Hidden Elijah's And Melchizedek's Of The Kingdom (Part 4) - Rod Mills

God is calling us to be hidden Elijahs, a part of the remnant set apart for God, whose hearts are fully devoted to Him. 
Dr. Mills discuss the concept of being a king and a priest in the body of Christ, emphasizing that it's not the end of our calling but the beginning. Prayer and obedience in this priestly calling, interceding between God and people in both directions, is critical.
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​And we are continuing a series some of you forgot we were in this series, we are continuing the series on the hidden Elijah's in the Melchizedek of the kingdom. So if you thought we were done now, I know if you listen to the last teaching in August, you didn't think we were done because we were, we had more to go. Since it's been a while for the sake of those who are here, what I'll do is I'll do a brief review. And I'll do what you guys know I call a braided review, because what I'll do is I'll do a review of what some of the things we talked about. Not a lot, but just in the last session, but I'll expand on it some. So we looked at a few key scriptures on Melchizedek, and the priesthood of Melchizedek. And the writer of Hebrews contrast and compares their priesthood of Melchizedek, to the priesthood of Levi. And they're very different, because Jesus has called a priest after the order of Melchizedek. And so the writer of Hebrews tells us about that we talked about it in our last sessions. And I read several scriptures from Hebrews chapter seven. And one of them was in verse 11. He says, Therefore, if perfection were through the Levitical, priesthood, for under it, the people received the law What further need was there than another priests should rise, according to the order of Melchizedek, and not be called according to the order of Aaron, and we looked at how Jesus is in the order of Melchizedek, to the main difference. Now there are several differences. But the main difference between the order of Levi and the order of Melchizedek is that the order of Melchizedek is both a priestly function and a kingly function. That's why Peter says, You talking to believers who are in the priesthood, after the order of Melchizedek, after Jesus we are in his order. He says, You are a royal priesthood, because the priesthood that Jesus has entered into, after the order of Melchizedek, Melchizedek, was both a priest and a king, that is king of Salem, which at the time was a small village, Salem being Jerusalem, that was the beginning of Jerusalem, or I don't know about beginning but the early years of Jerusalem. And then I want to read again, just to review, verses 14 through 17 of chapter seven. He says, free it is evident that our Lord arose from Judah, talking about Jesus and his lineage, his earthly lineage, of which tribe Moses spoke nothing concerning priesthood. And it is yet far more evident, if in the likeness of Melchizedek, there arises another priest, who has come, now listen to this, not according to the law of a fleshly commandment. So the order of Levi came by a law from Moses, which came from God by a what he calls a fleshly commandment, he says, but according to the power, excuse me, of an endless life, for he testifies. This is a prophecy of Jesus, you are a priest forever, according to the order of Melchizedek. And he's prophesying from David in the Psalms. according to Hebrews 716, the Levitical priesthood was fueled, that is resourced that is given authority and power by a fleshly commandment. Now, a fleshly commandment is a natural what he means is natural commandment. It's a commandment that came by God to the Levites and says, This is according to your family and your tribe, you will be the priests of the nation of Israel. But the Melchizedek in priesthood is fueled by the power of an endless life that is literally it is fueled and resourced in the power, the eternal power of God, not just a commandment that will last for this short life here on the earth or in this temporal age. So one priesthood is attained. impro priesthood, and one priesthood is an eternal priesthood. And we see that Melchizedek entered into this in some type or some form, but the true priest, high priests is what the Scripture calls him in Hebrews. The scripture says Jesus is the great high priest of the Melchizedek priesthood. Now, I asked you guys a question. Is there one priest in a priesthood? Or are there many priests in a priesthood? Many, the whole idea of priesthood, when you add that word hood, is that there's more than one priests. And so the Melchizedek and priesthood is not something where Jesus is the only priest. It's something where Jesus is the great high priest of the Melchizedek priesthood, so that we walk in that order after Jesus after Melchizedek. This power begins with Jesus, this authority begins with Jesus, and it continues into his people who will walk in this priesthood. Now, just because someone was a Levite, didn't mean they entered into the priesthood. In other words, they may be of the tribe of Levi, but the question is, did they enter into the profession of priests did they walk in that priesthood? So it's important to recognize that we can't just