wants to be so involved

with your life that he wants to be

involved in your life on a day-by-day

basis amen not a week by- week Sunday

morning worship

scenario says it twice this is I want

your daily dependence on me that’s why

he fed Israel in the wilderness with

manner day by day why to keep them

dependent

see the problem the blessing in America

is that we have a lot the blessing the

curse in America is that we have a

lot cuz we don’t have to most of us

don’t have to think about daily bread

because we got weekly and monthly

freezers and when we got weekly and

monthly freezers you don’t think about

daily bread because you already know you

got the bread for today tomorrow next

week you got it you got the grocery

store up the street you know when you

could afford

it

so we don’t think about daily

dependence until something goes

wrong right that’s right till something

goes wrong then all of a sudden God is

real important now I don’t need I need

him

today he wants that to be a habit that’s

right