cite our heavenly citizenship and our Melchizedek and priesthood, we have to walk in the order of which God called us in that. So this power, I'm talking about him, because the deck and priesthood and its concurrent authority, this is important, does not wait to work in us when we get to heaven, even though it's eternal, it begins. Even now in our lives, it has begun God, we'll look at this in a moment in the scriptures. This eternal power works in our bodies, it works in our souls, it works in our spirits, even now, we do not just think differently. In other words, this is not just about thinking eternally. We are of eternal substance and of heavenly authority today, as God's people, if you have given your life to Jesus Christ, you've been baptized into the body of Christ, and you have repented from your sins. You are in the order of Melchizedek. priesthood, by divine right, do you see what I'm saying? You are born into it by spiritual birth by divine right. This is the privilege of all of his saints. And that's why as Peter said, You are a royal priesthood. Now, most of you will say, Rod, you're not really telling me anything, I don't know. Hopefully, the Holy Spirit will open our eyes to see some things that maybe we have not seen before or seen as clearly. A scripture that we quote a lot, is Ephesians chapter two, verse six. Let's read that. Paul says to the Ephesian believers, that God has raised us up together, and made us sit together in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus. The tense in this Greek Virg verb that God has done. This is called the Aerosoft tense of the word in it literally means in simple action in the past. Hmm. Simple action in the past. Now, let's read it again. God raised us up together. So this is a mystery to us. Because most of us are still alive in our mortal bodies. I'm not sure I know anybody walking around in their glorify body.


Oh, yeah. Thank you. Janae. All right. So now let's read this again, though. Now, this is really a mystery guys. God says it Paul says God raised us up together. And yet, even now we are not yet in the resurrection are we? This is the mystery of what is and what shall be. And so many things we will see in the Scriptures when it's a promise that will happen. Those writers of Scripture sometimes will write it in past tense that it's already done. It's literally been performed by the Lord before it happens. And I have good news to you and me. God has raised us up together in him even before it happens. He has already done it. Now there are some who are raised up into the heavens and they have passed on from this mortal body but still, they have not been resurrected into their mortal body as we understand it. But according to Paul, he says, God has raised us up together and past tense, made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus. So now we see a spiritual authority, that we are seated with Christ in heavenly places. Now we understand that Christ that Jesus sits on a throne, his throne, right. So when you come into the presence of the Lord, and he says, you're seated with Christ, and actually there are passages, I did not come prepared to share them, where Jesus talks about sharing his throne. Now, that doesn't mean that Jesus, as far as I understand, I'm pretty sure everybody will agree with me, I That doesn't mean Jesus is gonna go, I'll tell you what, I'm going to take a vacation for a week in heaven and hear you sit on the throne. I don't think that's going to happen. However, I do think that Jesus wants to share his authority, not in a way where we are in higher authority, but we were under his authority. Those of you who've spent years in the military know that when you were when you were put in charge, you were given a delegated authority from higher authority. It wasn't made up authority, that authority was given to you in delegation. And so we understand that this will happen in the heavens, only that authority is much greater. So this is a mystery, it's very difficult to understand. And I think of it like this is an illustration to help you kind of see, maybe this might help you, I think of it like those in royalty many years ago, who ascended to the rights of a throne when they were still children. So we use the throne illustration, because we're a royal priesthood, this king like authority, that's why I'm using it as illustration. So they did not really know what they were doing. And they really had very little wisdom or understanding compared to what they would have later on. But their childhood did not negate their rightful place, or their ascendant authority, they still carry the Divine Right of king or queen. Now we understand this is just a natural thing that's made up in the earth, but it represents something that's very real in the heavens. And that is, and I often look at it this way. And this is just my image, I don't know if this is the way it's gonna work. But even the most I look at it as like, man, you get even the most mature Christians, you know, like the Billy Graham's or somebody I don't know. But people walk with God, and they serve the Lord all their lives, and they have a lot of history and God, and they show up into heaven on the first day, and there's a congratulatory acceptance and a welcoming. And then you look around, and you realize, man, I'm still pretty Junior compared to some of these people who've been here in God for a long time. Now, hopefully, we won't still be in diapers. But sometimes I wonder, you know, like, are we going to be in the infancy of our spiritual authority? Now, I believe that we can grow greatly in that on the earth. But I want to just I want to share what I believe as a warning. And I as, as I understand it, from my heart, I believe this is from the Lord. Some people treat their call, and the work of Christ that makes them a king and a priest, as sort of the end all of their calling. In other words, they're, I'm a king and a priest. I mean, we've heard people quote, that I'm seated with Christ in heavenly places. And I don't believe that his calling in the divine right he gives us is the end all, it's the beginning. It's actually the beginning of our calling. So being a king and a priest, is not an end in and of itself. In other words, God did not give you like, let's use another illustration. Let's say that you're a police officer, or you're a law enforcement officer. They don't give you that badge so that you can go down here to Walmart or King Soopers, pull your badge out and go, I'm a police officer, you know, or I'm a sheriff or Alma this or I'm a, they don't, but yet, sometimes as believers, we see people kind of, you know, I don't I'm not criticizing the fact that they're acknowledging it, but maybe the fact that we focus too much on the badge or what was given to us instead of the purpose of why it was given to us. So we have a lot of military in our community, your former retired military, so this might ring a bell. It's like someone being commissioned as an officer in the military. And from that moment forward, they quote there commissioning as an officer, when someone asked him their position or authority, I'm a commissioned officer. Oh, you know, kind of like we say, I'm a king and a priest Romsey you would Christ and Emily Play, and someone says something go, praise God. I'm a commissioned officer. Now stick with me on this. I know it's a little hokey, but stick with me. There are many people in the kingdom who will prevent profess their status based on Ephesians, two, six. But if they do little with it, if they do not exercise it and walk in it, get this in 50 years, they're still second lieutenants, where they started when they could have been for Star generals. Y'all see what I'm saying. In other words, are calling in the authority that's given to us as kings and priests as the Melchizedek and call to be a royal priesthood to God to be priests who intercede and people who take authority over the domain, God has called us our own lives. God did not call us just to quote our commissioning, or just to quote Ephesians, two, six, or just to say, I'm, I've been commissioned, it's actually to use the commissioning. So that 50 years, and now while or 50 years from now, we're not still a butter bar and the kingdom going well, I'm a coming in, I'm afraid that's happening with some people. And I don't mean to be critical, My desire is that everyone would grow into priestly in kingly authority that God has given them. I believe, this is my opinion. And this opinion is formed by a whole lot of scriptures in my life that I just have regurgitated and thought much about, I believe there will be many Christians in the coming age, who will be deeply shaken in eternity, by how simple it really was, to become people of greatness in the heavens, and the new creation. But they, in this life didn't take it seriously. And I also believe that it's way more simple than we think it is. There's a lot of people who don't take it seriously because they have this idea in their minds and hearts, that I need to be Billy Graham, or that I need to be and they fill in some blank as somebody that leaves some big organization. And yet, there's no scripture that tells us that, right? There's no, there's not the scriptures have continually highlighted people who are faithful to God in the secret places in the places where no one's noticing, and God raises them up. And we know about them today. But people didn't know about them back then. And we covered a whole lot of those people earlier in this series. So Paul tells us that a glory will be given to them, but it will be vastly different than a glory that's given to others. All right, you guys tracking with me? Can you think of a scripture? How about First Corinthians 15, Paul says in verse 41, there is one glory of the sun, another glory of the moon, another glory of the stars, for one star differs from another star in glory. So also is the resurrection of the dead. Now, you guys, I don't think we have any astronomers in our spiritual community or stretched out on zoom here. But guys, you know, there's a huge difference between the Sun and the Moon. The Sun does not give off any light. I mean, I'm sorry, the moon does not give off any light in and of itself, it only reflects the light that comes from the sun. Now we, in our in our solar system, the sun is glorious, but man, there are stars that are extraordinarily more brilliant than the sun.


Paul uses this example, to tell us that there is a different glory for each one in the eternal heavens. And so, if you look at the moon, without the sun's reflection, the moon is just a ball of dust. There's no nothing emanating from it in and of itself. It's quite different than many of the stars of the heavens. So what am i What are we saying that this calling that we've been talking about the Melchizedek order of being kings and priests, the the royal priesthood, because Melchizedek was both a priest and a king is a calling that God is calling us to enter into now that will prepare us for our future callings. But what God is developing in our hearts right now is very essential to that next calling in eternity to be a priest in the present tense. What does that mean? It's to be a people of prayer and obedience. Now you say rod, why do you To connect prayer and obedience to being a priest, because priests are intercessors, what is an intercessor? an intercessor is someone who intercedes between God and people. It's someone who steps in and intercedes. So going to God for the people, what do we call that? We call that prayer, right? When we go to God, on behalf of people in intercession, this is called prayer. When we go to people on behalf of God, what do we call that? So if you go to people on behalf of God, what is that call? Now I'm using an overall word, obedience. Now it's, so for example, right now I'm doing I'm teaching, I'm seeking to obey God in what he called me to do. So today, I seek to come to you as your fellow servant, as your brother in Christ, I seek to come to you on behalf of God. What I'm seeking to do, is the truth that's in his heart that's in His Word, to be brought to us in a greater fullness in some way today. So literally, this is the work of an intercessor. What I'm doing right now is the work of an intercessor. It is to intercede between God and man. So there's two directions. One is to intercede on behalf of people before the Lord, we've all done this. And it's the other priestly function is to intercede on behalf of God to the people. So intercession runs in both directions. And that's why we say prayer and obedience. I used to teach my kids when they were young, and old, that you only have to do two things to succeed in life. It's really this simple. Pray, and obey. That's it. Because if you pray and obey, you're hearing God, and you're doing what he's saying to do. Now, that is way harder than it's very easy to say it's way harder to do, right? But that's really summing it up is to pray and obey. And we have to have faith to do that. All right, let me find my place here to be a king in the present tense. So that was priest, what is it to be a king right now? What does it mean, to be a king in the present tense, it's to rule and reign with Christ in faithfulness. You see with the Lord. He didn't ask you to go out and be famous. You might end up being famous. He didn't ask you to go out and try to become rich. He didn't ask you to try to create a massive organization, most of the time for most of us. God simply says, Are you being faithful with what I gave you remember the parable of the talents? The guy who had two talents, he made four talents, the guy who had five talents, he made five more talents, 10 talents, and that is where the Lord says, Well done, good and faithful servant. That's what God's asking from us. He's not asking you to see how much you could do for him. He's asking you, were you faithful with what I asked you to do. Now, that should take a big load off your shoulders right there. Because the enemy wants you to feel like God has so much. He has such high expectations. His standards are so high. He is so hard. Does this ring a bell? In the scriptures? Do you remember somebody using this kind of language? Remember, the guy with one parable, or may start with one talent in the parable, he goes in buries his talent. And he goes, Lord, I knew your hard man. In other words, Lord, your standards are so high, and it's almost unattainable. Yours, you're so high, I just went and buried it because I didn't want to lose it. I wanted to have it here for you. The enemy wants you and I to feel like the burden of what God expects of you is so high. And it is so hard that you can't even do it. Well, it's true. You can't but we can in the grace of God, in the grace of God makes it much easier than you think it does. And it may not always be easy, but it is simpler than we think it is. It really is that simple. And that's why I think there's gonna be a lot of people shaken when they get to heaven. And a lot of them are going to be like, I remember one brother had a vision of heaven. And he said he saw people coming into heaven, and they just got there and they just fell down on their new on their knees, and they're like, I made it. I made it and then they were just like, because they just barely made it. And some people think I'm gonna be so happy I made it. Yes, you will. But don't show up impoverished. Don't show up as one who do Just barely made it. When God says, hey, my yoke is easy and my burden is light, I can bring you into the riches of heaven, even now by being faithful in the small things, and I will make you ruler over many things. It's really that simple. It's the simple thing to gives us today, I was teaching my grandkids yesterday, how to eat an elephant. And they were this, some of them were really trying to get this in their head, they didn't understand, like, what, how to eat an elephant, as you just eat him one bite at a time. And I was teaching them this principle of just whatever the however big the task is, just enjoy it. And then I told him, I said, you know, you know, when I buy a whole cow, I don't try to eat the whole cow in a week, we just enjoy steaks and hamburgers all year long. And that's the way God wants us to be. Whenever you look in the enemy, start saying, Oh, this task is huge. This is massive. Just remember this, God's going to have you eating steaks and hamburgers. Now I'm sorry, for those of you that are vegetarians, but those of you that are not you know what I'm talking about? God will cause there to be a delight in the work in in the faithfulness and in the relationships, He'll cause there to be a delight there. There is a great delight. And the Lord wants us to know that he is with us in this is really not hard. To be a king in the present tense is to rule and reign with Christ in faithfulness over our own lives. Here we go over our own bodies, of our own minds, over our own interior life, and our spheres of responsibility. It begins with me, in my life, it begins with you in your life. There are many people who try to go out and do great things, but they don't pay attention to the first things that is set your mind on things above, not on things of the earth. turn away from wickedness, set your heart toward the Lord. So guys, if we, if we can walk in surrender of our own hearts, and we can walk with spiritual, godly dominion over our own bodies, our own minds, our own souls, God will give us victory over our own realms and our own spheres. We see a lot of Christian leader I say a lot percentage wise, it's low. But numbers wise, it's way too high. Christian leaders failing, morally failing. And there are probably different reasons for this. And I have some thoughts on this I won't go into right now. But one of them I will say is this.


We cannot focus on our success in the ministry or a success in all these other areas before our faithfulness in our own hearts, our own minds on our own bodies. Because if we can't have take dominion over our own interior life, how can we take dominion over our exterior life? It starts with our interior life. And this is where if you get this backwards, it gets really, really hard. And it's difficult. But if you can get this frontwards where we go, let's take First things first, Jesus says, faithful over the little things, Okay, Lord, let me deal with the little issues in my heart. Because if I don't deal with the little issues in my heart, they will become big issues. How many of you know little sins become big sins, right? But here's the cool part. little victories become big victories. That's the cool thing about this. God says, Hey, kill those snakes while they're young. Take out those little devils while they're small. Take out those little thoughts before they become big thoughts. Take out those areas, and replace them with righteousness. While it's easy, while they're small, and you will have victory. And if I can have victory in my internal life, I can have victory in my external life. But if you do it opposite, it's always hard. Right? So, Lord, teach me how to love because if I don't learn how to love, truly love from my heart, what ends up happening is these things I'm doing on the exterior, are not motivated by the right heart motives. They're not motivated by the grace of Jesus, they become motivated by selfish reasons. And then it gets hard because it's hard to take domains and because the grace of God doesn't flow through those pipelines. So the grace of God does not flow through selfish motivation. It becomes our own energy and our own power right? isn't as cool faithfulness to God is like a pipeline and grace is like the water pumping through it and the grace of God will pump through faithfulness, man you, even if it's small, and he Even if you go, Lord, I don't really know what I'm doing here and I'm kind of lost and I need help. And I'm, I feel kind of foolish about this. And I'm just trying, the Lord will bless it because you're seeking to be faithful. And through that pipeline, he will bring graces, and supernatural miracles, that is beyond our ability. But it begins with us ruling or reining in our own hearts, with Christ, over our own hearts over our own flesh over our own mind. And then, whenever we speak into the lives of our family, there is a spiritual authority there that we did not give ourselves. And whenever we begin to pray, and we intercede, there's a spiritual authority against the kingdom of darkness that we did not give ourselves that came to us from God. And then when we take dominion over the spheres of our responsibility, there's a wisdom that didn't come from us, it came from God. And this is how Grace flows. I quoted the Scripture a few times, I want to read it again. First Peter to nine. But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, not just a priesthood, a royal priesthood, that's the Melchizedek priesthood of king and priest, a holy nation, his own special people, that you may proclaim the praises of Him, who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light. And there's more there to read. It's, it's I love that passage of scripture. So we covered several things that we learned in this. When we covered the scriptures, I just want to highlight a few here. The way of Melchizedek, the priesthood of Melchizedek is more than a couple of traits. It's a priesthood order. What is an order? It has its own DNA, it has its own lifestyle. And I talked about this in our last installment. I know it's been a while some of you forget it in August. But I talked about this in. This is why prayer is so essential. corporate prayer, prayer and personal prayer. And by the way, this is just a side note. I love to pray with people. But if I only have prayer councils with people, and I don't have my personal time with the Lord, and I mean a lot of time, extended time with the Lord, that time with the saints is not the same. Because there's an intimacy with God with the father that we need in our personal one on one time with the Lord. Y'all track it with me. This is so important. So our personal time with God should be every day, every single day, we need devotional time with the Lord. This is not legalism, this is healthiness. It's kind of like saying, hey, unless you're fasting, you need to eat every day. And someone might pipe up. Nobody's going to say this. But I'm using this as a silly illustration. Somebody might pipe up and say, well, Rod, you're trying to be legalistic telling us to eat and telling us to eat more than once a day that I just want to eat when I want to, I guarantee if you listen to how your body was created, you're going to eat, we need our time with God every day. That is our food and our drink to do the will of the Father beginning with our time with him. And then when we spend time with Him in prayer, it should bleed or overflow into the corporate prayer. I've known some people devote their lives to prayer rooms and praying corporately, and that's their prayer life is praying corporately, folks, that's wonderful. But they better have a personal prayer life. You hear me I'm trying to be adamant about this. Because it's not enough to just be in a prayer room two hours a day, three hours a day, four hours a day, whatever the tradition is, we must have our personal prayer time. Some people well, I have it right there. But you guys know that yours. You know, there's there's personal and then there's personal and we need that personal time with the Lord. So we said Jesus is the high priest of this order. You guys know that. It's characterized by humility. We talked a lot, and this is something we're gonna get into later in this series is obscurity and humility. The thing that made Melchizedek unique was that no one really knows his lineage. They don't know who his mom and dad were, they don't know his lineage that led some people to think it was Jesus. And I've heard this teaching a lot. We examined earlier in this series, how the writer of Hebrews uses specific Greek words to say he is like Jesus. Since not he is Jesus. And we went through that if you want to go back and listen to those episodes, that's, that's important. I'm not trying to split hairs with people over whom Melchizedek was as much as realize that God is saying, Here's a man who was really relatively in history unknown. He was known to the people right there around him. But he was relatively unknown, the Levites, we got their whole lineage, we know who their who their lineage was all the way back to Aaron, and all the way back to Moses. And I think all the way back to Adam, if I'm not mistaken, but with Melchizedek, he was relatively unknown or obscure compared to the Levites. But there is a humility about that kingly function, because he wasn't concerned about who knew his name, as much as who knew his name in the heavens. So this priesthood being characterized by both kingly functions and priestly functions, we've already said that it gives us some glimpses of our functions in the new creation. Now, I got to be careful here. Because we can't teach. We can't create theologies about what the new creation is going to be like. However, we can get glimpses based on the character and the nature of God and how He does things. So this is very important. According to the scriptures, these should be things that are on our hearts and minds a lot. I would probably pose to you today, as you're on Zoom listening, or as you guys are listening, as people are listening to this as it's being broadcast in different places. Probably the things on your mind today, are not inundated with, well, Lord, what are we going to do in heaven? Lord, what are we going to do in the new creation, Lord, what's it going to look like? And yet the scriptures commanded us to make that a major part of our thinking, why? I believe because if we would think about it more, we would start seeing glimpses all through the character and the nature of God and the scriptures, hints as to what God is going to do in the coming creation. And so one of them is whatever it is, it involves a kingly priestly function for the people of God.


Jesus made this clear in some of his teachings, that there is an authority that's going to be given to you in Heaven. There's an authority that's going to be given to you in the coming age. And a lot of us just go, Well, Lord, I don't know anything about it, it's a waste of time to think about it. The problem is, the Bible doesn't say that it actually says you should be thinking about it. Why? Because God's giving us glimpses through his teachings, and through the word of God, that will help us to see deeper into that which is to come so that our hearts are connected to eternity, because we are people of the age to come. We are not people of this age, we're just passing through. But this is a short visit. And you and I carry a different passport. We carry a passport of heaven, a citizenship of heaven. Manuscript scriptures indicate that we begin entering into this calling now, by being overcomers in this life. So even now we're entering into that future calling that eternal calling. Furthermore, we enter into both that kingly and that priestly function, which we're going to walk in, in the coming ages. Here's what I would propose to you. If this, if you look at this, and you go, wow, this really does mean a lot to me in that, yeah, I'm very grateful. But I don't really see much here. Let that be a challenge, to dig in and find out. Because as you dig in and find out, God is going to reveal certain things, not a lot, but certain things about his plans for us in the coming ages. We enter into both those kingly and priestly functions, like we said, by Governor spiritual governing through prayer. Even now, there's a spiritual governing that we recognize there is a supernatural governing, that has to happen in order to govern naturally well. In other words, if I just govern the affairs of my life with my natural energy, and I don't bring the counsel of God in the supernatural ability and resource and miraculous and faith and vision and dreams, into the governing over my affairs, it's like I like to say it like this. It's like living my life with one hand tied behind my back It's like one hand is spiritual. Remember we are both spiritual beings and natural beings. We have a suppose that we have spiritual body, physical body, we have a spirit, a soul a body. So we have both spiritual and natural. If you try to just take authority in the natural and manage well, and and be do all the right things and do good and all of this in the natural, but in the spiritual, you don't seek the counsel of God. Or in the spiritual you don't ask the Lord to do the miraculous or to do things you can't do in the natural, literally, it's like you're living your life with one hand tied behind your back. Now you all all know this, if I live my life with one hand tied behind my back, I'm probably going to be less than 50% of what I am with both of my hands, right? It's not a 5050 thing. Like, it sounds like, well, I could still do 50% No, everything gets harder, it takes longer. I'm not saying we can't do it. But it becomes tedious, it becomes harder, it becomes more difficult. Maybe I can still make it happen. But man, it gets a whole lot harder than operating with both hands spiritual and physical, operating and governing. And that's why we must spiritually govern through prayer. No one was ever spiritually victorious by trying hard, nobody in the history of the whole world. The people who are spiritually victorious, are people who both connect with God, heart, mind and soul loving him, but also engage their natural faculties with their spiritual faculties to walk this way.


Man, I love this. Thought I heard an amen back there. And then we did talk about Revelation one and Revelation five.


Those are just scriptures, reiterating, John reiterates the calling of both the kingship calling, and the priestly calling as well. Now, next, on our next installment, we're going to get into some pretty exciting things. But I think I'm gonna hold off now, because this is probably a good stopping place. But we're going to get into some things, we're going to look a little deeper, for a little while in our next installment into eternity. And some of it is really exciting. Some of it is kind of scary. And so some of it I speak, I'll speak with excitement. And some of it I'll speak with fear and trembling, because I believe God wants us to have a more holistic understanding of what to expect and how to prepare for the coming age. And guys, I'll tell you what, we don't get a lot of job descriptions in the scriptures of what we're going to do. In other words, if you just prayed right now, I said, Lord, can you just, you know, I remember when I joined the military, Tama, and I was looking for the right job. And they said, Well, what do you want to do? And I told him a few things I wanted to do. And believe it or not, actually back then, that was a long time ago, 30, almost 40 years ago, actually, next year, I couldn't believe they actually had a database. And so I gave them a description. And they actually tied in, typed in key words. And they typed in these key words, in the database and out spits a job description, and they hand it to me. And I read it. And I said, I don't even understand what this is. But it sounds cool to me. And so I took it. My point is this, if we were to ask God to do that, if we said, Lord, could you just do a printout of a job description of what you have in mind for me in the coming ages? Some people would think, well, I'm not going to get anything. But I got good news for you. What we're talking about in this series, is actually a job description. He's actually telling you that you're going to be kings and priests that you are called to be in the priestly function of Melchizedek. And so there is a DNA there are DNA markers of that calling. And it's very important for us to go deeper into the understanding that because it facilitates faithfulness, where we are, how many of you know it's one thing to know something, it's totally different to see it. When you just know something? It's like knowing something blind, but when you see it, when you can actually get a glimpse. It doesn't even have to be a big glimpse. If you could just get a glimpse. Man, it can be inspiring. It can move us to obedience, it can move us to a faithfulness in God that we didn't have before. And there are many saints of God through history, who have been seniors, they can see into the things of God many times just because they immerse themselves in God's word, and with people who immerse themselves in his presence, amen. So we're going to look at that on our next installment. Let's pray. And then we'll open it up for sharing. Lord, we thank You that You have given us the beginnings, just the the DNA markers, of a job description of a calling, of a priestly order of a divine order that were called to be part of in the coming ages, but also today, that you said, you've already done this. And so we're entering into this now we're not waiting. And so Lord, we pray for revelation, we pray for understanding. We pray for insight. Lord, I pray for us, that you will give us enough eyesight, that we get excited about this and that we have genuine faith. This is more than just ideas. It is the reality of eternity. And so Lord, we pray that this will sink deep into our souls, our hearts and our spirits. In Jesus name, Amen and Amen.


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